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After three rifles and about a year of trying, I’ve come to the conclusion that shooting pellets competitively at 100 yards makes no sense.
I tried both a 22 and 25 red wolf. Used the Heli board and programmer.
Neither one of them shoots consistent enough at 100 yards in any kind of conditions other than perfect. Even in perfect conditions you still get flyers even with the best batch of pellets.
it makes absolutely no sense to me to have a contest shooting at 100 yards with pellets, when the slugs shoot so much better, and are aerodynamically so superior.
I don’t understand why we try to compete with pellets at 100 yards.
Mike explain this to me about a year and a half ago. I had to find out for myself. I would be very interested in a competition with slugs, but I’m just not willing to put up with the inconsistencies caused by the pellets.
I have been shooting pellet guns at long range past 100 yards for over 10 years. With a little luck, perfect technique and a great rifle you can still shoot a great five shot group with pellets. If you double the size of the group to 10 shots, the group basically doubles in size. I spent an entire summer trying to shoot a 10 shot group, as good as my best five shot groups. It’s not possible.
then you take it up to 25 shots, forget it. The guy who wins is going to be the guy who shoots really well and gets lucky at the same time. He probably also has the best batch of pellets.
I shot about a dozen cards over 230 with pellets during that time. Once I broke 240. In every single case conditions were absolutely perfect. If I try to do the same thing in any kind of wind above 3 to 5 miles an hour, I’m going to drop down to 200. It just makes absolutely no sense to me. And I am very stubborn, it took me over a year to finally come to this conclusion.
mike
Mike....I’m glad you said it, because I would get flamed for that.
I think it’s nonsense, too. Moreover...these events shoot one card to determine the winner....when 6 cards is the general minimum for a tournament. If it was a 6 card tournament with normal rotation...at least the guy with the most skill and consistency would likely win. One card is the equivalent of a two shot group....which is least number possible to form a group. Many rally against low number groups pointing out they are meaningless...but seem happy with one card tournaments.
In reality...if you remove the luck factor as much as possible....many will not find it “fun” any more. The overwhelming majority of EBR attendees will only shoot a couple cards per year since there is virtually no club level 100y pellet shooting in the entire country. Even in Phoenix it’s rare to see more than a couple of shooters show up for a 100y monthly match. It seems that nobody is interested enough in 100y pellet shooting to care to get together regularly for a club match without the hype.
Mike
If EBR keeps selling out, nothing will change. We have a voice, we need to use it.
mike
Hi Tony...good post.
To put pellets into perspective for you at 100y....imagine that every mistake you made in Rimfire was magnified by a factor of 3-4x.
Mike
Hi Tony...good post.
To put pellets into perspective for you at 100y....imagine that every mistake you made in Rimfire was magnified by a factor of 3-4x.
Mike
You guys are all making me feel a whole lot better about the consistently lousy 100 yard EBR cards I shoot / post regularly. Now I am armed with all the excuses I need to justify my frustration with the MRD pellets at the range.
I told Mike (CC) recently I went back to 50 yard BR temporarily to build my confidence and learnings with flags at a bit more manageable distance. Still love the 100 yard stuff, but it can be humbling and demoralizing at times.
Good discussions here..