Extremetaz

Eun Jin Sumatra is a 60J unit. Power ain't everything though - the rifle still has to be capable of placing the shot in the same spot every time.

Use 'em in the auld boys HW100KT - straight from the tin, no messin' about - 7mm edge-to-edge groups at 25m. Great pellet!

Well certainly looks like you're not doing too badly. Best advice that can be offered is to leave everything on manual and practice,practice,practice. Then when you're thinking about upgrading, don't! Get better glass instead. The 550 is a fine camera back and will serve you well - well wear!

That would explain it alright - light performance of a 5.6 was what was throwing me, but the multiplier would account for that. Had to read on it as I'm not familiar with the Nikon models but it looks like a hell of a lense! Well wear!

that's a feckin' class wee vid there lad - nice job!

:rofl: oh I really shouldn't laugh but I'd love to have seen his face when that lot landed on 'im. Poor b*****d!

becuase db's are a log unit I get you now - I was thinking in linear unit terms rather than log. That's why I was raising the exponent.

Even assuming the availabilty of kit and ammo group under an inch at 100m (110yard as suggested by Angryhan) from a 12ft.lb rifle, and the triggerman who can do the kit justice, the 28ft.lb rifle isn't going to make a huge difference. It might give you an extra 10-15 meters, but the bottom line is that air rifle pellets are far too ballistically inefficient to be any more stable at higher velocities. ie: just because you send it out there faster, doesn't mean it's gonna go where you expect it too - in fact, it's more likely the opposite is true. If you could get a heavier, jacketed, bo

The S200 has a pretty small tank, so the pump will likely be fine. Bottle is more of a luxury than a necessity for the likes of those and the HW100 - it's when you start moving on to 300cc tanks and such that the pump becomes a bit of a PITA.

does this mean that it gets louder the farther away you are?... ('pologies - couldn't resist) Spherical area surely - which would make it cubic, no? (I don't know the forumulae so I'm genuinely asking, not trying to be a smartass this time. ) In any case - I'll take a measurement this weekend of the HW100 FAC .177 & the HW100K .22, but it'll be with a Nexus S so I'm not sure how much bearing you could put on it. I've no doubt mind that anyone taking the measurement with the same incarnartion of the iPhone should get equivalent results (assuming consistant test patterns,

aah-haw-haw don't worry - I saw what you did there.

As you've obviously discovered already from your post above - all ammo is not created equal. Go grab yourself a box of Lapua Center-X if you can find them. They're a competition 25 & 50 meter round so they're a little more expensive than the standard stuff (about €10 for 50 over here through the club I shoot with) but they're unbelievably consistent. There's a 50m target card on the wall in our range obtained using them, it's 11mm edge to edge on 5 shots! and the lad who shot it would tell you that a better shooter could have gone tighter again! Now that's out of a target rifl

Stillair has it nailed there alright - although it is possible to place a .22LR round quite accurately after 100m on a calm day with the right combination of rifle/ammo/shooter, there's a hell of a drop off and not really enough poke left to make it worthwhile doing. If you're going past 100m regularly though, I'd be inclined to say just get a CF licence and have it done with.

Hard to get anything like what you're describing in that price bracket lad - maybe consider a fixed scope with mil-dots for now and upgrade later? Would give you the ability to guesstimate range almost as well as a low mag AO scope without the price penalty? Short of that, you might be able to find something like a Hawke Nite-eye or similar if you can rustle up another £50 or so. Think they're about £190 new so secondhand they shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

lol - that's about the size of it alright - but that's the lifetime story of camera kit right there - there's always something better that you can't afford but will someday regret not having. When you get to where I'm at though, the difference is that the kit you want is no longer anywhere near the "can just about stretch to it bracket".