I'm trying really hard to move into the happy plinker role, buying better makes that a lot easier.
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What type of shooter are you? - Happy Plinker, Driven Perfectionist, or Multi-Pumper Mega-Man?
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I agree. If I spend $0.02 for each CPHP, and $0.5 for each JSB Diabolo...if it takes me three shots to hit the target with the CPHP, and one with the JSB, I am spending more per hit, plus I'm feeling "bad" thinking that I "shanked the shot" and didn't just shoot two deformed heads in a row, ya know? I'd rather know I am at fault.
I may be able to do that with CPHP at 15-20 yards or so???
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That's also where tinkering/modding comes in. The perfectionist "rises from the ashes of the plinker"
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I am a happy plinker who likes accuracy. I strive for it and tune for it. However, once it is attained I leave the gun alone until I see a projectile I want to try out. Save the last tune in my phone so I can return to it or very close to it and head down experiment alley.
Today the pests weren’t cooperating much despite one of the nicest days this year. Not a problem. Found a couple of convenient dirt piles and started shooting shotgun shell empty casings at 100 on the closer pile and 135 on the further one.
Rules for plinking are, bipod allowed and no rest for the back of the gun. Practice ranging with parallax adjustments. Have fun.
Later in the day, It was the the compact for a walk. One collared dove and 6 Starlings down.
Today the pests weren’t cooperating much despite one of the nicest days this year. Not a problem. Found a couple of convenient dirt piles and started shooting shotgun shell empty casings at 100 on the closer pile and 135 on the further one.
Rules for plinking are, bipod allowed and no rest for the back of the gun. Practice ranging with parallax adjustments. Have fun.
Later in the day, It was the the compact for a walk. One collared dove and 6 Starlings down.
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Somewhere in the middle, but if forced to choose, happy shooter/plinker. @scubajeeper, Out of my PCP the CPHPs have been great, do they group as well as my JSB Exact Jumbos? Of course not, they are less than 3x the cost. I hit objects the size of chipmunk heads out to 50 yards, regularly, consistently, with those cheap CPHPs. All the following targets with the lowly CPHPs. This morning I went four for four at 50 yards on those black walnuts husks.
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I bounce back and forth as well, I like accuracy, but am not going get all OCD to achieve it on every single round I fire. We tend to forget sometimes, that our hobbies are suppose to be fun. When it starts to look and feel like work, I better be getting paid for that work....
And one can get lost in the marksmanship masturbation and lose sight of the fun.
And one can get lost in the marksmanship masturbation and lose sight of the fun.
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What a great ? I'm a plinker. I take exception to a true pest like starlings tho or 1 that is damaging properrtyt. I'm very much like Chukar60. I think the engineers really did/do know more than me,,at least the old school 1s. The 1s,,,, that only had a drafting board [ whats that?,,I hear u say? ]. DRAFTING BOARD.?google it. Don't mind me ,,just an old,world man railing against the new world man. So best I guess I leave well enuff alone. I do search for the most accurate pellet for each rifle. That,s part of the fun.
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I'm a happy plinker tinker. Accuracy isn't my be all end all. If I put a magazine full into an inch at 50 yds I'm satisfied. I love to change the game up by changing manufactures and weight. I'm good with a dead starling at 50 yards.
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neither ..if im pissed off enough to get the gun out, something is getting f'ed up .. and i got everyhting i can see around the place presighted .. half inch smalf inch accuracy, the odds arnt in whatever it is favor .. they think theyre too fast and too smart and too tough .. thats the little fantasy world they live in until the hammer falls lol . .
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I'm a paper-puncher who does so more for entertainment than for perfection. At 77 yrs old with what my doctor calls a "familial tremor", I'll never shoot as well as I could 20 years ago. I do it for fun...........
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Definitely a plinker, just came in from a 1 1/2 hr shoot, 22 F.
This is 25 - 35 yds.
Just put approx. 40 new spinners on yesterday. Next pic 45 yds. 
Going to be some improvements in this area once snow is gone. Don’t miss many days. Crow
This is 25 - 35 yds.
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I'm a Hunter/Tinkerer, nothin better than Killing Rodents with a broken gun you picked up cheap and brought it back from the dead.....
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ANY body on here try sorting CPHP/s I mean full sort , weigh, size , roll test ? any results ?
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