Indoor shooting with the TM1000

Getting to shoot indoors to reduce environmental factors is a great way to find out how well you gun is shooting the pellets and at the settings you have established. Using a 12-42x Benchrest Nightforce scoped TM1000 (the reticle is NP-2DD), a 25 cal TM1000, Benchmark barrel (3 groove), Rempel Bipod, and JSB 25 caliber pellets (25.4 grain Kings) we tested to see how different head size pellets shoot out of this gun. The 25.4 grain pellets with 6.35 mm head size seemed to be the favorite version with a sub ) 1/2 moa group at 46 yards.

Youtube video of some of the shooting may be found on my YouTube channel.

http://youtu.be/c17q9wfOqOM

More shooting to do to really validate this. I only had a handful (like 10) pellets of the smallest size. After I finish size sorting the remaining 7 tins I will have enough for a more complete evaluation.

These were NOT lubed. So I will be comparing "as is" vs lubes in the future.

Just a reminder here were the statistics on the head size for than tin of pellets:



And then by weight (25.2 and 25.1 are combined in 25.2)



And here is the indoor target which from this limited data set indicates that head size of 6.35 mm seems to be preferred. More shooting is required!