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.22 vs .177 Air Rifle Trajectory and Stoppage Power
camies replied to Quasar's topic in General Talk
try downloading Ian Pellants software (google ian pellant) and you can do your own comparisons. It will ultimately depend on what pellet / gun/ power you are shooting but graphically (apart from chairgun) it's the easiest software to use. -
Thanks for the reply. I'm still waiting for my permission to return to me with his answer. He's a little upset because he's had a bunny explosion and can't ferret because the problem is coming from another tenants property. Life goes on!
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Tried to do this about 6 months ago but made the mistake of using a plastic rod holder instead of metal. the result was the cradle snapped off within the first few hours of shooting. Converting the tripod as such I didn't do but I removed the existing shaft and "shoe" and with a bit of 22mm copper pipe and some expoy stuck the rod rest on top. It all seemed ok right up till it broke. No pictues sorry. Will i try it again, no.
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Shooting on an old RAF site, I had an "interesting" chat with a passing MOD policeman. He said that MOD land despite being sold to the private sector still had major shooting restrictions on it as it was still crown property. He was saying that the new land owners did not necessarily have the right to permit shooting and that I needed to speak to them again to check that they could legally authorise my shooting. I would like to stress that he was not being 'agressive or openly awkward' but sounded quite plausable, Anyway, not being to sure, I stopped hunting and packed off home. The
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I've been lucky with my collie or more accurately my sprollie (first cross springer / collie). She is a lovely responsive dog with the good qualities from both i.e. loves to run all day, swim, and lift game. Having said that, she has pinned a couple of rabbits to the deck, not killing them, just pinning them until I got there. Intellegence wise, she reacts to both hand and whistle directions outside PROVIDED there isn't any water near. then she turns into a duck! Took her lamping and she soon learnt to follow the spotlight. Just one little flaw. We won't retrieve anything!
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Love the pictures!
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Don't panic! Go to this site for an explanation of what's going on. http://www.spywarevoid.com/remove-lsasblas...erkeyloger.html
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Basically, does just carrying a copy of the licence and complying with it's provisions mean that you are "legal" or do you literally have to apply for a licence for every seperate location?
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Don't do what a mate of mine did and put too much on, if you can see it then you've put too much into the tin. The first time you could see the lube and pellets did not fly any better in fact a bot worse. Next tin, a lot less used and in his logun made a bit of difference but not a lot (1/2" at 30 yards compared to 3/4" same range).
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Thanks for all your replies. Changing to .177 or even .2 is not an option though as Daystate had quoted me £99 for a barrel and £15.00 for the 'brass bit'. As I'd have to adjust the air valve to keep legal, swopping round isn't viable. Food for thought though and hopefully I'll find a high speed, semi domed smacker of a pellet. I have always liked .22 so onwards and upwards (or sideways depending on the wind)!
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Put a Webley SPEEDPOINT on the slide. for ratting and close work it's brilliant and more inportantly cheap!
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OK, penetration not a problem Ta, but what about real life dramas in the field?
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You'll all be aware of the problem. A perfect setup, a clean strike and the bird / rabbit looks at you, gives you the perverbial finger and walks / flys away! You know you hit it! Heck you even saw the impact. The strike was "perfect". What's going on? I tried to experiment with impacts into putty (like Ian Pellants site) and sure enough, pointy pellets don't hit hard they burrow and wad cutters splat impressively! With a 12 ftlb gun funny things happen out at round the 35yard mark though and a number of pellets were found tumbled in the putty. Wad cutters still splatted (inacc
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I was out lamping with an owner of a new Daystate. one with the electronic trigger gizmo. It was raining loads, really chucking it down. We quit (surprisingly enough) so before getting back into the car, we discharged our rifles (mine a Harrier) but he had a problem it would not fire! Went home and stripped both guns down cleaning the wet off and putting the parts into the airing cupboard. Next day, his rifle functioned ok. He emailed Daystate, no reply. Next week out we went again. It rained (Weather must really hate us!) and halfway round the field he lined up on a rabbit but no discharge.
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Got my insurance from National Gamekeepers Organisation. Helpful, cheap, and a magasine to boot!
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Most barrels are self cleaning due to the wipe they get from the pellets. Usually after a hunt I run a slightly oiled very soft synthetic patch (old optical cloth) through the barrel but that's about it. Long term storage I run a damp but not dripping gun oil patch down the barrel and store it muzzle DOWN. Airgun barrels are surprisingly soft and even coarse cotton jags will score them. Pull throughs eventually make the muzzle oval and then watch the pellets fly erratically! If you really feel you MUST brush the barrel out, use brass jags only and even then on a plastic coated cleaning
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To err is human and as humans program computers what do you expect! the fault is due to a thing called iteration where there are too many rounding up or down of values and the program is guessing that as the magnification gets higher, so your mildot value changes. Your mildot scope is normally set for one magnification to get a true value. Varying the magnification causes errors. How i don't know but consult your scope literature and you should find that your mildot works well only at a certain mag. look this web site and you'll see what I mean. http://www.lynx.co.za/PDF/inst
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Full manual at http://www.bsaguns.co.uk/documentation.php should help!
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Something I'd like to share and would be interested in your views. Recently, and just for a change, I tried out HFT (Hunter Field Target) shooting. As I'm essentually a nice guy I won't name the club cause what I'm going to write would get me shot and not the 38mm half obscured target at 38 yards (partially elevated to boot) . Used to shooting with "normal folk", I found their obsession with what "gear" and clothing you use, the cost of your "gear", and abiding by the "Rules", a little too much. When asked "what my favorite position was", I started to chuckle, no 'can' that, I roared!
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Get fit and buy a pump! That way you don't need all this playing round. It takes me less than 2 mins most of the time to top off the pressure in my harrier and when I'm away for the weekend shoot, the pump gets a lot of use (normally from my friends who never seem to check their tanks!)
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Hiya pal , so would you say that the pellet lube that you use keeps the barrel fairly clean , as in as much as it stops any residue sticking ` leading `to the barrel thus in effect `cleaning ` it ? And if this is the case , do you / would you notice any difference in accuracy if you went through say 200 un lubed pellets ? Pellet lube is ok if used sparingly. I tried a product called TEFFSPRAY which is a teflon loaded oil. Difference it made to accuracy was nil. when I ran a soft cleaning sponge through the barrel after 200 rounds, the amount of residue that came out stunned me. So w
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Simple answer No until you have zeroed the new scope. Once you have zeroed the new scope, then yes providing you can site each scope in exactly the same place. i do it all the time as I shoot at different times both day and night , ratting, rabbit, and pigeon. At night, I use a red dot, rabbiting day a mildot, pigeon day a tasco. All I do is line each scope up to a different nail varnish "blob" on the slide and i'm good to go (Harrier). On my hw35 the slide stop i fitted (recoil is a bitch on this gun) and all my scopes are cranked 4 moa down, and 1 moa right. Any help to you?
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Nice new PCP and the barrel is marked as a maximum fill pressure of 3000psi. ok so far? Pump calibrated in BAR and not psi. So whats the conversion? 1 psi = 0.069 Bar Easy for you maths buffs but for me, out came the calculator. So, knowing that I'm not alone at being bad at maths, here is a few conversions to save grey matter overheating. 1000psi= 69 Bar 1500psi= 103 Bar 2000psi= almost 138 Bar 2500psi= 172 Bar 2750psi= almost 190 Bar 3000psi= almost 207 Bar Daystate say that you should fill to the pressure marked on the body. In my case that's 3000psi / almost 207B
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Standing is a case of mind fighting muscle! Practice helps but unless you practice loads it don't come easy. I sit by choice holding the Harrier as in FT. Dead stable and with a camo net over me, I'm above the grass, and hard to spot. If you don't know how to hold an airgun sitting try looking at Utube and search for field target positions. Only a suggestion but I find it successful and makes it dead easy to zero the rifle.
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How many pellets have you fed it? Cleaned it lately? You didn't use a metal brush / jag did you? Barrels are soft metal and scoring the rifling deforms the pellets. Do that and you will miss at long ranges. Is damaged rifling reversable? No! Are all the screws and fixings tight? (Rattle test) Barrel lock ok? You wouldn't have fired the airgun with an open barrel letting it slam shut would you? Have you tried another scope or even iron sights? Have you adjusted the trigger too finely / coarse? Many people notice a trigger feels different after a while and without thinking relax at the mome