Terrible but very much needed weather down here in Tasmania, Australia this past week. A week ago the ground was dry as a bone heading into our Aussie Summer. We switched over to our last tank of rainwater which meant rationing the water, giving ourselves restrictions on showers and water usage etc. We have dams for watering though luckily.
Then, out of nowhere the weather turned! 4 days of almost constant rain. All our water tanks are full and overflowing, dams and creeks full and raging, and our road into home is half washed away. I think close to 300mm or 12 inches of rain.
Anyway, today the weather has eased up some so I finally got to do a little slug testing on the new Uragan 2.
My oldest boy (18) works at the gunshop in town, so last week I dropped him off into work, and came back home with a new AGT Uragan 2, Good trade I reckon!
Wind still coming and going, and a few small showers had me abandon our shotgun/shooting range in favour of a makeshift indoor range shooting out of my messy workshop. It's not pretty but it got me shooting! I used a pile of timber as my seat, and a camp table for a bench. Not awesome, but plenty good for a rough Sunday arvo.
It looks like my .22 700mm Uragan 2 favours the .217 slugs. As yet, I've only managed to get hold of H&N and Zan slugs so hit me up with other suggestions to try, but both are shooting best in the .217, and both in the 25gn at around 970 fps. So far I've not bothered to chase more power, so shooting it as it came, and I guess it makes sense that it likes 25gn?
At 40m / 44 yards most slugs were grouping just under an inch, but the 25gn would pull back in nicely to 0.3/0.4 ish. A couple random one hole wonders but mostly averaged out to 0.4 inch.
Still blowing a gale I thought I'd try the last few H&N 25's from the sample pack at 75m/82y. Considering the wind I, was still pretty happy with the average grouping of just over an inch. I didn't even measure it to be honest but it'd be 1 1/2 at the most I'd say. Then for about a minute the wind died to a breeze and gave me just enough time to squeeze off a quick decent group. Measured at 0.713 so nicely sub moa. Good enough for today so packed everything up before the weather got too hectic again.
I'll have to wait for some better weather and some more slugs to stretch it out further, but I'll be super happy if I can get this gun to shoot moa at 100m. Looking like it'll do it, but I'll have to wait and see.
Then, out of nowhere the weather turned! 4 days of almost constant rain. All our water tanks are full and overflowing, dams and creeks full and raging, and our road into home is half washed away. I think close to 300mm or 12 inches of rain.
Anyway, today the weather has eased up some so I finally got to do a little slug testing on the new Uragan 2.
My oldest boy (18) works at the gunshop in town, so last week I dropped him off into work, and came back home with a new AGT Uragan 2, Good trade I reckon!
Wind still coming and going, and a few small showers had me abandon our shotgun/shooting range in favour of a makeshift indoor range shooting out of my messy workshop. It's not pretty but it got me shooting! I used a pile of timber as my seat, and a camp table for a bench. Not awesome, but plenty good for a rough Sunday arvo.
It looks like my .22 700mm Uragan 2 favours the .217 slugs. As yet, I've only managed to get hold of H&N and Zan slugs so hit me up with other suggestions to try, but both are shooting best in the .217, and both in the 25gn at around 970 fps. So far I've not bothered to chase more power, so shooting it as it came, and I guess it makes sense that it likes 25gn?
At 40m / 44 yards most slugs were grouping just under an inch, but the 25gn would pull back in nicely to 0.3/0.4 ish. A couple random one hole wonders but mostly averaged out to 0.4 inch.
Still blowing a gale I thought I'd try the last few H&N 25's from the sample pack at 75m/82y. Considering the wind I, was still pretty happy with the average grouping of just over an inch. I didn't even measure it to be honest but it'd be 1 1/2 at the most I'd say. Then for about a minute the wind died to a breeze and gave me just enough time to squeeze off a quick decent group. Measured at 0.713 so nicely sub moa. Good enough for today so packed everything up before the weather got too hectic again.
I'll have to wait for some better weather and some more slugs to stretch it out further, but I'll be super happy if I can get this gun to shoot moa at 100m. Looking like it'll do it, but I'll have to wait and see.
