So You Think You,s Can Shoot A Springer

[Nicepix 5,650]

Truth be known I've got a old BSA airsporter mk1 , 1960 I think , with iron sites , no grove for a scope , and I can't hit my living room door , sat on the settee

Ar well

We all had Airsporters when we were kids and surprisingly we managed to hit a few things with them too. When it was all you had you didn't know any different. In later years I had an Anschutz .22 rimfire with a poxy 4 x 20 scope on it, and could hit a clothes peg at 100 yds. So why have I got a super-duper 3 - 9 x 40 mildot scope on my .177 springer? Because I can

[mark williams 7,562]

Well I could " flick her bean" ( gnat`s fanny) at 120 yards with open sights off a playground swing, " honest" !

 

 

Fun aside, as kids, we had Meteors, Mercury`s, Air Sporters, FWB Sport etc, etc all .22 and open sights.

If we could make the head of a bull rush explode at 30 yards, "your zeroed" and feck me did we shoot some stuff !

 

 

atb

[treecreeper 1,136]

tbh i havnt shot many rifles with open sights i had a bent 30/30 ret nikko when I was a kid ? I have got a few rifles still with iron sights on and one restoration project with half of one. shot target pistols though and you can't have a scope or a red dot ?

Edited May 19, 2016 by treecreeper

[Rez 4,961]

Open sights seems to be having a revival...... Underdog. He came, he changed...

[Underdog 2,337]

Another picture. About six years ago.

 

 

U.

[Underdog 2,337]

To shoot opens well a crucial aspect of importance is how the stock fits you.

The rifle when shouldered must all but have the sights lined up!

 

If not there will be fumbling and loading the stock up giving discouraging results.

 

Set them so you aim under the target so the target is fully in view. Some call it the six o'clock hold.

 

 

U.

[bigmac 97kt 13,812]

Well i took little hunter out on the crows last night we only got about 15 between us

 

all mine were boiler room shots(could not see there heads lol)

 

only two hit the ground the rest were stuck in the tree,s or in thick brush

 

i left the hw100 22 at home and took the open site stroeger

 

little hunter used the hw100 177

 

dont ask how many i miss,d lol

 

and when i say miss,d i mean completely miss,d

 

but iv got to say it was the best few hours out iv had in a long time

 

felt like a kid

 

atvbmac :thumbs:

[bigmac 97kt 13,812]

O how he has grown

 

atvbmac :thumbs:

[bigmac 97kt 13,812]

Fair play to you mate for putting that up. You lot normally make out you can shoot a gnat's tadger off at 120 yards in a crosswind.

 

Now we know the truth.

You know me walshie iv had threads pulled for saying how it is mate

 

im a good shot(with a scope on) but im not a great shot i miss just like the rest of us

 

and if i miss i say i miss

 

there are a lot who don't if i wound i say i wound i don't like to but that's me we don't all kill with one shot scope,d up or not

 

and my hats off to underdog for keeping in with open site rifles may be we all should take a leaf out of his book and try this proper old school shooting

 

So there is the challenge lads get that old rifle that is cover,d in dust out and start plinking away

 

lets see just how good you lot really are with an open site rifle

 

or do you not want us to see because your all top shots with a scope fitted

 

and it may damage your reputation as a marksman

 

i for one am not a marksman

 

atvbmac :thumbs:

[walshie 2,804]

Well said.

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

When i had my hw77 open sighted i put a target up at about 20 yards and i was getting all shots within a 2 inch group.

My eyes are sh1te tho so thats my excuse lol.

It was fun. Even hit a 106 yard fence post 7/10 times iirc with open sights. Not too bad

[Lid 194]

My first 2 air rifles had open sights and I also used to shoot a .22 rimfire with open sights.

[pianoman 3,587]

I grew up learning to shoot accurately on open-sighted Webley air rifles, because a scope was an unaffordable dream when I was a keen young lad like Little Hunter. And the ones that eventually became available were still not that great. So open sight shooting was how I got into the sport. I can still refit the open sight unit on my HW77 .22 and can still hit reasonable, tight groups at 25 metres. But, nowadays, my eyesight is not quite as sharp as what it once was and I keep more to scopes now.

 

I doubt I would take a risk on shooting a live animal like a rabbit with an open-sighted rifle now.

[hoggysreels 76]

Open sights and a bayonet .. its the future.

 

Like most had the springers in years gone by. My eyesight is bad. Open sight aren't an option for me, not that l'd go that route even if l had 20/20

 

That said a TX200 / Prosport / HW97 appeal to me, with a nice scope.

Edited May 20, 2016 by hoggysreels

[Newlife2 55]

Funny this is posted today, I have , as of yesterday, set up my HW95 with open sights, it`s fun and seems more realistic in action. Only was shooting out to 23 yards on a 1.5 " spinner and wasn`t missing. I still need binoculars to see how I`m doing on paper though.