Fun With Airguns

[High Power]

With the dearth of .22LR ammunition I have been getting into air guns quite a bit. I'll have to admit that it's turned out to be a lot of fun.

Show us your videos or photos of your air guns. I'll start first. Here is a video of some accuracy demonstration on paint balls, shell casings and a steel chicken with my FWB 300S air rifle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPAUn7X ... e=youtu.be

Thanks for watching.

[CombatShotgunner]

I have gotten exact copies of my real steel guns in airsoft versions to practice in the back yard.

[herp_man2003]

I too have been getting into air guns a bit. I bought a daisy 853 from the cmp and that thing is a blast to shoot. I also picked up a Benjamin titan gp in 22 and have been having fun shooting that as well.

[High Power]

I got a Beeman R7 last week and so far, have put about 1000 pellets through it. What I like about air guns is that they are quiet and don't have to be cleaned as much as a powder-burning gun.

I read all the reviews online and decided that the R7 was too good to pass up. I like my FWB 300S but with the scope on it, the rifle has to be resting on something. In my case, I use a Harris bipod. The FWB 300S was the rifle that you saw in the video.

The Beeman R7 is a break-barrel rifle that I can carry in the woods. I got it from Pyramid Air. http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Beeman_R7 ... ights/1899 I put a Vortex 4-12 X 40mm AO scope on it. Vortex says they'll guarantee the scope for life against any recoil - even an air gun. I got the one with the dead hold BDC reticle in it. The drop on this thing out to about 50 yards is around 7 inches. So, you need a scope on the rifle to shoot beyond the 30 yard mark. When you look at the scope on the rifle it's like putting a Hemi in a Mini-Cooper but I don't care. http://www.vortexoptics.com/product/cro ... le/reticle I also like the adjustable trigger on this air rifle. It's not like a cheap Crosman trigger. I got it adjusted to 12 ounces. It breaks where I expect it to every time.

Weirauch makes the Beeman rifle. If you wanted one with iron sights, you'd have to get the Weirauch HW30S: http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Weihrauch ... Rifle/2018

Yesterday afternoon I got a chance to shoot at .22 LR casings at 25 yards. When I get a chance, I'll be making a video on that. I got the idea years ago from an article I read about 'mini-sniping." http://www.minisniping.org/articles_petercapstick.html

Shooting a paintball at 25 yards is the equivalent of hitting a 1 foot circle at 440 yards. As slow as the pellet is moving, even at 25 yards, windage correction is just as critical as if you were using a high power rifle at the greater distance. Shooting at a .22 LR case is like shooting at ground hog at 635 yards!

The hard part of shooting a spring operated air rifle is learning the "artillery hold." I've had years of shooting thousands of rounds out of M-1 Garands and 1903 Springfields. So, for me, the "artillery hold" was difficult to learn as it was hard to overcome that muscle memory developed with rifles that kick hard.

I won't explain the "artillery hold" here but you can learn about it at: http://www.pyramydair.com/airgun-academ ... lery-hold/ I also found it easier to shoot like Michael Jackson with a cotton glove on the non-trigger hand. It helps to let the rifle slide though non-trigger hand.

Also, when I bench the rifle, I use a rolled up rag about 3 inches I diameter on top of the sand bags. That prevents the rifle from "bouncing" off of hard packed sand in the bag. After I discovered that, the groups really shrank. In addition, don't let the butt stock rest on a rear sand bag. That also creates problems. All this sounds like it would be counter-intuitive to sighting in a rifle but try it, and you'll see what I mean.

[Brian D.]

If vacation plans don't look like I'll be near a range, I throw a pellet or Airsoft pistol in the trunk, usually the latter since no backstop is needed. The triggers on my 1911 and Glock clones are very close to the real thing. It's better than no practice.

[TSiWRX]

That's so cool, High Power!

I haven't done any "traditional" high-powered airguns in a long while - since I was a teenager, actually, with my late uncle's Beeman's. I really should start again.

[High Power]

Here is another video of what my new Beeman R7 can do. The rifle shoots better than I can as you can tell by a few misses.

You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atb7-xwW9qI