What springer did you shoot today?

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My car is getting snows on it now, I have their car and don’t know if I can drive out of here 1 mile rd. not plowed 9-10 inches and pounding down.
The snow puts weight on the ice and it sinks. Crow
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Nothing today. It has been raining all day, rather hard, so I have been sitting here and completing some continuing education courses to renew my pharmacy license. Some of that stuff is getting so technical that it is difficult for my old mind to comprehend, but I muddle through. I'm still licensed in two states so completed some the first part of of the year prior to Oct 31 which is my birthday and end of registration period for Texas. Those will still be good for Louisiana which ends Dec 31, so I held off until after my birthday to finish up for Louisiana, and those after this last Oct will be good for the next biannual Texas period also.
 
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crowski said:
My car is getting snows on it now, I have their car and don’t know if I can drive out of here 1 mile rd. not plowed 9-10 inches and pounding down.
The snow puts weight on the ice and it sinks. CrowView attachment 517697
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Well I guess that rules out me bringing you your 95. 😲 👍
 
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One of my new old 50’s. Accurate, but made some clicking noises when returning the barrel. Going on the bench.View attachment 518489I also shot my HW35e .177. View attachment 518490Such a pleasing gun. And today above accurate, if there’s such a thing.
24F. and still snowing. Awesome day to shoot. Crow
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Lovely gun. It's been years since I shot anything in weather that cold. Down here in the deep south USA, humidity makes temperatures like that miserable, in fact today it has been about 45, with light drizzle and it just feels cold. I guess it is all what you are used to. I have been in some extreme cold. Landed in Gander, Newfoundland back in Feb of 91 on my way to the UK to man a contingency hospital during Desert Storm, We left San Antonio with temp in upper 60's and landed to about negative 35 F, and the cold felt better than the humid weather down south, of course we were only out long enogh to walk about 500 feet from the aircraft to the terminal. Then the week after arriving in the UK, coldest winter they had in something like 30 years according to locals, but it did not seem that cold, in an area NW of Oxford.
 
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crowski said:
My car is getting snows on it now, I have their car and don’t know if I can drive out of here 1 mile rd. not plowed 9-10 inches and pounding down.
The snow puts weight on the ice and it sinks. CrowView attachment 517697
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9 or 10 inches , that is 3 or 4 years worth around here .
 
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Rcope...read this post on rings.....

Burris Signature Rings the only way to go.....

Having use these since they came out almost 25 years ago.For Air rifles thee only way to go. I helped a buddy the other day get his scope centered up . As we do in !K matches we center the crosshair in the glass then start the shimming to get point of aim at whatever yardage. With the...
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Longbow53 said:
Rcope...read this post on rings.....

Burris Signature Rings the only way to go.....

Having use these since they came out almost 25 years ago.For Air rifles thee only way to go. I helped a buddy the other day get his scope centered up . As we do in !K matches we center the crosshair in the glass then start the shimming to get point of aim at whatever yardage. With the...
www.airgunnation.com www.airgunnation.com
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Thanks for that! I was hoping someone would chime in with some info on particular rings. I'm going to switch some scopes with my other rifles to see if I can make do. This rifle probably doesn't need a 6 x 24X scope, anyways. I have a droop compensation one piece dovetail to pic adapter just sitting around. The Athlon scopes have a small protrusion on the underside that precludes that mount, but I have a few Hawke scopes that might work. If not, those signature rings are perfect. Thanks, again.
 
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Lovely gun. It's been years since I shot anything in weather that cold. Down here in the deep south USA, humidity makes temperatures like that miserable, in fact today it has been about 45, with light drizzle and it just feels cold. I guess it is all what you are used to. I have been in some extreme cold. Landed in Gander, Newfoundland back in Feb of 91 on my way to the UK to man a contingency hospital during Desert Storm, We left San Antonio with temp in upper 60's and landed to about negative 35 F, and the cold felt better than the humid weather down south, of course we were only out long enogh to walk about 500 feet from the aircraft to the terminal. Then the week after arriving in the UK, coldest winter they had in something like 30 years according to locals, but it did not seem that cold, in an area NW of Oxford.
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Thanks. Yesterday it was 20F today 40F. I moved snow for almost 4 hrs. on my plow and tractor, severely cut into my shooting time. As soon as I got off plow I shot my 98 for a hour and a half, no wind. No problem dressed properly. I can’t take it when you sweat when you swim.
Winter shooting is the best. I can see where all my misses go with a clean white back drop.
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I can even see where the ricochets go, pretty cool. You can see shots through wounded can.
And night shooting with snow is second to none.
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Also after plowing wet snow you get hundreds of targets any size.
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As long as there’s no wind, and I am sheltered, game on. In the spring those snow balls are slush balls and explode like an expensive target. I shoot way more in the winter. Crow
 
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RCope said:
Shot 3 out of 4 of my .177s today. The left is my new HW50s. Tried to zero it but ran out of scope adjustment. I guess I need some droop compensation rings. Haven't had to do that yet, but quite new to these beauties. Doesn't look "droopy" to me :).
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Very nice trio. Crow
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9 or 10 inches , that is 3 or 4 years worth around here .
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Stan, we got 6-7 more over nite. Went from power snow to mush. (I have other adjectIves) What a mess. Crow
 
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crowski said:
Thanks. Yesterday it was 20F today 40F. I moved snow for almost 4 hrs. on my plow and tractor, severely cut into my shooting time. As soon as I got off plow I shot my 98 for a hour and a half, no wind. No problem dressed properly. I can’t take it when you sweat when you swim.
Winter shooting is the best. I can see where all my misses go with a clean white back drop. View attachment 518841I can even see where the ricochets go, pretty cool. You can see shots through wounded can.
And night shooting with snow is second to none. View attachment 518842
Also after plowing wet snow you get hundreds of targets any size. View attachment 518843As long as there’s no wind, and I am sheltered, game on. In the spring those snow balls are slush balls and explode like an expensive target. I shoot way more in the winter. Crow
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One of the best shooting days I can remember was when I was in college about 60 years ago. A friend and I went to the range, cold and breezy and it started sleeting, but we kept shooting. Had the range all to ourselves.

I remember a day a little over a year ago , late spring which is more like summer here. I was trying to zero a new centerfire. Sweat running into my eyes made it miserable.
 
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RCope said:
Thanks for that! I was hoping someone would chime in with some info on particular rings. I'm going to switch some scopes with my other rifles to see if I can make do. This rifle probably doesn't need a 6 x 24X scope, anyways. I have a droop compensation one piece dovetail to pic adapter just sitting around. The Athlon scopes have a small protrusion on the underside that precludes that mount, but I have a few Hawke scopes that might work. If not, those signature rings are perfect. Thanks, again.
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I haven't received them yet to comment properly, but I ordered a set of these to try from Amazon.

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A lot of shooting 2 pistols. And a R9 .20. Leader of the pack. Vortek spring makes it consistent.View attachment 518288Call this the “Gary shot”.
I also took out 2 HW50’s .177 and this .22 cal. who stole the show. My anniversary is a .22 as well.View attachment 518291Snow off and on. 20F. no wind. Crow
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sounds great except the 20F part ( i prefer 70's or higher )
 
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jkingrph said:
Lovely gun. It's been years since I shot anything in weather that cold. Down here in the deep south USA, humidity makes temperatures like that miserable, in fact today it has been about 45, with light drizzle and it just feels cold. I guess it is all what you are used to. I have been in some extreme cold. Landed in Gander, Newfoundland back in Feb of 91 on my way to the UK to man a contingency hospital during Desert Storm, We left San Antonio with temp in upper 60's and landed to about negative 35 F, and the cold felt better than the humid weather down south, of course we were only out long enogh to walk about 500 feet from the aircraft to the terminal. Then the week after arriving in the UK, coldest winter they had in something like 30 years according to locals, but it did not seem that cold, in an area NW of Oxford.
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I took Basic training in Amarillo tx . the thing i remember most was walking into the "Haircut building " with long hair . Having the hair shaved off and walking out into the 80F weather and actually shivering , all of us that had longer hair (1966 ) were actually feeling cold .
 
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