So i set off yesterday wanting to shoot some pellets at 50 M with my Vulcan 3, so i grabbed 6 different tins all weighing in around 10 grains.
This however was not terrible successful as i had a hard time to get a flat shot string at the 800 - 950 FPS speed range
So after making Swiss cheese out of a BR50 target with those shooing mag sized groups, and messing around with the hammer i concluded that my REG pressure was too high for this stuff, and so loaded up some Beasts i had in my ammo box, and they flew just fine, even managed to shoot the head off a fly, leaving just a hole in the paper with a little splatter around and a few little pieces i assume was legs,. the rest of the fly i saw drop strait down the paper, making me think at first i just scared it, but after a close up inspection of the hole i think i decapitated it.
So with my REG pressure more in line for 13 grain or heavier i turned to the slugs in my ammo box, and put up some of the 3" shoot N - C targets 82 M / 89 Yards out.
First up i shot my 12.5 gr NSA slugs, determined to "kill" the little red dot on the shoot N - C targets, a dot i think are at most 1/4 inch.
At the time the wind was still up so it was not easy to hit that damn red dot, so before i finally managed that i had dispensed 2-300 slugs, and made Swiss cheese of that particular target and the general area of two sighter dots.
So as i put 3 of those Shoot N - C targets on the cardboard backing, i figured " i can do better" with 13 gr Zan slugs.
As fate would have it, and me resetting the chrono before i set off, i know i had exactly 150 Zan slugs in my tin, but again killing the red dot was not easy, so when that finally happened i had 1 slug left in the magazine, so a whopping 149 shots to kill a little red dot.
Mind you many many of those shots when in the same ragged holes all around the red dot.
Clearly if red dot are sentient, it must have been very very nervous.
After that i changed to a fresh tin of KO slugs, so 400 lined up to kill the last little red dot, but i dident have to go that far.
first shot and follow that with 1 click on both turrets - 1 shot more and again 1 click on either turret, and then a 3 shot,,,,,,, and then i almost wiped the red dot in 1 shot, so my feel good was strong now and i did not shoot any more on that target.
After changing cardboard and targets i shot some of the little repair dots on that, and made a OK 82 M 5 shot group with the JSB slugs.
Back to practicing CUZ if it take you150 shots to kill a little red dot, then you need to do better.
This however was not terrible successful as i had a hard time to get a flat shot string at the 800 - 950 FPS speed range
So after making Swiss cheese out of a BR50 target with those shooing mag sized groups, and messing around with the hammer i concluded that my REG pressure was too high for this stuff, and so loaded up some Beasts i had in my ammo box, and they flew just fine, even managed to shoot the head off a fly, leaving just a hole in the paper with a little splatter around and a few little pieces i assume was legs,. the rest of the fly i saw drop strait down the paper, making me think at first i just scared it, but after a close up inspection of the hole i think i decapitated it.
So with my REG pressure more in line for 13 grain or heavier i turned to the slugs in my ammo box, and put up some of the 3" shoot N - C targets 82 M / 89 Yards out.
First up i shot my 12.5 gr NSA slugs, determined to "kill" the little red dot on the shoot N - C targets, a dot i think are at most 1/4 inch.
At the time the wind was still up so it was not easy to hit that damn red dot, so before i finally managed that i had dispensed 2-300 slugs, and made Swiss cheese of that particular target and the general area of two sighter dots.
So as i put 3 of those Shoot N - C targets on the cardboard backing, i figured " i can do better" with 13 gr Zan slugs.
As fate would have it, and me resetting the chrono before i set off, i know i had exactly 150 Zan slugs in my tin, but again killing the red dot was not easy, so when that finally happened i had 1 slug left in the magazine, so a whopping 149 shots to kill a little red dot.
Mind you many many of those shots when in the same ragged holes all around the red dot.
Clearly if red dot are sentient, it must have been very very nervous.
After that i changed to a fresh tin of KO slugs, so 400 lined up to kill the last little red dot, but i dident have to go that far.
first shot and follow that with 1 click on both turrets - 1 shot more and again 1 click on either turret, and then a 3 shot,,,,,,, and then i almost wiped the red dot in 1 shot, so my feel good was strong now and i did not shoot any more on that target.
After changing cardboard and targets i shot some of the little repair dots on that, and made a OK 82 M 5 shot group with the JSB slugs.
Back to practicing CUZ if it take you150 shots to kill a little red dot, then you need to do better.
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