Little Sister goes hunting

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The "Stormy Diana" (bad pun intended) made it's first meat today. It is shooting those FTTs at 850 fps and will deliver 40 shots on a fill.

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More about this rifle here:

https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/stormrider-experiences/
 
Sweet......now it's broken in with a squirrel in the bag 
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. You know, I always hear people complaining about shot count all the time. I guess it really depends upon what it is that your doing with a rifle. But, if you are using your rifle to hunt small game with mostly, 40-60 shots per fill is way more than enough. Good job sir 
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Good shooting on that fine squirrel. @tiredrooster, I agree, unless you’re shooting roosting birds, shot count can be an overrated feature. One of my PCPs only get 25-30 shots per fill, plenty for legally limiting out on small game. 
 
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Sweet......now it's broken in with a squirrel in the bag 😁. You know, I always hear people complaining about shot count all the time. I guess it really depends upon what it is that your doing with a rifle. But, if you are using your rifle to hunt small game with mostly, 40-60 shots per fill is way more than enough. Good job sir 👍



I too agree. My favorite squirrel gun only gets 20 shots per fill at a mere 15 fpe, but it's taken more squirrels than all my other guns together.

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Sweet......now it's broken in with a squirrel in the bag 😁. You know, I always hear people complaining about shot count all the time. I guess it really depends upon what it is that your doing with a rifle. But, if you are using your rifle to hunt small game with mostly, 40-60 shots per fill is way more than enough. Good job sir 👍



I too agree. My favorite squirrel gun only gets 20 shots per fill at a mere 15 fpe, but it's taken more squirrels than all my other guns together.

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Um, nice few squirrels there. I think I have taken as many as necessary to reduce the menace to property and orchard as necessary this year. I'll need to let them be for a few months. I believe there are about fifteen in the freezer still.

You know you can eat those racoons. I grew up eating them. They make good gumbo. I was told they were squirrels. Then one day I pulled out this thigh bone and looked at mom and said, "This ain't no squirrel thigh bone." Mom and Dad laughed and told us we had been eating them for years.

Yes the little Diana now gets 40 shots on a fill, enough to hunt squirrels for a week if you make your shots count. I'll leave it there. Fourteen FPE is plenty for a 40 yard rifle.
 
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I played with the Stormrider last week and ended up adjusting it back down to about 13~14 FPE, depending on the pellet. It is shooting super tight groups I think I may have posted a pic somewhere. It's shooting consistently about 1/4" C-t-C at 25 yards. I went to Walt's Orchard today to thin down the squirrels for him and took two off his Peach trees. Then when I got home there was one in our Peach trees (missed him) and there was momma rabbit in the garden. We have about ten young bunnies running around the yard right now so I took her off the lettuce as she has been working it over pretty good. Sad to find all the little bunnies inside her but we have too many rabbits already.

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Well, done @oldspook, it looks like well placed shoots from the Diana. I guess with the pellet you are running around 15-16 ft/lbs at the muzzle? I agree too with L.Leon that 40 plus shots if plenty for hunting unless you like to plink along the way, but plinking will spook the game.

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Looks like about 13.5 FPE. It's kind of funny. I have been "playing" with this gun for about six months off and on. It will shoot quite a bit harder but it just "likes" to shoot JSB Exacts and H&N FTTs at about 830 FPS. I've tuned it at a lot of different reg settings. It just likes to run at this power level. Right now it is running 850 and the groups are just barely starting to open up. I shot this target today. On this target a dime just fits inside the 3rd ring counting from the outside.

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This is the aggregate of the above shots in the red box. 

The aggregate will completely fit under a dime.

CtC is .535" a dime is .702". 

The gun will shoot those pellets better than that at 820 FPS.

The blue shots were sight adjustment or off regulator.

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