Air guns to the rescue
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 5:04 pm
Thanks to a week and a half of really lousy shooting weather, we've put off making a trip to our local club range. Doesn't mean I haven't been shooting, of course. Yup, air guns to the rescue! All I have to do when I want to scratch my shooting itch is to grab an air gun and step outside to backyard, 30 yard, air gun range. In really cold weather (we've already had snow, up here), a session may be as short as 20 shots before I dash back, indoors, to pour myself a cup of coffee and warm up. All very easy and convenient to do, of course, if you keep few air rifles and a tin of the appropriate pellets right by the door.
For these quick, impromptu, spur of the moment shooting sessions I prefer to use quick and easy to use airguns. This is one of my favorites. It's a scoped HW30S Laminate in 177. Cocking is effortless, the accuracy and quality superb and when shooting at 30 yards, the little HW30S has just enough power to flip our resettable metal targets, though it takes a good direct hit to flip a target instead of just make it wobble. All part of the fun and the challenge, all the more so since nearly all my shooting is without a rest.
One thing that makes my backyard airgun shooting especially fun for me is the use of metal spinner and reactive targets. Our club range is paper, only, so being able to shoot metal on our backyard range is a treat. Oh, now and then I'll shoot some paper when I'm ambitious, bu it's all about fun and shooting metal s always more fun than punching paper.
By the way, 30 yards is a nice air gun distance. It's close enough to be only mildly affected by a strong breeze, but far enough to be a nice challenge. You can, of course, shoot air guns, seriously, at less than half that distance. For example, when the winter weather really gets nasty, I shoot indoors at only 10 meters and I know folks who shoot at even closer distances.
All this is to remind folks that there is an entire world of serious and fun shooting as close as your back yard or your basement. Don't stop shooting because you can't squeeze in a trip to your local range.
Yes, you, too, can go on a backyard safari... with your airgun, of course.
For these quick, impromptu, spur of the moment shooting sessions I prefer to use quick and easy to use airguns. This is one of my favorites. It's a scoped HW30S Laminate in 177. Cocking is effortless, the accuracy and quality superb and when shooting at 30 yards, the little HW30S has just enough power to flip our resettable metal targets, though it takes a good direct hit to flip a target instead of just make it wobble. All part of the fun and the challenge, all the more so since nearly all my shooting is without a rest.
One thing that makes my backyard airgun shooting especially fun for me is the use of metal spinner and reactive targets. Our club range is paper, only, so being able to shoot metal on our backyard range is a treat. Oh, now and then I'll shoot some paper when I'm ambitious, bu it's all about fun and shooting metal s always more fun than punching paper.
By the way, 30 yards is a nice air gun distance. It's close enough to be only mildly affected by a strong breeze, but far enough to be a nice challenge. You can, of course, shoot air guns, seriously, at less than half that distance. For example, when the winter weather really gets nasty, I shoot indoors at only 10 meters and I know folks who shoot at even closer distances.
All this is to remind folks that there is an entire world of serious and fun shooting as close as your back yard or your basement. Don't stop shooting because you can't squeeze in a trip to your local range.
Yes, you, too, can go on a backyard safari... with your airgun, of course.