Hello AirgunNation Peoples,
Here is what I did with a breezy, overcast, and drizzling day off of work. Took my three FX airguns out to my local gun range to stretch their legs a bit, and also tried out topping their air reservoirs up a field using the Nomad 2 portable compressor via 12v truck power.
My makeshift backyard practice range only stretches out to 75 yards. So, this was my first ever 100 yard shots attempted with my FX Streamline (.22), Wildcat MKII (.25), and Crown (.25).
Well, after paying for range use and buying 6 targets at the range house( $.50 cents a piece). I drove out back to the rifle range and backed the big bad RAM 1500 in near the shooting benches. Waited for a cease-fire call, then walked out and set up 3 targets at 25 yards and the other 3 targets at 100 yards. One target for each airgun.
All 3 airguns were in their hard cases in the covered truck bed fully aired and ready. Pretty anxious to try the Crown .25 so she had first go at the bench. I set her up and started hole in hole grouping with JSB 25.39 King pellets at 25 yards. Having great fun until I heard this... “Man, what the hell are you shoot’n?” Lol! Well two older gentleman were sighting in a 300 cal. deer rifle down at the end of the bench-rests and they stopped everything they were doing to come over and ask/talk to me about what they called a “Bazooka” I was shoot’n! Lol!
After about 45 minutes of show and tell. (Which I didn’t mind) I got back to shooting my groups with the Crown.
The wind was a gusty 8 to 12 miles an hour so it was a slight struggle to say the least. Saying that, I still managed to complete my mission of shooting 25 and 100 yard groups with the Crown, Wildcat MKII, and Streamline. The Crown and Wildcat MKII shot JSB 25.39’s and I used JSB 18.13’s in the Streamline.
At 25 yards each airgun groups hole in hole with little effort. At 100 yards after calculating holdover and wind using a combination of two cellphone apps and the mil-reticle of the Hawke Sidewinder FFP (each gun has this make of scope) I was fairly satisfied with the groups I shot. My groups are circled in red and the circled in yellow groups are from two gun range workers who asked me to try a few shots with the Wildcat MKII. Those two guys shot hole in hole also and never shot a PCP before.
After figuring out holdover and wind at 100 yards I managed to put a few in the bullseye amongst a bunch of flyers trying to get that hold correct. Over all with it being my longest shot attempts ever with airguns in gusty wind conditions, I think I did fairly decent. With better wind conditions and more practice I know I could master this 100 yard distance. The guns can do it! The rest would be up to me as the shooter. Won’t win any bench-rest competitions any time soon, but I’m completely happy with these FX’s.
(The Crown and Streamline shot the tighter groups on this day.)
Well, this post is turning into a short novel. So I’ll just wrap it up with some pictures of my Nomad II to airgun top offs powered by my trucks battery. Lastly, I re-cased all the guns, cranked up, and headed for the house! The Nomad II had them refilled in about 15 minutes total.
I had a blast and can’t wait to try all this again!
Here is what I did with a breezy, overcast, and drizzling day off of work. Took my three FX airguns out to my local gun range to stretch their legs a bit, and also tried out topping their air reservoirs up a field using the Nomad 2 portable compressor via 12v truck power.
My makeshift backyard practice range only stretches out to 75 yards. So, this was my first ever 100 yard shots attempted with my FX Streamline (.22), Wildcat MKII (.25), and Crown (.25).
Well, after paying for range use and buying 6 targets at the range house( $.50 cents a piece). I drove out back to the rifle range and backed the big bad RAM 1500 in near the shooting benches. Waited for a cease-fire call, then walked out and set up 3 targets at 25 yards and the other 3 targets at 100 yards. One target for each airgun.
All 3 airguns were in their hard cases in the covered truck bed fully aired and ready. Pretty anxious to try the Crown .25 so she had first go at the bench. I set her up and started hole in hole grouping with JSB 25.39 King pellets at 25 yards. Having great fun until I heard this... “Man, what the hell are you shoot’n?” Lol! Well two older gentleman were sighting in a 300 cal. deer rifle down at the end of the bench-rests and they stopped everything they were doing to come over and ask/talk to me about what they called a “Bazooka” I was shoot’n! Lol!
After about 45 minutes of show and tell. (Which I didn’t mind) I got back to shooting my groups with the Crown.
The wind was a gusty 8 to 12 miles an hour so it was a slight struggle to say the least. Saying that, I still managed to complete my mission of shooting 25 and 100 yard groups with the Crown, Wildcat MKII, and Streamline. The Crown and Wildcat MKII shot JSB 25.39’s and I used JSB 18.13’s in the Streamline.
At 25 yards each airgun groups hole in hole with little effort. At 100 yards after calculating holdover and wind using a combination of two cellphone apps and the mil-reticle of the Hawke Sidewinder FFP (each gun has this make of scope) I was fairly satisfied with the groups I shot. My groups are circled in red and the circled in yellow groups are from two gun range workers who asked me to try a few shots with the Wildcat MKII. Those two guys shot hole in hole also and never shot a PCP before.
After figuring out holdover and wind at 100 yards I managed to put a few in the bullseye amongst a bunch of flyers trying to get that hold correct. Over all with it being my longest shot attempts ever with airguns in gusty wind conditions, I think I did fairly decent. With better wind conditions and more practice I know I could master this 100 yard distance. The guns can do it! The rest would be up to me as the shooter. Won’t win any bench-rest competitions any time soon, but I’m completely happy with these FX’s.
(The Crown and Streamline shot the tighter groups on this day.)
Well, this post is turning into a short novel. So I’ll just wrap it up with some pictures of my Nomad II to airgun top offs powered by my trucks battery. Lastly, I re-cased all the guns, cranked up, and headed for the house! The Nomad II had them refilled in about 15 minutes total.
I had a blast and can’t wait to try all this again!
