The Gun Club

Because you never know when your lawnmower may turn on you:

Once you shot off the .700 nitro express, I just assume that if it hits nothing it will circle around the earth and you’ll have to duck.

There’s a slight chance The Black Church Protection Service could be adding an AK-47 to the protection list. Early days.

Here’s a group of 8 (I thought I shot more) using the Crosman “wadcutter” flat-nosed pellets. The target is intentionally upside down because that’s how I shot it.



WadCam

I thought I shot at least 9 or 10 so it’s possible a shot or two went through the same hole. But assuming I’m not pulling the gun in the same consistent direction every time I fire it, the sights would seem to be centered left-and-right very well. Possibly it is shooting a little low but I would say it’s much more likely I’m pulling it down a little. Whatever the case may be, it’s fairly consistent.

I’m fairly sure I shot 10 this time. But I see only 9 holes. There’s a double just above and outside the grey bullseye. Perhaps I just miscounted.

This series was shot with a theoretically better brand of pellet. These were Gamo’s “Magnum” pellets. The weight isn’t listed on the Crosman brand pellets that I have, so I don’t know how they compare. But the Gamo Magnums are 0.49 grams. Or 7.56 grams depending on whether “g” means gram or “gr” means grams. The latter might mean grains.



GamoCam

Left-to-right it looks pretty dialed in. It’s a fair guess I’m not pulling to much left or right when I squeeze the trigger. And the group of six or seven is fairly tight. So maybe I’m not lunging on the trigger so bad up or down either. I don’t know what happened with that one way up at the top.

I shot the pointed Magnums (as opposed to the flat-nosed wadcutters) with 6 pumps instead of the usual 5. That and the pointed tip likely meant the shots didn’t drop as much which is why the general grouping is higher with the Magnum than with the wadcutter.

I also recharged the batteries in my LED light and that made seeing the target through the scope much easier.

Once I get the Henry dialed in (I haven’t received the subsonic cartridges yet), I think there’s little chance I’m going to go off the target into the door or wall, so I think the size of my target (and the protection behind it) is fine for now. I’ll try this setup with the Henry .22 and the subsonic cartridges. And if what I’ve heard online in YouTube videos can be trusted, it’s certainly possible these could be quieter than the pellet gun which does put out a pretty good “thwap,” although you don’t need any ear protection. It probably makes more noise hitting the target than it does coming out of the pellet guns as it is now.

Now that I look at it, I think you’re right. And 9 is likely all I shot. I could have been ten but 9 seems about right.



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Two bullets forming one hole may have cost George Patton an Olympic medal in the pentathlon in 1912.  He did well overall, but his shooting showed one less hole than he fired, theoretically a total miss.  One biographer wondered if he in fact fired one bullet through a previous hole.  He was an awfully good shot, so that was probably likelier than a total miss.