Taipan Taipan Slash - Accuracy tip.

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I had an interesting day last week where I couldn't get a good group with my .22 550mm no matter what I did. It would start to group and and seen as I would adjust the scope the good group would vanish.
Then I found the scope was very loose. and tightened the thumb QR screws. (Eagle Vision rings)
But that being said, I took it out again yesterday and found I was having a hard time getting a good group with the scope tightened like it should be.
The rifle jumps.
When I hold it down the groups go back to very accurate again.
Tip.. Don't let the rifle jump as I believe the pellet, at least at the speeds I'm shooting, get flung out of a barrel that's moving from recoil.
It's a very light weight rifle and I believe this is the issue (if you can call it an issue)
I'm having great success with AEA .22 25.3 pellets at 915 fps.

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may i ask, what specific technique are you advocating? are you describing off hand positional shooting?
I ask this because many year ago for some shooting faculties such as benchrest there was a preference for minimizing excessive contact with the recoiling platform. we worked hard to minimize lateral force input and tried to establish unimpeded reproducible for and aft motion. in prone events when utilizing bipods we would advocate a bit of forward preload and accommodating a reproducible and consistent linear chest localization

nice shooting by the way
 
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student said:
may i ask, what specific technique are you advocating? are you describing off hand positional shooting?
I ask this because many year ago for some shooting faculties such as benchrest there was a preference for minimizing excessive contact with the recoiling platform. we worked hard to minimize lateral force input and tried to establish unimpeded reproducible for and aft motion. in prone events when utilizing bipods we would advocate a bit of forward preload and accommodating a reproducible and consistent linear chest localization

nice shooting by the way
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This airgun jumps with a bipod and a rear bag pretty substantially for me anyway.
A friend shot it yesterday as well and commented on the jump.
I just use my weak hand (left in my case) to press downward on the top of the bipod where it attaches to the handguard and firmly press the butt stock into my shoulder like I may an HK 91 to defeat the delayed roller bolt jump common with many HK DRB rifles. Seems to work and I have ZERO desire to weight the rifle down with weights.
 
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I went back to see my notes for some classes i took as I struggled with similar issues.

As you've stated a lightweight platform would be a big part of the challenge.



If it's ok to post, here are some other thoughts that others experiencing the same challenge might consider:

My instructors in both shotgun as well as long distance rifle shooting often stressed the importance of "marrying" the rifle to the shoulder by which they meant establishing firm reproducible contact with the body aligned to the axis of the firearm. The rifle becomes part of you, you must own the rifle as though it were an appendage but not force it into behaving.

Maintaining constant but not exaggerated pressure to the rear with the body relaxed....basically acting like a dead sack behind the rifle with the recoil pad settled into your chest...let the rifle recoil straight and accommodated back into you but not bouncing off of you.

aintain tension in the shoulder not the rearward pressure of the arm i.e. not pulling back on the rifle.

shoulders should be relaxed...so each and every setting is the same and there is no correctional inputs or force deviations

Really important to bring the rifle to the shoulder first, setting that up as move into position, the bipod holds it in place so you can relax the shoulders at the same time.

a bit of preload into the bipod.

anyway, these considerations helped me a lot so i kept the notes for reference. thought maybe it might help others facing the same challenge.

maybe air rifles like very heavy recoiling platforms need different considerations...I only shot 12 gauge shotguns and up to 7mm long range rifle.
 
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Depends on your tune. High power tunes kick more than lower power. I agree with your tighter hold on the gun. I noticed when my Vet 1 was tuned to 920 fps with 18 gr pellets it had a decent little kick and was not as accurate with a lighter hold. When I tuned it down to 860 fps it jumped less and seemed to be less hold sensitive.

Wonder how much tuning the Slash can handle and still have enough air to cycle. If the bolt has a decent amount of weight you have that moving back and forth in the shot cycle.
 
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