Matador R3s Busting pest birds

I havent had a lot of time for posting in he last few weeks but have been doing loads of pesting in the last few weeks.
I have also added an early Matador R3 gen 1 steel breech .25cal long to my arsenal and I have tuned it to 910fps for 90 shots on the reg.
It is VERY accurate and I have been favouring it over my .22 std R3 for the longer shots and windy days.

I fitted it with a Tac Vector Optics 6-25x 50 scope, a brand which I have really taken to of late as the glass and mechanics are hard to fault.
Within a week of owning it I have shot through 5 tins of Kings and found that with a 12X scope setting its holdovers almost match my .22 R3 with the Falcon 4.5-18×56 set on 18x. It made it very quick to get accustomed to the .25 balistics and has had me pushing the .25 out much further than the .22cal.

A couple of nights ago I got the chance to smash my longest kill with a PCP (.22 R3 204 yards on a hare) and landed a kill shot at 242yards!
I had been shooting it at 230 yards on a gong and was quite surprised in the frequency I could land a shot at that range within 5 inches.
The same evening I saw 3 hares just past my gong ranged at 242 yards. Shooting off my outdoor table off a bipod I dropped this one with a heart lung shot.. a whopping 9ftlbs of retained energy still passed right through at that range.

I have also been visiting the stock feed lots, shooting from my car has been very successful on the gran thieves.
The same farm has a very large pigeon problem that is next on the list.