Nice shooting but at 200 yards and more it's just bragging about how you hit an animal. Any gun with enough shot can hit and animal over 200 and even 300 yards. The point is once you get that far it's a guessing game and you gonna wound the animals. You don't know what the wind is down range. I guess people use pest as traget practice. Even pest deserve a clean and quick kill. Most hunter will not even shoot an animal that far knowing they are more likely to wound it and not clean kill.
Nice shooting but at 200 yards and more it's just bragging about how you hit an animal. Any gun with enough shot can hit and animal over 200 and even 300 yards. The point is once you get that far it's a guessing game and you gonna wound the animals. You don't know what the wind is down range. I guess people use pest as traget practice. Even pest deserve a clean and quick kill. Most hunter will not even shoot an animal that far knowing they are more likely to wound it and not clean kill.
Eamon, Bob directed me here, Im out in town right now but I will address your question tonight. I actually address this in the video we just released if you are interested . Till later
keith
Eamon,
If you crave power and distance there is no doubt you will get more with a 700mm barrel. The question is, how far is far enough? My longest kill on a pigeon is at 236 yards. And I have many many kills at or just over the 200 yard mark. If you go through the 68 whiskey videos you will see me kill woodchucks out to 189 I believe. Long story short, the crown is an awesome airgun. You do not need to change what you have done. You will have to dial a little more elevation, and hold a little more wind. But if you have seen our videos you know that the crown is more than capable of killing past two hundred. One hundred is not all that challenging even if it is calm out. I think you made the right choice.
Fyi i I am slinging 36 grain slugs at 850 fps from my 600mm barrel
best
keith