Shooting springers at 100 yds is not what they are designed for Unless you like disappointment
$50 yds max you want longer ranges get a pcp
$50 yds max you want longer ranges get a pcp
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N/A Springer Accuracy?
- Thread starter Bear-of-Grayling
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I am shocked at how well my new hw97k is shooting already. I didn’t clean the barrel and am shooting 4.52 jsb 8.44 at 25 yards. 5 shot group. I prob have 50 rounds through it so I assume it’s broken in now! Getting used to the recoil vs pcp apparently too. I love this thing.
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Target and hunting accuracy is one in the same to me.
With my Hw55, I like shooting wasp with "Smokey Joe".
Smokey Joe because of the leather piston seal.
With my Hw55, I like shooting wasp with "Smokey Joe".
Smokey Joe because of the leather piston seal.
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This is a very interesting question. I remember when I convinced my father to buy a RWS 48 and then RWS 350 thinking we would kill more squirrels than with our 880. Wrong. Combination of recoil and poor scope meant very disappointing “accuracy.” Take off the scope and use the rifle correctly, very accurate and repeatable with good ammo. That was 20 years ago. Technique and good equipment matter. Thanks for the discussion.
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Hard to beat the Daisy 880 for a cheap close range pesting and hunting gun. This is an old one with side metal receiver and metal pump hand so not sure how the new ones shoot.
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It is fun to hear everyone's idea of accuracy in springers. I haven't read all pages yet but the word to me is "precision". Can your gun do what you want it to if you shoot it well? Then it is precise. Be Well, Bandito.
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More like "perfesser" in this case. It just seems that we all desire a certain level of that precision. It varies with each of us. Real precision has eluded me. As a young buck, with 500 or more rounds fired a month I was good at instinct shooting. I could get a vitals shot off on a rabbit as my partners were hitting their safety. Still, to this day, precision eludes me as does a steady hold or being able to hear that bunny start to move. Hope I didn't come off as an eggspurt here. Be Well, Bandito.
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Keeping it real here's another page of 25 yard five shot springer groups. I pulled out of my shop garbage. I don't remember if I've posted this one already or what gun it was. I can tell the the bottom left was a pellet change and the scope was adjusted for the last four targets. Note the random flyer ruining the other four. Typical springer groups. Well at least mine. The red dots are 3/4".
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So a pcp shooting a 14g .22 at 850fps is better at a 100y then a good springer shooting a 14g .22 at 850fps? Aybe you mean a 20g slug at 1000 from a pcp .? I'm confused ..
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Hereis the thing one has to remember You can have a springier that will shot a 3/8” group at 30 yds and that is great.
BUT are you as the shooter capable of shooting gun up to that level ??
My brother will take my WH 97K .22 and at 30 yds his group is over a inch my group is most of the time 3/8”
So my advice get the best gun you can and work on shooting you may never get as good as others BUT you may also get better than your friends
BUT are you as the shooter capable of shooting gun up to that level ??
My brother will take my WH 97K .22 and at 30 yds his group is over a inch my group is most of the time 3/8”
So my advice get the best gun you can and work on shooting you may never get as good as others BUT you may also get better than your friends
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Problem is most of my friends shoot those 3/8, or smaller 30 yard groups with springers. But, we have made each other better shooters. The Indians are the limitations, not the arrows....Or bows.
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