Well, no Christmas tree, no kids or Grandkids, the wife’s sleeping, sounds like a good time to have a shoot.
I’ll go PCP this morning with the gun that I’ve always wanted to like, but couldn’t, my first PCP, a Beeman Cheif II.
The Cheif has been useless, so I pulled the scope from it and put it on my old Marlin. I had put the Marlins scope, a Bushnell on my Hatsan QE95. When the QE 95 died to an air leak, the Bushnell wound up on the Cheif.
So,, the Chief was shooting really bad with the Bushnell, so I tested it for “Springer Damage” which showed that the scope was toast.
Next BSA had a sale going , so I bought a 4.5x18x40 for the Chief.
Last night, Christmas Eve, I pulled the Cheif out and checked the alignment of the barrel to the tube, and corrected it. Then I pulled out the BSA, and went on a search for the lowest rings I had to mount it. I got the scope mounted nice and level.
That brings us to today.
I initially thought the Chief was empty, but another look showed it was charged. I didn’t even have to get out the compressor.
Never being worth the good ammo, I grabbed the Crosman CHP’s.
First ‘sight in’ shot. Dead bullseye!
The rest of the clip, dead bullseye’s!
No scope adjustments made, except parallax! There’s no regulator in the Cheif so the accuracy is short lived, but I made a Kentucky hold over shot at a medicine bottle on the seventy five yard target and got a one shot one kill.
I always knew that I wanted to like this guy.
To my shooting friends, and family, I always referred to that gun I as the one I always wanted to like.
A great shoot on Christmas Morning.
Merry Christmas Y’all!
I’ll go PCP this morning with the gun that I’ve always wanted to like, but couldn’t, my first PCP, a Beeman Cheif II.
The Cheif has been useless, so I pulled the scope from it and put it on my old Marlin. I had put the Marlins scope, a Bushnell on my Hatsan QE95. When the QE 95 died to an air leak, the Bushnell wound up on the Cheif.
So,, the Chief was shooting really bad with the Bushnell, so I tested it for “Springer Damage” which showed that the scope was toast.
Next BSA had a sale going , so I bought a 4.5x18x40 for the Chief.
Last night, Christmas Eve, I pulled the Cheif out and checked the alignment of the barrel to the tube, and corrected it. Then I pulled out the BSA, and went on a search for the lowest rings I had to mount it. I got the scope mounted nice and level.
That brings us to today.
I initially thought the Chief was empty, but another look showed it was charged. I didn’t even have to get out the compressor.
Never being worth the good ammo, I grabbed the Crosman CHP’s.
First ‘sight in’ shot. Dead bullseye!
The rest of the clip, dead bullseye’s!
No scope adjustments made, except parallax! There’s no regulator in the Cheif so the accuracy is short lived, but I made a Kentucky hold over shot at a medicine bottle on the seventy five yard target and got a one shot one kill.
I always knew that I wanted to like this guy.
To my shooting friends, and family, I always referred to that gun I as the one I always wanted to like.
A great shoot on Christmas Morning.
Merry Christmas Y’all!
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