A surprise to be sure....but a welcome one

[Hal4son]

Super close range is when a ballistic calculator on a digital scope is invaluable. Alternatively an IR laser mounted parallel to the bore will give you instant visual holdovers without alerting the birds. Birds don't like visible lasers...

Nice haul.

 

[Ranchibi]

Oh interesting. Yeah I've heard big elevation change can make a world of a difference in trajectory. I always shoot around 500ft elevation and never any change so never had to deal with that. Fun learning experience!

My zero elevation @ sea level POI is 5 clicks high @ 4400 ft of elevation!

 

[Motorhead]

Bakers Dozen + 1 .... nice shooting .... stupid flying rats

 

[Dairyboy]

Ok finally got a setting done on the Zulus at 12fpe and 10yds. At 5yds I'm sitting at 7 MIL holdover. At 15yds it's a 1.8 MIL holdunder. No wonder on tight shots where only a little of the pigeon was showing it was difficult to hit them. Now I know and should be good to go. Will probably try in the morning again if not the next morning.

 

[Dairyboy]

Bakers Dozen + 1 .... nice shooting .... stupid flying rats

Yeah they are bad. We've decreased the flocks number dramatically this year. They got in the roof of our barn this year and was a disaster. We fixed everything up so they couldn't get in it again and now been wiping out the number. We had over 150 I'd say and we have easily killed over 100 this year. The numbers are much better but still too many like to congregate in the rafters in the open part of the barn making a mess.

 

[Headshots]

Ok finally got a setting done on the Zulus at 12fpe and 10yds. At 5yds I'm sitting at 7 MIL holdover. At 15yds it's a 1.8 MIL holdunder. No wonder on tight shots where only a little of the pigeon was showing it was difficult to hit them. Now I know and should be good to go. Will probably try in the morning again if not the next morning.

Looks like a productive and fun night. It's a great reminder to know your poi at 10 yards . I like knowing in case I need to finish a wounded pest up close or that rare close range shot . Great job and nice to know you can lower the power on the Veteran down to 12 fpe . Did you just back off the hammer spring ?

 

[Dairyboy]

Looks like a productive and fun night. It's a great reminder to know your poi at 10 yards . I like knowing in case I need to finish a wounded pest up close or that rare close range shot . Great job and nice to know you can lower the power on the Veteran down to 12 fpe . Did you just back off the hammer spring ?

Yeah I did. It's usually at 30fpe but for the close range pesting a quick turn of the HS adjuster works just fine.

 

[Dairyboy]

My oldest daughter woke me up for growing pains this morning at 4:45 so after taking care of her I went to the dairy as it was still early enough. Got 12 this morning and recovered 8. The rest are up on the rafters. Cleaned house basically on all that were in there this morning. Also will show a pic of the barn so you get an idea of what i mean when im shooting in the barn. I recorded it on the Zulus so will post a short section of that probably later. Total video was 3min.

 

[Dairyboy]

There were only 6 pigeons in the barn this morning and I got 5 of them the last one got away before I could get a shot off. I will check tomorrow but I think we have taken care of the problem of pigeons in the barn. At least the nesting ones.