Long distance shooting equivalent of a hole-in-one

[Kurt110]

I thought I must share this.

It’s taken me two years of fine tuning me and my Steyr LG110 5.5mm to shoot 1 inch groups at 100m. And many, many, many practice sessions. And then on Sunday the impossible happened. Two amazing groups at 115m! Only 3 shots per group though and there was absolutely no wind. Could not repeat it later. Hole in one stuff. Shot the bottom group first, clicked up had coffee, and then shot the second group. 

Aim point was the pellet impact point where the end of the rope is pointing to. The trigger on the Steyr plays a huge part in the accuracy of these long distance shots. And a good quality scope that tracks consistently. 

It’s highly addictive, shooting gongs at these distances. What I really enjoy is the time lapse between the shot and the pellet striking the gong. I can do this for hours. 

I hope the image will show. I’m a new member and have not done this before. 

 

[Kurt110]

Let's try and load the image again.

 

[skohl]

SWEET!

 

[AirgunnerSC]

Isn't it great when something you have worked for turns out better than you imagined. Great shooting.

 

[idoc]

That's fantastic! I'd like to be able to do that one day.

 

[Stefanjan]

Nothing like that feeling when a plan comes together. Nice

 

[aa_limited]

what cal and how many foot pounds and pellet used?

 

[Kurt110]

It’s a .22. I use 18gr Air Arms pellets straight out of the tin. Speed is 864 fps. 

Use a new Athlon Midas TAC 6-24x50 which I’m very happy with. 

 

[chasdicapua]

Amazing 100m shots. Well done!

 

[Seadog]

Lekker Kurt - No excuse not to shoot a 250 at 25 m now winks

 

[bubblerboy64]

Yes the maddening thing about shooting is trying to repeat. I've pretty given up chasing groups. I'll take the best I can get and accept that. It's also extremely hard to take the human error factor out of it. Lots of us have great difficulty shooting one inch groups even it we had a gun that could shoot one shot on top of the last. I'd love to be able to shoot at one hundred yard INDOORS just to see how well I could do under ideal conditions. LUCK is your best group tightener.