Haven't posted much about airguns over the last spring, summer and fall, because I mostly shoot spinner, steel and silhouette targets with the airguns on our backyard range and kind of hard to do a show and tell on those kinds of targets. Yup, it's been mostly my usual offhand shooting, too, only resorting to paper punching to sight in or do an accuracy check. Once, again, here's part of my setup. Have spinner and silhouettes set up around the yard and even back in the woods, too. Fun, fun, fun.
Have settled in to mostly shoot at 35 yards with the airguns, now. Oh, sure, I have done plenty of 50 yard shooting with the airguns, mostly because of the challenge and to prove it can be done, but 50 yards is pushing it with pellets. Pellets have a very low ballistic coefficient, even compared to the anemic BCs of 22 LR bullets, not to mention weighing a fraction of what a 22 LR bullet weighs. Oh yeah, accurate airgun shooting is possible at 50 yards with pellets and have proven it many times, but it takes a day of perfect shooting conditions, as in NO wind to get it done. On the other hand, 35 yards and under is really home base for air rifle shooting. Have shot many nice groups at 35 yards with the air rifles, even with a breeze.
This week winter arrived with temps now not even breaking freezing and along with it our first snow. For me and my shooting, it marked the beginning of my indoor air gun shooting season, though I will step out to do some airgun work on some reasonably nice winter days.
Did some airgun shooting, though, this week, even with a touch of snow on the ground, this time with one of my favorites, the HW50S in .177 wearing a Nikon 3-9x Prostaff EFR.
And, just to get back in the paper punching mode for my indoor shooting, here's an offhand target at 35 yards on a 3" bull. Note that this is about the same as what I can do at 50 yards with the rimfires, so a good example of air rifle shooting relative to rimfire shooting.
Now get out there (or stay indoors) and start shooting those airguns.
