Thank you, I guess I can thank my lucky stars I don't live down that way. This was taken from family-owned land, and my shooting range is.
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.22 LR vs .22 slug
- Thread starter honeysuckle
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When I can sit in my workshop and do this.....I shoot more airguns.
Hard to do this with 22lr, now don't get me wrong I have cases of 22lr ammo, but this is more fun.
Hard to do this with 22lr, now don't get me wrong I have cases of 22lr ammo, but this is more fun.
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That's about the only drawback with rimfire. No hand loads. Why not?
If you can swage PCP bullets your in hog heaven!
Aside from rimfire and shotgun shells I haven't shot 100 pieces of factory ammo since I was 15. If I went the PCP route I would have to start swaging. You really can't take advantage of all that versatility unless you can squeeze out some projectiles.
My experience with off the shelf rimfire ammo has been positive. The bulk stuff is crap. But a good rifle will shoot most of it under 1 moa. The target ammo will definitely shoot better patterns. But the $5 a box stuff is nothing to sneeze at.
I've found the difference between .10 per round and .25 per round is very little downrange. Lapua Center X shoots better on paper than CCI SV. Both are 100% on a 3/8" target at 50 yards. And both are consistently 80% on a 1/4" target. So in most shooting situations out to 125 yards the only difference is on paper.
I've found pellets to be the same way. My springers will shoot any of it through a 1/2" hole at 20 yards. The budget pellets just have more strays and land a little to far from the spot to make you giggle. The expensive ones make you giggle a little more.
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Agreed. I have found that the SK Match ammo shoots extremely well in my RimX and I have a few cases in the shop. And that crap is expensive so just going out and "plinking" with it makes me sick! I have found that with my Neal Waltz resizing die which works much like the corbin set up.
Over all I couldn't be happier with the Corbin press. Having a compressor as well really makes me self sufficient and gives me the ability to really dial in the rifles. I find that I shoot far more with the air guns than I do most other rifles.
Over all I couldn't be happier with the Corbin press. Having a compressor as well really makes me self sufficient and gives me the ability to really dial in the rifles. I find that I shoot far more with the air guns than I do most other rifles.
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That RimX is a helluva rimfire. With decent ammo I bet it shoots almost as good as a PCP with swaged custom slugs.
All human error out of the equation... a good barrel can only be made better with a good projectile. You can fiddle with everything else for years. But a good barrel with a properly weighted and sized projectile is about 94% of the accuracy equation. The rest is minutia.
The comparison between a .22 slug gun and a rimfire is a blur when you can swage custom slugs and fiddle with air pressures. If a guy could handload rimfire ammo and swage good bullets a rimfire would knit you a sweater and put buttons on it. Until then a guy with a PCP and a swaging outfit is probably going to land them closer together.
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I know people that hunt some of the largest animals on the earth to mice with air guns/ PCP. myself I just hunt coyote, racoon and woodchuck. What I have found since switching to pcps it has made me a better hunter and that's because when hunting with a pcp you're not 200-300 yards out, in most cases with coyote my limit is 150 yards. I wasn't going to say anything, but I have never been any good at biting my tongue so,, from the post I have read I wouldn't know this was an air gun sight with a few exceptions. Pcp are more than paper punchers.
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Your projectiles are dazzling!
My lowly pellets are ashamed... Suddenly I feel shorter and without pectorals.
My lowly pellets are ashamed... Suddenly I feel shorter and without pectorals.
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Drove up there daily for work 3 or 4 years ago. Electric contractor rebuilding power lines so fiber optic could be run.
Beautiful country, like most of rural NY
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If you're interested in them and many others, https://www.facebook.com/bars.523253. Very high quality. He is a master craftsman as someone else has said and I agree 100%.
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Some of us are pragmatic.
COULD I blow a whole bunch of money and turn my very pedestrian GMC 1500 into a Baja 500 rig? Yes, but it would certainly be the hard and expensive way to go about it, and I still would be forcing a square peg in a round hole. If I truly had a burning desire to race in the Baja 500 there are better ways to go about equipping myself to do so.
For rimfire power levels and BC, a rimfire is the path of least resistance.
I didn't mention it in my previous post here, but volume shooting is another reason I love airguns. If you're buying high BC slugs you're talking $/shot. And if you're rolling your own you're talking time/shot. And "time is money."
To do it with an airgun just cuz you can? Sure. Knock yourself out.
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The air gun slugs below are top of the line 150gr, 100 ct are still a lot cheaper then 150gr firearm of the same quality, 0 moa at 100 yards 2, 2 shot groups, the tape on the one ( 2nd pic) was just to mark the shot. Eyes are old,lol
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