Cracked It!!!!

[A1WOC 212]

The rain showers eased off mid afternoon today so I decided to get a little outdoors practice with my new TX200HC. I set myself up at an old solid table and chair and used a bean bag to rest my left hand on. With the rifles balancing point supported on my cupped hand and the stock lightly resting between my shoulder and cheek, I spent a couple of minutes watching the target rise and fall through the 10x scope as I controlling my breathing.

 

All this bought back distant memories of forty years past, but then I had a .762 Parker Hale fitted with front and rear aperture sights and the rifle supported in a sling tucked behind my right upper arm and wrapped around my left wrist as I lay prone in the mud.

 

After a little nostalgic reminiscence I loaded a .22 Air Arms Field into the breech of my TX200 in readiness. I settled into a comfortable stress free position, inhaled and exhaled a couple of times while I lined up the target, taking up the first stage of the trigger on exhale I held my aim and fired during the pause between breaths. As I watched the target during follow through, I saw the black paint chip off to the left of the yellow disc in the aperture of the knock down target 25m down range. I repeated the exercise several times and repeatedly hit to the left.

 

A couple of days ago I had put away paper targets in favour shooting knock down targets, because I was disappointed in the way my pellets were grouping on paper, and after all I could hit the 35mm knock down targets a little easier. I thought I had better put out the paper again and re-zero the scope.

 

After setting up paper targets at 25 and 35m; I settled down to fire off a few shots to zero the scope at the near 25m target. Although they were going to the left, surprisingly they made a very ragged one hole group. Six clicks on the scopes windage adjustment and two on the elevation adjustment bought the pellets perfectly to the aim point. At the 35m target I had to hold over by one and a quarter mil dot and make a two click adjustment on the scopes windage to produced a nice ragged one hole group on target again, although I did pull one shot and knew it at the time, with the pellet striking wide.

 

For the first time since I bought the Air Arms TX I knew I had cracked the discipline needed to shoot it well. Perhaps not as well as in my earlier years but the satisfaction it gave me was beyond explanation and a much bigger rush than shooting any of the different PCPs I have owned.

 

Regards, Steve

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

Well done mate. feels great doesnt it when you shooot a springer properly

[woodcote1 88]

Good shooting. I think the HC is the nicest looking of the Tx series.

[Taz-n-Lily 62]

Well done - your next mission, should you choose to accept it, is to dismantle the rifle and give it a mild self-tune and re-lube using the original parts. This will make the rifle smoother to cock and shoot, and the trigger goes from good to excellent when tuned.

[villaman 9,983]

Well done mate ,have just picked up HW97 for £190 so I can get back into springer's