30-Yard Challenge

[JimD]

This isn't for the leader board. I got my Athlon Argos 10-40 late yesterday and this is the first target. I sighted right in the middle of the target at 30 yards and barely hit it up to the right of the 4 block. But I got adjusted and decided to just shoot the target. The scope shifted right and low around block 6 but I shot another target with it since and it seems to be working great. The second target was in a different stock and worse but I think that was the wind. This target was in an old stock with 2 lbs of lead on it.

 

[EPG]

I’m continuing to play with 700mm barrel on my FX Crown Mk2 .22.

Shot three 40-Masters today:
196 11X
192 13X (darn wind and shift on #3)
194 9X (ended with 3 straight 9s)

Thoughts:
Using 700mm the Crown uses less air per shot.

Why bother with any pellet over 18.13g out to 40 yards?! The FX/JSB 18.13 is an awesome pellet - and comes 500 to a tin.

I can’t shoot in a jacket or heavy shirt without it catching on the rifle butt. So I’m freezing in a tee-shirt shooting these cards.

I finished by shooting a 40-Masters with a .177 Dreamline using 10.3g. Shot a solid 185 5X. Using a relatively new 6x24 Midas Tac.

TommyB - I now agree that the Midas Tac dot covers a lot of the 10-ring at 40 yards. Its an awesome clear glass scope, but can’t compare to the ultra thin reticle of a Sightron SII 36x for precision holds at 40 yards.

Hope you guys are still getting lead downrange… our leaderboards don’t close till December 31st, lol. Mostly, its just fun to shoot - despite the cold !

 

[JimD]

This one is for the leader board. At 196 13x it's a couple points better on the master target and only one point worse than my best challenge target this year with this rifle. The new Athlon Argos 10-40 definitely helps. The 7mph wind did not help but it was pretty consistent which is much better. The scope is especially helpful on the master target because I can see the sighter circles. I couldn't with my 24x scopes.

 

[tommyb]

Last day at the range before Thanksgiving. Went at 2pm vs. early morning. Just wanted to see if the wind died down. It did, and it was perfect for shooting the 30y Targets.

I had the HW100 .22 carbine, which I recently tweaked to increase velocity from 805 to 825-830 FPS. I was shooting the FX Atomic 15.89 pellets, very slightly lubed.

I noticed something that helped me today. I re-zero’d in between targets to get a very precise X or 10 ring hit, two or three times, and then felt confident enough to go right at the 10 ring with no holds.

I will submit two targets for December leaderboards:

200-18X 30Y Challenge - This is the first 200 score for this rifle. Thanks Ed for the fix!

198-11X 30Y Masters

 

[EPG]

Last day at the range before Thanksgiving. Went at 2pm vs. early morning. Just wanted to see if the wind died down. It did, and it was perfect for shooting the 30y Targets.

I had the HW100 .22 carbine, which I recently tweaked to increase velocity from 805 to 825-830 FPS. I was shooting the FX Atomic 15.89 pellets, very slightly lubed.

I noticed something that helped me today. I re-zero’d in between targets to get a very precise X or 10 ring hit, two or three times, and then felt confident enough to go right at the 10 ring with no holds.

I will submit two targets for December leaderboards:

200-18X 30Y Challenge - This is the first 200 score for this rifle. Thanks Ed for the fix!

198-11X 30Y Masters

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Dang Tommy, I’ve shot 17X with 5 different rifles – including a couple at 40-Masters, but I’ve never shot 18X – Congratulations on both the 200 and the 18X !!

“Our” HW100 is amazing with those FX Atomics that we discovered that it likes so much. We actually both have “our” same HW100 on this year’s 30-Challenge leaderboard – I shot a 198 16X with your rifle using 18.13g back in late February. I wish I could have had more time with it using the FX Atomics.

I see that you tweaked the tune – slightly increasing the fps. That extra speed with the 15.89g Atomics may get you improved results at 40 yards – try it on the next low wind day.

That Weihrauch would make an incredible hunting rifle as well – it shoots 200 18X with hollow point ammo – amazing !

I’ve got a .25 Crown barrel today coming from NAProf – I’m excited to see what my Crown will do at 50 yards with the .25 25.4g pellets.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Challenge shooters !!

-Ed

 

[tommyb]

Dang Tommy, I’ve shot 17X with 5 different rifles – including a couple at 40-Masters, but I’ve never shot 18X – Congratulations on both the 200 and the 18X !!

“Our” HW100 is amazing with those FX Atomics that we discovered that it likes so much. We actually both have “our” same HW100 on this year’s 30-Challenge leaderboard – I shot a 198 16X with your rifle using 18.13g back in late February. I wish I could have had more time with it using the FX Atomics.

I see that you tweaked the tune – slightly increasing the fps. That extra speed with the 15.89g Atomics may get you improved results at 40 yards – try it on the next low wind day.

That Weihrauch would make an incredible hunting rifle as well – it shoots 200 18X with hollow point ammo – amazing !

I’ve got a .25 Crown barrel today coming from NAProf – I’m excited to see what my Crown will do at 50 yards with the .25 25.4g pellets.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Challenge shooters !!

-Ed

Thanks Ed.

Confession - wind was almost zero at both muzzle and at 30 y. But, the increase in velocity from 800 - 805 to 830 FPS was the ticket. I will try at 40y next outing. I discovered how important it is to check and double check your zero as we shoot these cards. Here is an example:

I have been using my initial zero and pretty much then adjusting for holds from first card. Yesterday, I decided to re-zero until I hit two X’s or close to two X’s in a row on a sighter card. Then, I went back to shooting more cards. My thought is if I can hold on 10 ring ( vs. holding on 9, or 8 ring) using the clock as my holds, much better accuracy. I think I got more X’s because of this and in significant wind, it doesn’t matter that much because the holds and knowing the hour value on the clock are more difficult. Simply stated, the farther out your holds are from the ‘X’ dot, the harder to hit 10’s and more X’s.

Ah Ha!! Greg sold you his .25 caliber ‘lottery winning barrel.’

Shoot some targets and post up when you can.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

 

[NAProf]

Hi Guys!
I have spent most of my shooting time the last couple of weeks trying out some new pellets in the .22 Crown NW . First I tried the 380mm barrel and then went to the 500mm barrel. I got several tins of JTS Dead Center .22 18.8 gr pellets from the JTS booth at the Pyramid Air Cup. They look like really nice pellets! They appear to be very consistent in shape, almost no bent skirts, and very clean. I ran a bunch through my .22 PelletgageR's and the batches seemed to be a mix of head sizes between 5.54 and 5.51mm. Only weighed about 30 pellets and the range was similar to the JSB's (not as tightly grouped as the FX's). Anyway, after almost 750 shots on lots of Challenge cards at both 30 and 40 yds I can emphatically say "Blaaaaaa...". Not one card came close to my leader board numbers at either range. Tried several different velocities in each barrel - just not scoring as well as the FX's.

So, today I went back to the good ole Green Mountain Crown with the 500mm .177 barrel (my FT rig). Shot just two cards, one 30 yd Masters and a 40 yd Challenge. Shot the 30 yd first and did well - 198-12x (with six 10's). The breeze picked up a bit (though not much) and I shot the 40 yd card - 191 - 8x. I think both make my leader board for this rifle for 2024.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And I will lift a glass for Tommy and his marvelous 200-18X!

Cheers,
Greg

 

[TheAirgunnero]

Ed, Tom, I see a huge improvement in your shooting so keep it up

I had no plans of shooting today but I got bored and here‘s what I did…

30 Yard No Looking through the scope while standing on video challenge using my made GCMAG Magnum Gen 2 w/ GF1000 barrel, JMS-Pro 18.3gr unsorted @970fps average, Protektor Model Deluxe BB rear bag as front rest and Protektor rabbit ear rear bag.

197 12X

Video:

 

[tommyb]

Hi Guys!
I have spent most of my shooting time the last couple of weeks trying out some new pellets in the .22 Crown NW . First I tried the 380mm barrel and then went to the 500mm barrel. I got several tins of JTS Dead Center .22 18.8 gr pellets from the JTS booth at the Pyramid Air Cup. They look like really nice pellets! They appear to be very consistent in shape, almost no bent skirts, and very clean. I ran a bunch through my .22 PelletgageR's and the batches seemed to be a mix of head sizes between 5.54 and 5.51mm. Only weighed about 30 pellets and the range was similar to the JSB's (not as tightly grouped as the FX's). Anyway, after almost 750 shots on lots of Challenge cards at both 30 and 40 yds I can emphatically say "Blaaaaaa...". Not one card came close to my leader board numbers at either range. Tried several different velocities in each barrel - just not scoring as well as the FX's.

So, today I went back to the good ole Green Mountain Crown with the 500mm .177 barrel (my FT rig). Shot just two cards, one 30 yd Masters and a 40 yd Challenge. Shot the 30 yd first and did well - 198-12x (with six 10's). The breeze picked up a bit (though not much) and I shot the 40 yd card - 191 - 8x. I think both make my leader board for this rifle for 2024.

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And I will lift a glass for Tommy and his marvelous 200-18X!

Cheers,
Greg

Thanks Greg. Right back at you

That 191 at 40Y is not too shabby with the .177

 

[EPG]

Ed, Tom, I see a huge improvement in your shooting so keep it up

I had no plans of shooting today but I got bored and here‘s what I did…

30 Yard No Looking through the scope while standing on video challenge using my made GCMAG Magnum Gen 2 w/ GF1000 barrel, JMS-Pro 18.3gr unsorted @970fps average, Protektor Model Deluxe BB rear bag as front rest and Protektor rabbit ear rear bag.

197 12X

Video:

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Just when you think you’re getting better, Ricky shows he can beat your score while doing a handstand and pulling the trigger with his toe, lol !

Great shooting Ricky - how do you move your PoA from target to target if not looking through the scope? I don’t see you re-aiming in the video…

-Ed

 

[TheAirgunnero]

Just when you think you’re getting better, Ricky shows he can beat your score while doing a handstand and pulling the trigger with his toe, lol !

Great shooting Ricky - how do you move your PoA from target to target if not looking through the scope? I don’t see you re-aiming in the video…

-Ed

Thanks Ed.

You can’t see me re-aiming because the movements are so minute. I love making trick shots and I cannot reveal how I do it or else my “magic super power” will get lost.

-Ricky

 

[RCope]

I'm usually not much of a fan boy, but when I picture @TheAirgunnero, I can't help but picture the trick shot, super marksman dude from the Walking Dead...

 

[TheAirgunnero]

I'm usually not much of a fan boy, but when I picture @TheAirgunnero, I can't help but picture the trick shot, super marksman dude from the Walking Dead...
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You’re so funny Rick

 

[tommyb]

You’re so funny Rick

Funny - I can picture it now with the song, ‘ The Good, Bad and the Ugly’ playing in the background with Clint Eastwood as the Airgunnero!

 

[RCope]

So I have shot dozens of cards with my new to me Redwolf HP .22. Unable to break 192...it's has been very windy and I've tested a bunch of different pellets and slugs. It's hard to make judgements with the high wind, I'll just keep chugging along. At least I'm used to the trigger.
My AA S510 still performs relatively well in the wind. At least well enough for me to take the time to score a card ;-).

 

[JimD]

Wind almost always gets to me. I had a decent target going yesterday and then messed up a wind hold and got a 5 or 6. More typically it seems to give me 9s or 8s. Can be frustrating. Swirling around changing direction is the worst for me.

 

[EPG]

Hi Guys!
I have spent most of my shooting time the last couple of weeks trying out some new pellets in the .22 Crown NW . First I tried the 380mm barrel and then went to the 500mm barrel. I got several tins of JTS Dead Center .22 18.8 gr pellets from the JTS booth at the Pyramid Air Cup. They look like really nice pellets! They appear to be very consistent in shape, almost no bent skirts, and very clean. I ran a bunch through my .22 PelletgageR's and the batches seemed to be a mix of head sizes between 5.54 and 5.51mm. Only weighed about 30 pellets and the range was similar to the JSB's (not as tightly grouped as the FX's). Anyway, after almost 750 shots on lots of Challenge cards at both 30 and 40 yds I can emphatically say "Blaaaaaa...". Not one card came close to my leader board numbers at either range. Tried several different velocities in each barrel - just not scoring as well as the FX's.

So, today I went back to the good ole Green Mountain Crown with the 500mm .177 barrel (my FT rig). Shot just two cards, one 30 yd Masters and a 40 yd Challenge. Shot the 30 yd first and did well - 198-12x (with six 10's). The breeze picked up a bit (though not much) and I shot the 40 yd card - 191 - 8x. I think both make my leader board for this rifle for 2024.

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And I will lift a glass for Tommy and his marvelous 200-18X!

Cheers,
Greg

Doing some leaderboard updates today Greg…

Unfortunately, neither of these submissions topped previous submissions with your GM Crown .177 (500mm).

30-Masters of 198 13X submitted March 3rd has more Xs.

40-Challenge of 197 12X submitted May 25th is the 2nd highest .177:40-Challenge card ever submitted (mreynolds has a 199 15X 40-Challenge with his Thomas .177 - and a 200 16X 40-Masters).

The year is young, keep shootin’ for that 200 !!

-Ed

 

[EPG]

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Leaderboard Update - through 12/2/2024​

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Hi Shooters,

While there were a number of great cards submitted for discussion in November, only TommyB had submissions that actually made the leaderboard:

Leaderboard:

30-Challenge: 200 18X with his Weihrauch HW100 and FX Atomic 15.89g @ 830fps (post #2824)

30-Masters: 198 11X also with his Weihrauch HW100 and FX Atomic 15.89g @ 830fps (post #2824)

Congratulations Tommy !


Other Notables:

EPG shot some good cards with a 700mm .22 barrel on his FX Crown Mk2.

NaProf shot some good cards with his “Green Mountain” .177 FX Crown Mk2 (great to see Greg return from his field target competitions)

JimD shot some nice cards getting his new Athlon 10-40 target scope dialed in.

RCope shot a nice card with his .177 Air Arms S510 – and continues to work with his Daystate Red Wolf HP .22

And our competition shooter from the Philippines – Ricky the Airgunnero – shot a 30-Masters of 197 12X… while standing and not looking through the scope (Post 2828 with video)!! Ricky had already submitted perfect 200 20X cards in both .177 and .22 with his customized GCMAG Magnum Gen2 rifle (made in the Philippines) – so the 197 doesn’t make the leaderboard… as “degree of difficulty” is not part of our scoring process, lol.


I want one of those GCMAG Magnums – tuned by Ricky – for Christmas !

Still almost a whole month to get a new rifle on the leaderboards, or improve a previous score – so keep getting’ that lead downrange !

-Ed

 

[RCope]

Had some time on an almost windless day. No excuses...Red Wolf .22, card 2 for the leader board, my best score yet

 

[tommyb]

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Rick - great cards.

You are right in the ‘sweet spot’ of 970 FPS with the 25g pellet, and the RW. Assume you are on medium power?

My Safari .22 HP shot very well af both 50 and 100 yards with 1) Good quality JSB 25.4 MRD, and 2) light wind especially at 100y.

I would stick with FX branded or JTS - Better for me anyway

Tom