festa 206 Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 I don't know why but, there will always be a day when you and your kit just won't gel together. I had this conversation with an All England champion clay pidgeon shot. He says it's just one of those unexplainable things in shooting. It's happened to him with a competition shotgun worth tens of thousands. I've known times when one of my rifles, that was absolutely shooting clean and true only a day or two before, suddenly felt like a dead, lifeless weight at my shoulder, I just could not get comfortable with, the next day out. It happened to Andy last time we were out too, with his HW90; and that rifle's bloody deadly accurate in his hands. It'll happen again, I reckon Gary, to all of us at some stage or another. Thing is, not to worry about it mate. That was an odd day though, Simon. For some wierd reason I couldn't hit a barn door with the 90 which I know is shooting fine, you tried it yourself with no problems at all but I was OK with the Ratty...!!?? I'm glad I fetched it along that day. Two nice bunnies and a squirrel weren't too happy though that happened to me and si (zini) when i had my prosport i couldnt hit a thing so i gave si a shot and he never missed 1 shot lol atb gary Quote Link to post
andyfr1968 772 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 I don't know why but, there will always be a day when you and your kit just won't gel together. I had this conversation with an All England champion clay pidgeon shot. He says it's just one of those unexplainable things in shooting. It's happened to him with a competition shotgun worth tens of thousands. I've known times when one of my rifles, that was absolutely shooting clean and true only a day or two before, suddenly felt like a dead, lifeless weight at my shoulder, I just could not get comfortable with, the next day out. It happened to Andy last time we were out too, with his HW90; and that rifle's bloody deadly accurate in his hands. It'll happen again, I reckon Gary, to all of us at some stage or another. Thing is, not to worry about it mate. That was an odd day though, Simon. For some wierd reason I couldn't hit a barn door with the 90 which I know is shooting fine, you tried it yourself with no problems at all but I was OK with the Ratty...!!?? I'm glad I fetched it along that day. Two nice bunnies and a squirrel weren't too happy though that happened to me and si (zini) when i had my prosport i couldnt hit a thing so i gave si a shot and he never missed 1 shot lol atb gary It is odd sometimes, Gary. It was a couple of weeks back, we set up as normal to check zero and also for me to set up a new scope. I got a rough zero but I couldn't hold a tight consistant group for love nor money. I was convinced the scope was faulty I asked Simon to give it a go and within no time it was back to it's normal tight groups. Gave it back to me and again, I couldn't produce acceptable results Luckily, I'd fetched the Ratty along too so I dug it out of the car and very quickly I was shooting well with it. I know it was down to me and not the 90 or the change of scope. The only thing I can maybe put it down to is the new scope's a good bit bigger and has to be mounted higher on the rifle, so maybe the change in the gun's balance was throwing me off. More practice needed!! Quote Link to post
villaman 9,982 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 Happend to me as well the other night all way shoot on 7x mag but it was on 12x mag .I did no if this made any differance or not Quote Link to post
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