Will A 0.22 Cal Be A Good Training For Better Shooting?

[Jan Bøilerehauge 0]

Hi

I wanted to buy me a 0.22 cal Weihrauch for practice shooting, because next year I would like to buy me a bigger gun for wild boar hunting. It's it a silly idea with a 0.22 cal as a training gun to get better shooting skils?

 

Cheers Jan

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

if your used to .177 then getting a .22 will teach you a bit about trajectory and holdover..

 

I don't know anything about 'real' guns tho lol

 

also apparently spring air rifles are the hardest guns to fire as they recoil not just backwards but forwards aswell.

so if you can shoot a springer accurately you should be ok with any gun??

Edited June 7, 2013 by Skot Ruthless Teale

[Jan Bøilerehauge 0]

I'am not used to either the .177 or the .22 cal airguns , I'am a rookie into shooting but 3 weeks ago a friend of my father in law came to our house with a Air Arms TX 200. After two or tree hours of shooting on targets on 30 yards I was hooked, and now I looking for a airgun but I don't know if it should be a .177 or the .22 . But maybe I have the answer myself because I think or belive that the .22 cal has a trajectory like a riffel.

[thursodog 353]

I'm no expert at either spring or rifle shooting but i know from my own experience that practicing with my .22 Weihrauch HW80 & 97K has improved my rifle shooting alot.

The more i practice with the springer the more confident i am when i pick up my .243 and point it at a roe deer.

Incidently i still put down over 500 rounds of .243 on paper before i shot my first roe and the rifle is so much easier to shoot than my springers.

Doesn't matter what it is you are shooting tragectory is something you need to learn with any calibre, but .22 air is an excellent calibre for learning this.

I just set up targets at various distances from 10 yards in 5 yard incriments to 60 yards (saves getting up and moving much during the practice )

Zero at 30 yards and write down how much hold over/under you need on each distance.

Buy thousands of pellets and have a ball practicing

 

All the best

 

C

 

P.S There are some superb shooters on here who will be able to give you more experienced/expert info on this subject.

[Marksman 934]

ANY experience with ANY rifle is good experience in my eyes mate.

This way you can learn to naturally hold the rifle, control your breathing, aiming, shot release and followthrough with the basic of rifles that isnt going to cost the earth in ammunition.

This way when you finallt tranduce into a full bore rifle, the same principles applyt and will make you a better shooter

 

Darryl

[Jan Bøilerehauge 0]

ANY experience with ANY rifle is good experience in my eyes mate.

This way you can learn to naturally hold the rifle, control your breathing, aiming, shot release and followthrough with the basic of rifles that isnt going to cost the earth in ammunition.

This way when you finallt tranduce into a full bore rifle, the same principles applyt and will make you a better shooter

 

Darryl

But the the .22 cal has a trajectory more like a full bore riffel vs .177 cal ?

and then a lot of tin, practise practise practise....