Long shot
What is a long shot for a pc 25 cal or smaller? I’ve been stretching it out a bit have come up with some limits of my own but would like to get some feedback to see what I could realistically shoot for.
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PB, the Edgun shoots JSB 25.4 @ 920 & the Air Ranger shoots H&N 31 @ 900+.
The shot hit the neck & completely went through & came out from the other side, I also shot some squirrels @ 170 and it hit the back & also came out the other side.
What pellets and initially vel Nasar, did you examine the birds to see what kind of penetration you had at that distance.Thats getting way on out there.
Using Air Ranger & Edgun both in .25 caliber I have taken peigons unto 180 yards maybe a little more even, the rifles have the power to take them even at 200 yards, it’s the shot placement & accuracy at these distances that matter.
dont know where he went to, i remenber there were a few upset with him about some trades or something that went wrong.?????
I know Nebraska knows him and I know DadWilson was pretty sick. We have not seen him around for a long time and he was a common fixture for awhile.
Where did that come from Walk, i read his long ass post on the yellow about shooting and getting places to hunt , the first i was on here and reading on the yellow, thought it was cool he was finding places to shoot for bounty.
dont know where he went to, i remenber there were a few upset with him about some trades or something that went wrong.?????
Hey What ever happened to DadWilson?
Is he still alive?
Well thanks for the input guys. I remember that two hundred yard chuck. Jerry would have loved to have been there to see it- a little slice of heaven for sure. I have taken two squirrels at 119 yards: shot the first one and while I was reloading the Condor. It stood back up so I shot it again and low and behold I found two laying side by side with all most identical wonds. After seeing some girl shooting tin cans at 200 yards with a 177 springer I got the bug. Can’t seem to shoot paper worth a shit but I think that tennis balls make a bitchin target past 100 yards: run some fishing line through them and stake them down so the can’t get away. Kind of cool to see what the pellets are doing when you cut the ball open. So I think that 200 yard tennis ball is going to be my new Holy Grail. Thanks again every one and like my buddy Gale always says Shoot low they are riding Shetlands.
Do you plan on shooting GROUPS at lets say 100-150-200 yrds? Do you wanna shoot animals at 100-150-175-200 yards? Do you wanna shoot reactive targets at distance? Do you live were its windy constantly?
A .177 or .20 or .22 or .25 can travel very far. Like 600+ yards far with a 20-30 degree angle. So 100 or 200 yards is not hard for a pellet to do. But is hard to do consistently and accurately. I’ve shot ground squirrels and such at xxx distance with one shot, then i set up a paper target and group the gun at xxx distance and the group don’t look so good..lol And i think, “HOW THE HELL DID I MAKE A xxx yard HEADSHOT on a squirrel with this thing”?
Like folks here, i’ve shot animals and reactive targets past 150 yards but, i think hitting a bird/squirrel/rabbit or 2 or 4 or 100 consistently that far out depends on a lot of factors. You will need a GOOD gun that is consistent in its shot to shot spread. A pellet traveling that far (150-200 yrds) has no problems doing it, some airguns just might not punch paper that far out very well.
So yeah, a pellet can get out there with no problems. I dare to even say now that 50 yrds is getting OLD and EASY with my airguns. But it really depends on what you want your gun to do.
I have a few long ones but bot what your looking for
I had a skunk at 106 yards with my RFM tuned .22 Gamo 1250
and also an eastern grey squirrel at 91 yards with same gun
That 200 yard Groundhog kill was with a .32 Barnes so it doesn’t meet the OP criteria. I’ve not even come close to that with a .25. The kills posted here that are out past 120, 130, 150 yards with a .25 or .22 are just awesome shots. I think a starling kill at 150 beats my groundhog kill at 200, easy.
My Condor still amazes me, if i do my part i sometimes just smile and shake my head at hitting something at a ridiculous distance.
There is a lot next to my house with a few dirt back stops that i can make shots into at right at 100 yards, cant put up a target but i can make the occasional shots when the coast is clear. this is where i get my 100 yard shots, and that is the limit of my range for the most part, which is why its the longest shot i have made on game, this condor will let me take game as far as i have been able to shoot it, i think that is pretty cool.
i think that if i kept the gun the same with the same pressure, pellet etc. it would take game at a much further distance. I dont have a mil dot scope either , i want one badly , but havent make up my mind which to get.
I have about make up my mind to go with the Hawk 6×20 , ????????
My kill was 12 yards further than Mam’s, but what is remarkable is that Mam did that two or three times over a period of days.
That is the difference between luck and consistancy.
These guns are capable of doing the job at 200 yards or futher, it takes little FPE to kill a bird. When you look up the power of a 50 FPE rifle at 200 yards, you see that you still have plenty of remaining energy, at that point it is a matter of what goes up must come down, you just have to figure out where.
Wind becomes a factor, but we also deal with another that most do not take into account, that is frame/barrel drift due to the barrels not being centered in the frame and centered in relation to the scope.
Think about it, that barrel and the two bushings slide freely into the frame, then we snug them up with merely 4 screws, we have a change of POI most of the time when we do that, from that we get drift.
My rifle has 2 or 3 minutes drift from 50 to 100 yards, but I think mine is especially bad. Randy at RL is replacing my barrel when the next batch of LW 25 caliber barrels come in.
My 148 yard kill was not with my present 25 but with a 22 and 18 grain JSB’s.
Regards,
Roachcreek
huum, i thought it was 160 , Mamcrakin had a 136 yard bird kill, did someone else have a 160 yard score.
Actually it was 148 yards for a starling kill.
My 45 Ranger is spot on at 150 yards at the intersection of the heavy duplex holdover on a 2×7 Burris fullfield and a 70 yard zero with 420 grain bullets.
Apples and oranges tho, elk being somewhat bigger than starlings.
I believe Jerry killed a rockchuck at over 200 yards with his Barnes rifle.
Regards,
Roachcreek
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85 yd is my longest on some flying rats and i thought that was cool till i read ur posts ! man u guys are hammering critters.