Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the first part of the thread. Did a lot of follow up work with the R9 today. Cleaned the barrel and tightened a couple of stock screws. Then went to town in my basement 10m range with the R9, open sights only. Shot 10 pellet groups at a 10m target using all my different pellets. Started off a bit depressing but learned a lot over the day and was doing better at the end of it.
First run with all my different pellets, not too thrilled with this...
Worked and worked on just letting the gun do what it wanted to do when I shot it. Still I thought it would be better than this. The group sies are all measured CTC. The red number is the overall group size, the blue number is the width of the group. I noticed consistent vertical stringing of the shots. I am interpreting the narrowest groupings as the more accurate pellets, just a hypothesis.
Next I got out my Benjamin Trail NP2 0.22 cal and did the same test with all the different .22 pellets I have. I shot the Benji with a cheap Centerpoint scope. Please note that I adjusted the scope between strings to get the groups closer to center, was only looking for group sizes at this point.
The Benji shot better and no vertical stringing. I think the issue with the R9 was something to do with how I was using the open sights. Then I remembered that a bunch of replacement inserts came with the R9 so onto the next experiment..
I shot 10 shot groups with sights #1, 2, 3, and 6. Inserts 4 & 5 were unuseable with my target selection.
Here's the results, sorry if my notes are a bit confusing... All pellets for this test were Crosman Domed 7.0 gr
I found sight #6 using a 6pm hold was the most precise.
Good news, after a couple of hundred rounds my flinching was reduced quite a bit. Also probably well on the way to breaking it in properly. My conclusion is I would love to keep working with and shooting the open sights but really would like some type of rear ghost ring. Would a Tech-Sights type set up work or would the break barrel hinge make it pointless to try? Curious about the vertical stringing. I see the potential for accuracy with this gun.
"oh yeah, uhh I was just shooting my springer all day, yeah..."
Regards, Badger
First run with all my different pellets, not too thrilled with this...
Next I got out my Benjamin Trail NP2 0.22 cal and did the same test with all the different .22 pellets I have. I shot the Benji with a cheap Centerpoint scope. Please note that I adjusted the scope between strings to get the groups closer to center, was only looking for group sizes at this point.
The Benji shot better and no vertical stringing. I think the issue with the R9 was something to do with how I was using the open sights. Then I remembered that a bunch of replacement inserts came with the R9 so onto the next experiment..
I shot 10 shot groups with sights #1, 2, 3, and 6. Inserts 4 & 5 were unuseable with my target selection.
Here's the results, sorry if my notes are a bit confusing... All pellets for this test were Crosman Domed 7.0 gr
I found sight #6 using a 6pm hold was the most precise.
Good news, after a couple of hundred rounds my flinching was reduced quite a bit. Also probably well on the way to breaking it in properly. My conclusion is I would love to keep working with and shooting the open sights but really would like some type of rear ghost ring. Would a Tech-Sights type set up work or would the break barrel hinge make it pointless to try? Curious about the vertical stringing. I see the potential for accuracy with this gun.
"oh yeah, uhh I was just shooting my springer all day, yeah..."
Regards, Badger
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