Well well well, a nice day at the range today, and excellent weather too, well at least in regard to wind that for the first 5 hours was very nice.
Just one problem.
It seem like i am too stupid to airgun
I started up with my favorite 13 gr slugs in Zan and JSB flavor, and took them from 880 FPS and to 1050 FPS, and i was absolutely NOT able to get them to work at any distance. by work i mean consistent get then to group within a 3" radius, well at least at 50 and 80 M and it is those distances that count for me.
Actually me blaming weather on my first outing, well i cant do that today with a strait face, and so either i am too stupid to airgun, or something is eluding me.
Now of course i did not go up in speed in 5 FPS increments, but still i would think at some point you hit a speed where you go " AHA "
But no such moment for me with the 13 gr slugs.
So i tried 16 gr H&N slugs, but the result here was the same, get 2-3 shots that sort of look like something and then BAM and i was 100 - 150 mm off.
This i also saw on day #1 shooting 25 M but i blamed that on wind back then, but that 20 mm jump i saw there, well it just get worse on 50 M.
I then went on to try 20 gr H&N and Zan, and actually here shooting 80 M the H&N looked the best, though not far from as bad as all the other weights.
So at 80 M shooting at my usual 2" shoot N see splatter targets, well where my Maverick would fill those with holes and maybe 2 just outside the splatter target, but the Two, OMG it is very close to pure luck if i can get 2 on the target in a row, actually that only happened once today, otherwise it was just scatter gun.
So i was shooting at other stuff to gauge / zero, and i would get like 3-4-5 shots that was " okay time to shoot a splatter target " and then change aim 2 M to the right where those was, and BAM rifle no longer grouping and sure as hell not 3-4-5 shots, and a lot of shots just OMG off target.
So back and forth back and forth for hours, trying other speeds ASO, hell at one time after taking the 20 gr to 960 FPS i put in 13 gr and went super sonic sending cracks along my lead across the field.
Also tried Beasts again at 25 M and Sure it was not worse than day #1 so very far in between okay 5 shot groups,,,,, many fliers.
That was also the same with the MRD pellets i also tried.
80 M slug paper, one big mess.
For comparison a 86 M paper shooting 13 gr Zans with my Maverick, and i think this is older than last year so here shooting too fast and not having the best luck with consistency in groups, so chasing POI.
this would be the least i would expect from a good airgun ( and i dont think that is unfair )
The really bad " fliers " here, well sort of fliers, this happen when i shoot after flies landing on the target, it have to be really bad wind and me not minding it to not have all my shots within 3" with the Maverick, fliers with that is generally just 10 - 20 mm at 86 M
The BR50 paper i used to shoot 5 shot groups with the MRD pellets at 25 M, speed a little up / down here trying to find sweet spot, which seemed to be 860 FPS.
Really i would have expected more on this short distance, even if the wind was picking up at this time ( around 6 in the evening )
Finally my 50 M cardboard with ink dots on, the plan was to shoot 5 shot groups, but everything sucked no matter what i tried, slugs at different speds and pellets too, but this is also just a big mess as you can see ( i swear i am a better shooter than that )
highlighted the groups shot wit increasing speeds on Zan and JSB slugs, nothing made any sense to me.
That one group sort of looking alright, well it also collapsed shooting something else.
Needless to say i started out with a clean barrel.
I recon i fired about 1000 - 1200 shots today
