100 shots under a dime at 55y from position?

Ok....not really. How about 95?


I had some rare air last evening when testing a rifle. Wind was topping out at about 3mph. 55y was the distance.


This was a 12 fpe rifle shooting JSB 8.44 out of the tin at 785. Most hold offs were on the left edge of the target box...some a little more, some a little less. A few in the center. All shots from the sitting FT position. The first 75 were fully under a dime...but I kept going.

Im normally pretty happy to get 50 inside the big outer ring which is about 1 9/16” with a 12 fpe gun. If you don’t shoot 12 fpe, you may not know how much the pellet moves in the slightest current. Just heat rising from the ground will lift the pellet at 25m. It’s a pretty big challenge to get nice large number groups at 55y from position. It was one of those days where it was all working pretty well.



Mike