Went to the farm with my Air Arms S510 today and started getting it dialed in. 
I started at 20 yards to get it set left to right. I then moved to 40 yards, and was doing OK, both 20 and 40 were shooting low, but I wasn't sure where I would be zeroing it, so I moved it out to 50. Of course, as soon as I moved it out, the wind picked up and the buildings around me tend to make the wind kind of chaotic where I was shooting, so the pellets were all over the place.
At one point, I was looking though the scope at the target and one of the pellet holes was slowly moving up the target. It took me a second to realize it was a bug crawling along, so I had to take the shot, thinking maybe I would get somewhat close, but probably not. I took the shot and it flew away. Or so I though... As I loaded up the target at the end of my shooting session I found this:
Again, this was into a very fickle rapidly changing wind, so really this was chance, far more than skill.
Better lucky than good I guess,
-pg
I started at 20 yards to get it set left to right. I then moved to 40 yards, and was doing OK, both 20 and 40 were shooting low, but I wasn't sure where I would be zeroing it, so I moved it out to 50. Of course, as soon as I moved it out, the wind picked up and the buildings around me tend to make the wind kind of chaotic where I was shooting, so the pellets were all over the place.
At one point, I was looking though the scope at the target and one of the pellet holes was slowly moving up the target. It took me a second to realize it was a bug crawling along, so I had to take the shot, thinking maybe I would get somewhat close, but probably not. I took the shot and it flew away. Or so I though... As I loaded up the target at the end of my shooting session I found this:
Again, this was into a very fickle rapidly changing wind, so really this was chance, far more than skill.
Better lucky than good I guess,
-pg
