https://www.airtanksforsale.com/target-x-small.jpg close to the sameI like that target! Where might one find a copy of it?
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https://www.airtanksforsale.com/target-x-small.jpg close to the sameI like that target! Where might one find a copy of it?
That is an awesome paper target.https://www.airtanksforsale.com/target-x-small.jpg close to the same
Don't forget about wind. I doubt most springer guys are shooting with 3+ wind flags setup on their range. With a 12ftlb .177 pellet, at 30yds, even a very light 1mph wind will push that pellet 0.2" in either direction. That is about a 1.3 moa margin for error that we are judging based on feel/grass/whatever without flags.Target accuracy? Never really heard of it. Match accuracy yes. Target accuracy not really. In the powder burner world "Match" ammo is for shooting fine groups or competition. "Target" ammo is generally bulk low quality ammo for plinking or training.
As far as springers go I'm happy to stay under 2 MOA. Unfortunately too many of my 5 shot groups will have 3 or 4 closer to 1MOA and 1 or 2 that go well wide. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's the gun and sometimes it's the pellet. It's frustrating to say the least.
Consistency is tougher for some guns than others. My HW50 isn't my smallest group shooter of my guns but it probably has the most predictable POI from the first cold shot to last. Some of my others will shoot half of their groups smaller than the 50 but the other half have wild flyers.
Here's a target sheet of 5 shot 50 yard groups from my 20 cal R9 in a light changing wind. The red dots are 3/4". A couple groups are respectable, some would have been without the flyers and some were terrible. Either way this is a pretty fair example of the inconsistent results I get from most springers. My 50 wouldn't shoot any better groups but the groups would all be close and have similar POIs. I still like the R9 and I might get more consistent results if I spent more time with it or stumbled into a better tin of pellets. All the stars have to align for me to get a page of good groups. That's springers.
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This is exactly why I do not own a Match or a PCP anymore.Shooting in the same hole gets boring
Maybe you should stop aiming at barns ?Springer or PCP, makes no difference to me as I always hit what I aim at.
Hold a springer like a sledgehammer death grip and you ain't hitting a thing. TRUTH!
I love my 48 and my HW97KT......Just as other guns hole on hole.
RWS 48 in 22 tuned by John Thomas at 50 yards.
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I truly laughed out loud.Maybe you should stop aiming at barns ?
Hope you take this as a joke .
you will never regret buying a TX200 , i have two wonderful guns , mine are tuned to 11.5 and 10.2 FPE in .177 can shoot all day and night with either and spot on target. It almost seems illegal to hunt squirrels.I love my 48 and my HW97KT......
Do I need to purchase a TX200? I just might as I love them springers.
TX200 is so easy to work on as well......I've never seen one up close but by reading the forum and the pictures, it is a must have for me to own.you will never regret buying a TX200 , i have two wonderful guns , mine are tuned to 11.5 and 10.2 FPE in .177 can shoot all day and night with either and spot on target.
Unless the discussion is referring to a “Match Springer” as in a Feinwerkbau 300, Diana 75, possibly a Weihrauch 55, or the like, it seems to me the word “Target and Springer” are a contradiction of terms. Yet this term is used quite often with springers that shoot quarter and larger size groups at mere 20 yards. I guess I’m old school but “Target Accuracy” once meant a single hole in the dead center of a bull at 10 meters. Just wondering if I didn’t get the memo. What does “Target Accuracy” with a springer mean to yall?
Target vs Pesting?