Tommy, for 100Y, thank goodness you have your 22rf's, right?!
I get disgusted shooting my pcp's at 100Y using pellets on EBR practice targets when the wind is kicking up. Having shot all calibers except .35 using pellets at that distance when the wind gets squirrely it becomes a HUGE guessing game I personally get frustrated with.
Even if the wind is low I still get those flyers in the 7 ring and if its windy I don't even bother trying anymore.
View attachment 337520sometimes clear out of the scoring rings. This happened in 25 and 30 cal too and I think its just how the pellet "thing" is??? I can literally put a couple sub 1" groups down and the next one can be 2.75" which I think is ridiculous??!!
Also apparently there is a barrel cleaning ratio involved and then there's the "If" one gets a "GOOD" batch of pellets aspect. Reaching the point of "It's definitely getting a bit silly to me" by this point.
That's why I switched over to slugs or rimfires for longer distances. The rimfires are expensive to shoot these days and slugs aren't quite up to 22rf yet, however approaching them day by day it seems, but it is what it is right now.
I know its been hashed over add nauseam but the EBR target was designed for 75Y and AOA probably ordered 100,000 of these so this became the standard type of target. Also shooting at 100Y for whatever reason became a "Ohh- Ahh" thing using pellets. So its no wonder people get frustrated, right?
Even if the rings were made more appropriately sized for 100Y we'd still get those flyers unless we cleaned frequently, had a good batch of pellets, and it was calm out, had some good luck, so even a 250 would be VERY hard to do using pellets. But as an example a 245 feels better than a 225, and a 225 is hard to do on the current target.
I see the differences as far as stats of BC of pellets but I can't tell a difference when shooting 22, 25, and 30 cal on paper when using pellets at 100Y. I've had flyers with all of them and the wind conditions make a huge difference keeping in the 8 ring.
Here's my best targets shot with 22 cal MRD's at 100Y in low winds but normally my scores are in the 210's to 220's in the 5-8 mph winds. I'm out of this batch of pellets unfortunately.
I used a 35 cal plug and might be off 1 point here and there??
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