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I have a springer pellet rifle that I can convert from .177 to .22 with a barrel swap. Its sort of handy at times to use one barrel over the other but generally I leave the .22 barrel on it. It takes care of anything from coons and possums to cats and squirels and rabbits. Toss in an occasional woodchuck.
I'm home alone this weekend so this morning I set the target stand up in the yard along a wood fence and made up an impromptu shooting bench in the garage and went to town. I have a 2X Bushnell Banner scope on it. I stuck a 2" target dot on the backer and went back to shoot, but the adhesive on the back of the dot was junk so I fetched a stapler and pinned it on and went back to shoot. I shot three times and found one ragged hole in the dot a little south of center and maybe a tad left of center. I made the corrections on the scope and far three more pellets thru the gun and again found one ragged hole, this time dead nuts. This was about a 25 yard range. Nedless to say I was happy, so I started taking down the bench I put together. I thought I was hearing some sprinkle, when I know I felt a pretty good blow. Wowser, it was a full blow gale with heavy rain. It blew hard enough to topple the target stand and of course the target facing is looking straight up at the clouds. I took a peek out the garage door and decided I wasn't going to get the target back in without scuba gear so there it laid. I thought maybe this would be one of the little popcorn storms we've had many of since yesterday, but nada. After about a half hour of steady dumping I checked the weather station and found almost an inch and a half of rain fell. I went out to fetch my wonderful groups only to find that between the wind and the rain all I had left was a plywood backer. The paper backer was total mush. I looked all over thru the flower beds and park for that damned bright orange target dot but could not find it. So goes my best ever shooting with the old spring powered rifle. I can't ever recall shooting two groups at 25 yards with it that made two separate ragged holes with three shots in each hole.
I'm home alone this weekend so this morning I set the target stand up in the yard along a wood fence and made up an impromptu shooting bench in the garage and went to town. I have a 2X Bushnell Banner scope on it. I stuck a 2" target dot on the backer and went back to shoot, but the adhesive on the back of the dot was junk so I fetched a stapler and pinned it on and went back to shoot. I shot three times and found one ragged hole in the dot a little south of center and maybe a tad left of center. I made the corrections on the scope and far three more pellets thru the gun and again found one ragged hole, this time dead nuts. This was about a 25 yard range. Nedless to say I was happy, so I started taking down the bench I put together. I thought I was hearing some sprinkle, when I know I felt a pretty good blow. Wowser, it was a full blow gale with heavy rain. It blew hard enough to topple the target stand and of course the target facing is looking straight up at the clouds. I took a peek out the garage door and decided I wasn't going to get the target back in without scuba gear so there it laid. I thought maybe this would be one of the little popcorn storms we've had many of since yesterday, but nada. After about a half hour of steady dumping I checked the weather station and found almost an inch and a half of rain fell. I went out to fetch my wonderful groups only to find that between the wind and the rain all I had left was a plywood backer. The paper backer was total mush. I looked all over thru the flower beds and park for that damned bright orange target dot but could not find it. So goes my best ever shooting with the old spring powered rifle. I can't ever recall shooting two groups at 25 yards with it that made two separate ragged holes with three shots in each hole.
