What springer did you shoot today?

[Mycapt65]

Ron, AO can be very useful when hunting. Set it for 30 yards on lower power while walking in. That should give you sufficient depth of field for anything you walk up on. When you find a place to sit for a while. Use max power and the objective to rangefind a few trees, features, etc in your perimeter. Now you have a very good idea of range when game appears.
For me a nice light variable is worth the weight. The old Korean 3-9x32 Bushnell Sportview was great for this. Beeman sold them and some came as Blue Ribbon. (I'll never put an ugly blue scope on any gun of mine ). Nice clear optics.

we'll have to agree to disagree. I've never needed more than 4x for anything I'd be shooting with an Air rifle. I'm familiar with your technique but in practice I've missed far more opportunities than I care to admit to because the scope was on the wrong power and or parallax setting when something pops up at an unexpected distance. I can hit a 500 yard 10" plate with an AR with a 1-6X. A fixed 4X works (for me) for anything I should shoot with an air rifle.

 

[cjtamu]

Got this HW77 out to check zero now that the front sight assembly is fixed. All good. POI was wandering last time I shot it before things came loose so assume that was probably when it first started to loosen up. I know I’ve whined before about the current HW stocks, but man! If they still made them like this instead of the fuglysticks they turn out now I’d probably own a half dozen more than I do.

 

[crowski]

Got this HW77 out to check zero now that the front sight assembly is fixed. All good. POI was wandering last time I shot it before things came loose so assume that was probably when it first started to loosen up. I know I’ve whined before about the current HW stocks, but man! If they still made them like this instead of the fuglysticks they turn out now I’d probably own a half dozen more than I do.

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Nice gun. Crow.

 

[crowski]

Out with a gun second to none. A Pro Sport .22.

This one is a keeper. Crow

 

[beerthief]

Serial # 6691G listed as a Sheridan .20 , does not look right to me ? Anybody got a guess ?

 

[.20calguy]

I use a comparable powered 177 Hw50 for an offhand walking air rifle. I use a fixed 4X, non AO, mildot scope with a 25 zero. Most of my targets will be close enough to that 25 yards there's not much hold over or under to consider. It's point and shoot. If I stretch it out to 50 yards I'm at 3/4 mil and at 93 yards IIRC I'm at 3 mils. Its easier to remember no hold over for most practical shots and use the reticle for the longer stuff. I almost never shoot past 50 yards offhand with air rifles any way.

Non AO is a blessing in a hunting scope, as it is always in focus regardless of whatever distance a target suddenly pops up at. Fixed power keeps your hold overs from changing with magnification. Trying to remember holdovers is hard enough at one magnification. forget remembering the infinite amount of holdovers throughout your magnification range. Then add to that ten other rifles. That's why I have only one walking rifle with a simple fixed power scope. Less is more.

What caliber is your 35E. I know it isn't 20.

Yes true. The 35e is a .22 cal. I didn't even recall which .22 cal I used to zero it.

I learned that lesson many years ago when my accuracy took a major hit changing from my 3/4 inch tube Tasco 4x to a Weaver 1" tube 3x9x.
My ability to judge distance and holdovers was gone, and I learned what parallax was!

BTW I shot those cans at various ranges with only occasional misses with the 65 Sheridan, and I mfullI shot them full of holes.
I grew up carrying a Sheridan in the woods.

 

[.20calguy]

Nice gun. Crow.

I like the gun bag too!

 

[.20calguy]

Serial # 6691G listed as a Sheridan .20 , does not look right to me ? Anybody got a guess ?

Yup!
Made in July 1966.
Here's mine March 1972

 

[cjtamu]

Out with a gun second to none. A Pro Sport .22. View attachment 586475This one is a keeper. Crow

Nice. Hoping to join the club soon. Just waiting on the man to tell me it’s packed and where to send the money.

 

[cjtamu]

A 1967 HW30S that I accidentally bought about 3 hours ago. That story has its own thread with a couple quick pics.

 

[beerthief]

95 desrees /62% humidity , not to bad . did some shooting with the BSA break barrel .177 Tenex 4.51 8.2 gr , i should take this hunting squirrels . Very light weight gun and accurate 20 or 30 yards Irons sighted in @ 25 yards. If i sighted it in probably could do 40 yds . easily .

if i sighted in