@shooter1721, gotcha. I always like your videos. Thanks for the very good, honest reviews. And as always, great shooting.
Mike
Mike
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What is the longest distance you have shot your airgun accurately?
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Way out in a pasture on the other side of a County Road next to my house, there's a power line exactly 109 yards from a picnic table where I have my morning coffee. It's a rock solid spot to shoot from and on still days I can't resist bringing along my MK1 .25 Wildcat to pop the pigeons and starlings that land on those wires or the power pole. Off of a bipod with a rear bag, when things are really going my way, it's not that hard to bring down 65 to 70% of the ones I shoot at. I've done better on a few days and I sure as hell have done a lot worse but I've learned that there's a small window of opportunity when it comes to super long air rifle shooting. When that window's not open, I'd just as soon save them the pain and suffering of a wing shot or a gut shot and focus on something a little closer.
Glenn in Texas
Glenn in Texas
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Cothran .308 100 yards with 110 gr hp from higharchunter. 1-20 twist tj, very consistent shooter.
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Is this accurately? 
I thought so then. Went out the next day for a better group though.
Sub MOA at 200 yards with a stock .25 cal. Cricket pleased me. I just wanted to see how far slugs could maintain stable flight and accuracy out of a stock PCP. Domes won't do that for me at 200 yards.
I totally agree with centercut about small game or pests. For most of our current PCP's shooting pellets that 125 yards is a good max. range in my opinion too.
I shot a lot of Ground Squirrels at 150 - 220 yards this last summer. Sitting at a shooting table with sand bags, air, pellets, slugs, and a chair for 4 hours of none stop shooting one day. Never stood up. Range finder was useless. Flat terrain with fences and WAY to many squirrels to find the right one through the scope.
Sooo - I did exactly what centercut described. Multiple shots per hit. Land owner with a pest problem was happy.
My take away that day. - Was that is just to far for me with a stock PCP to humanly dispatch Ground Squirrels consistently.
Paper is a different thing for sure.
I thought so then. Went out the next day for a better group though.
Sub MOA at 200 yards with a stock .25 cal. Cricket pleased me. I just wanted to see how far slugs could maintain stable flight and accuracy out of a stock PCP. Domes won't do that for me at 200 yards.
I totally agree with centercut about small game or pests. For most of our current PCP's shooting pellets that 125 yards is a good max. range in my opinion too.
I shot a lot of Ground Squirrels at 150 - 220 yards this last summer. Sitting at a shooting table with sand bags, air, pellets, slugs, and a chair for 4 hours of none stop shooting one day. Never stood up. Range finder was useless. Flat terrain with fences and WAY to many squirrels to find the right one through the scope.
Sooo - I did exactly what centercut described. Multiple shots per hit. Land owner with a pest problem was happy.
My take away that day. - Was that is just to far for me with a stock PCP to humanly dispatch Ground Squirrels consistently.
Paper is a different thing for sure.
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615 yards hitting a 12 oz cola can with a Haley 257 Scandalous.
GOOGLE utube ROACHCREEK 615 YARD haley 257 12 oz cola can shot.
video is blurry as we used 2009 Handycam techknowledgy to film it.
Roachcreek
GOOGLE utube ROACHCREEK 615 YARD haley 257 12 oz cola can shot.
video is blurry as we used 2009 Handycam techknowledgy to film it.
Roachcreek
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200 yards in some swirling gusts with a .22 caliber FX Crown shooting JSB 18.13 grain pellets on a 3" round steel plate. Didn't bother shooting for groups, the wind drift at that range would be ridiculous and there is no way it'd look like anything good. If you gave me ten shots I would have been able to dust a golf ball though.
Not quite sure what the whole shooting golf balls thing is about, but if that is a standard I guess I ought to get a 1-3/4" steel plate and see how far out I can ring it.
Generally though I just shoot at 100 yards and can print groups under 1MOA if the wind buggers off.
I don't mean for any of this to sound like bragging, certainly it all looks pretty feeble compared to some of the things posted above, but I hope it adds another datapoint for your question.
Not quite sure what the whole shooting golf balls thing is about, but if that is a standard I guess I ought to get a 1-3/4" steel plate and see how far out I can ring it.
Generally though I just shoot at 100 yards and can print groups under 1MOA if the wind buggers off.
I don't mean for any of this to sound like bragging, certainly it all looks pretty feeble compared to some of the things posted above, but I hope it adds another datapoint for your question.
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Ground squirrel at 111 yards with a JSB 18.1g out of a LW barreled Mrod. Planned holdover and drift.
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There is a bit of a competition going on in Turkey about who can shoot the furthest distance. I believe the longest I have seen on the Facebook Turkish Airgun pages is 638 metres/698 yards. The targets were balloons anchored in a lake. The rifle was a modified Huglu Effecto (similar to Daystate Air Ranger) with an LW polygon barrel and regulator. In 22 with ports opened up so it was firing a 26 grain bullet at about 950fps.
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Rick,
For me, I'm afraid most of my guns are 12 ft. Lbs (800 FPS with an 8.4 grain pellet) for Field Target competition, but that doesn't prevent me from reaching out. I've regularly hit 20 gauge shotgun shells and golf balls at 100 -110 yards. There was a squirrel that got caught in the crossfire one day, and ran up a tree at 89 yards, wounded. Even at 12 Ft. Lbs, a head shot dropped him instantly.
Being that's all the range I have, I have to make do with what I have, being I'm that limited. I do have to say, my shooting cohorts are amazed by the fact I can do what they can do at that distance with a 12 ft. lb rig.
Tom Holland
For me, I'm afraid most of my guns are 12 ft. Lbs (800 FPS with an 8.4 grain pellet) for Field Target competition, but that doesn't prevent me from reaching out. I've regularly hit 20 gauge shotgun shells and golf balls at 100 -110 yards. There was a squirrel that got caught in the crossfire one day, and ran up a tree at 89 yards, wounded. Even at 12 Ft. Lbs, a head shot dropped him instantly.
Being that's all the range I have, I have to make do with what I have, being I'm that limited. I do have to say, my shooting cohorts are amazed by the fact I can do what they can do at that distance with a 12 ft. lb rig.
Tom Holland
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