Casting the Shadow at the dairy

Today we had a weather window and I invited @sasquatch to join out at one of my permissions. We headed east and the arrived around noon to one of the two dairies we would pest at today.

When we arrived I gave my greetings and donuts to the locals to show my appreciation and introduce @sasquatch. I am handing him to the keys to this dairy before I move way way east in a month. When we arrived we caught the tail end of some rain, yet, after 10 minutes it was gone.

This was the first time Shadow was in the field (had him less than 24 hours), so Shadow needed to be properly sighted in. I did a 25 yard sight in using a target card seated in my Pocket Zero target holder, love the thing, and then we went to work.

Uragan owners says their guns are laser accurate and Shadow showed that today. I aim it shoots. Today we had a clear on the doves and a dove deflowered Shadow with a 50 yard shot through the head. Then another.

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The day progressed bouncing between the two dairies, and I had several through the head shots using Shadow, and they are right Uragans are laser accurate. I need to do groups and @ctshooter recommended the JSB Heavies, so I went with for a quick and dirty go to pellet for today’s shoot.

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Some total for today between the two of us, what we got and could recover was about 10 to 12 pigeons, a dozen sparrows and half a dozen doves, we had an okay for a few not a lot on the doves. And of course wading through the poop 💩 to recover the fallen, the glamor of it all.

Of course, a pic me with the ladies.

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@l.leon thanks, @sasquatch and I had a good time, and almost zero wind conditions. Also, after seeing @sasquatch use shooting sticks, vs laying or awkwardly bracing self made me think, yes, I need / have to have shooting sticks.

@ezana4ce I love the scope. I picked it up on Amazon for $300ish including tax. I love the glass, its definitely clearer than the 3x12 Veyron I had on the prophet, it was definitely worth the extra $60.00 IMHO. Believe this or not, yesterday i had a pellet graze a pigeon at around 50 yards, I could see ONE feather fly and the pigeon kind of looked around, and stayed on its perch. The follow up shot did the job. I need to learn holdover marks, basically everything now, and go from there to get the most out of the gun and scope.
 
@ezana4ce I love the scope. I picked it up on Amazon for $300ish including tax.  I love the glass, its definitely clearer than the 3x12 Veyron I had on the prophet, it was definitely worth the extra $60.00 IMHO. Believe this or not, yesterday i had a pellet graze a pigeon at around 50 yards, I could see ONE feather fly and the pigeon kind of looked around, and stayed on its perch. The follow up shot did the job. I need to learn holdover marks, basically everything now, and go from there to get the most out of the gun and scope.

@Blackpaw That's good to know. I was wondering about how you can set up a scope cam with where the battery compartment is situated. You have anything that will work with it?
 
@kingsqueak I was using JSB 10.34 heavy at around 14 fpe generated at 783 fps. However, I found the factory tune too inconsistent and yesterday evening I tightened the hammer spring a 1/4 turn. Things tightened right up on the FPS and I ended up getting an additional 3.5 fpe. Here is the link of my posted about my "tune" and the differences I saw between factory and the little bit I did that generated such positive results. For now I won't mess with it.

https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/uragan-compact-factory-tune-vs-1-4-turn-on-hs-shot-strings-stds/?referrer=1