Channeling my own “Ricky the Airgunnero”, I shot a card at lunch - pushing our Challenge target out further than 40 yards.
Shooting conditions were nice - overcast with mild breeze. I shot rows from top to bottom. You can see the mild breeze R to L picked up on rows 2,3 and 4 - pushing my PoI left.
I took 3 sighters during the card. Without the sighters I would definitely have shot a lower score. Incidentally, my two sighters before Row 4 went through the same hole - would have been Xs, lol.
Distance: 47 Yards (laser measured from front of bench)
Rifle: Taipan Veteran 2 .22 (550mm CZ)
Pellet: FX 25.4g (MRD)
Wind: 2-4 mph
Scope: Athlon Midas Tac FFP 6x24 @ 24X
Score: 191 10X
Dang!! Didn’t think I would break 190 at my first try past 45 yards. This Taipan Vet 2 is amazing at holding accuracy further out - using the heavyweight 25.4g pellets.
I’m certain a 45X Sightron and some practice at this distance and I could beat 191.
Now maybe I should try the FX Crown at this distance…
(I’d put target at exactly 50 yards but its too swampy - 49.3 yards and I start to get wet feet, lol)
[edit] At 3pm, conditions were even calmer - so adding 190 7X 40-Masters at 47 yards. It appears Taipan gets about 55 shots on a fill with this heavy pellet at 850fps. Perhaps as many as 60 as it falls gradually off the reg. My reg is supposedly set at 150 bar.
-Ed
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