Sunday Airgun Shooting

Well the squirrels were not out but the day was beautiful.  My daughter and I got to do some shooting with the airguns with my brother and his family.  It was a lot of fun!  We shot at 75 yards and learned a bit about wind.

First live training day of the season for the English Labs

Cody and Lily have now been out twice on quail to get them working on field manners and locating, flushing, and retrieving birds.  Here is a short video of Lily working in the field.  She did not get this bird but worked very hard for it.  She had better success in week two.

Jack also had a dog with us, Kara where I provided the shooting.  She did very well.  And I made a decent shot.

tuners and airguns

I am just starting to test Ezell's tuner on my TM1000 airgun.  We have looked at barrel harmonics and now will move to testing the entire system.

I have not optimized it or done any work to it yet.  We shot some targets at 75 yards using 25.4 grain JSB Kings that had been cleaned with citranox, sprayed with pledge, sorted using the LeadHead Pellet sizer.

More results to come.  Lots of induced vibration analysis of the barrel and the gun.  I will also bed the action and compare it before and after.  This is a photo of the gun with the tuner taken last week.  This was not the shooting setup for the 75 yards (my friend Greg pictured).  Right now the gun is only sporting a 12x scope, something to be remedied soon.

Mike Ezell's site describes his tuners and can be located at:

http://www.ezellcustomrifles.com/home-3/pdt-tuners/

Pretty much 1 moa kind of groups to start out.  We were outdoors in heavy air (100% humidity).  It was shooting very much in keeping with the 30 cal Boss.  Will run through testing of the shooting indoors to find out the tuner settings for this gun.  I expect groups to shrink as we explore the tuner options.

Mom and my daughter Kelly shot with me.  Getting ready for the 75 yard match Sept 20 at the MRPC.