Revisiting the GHOST...
Swapped scopes, after nearly two years.
The .20 Ghost has mostly been relegated to prairie dog pesting duty this summer. I had it out a handful of times throughout the summer. Each time it simply did what the Ghost does, puts slugs/pellets on target.
I was recently playing with a .20 cal AirForce Condor and that gun got me converted the idea of the PARD DS35-70RF. It was a hard sell for me, as I typically prefer old school. In this case, a solid Athlon Midas Tac 6-24, conventional glass scope, no electronics. The Ghost in fact has had a Midas Tac on it for nearly two years. Up til today.
I sold the .20 Condor and pulled the Midas Tac off the Ghost, and put the PARD on the Ghost. The PARD is an electronic scope, which means image quality isn't even close to the Midas Tac. Where the PARD shines though, is that it has a built in laser rangefinder, and a ballistics app. So, range the target, click for the ballistics program to give you the holdover, and boom, pellet (or slug) on target. AND it can video all of that.
So, PARD on the Ghost....
The scope mounting situation is frankenstein-esque to say the least. Yep, I pulled the BRK OEM scope riser. This was partly for correct scope height/placement, but mostly b/c the PARD was already in those rings, AND on that pic rail from the gun it was coming off. The PARD nearly requires adjustable mounts, so I knew I needed to stick with the rings it was already in. SO, it's got dovetail rings, attached to dovetail to pic adapters, which are attached to the pic rail, which is attached to the dovetail rail of the Ghost. lol, definitely took the long way to go from dovetail rings to dovetail rail, but eye placement wouldn't have worked if I omitted the combinations of contraptions in between them.
I spent about 10 minutes zeroing the .20/18.9grain NSA slugs at 30 yards and plugging the ballistics info in.
Same deal for zeroing the .20/15.89JSB pellets. Same speeds as before, the slugs are going about 910fps, and the pellets are going 925fps. MAX on the wheel for the slugs for that speed and "5" for the pellets to go that speed.
After the data input, decided to test out the predicted trajectory to actual on the steel in my backyard. So, we've got roughly 130, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50 yards on this little video. I tweaked the data slightly (had to bump up the BC from 0.09 to 0.1 for the slugs to track correctly). But the pellets were spot on with a BC of 0.046.
This little vid is the slugs. All one take, no editing. And yeah, the wind was rocking pretty good (check out the foliage. I missed one of the paddles at maybe 70? yards. Just didn't hold enough for the wind.
Despite the wind, I was too excited for the PARD on the Ghost and spent about 90 minutes in a prairie dog town after the above trajectory verification. I've got some good raw footage and will try to get it edited down to a palatable length vid. If I can find some time for that I'll add it here as well.
Here's a small clip of one kill shot on a pdog from today...
