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One of my Favorite past times is wind shooting or shoot the center of a vein in a leaf. While I have a lot of powerful air rifles, This Little rifle below, known by air guners as the Little Black Russian is a very unique rifle. It is a spring powered IZH model 60 rifle that has one of the most accurate barrels you have ever shot. The older ones like this also came with a trigger that had 5 adjustments much like a sophisticated target rife.

I would choose a day when there was a slight wind. Take my time and shoot at about 10 yards away. The fun was waiting for the precise time when the leaf or wind would hesitate for a brief fraction of a second. I also used a UTG Bug Buster scope for this job.





Trust me, air gun shooting builds your shooting skills.

Whiskeyshooter wrote:"Trust me, air gun shooting builds your shooting skills."

I believe it. With my Henry .22 Small Game Carbine, I shoot at a reactive target swinging from a tree branch. I'm usually between 35-40 yards distance. And if the wind is up, it is a real challenge. The ten yard distance you do your "wind shooting" at looks like a fun challenge to try.

Good shooting, as your leaf targets prove!!
I'm green with envy.

Whiskeyshooter wrote:One of my Favorite past times is wind shooting or shoot the center of a vein in a leaf. This Little rifle below, known by air guners as the Little Black Russian is a very unique rifle.

I would choose a day when there was a slight wind. Take my time and shoot at about 10 yards away. The fun was waiting for the precise time when the leaf or wind would hesitate for a brief fraction of a second. I also used a UTG Bug Buster scope for this job.

Trust me, air gun shooting builds your shooting skills.

Wow, great shooting.

If I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to you.

Nice rifle, great shooting. Air gun shooting definitely pays off when shooting powder burners.

So you can now claim all your targets are green.

Nice shooting, I never would have thought of that.

The trick is getting into the karma of the gun, the wind, your mind. Relaxation, focus, forgetting about the surrounding. Once one get into it, you become one with the gun. I guess that is why I find shooting so relaxing. Just moving your mind into a different world. I get really uptight if I go for a few days without shooting. Shooting to me is a stress reliever. Focusing on a little leaf, the wind, the sun, and all of mother nature is a wonderful escape. Do your job at shooting and you can, for a short time control the universe.

Whiskeyshooter wrote:The trick is getting into the karma of the gun, the wind, your mind. Relaxation, focus, forgetting about the surrounding. Once one get into it, you become one with the gun. I guess that is why I find shooting so relaxing. Just moving your mind into a different world. I get really uptight if I go for a few days without shooting. Shooting to me is a stress reliever. Focusing on a little leaf, the wind, the sun, and all of mother nature is a wonderful escape. Do your job at shooting and you can, for a short time control the universe.

The true Zen of a marksman. Very nice.

Whiskeyshooter you just described meditation very well.
I find many links between shooting and my yoga practice.

You guys are getting me so relaxed, I may have to go to bed.

On a serious note, I understand where you are coming from. My wife teaches a college course in alternative medicine, and she has long been a proponent of some of the far eastern disciplines (yoga, tai chi, etc.) and also some of the Native American teachings. Most of the students in her class are nurses and some of them have come back with remarkable stories of how they have been able to help patients deal with illness and injury by employing some of these techniques.

I just never crossed that bridge to connect that to shooting! Now I will have to try it.