Shooting In The Rain

[meathumper 29]

Hi all, went out the other week in the rain to get some pigeons, I sit in a little old animal shelter at the side of the field and use FUDs. Anyway I knew my r10 was zeroed to 30yrds and could achieve good tight groups at this range. This day i missed the first two birds that came in and knew something was not right. I used a lrf and picked a point on the stone wall at 30yrds and took a shot, it was off. So i took another and it was off to, by about 1/2 a mil. So i packed up as i was short on time and it was a grim day, and went home empty handed. My question is, do pellets get affected much by rain, has anyone had this problem?

cheers dave.

[David.evans 5,323]

Wouldn't have thought so mt

Sure you ant knocked it mate ?

Atb

[villaman 9,983]

Sounds like you need to rezero , just check your scope is tight ,perhaps you knocked it

[meathumper 29]

Ok. I'm guessing rain causes no problems for anyone else. I'll check zero, but I'm quite confident it'll be ok.

 

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[mark williams 7,550]

FUDs, Irf, SM-G920F, Tapatalk Forgive my age Dave.

 

 

What did you ask ?

 

 

"Only asking like"

 

 

 

 

atb

[moxy 617]

Fold up decoys. Laser range finder and Samsung mobile (model number G920F). Tap talk is a messaging app. App is short for application..!!

[OldCoppice 9]

I'm not an air gunner , but your post is very interesting - are you saying your pellet was off by half a millimetre? I'm sorry if I've misunderstood, but that seems an incredibly small margin of error, which could be attributable to anything.

 

Regarding shooting in the rain - British army ballistics experts in the early twentieth century generally reconned rain made a bullet rise - but we're talking .303 rounds here .

[low plains drifter 10,234]

FUDs, Irf, SM-G920F, Tapatalk Forgive my age Dave.

 

 

What did you ask ?

 

 

"Only asking like"

 

 

 

 

atb

Fud is scottish slang, and means a jack and danny

[meathumper 29]

Ok, sorry my mistake, dident think FUD and LRF would confuse people on a forum such as this but thanks to moxy for putting things right, and when im away from the laptop i access the forum via taptalk mobile app.

Old coppice .303 is a different ball game altogether, interesting to know though, saying that im ex army and have fired a rifle at quite a distance and not experienced this. The reason i asked is that pellets are much lighter and are effected more be these daft things. when i say mil im referring to mil dot reticle.

going to check zero today, ill update later. thanks men.

[moxy 617]

It's only Mark you confused. But that doesn't take much

[David.evans 5,323]

Bang on right there moxy , he's just a thick twat !

Atb

[meathumper 29]

Ok got to the bottom of it. Took the chrono and checked the r10, it seems the power is down to 6/7 foot pound. New pellet probe o ring req. So I played with the hw100, and checked power and zero, Think its ok.

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[walshie 2,804]

I suppose technically if a 3gr raindrop falling at whatever speed landed directly on a 12gr pellet shooting at another speed, it would have quite an effect.

 

I don't know what the chances that happening are though.

[David.evans 5,323]

Walshie

Get off the beer mate , and start drinking tea ! Lol

Atb

[walshie 2,804]

Walshie

Get off the beer mate , and start drinking tea ! Lol

Atb

 

Can't argue with physics mate. Probability is another matter.