EdgunUSA Youtube Channel is launched.
http://www.youtube.com/user/EdgunUSA
My first video is up. I plan to make more in the near future. Here are some topics of interest I intend to address:
Shroud contruction
Adjusting the spring tension for velocity
Trigger adjustment
Barrel cleaning
Range testing
Hunting small game
If you have a suggestion for a video, feel free to post it.
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Another great video Ted, you put a lot of work in them.
I am really happy everytime a new video is on youtube its like a good tv show wich u wait for a new episode each week.
Anyway, for the mil dot range finding,I have the same scope as you and when I looked tru it, it looked like the magnification was not right in comparisson to my other scopes.
Now I did the the test with the callibration chart and I have to set my magnification from 10 to 11 to get true mildot (half dot 😉 ) allignment.
This is not a big disaster but it is little let down for such an expensive scope.
Rangefinding at mag 20 is not possible anymore now because then i have to set it to mag 21 or 22 I don’t know.
Was your or other peoples hawke scope true mil dot?
here is the mildot callibration chart for people who want to test their scope
http://www.airgunforum.net/articles/imagestore/misc/mildots_at_15_yards.pdf
You will have to messure the 150mm line at the bottom, in my case it was 142mm so I have to put the target at 14.2 yards instead of 15 yards
Dimi
Obi Wan Teodoro, matador maestro!
Nice Ted!!!
GREAT!
We want more…
We want more…
We want more…
Thanks 😀
Long-Range Air Rifle Shooting: Part 1: Required Information
Fantastic video. The best part was 1/16 slow motion where you could actually see the pellets approaching the target. It would be interesting to focus the camera at maybe 40 yards so you could see the pellets in flight more clearly, and possibly test several pellets.
Ted, you have a PM
Looking forward for part 2 …
Awesome shooting! I’m very new to the sport of air guns. However I have excellent experience at long range shooting with firearm rifles. Primarily in .300 win mag, 30.06, and 5.56 and own some of the best rifles in these calibers. Therefore…
I now dub you “The Carlos Hathcock of Air Rifles!”
awsome shooting
love the Ninja bird
Hey Ted,
The “Pigeon Hunting in High Wind ” video was just superb man. :8:
I like your minute observations. You truly have the eagles eyes…
Hope you didn’t just pop one of those eagles and do the transplant. 
Sincerely looking forward to you forth coming videos.
Had to download this one, just couldn’t resist, it was done that well.
Hope I wouldn’t be sued with one of those copyright laws.
That’s funny. I was just going to post about how much I hated the windy days when I first started shooting air guns back in the distant fall of 2010, i e 15 awfully loooooooong months!!! ago (about the usual time one waits for an Edgun :wink:)
Then one day when it was blowing just like on your truly magnificent video, I suddenly recalled the saying “If you can’t beat them, join them”. Since then I have actually been praying for days like this. They offer me the chance to perfect my shooting techniques besides being a tremendous challenge, worthy of all the thrills that every successful hit brings.
Thank you for your dedicated and highly enjoyable work, Ted 😀
Koljo
Thats really cool Ted, thanks for your time.
Pigeon Hunting in High Wind
Enjoy 🙂 Ted
I honestly believe he does it without any mechanical aids, but to watch those crosshairs line up on those squirrels, and stick there like glue, gives me chills. Not on the best day in my entire life could I ever hold that steady without wrapping myself around a tree, with the barrel nestled in the fork of the branches!]
I use all kind of “tricks” to steady that gun. I’m not standing out in the open. I frequently go to a knee, lock myself against the tree, jam my left arm against the trunk, wedge the gun between my left wrist and the trunk of the tree, use the level to get things even, find the squirrel….AND THEN hit record. 😉 By the time you guys enter the action, that gun is stable. So, I guess, when I say I’m shooting “off hand” it means that I did not use a bipod or shooting sticks. But, I certainly made use of all the Ma Nature provided.
And if all this sounds like a lot, it IS. When you throw in turning the camera on and focusing everything in, you’re talking about 15-20 seconds. In many cases, I have done all this, only to look up and see the squirrel long gone…… 😳
Edit: I might as well go the distance re: my secrets. Okay, here are the finer points of how I shoot this gun. Drop to a knee or butt. Grab the trunk of the tree like you are trying to choke it at a slight downward angle. Lay the gun on your hand and wedge it against the tree. Now, look at the video again, and notice the piece of neoprene on the air chamber? That piece creates a lot of friction, preventing the gun from sliding forward or back. I lock the butt pad into my coat and this prevents the gun from rolling side to side. Finally, to make fine movement to the squirrel, I flex my left wrist or drop my right shoulder slightly. This has been the main technique that I have used since I was a boy (minus the neoprene ;)). I mastered it shooting against a light pole that was 25-30 yards away from the #1 starling perch in a 5 mile radius.
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Excellent job explaining all the variables you need to compensate for!
I find it amazing that (with practice) our brain can do the math rather accurately. 😉