A bunch of sweet 196 cards lately! Everyone is getting better as we go.
I went to the range today and started out shooting a card with the Red Wolf .22 HP. I noticed about half way through a pretty good card, my cocking lever which is always buttery smooth was struggling a bit with the pellet probe getting my pellet seated correctly into the chamber. I took a shot, and I "may" have accidentally double loaded a pellet, because I saw two holes near the bottom of my card. See below.
There was a nice guy next to me and he was talking constantly, and I took my eye off the ball of course and was trying to talk and chew gum at the same time. I then took a sighter and hit an X. I thought the problem was solved with the double load pellet fiasco and started shooting the rest of the card.
If you look closely, you can see my double loaded 2-pellet mis-fire near the bottom right.
Next, and unbeknownst to me, I did not realize my SST must not have been seated exactly right and was wondering why I had three or four hard to load pellets. Checked the MRDs and they were fine. Then, I had a flier ( see #5 bull ) and now I knew something was wrong with my magazine and as I removed the SST to check, my breech O-ring popped out. I did this same thing several months ago, and I guess "twice" (and not 3 times) is the charm here since I also ejected my O-ring then too. The SST normally always seats very crisply and securely, but I must not have been paying close attention and was distracted.
Note to self: Be very careful about loading the SST in the Safari and make 100% sure it is seated correctly. Also, don't double load pellets and pay attention to what you are doing, even when you are talking to friends.
Disgusted, I put the RW back in the truck and then shot two cards with the RAW. I could tell my concentration was crap bc, I was still thinking about the dumb ass moves I made with the RW. I will re-seat / replace my breech O-ring and shoot the RW again another day.
RAW cards below:
First card was a 191, and next was a 197.
