Open sight plinking....what's your best?

[karandheer78]

Hi.. did some open sighted plinking, yesterday, over a reasonable distance so thought will post it here & then pose the question.

Air Rifles used: Diana Magnum 350, 0.22 cal & HW80 0.22 cal, both open sights
Pellet used: G-Smith High Impact (dome shaped)
Pellet weight: 18.6 grains
Target: Beer cans (not filled...& neither guzzled by me else you'll will say "accuracy is due to that" )
Distance: 58.79 yards (i.e 53.76 meters or 176.37 feet)
No bench used, free hand stance.
Percentile accuracy: 70% i.e. 7 out of 10 shots fired were taking the cans. Remaining 3 misses can be attributed to many things but I will attribute it to my own errors, in principle.

My question is:

Considering a standard target size of the beer can & keeping open the choice of air guns used (any caliber, any make, any power plant, any stance or bench rested BUT open sighted only)

what distances have you plinked at, accurately enough, to consider it a satisfying day?

Cheers!

[Katana]

karan,

Have used the Diana 350 in .177 on empty cans at 150ft., IHP Hammerli Cadet in .177 at 150ft., all open sights but you have to compensate elevation while mentally calculating pellet drop. It's no big deal. Just mental calculations according to the pellets used and your judgement of wind and distance according to terrain. Should you be shooting at a gradient or elevation, the calculations would be different, but thats another story.

katana

[dev]

Five pellets same hole .22 qb78, paper target, ten meters. Repeated with a coke can and same distance, five or six pellets within the O of the coke can. Don't have enough space to do long distance but can hit beer cans at 35m with open sights with the qb 78, somehow being recoil less and having a very smooth trigger really helps. My rifle is way easier to shoot than a springer.

Dev

[hamiclar01]

Five pellets same hole .22 qb78, paper target, ten meters. Repeated with a coke can and same distance, five or six pellets within the O of the coke can. Don't have enough space to do long distance but can hit beer cans at 35m with open sights with the qb 78, somehow being recoil less and having a very smooth trigger really helps. My rifle is way easier to shoot than a springer.
Dev

I am impressed,( though knowing your prowess, am unsurprised.) Remind me to think of a good excuse if we ever get to shoot together

My best at 10m was a half inch CTC group with a FWB 601. Like Philippe Petit's tightrope on the twin towers, it has never been repeated again.

[Raptor]

Took out a field rat about the size of a small pup at a distance of approx 25 meters(for the record it was NOT 25 meters but feet ...25 feet...just happened to speak to my buddy who was with me that fateful day...never quite understood the distinction being an arithmophobe...not that it makes any difference...but i'd rather not lie...at least to myself..) with one shot,Rifle used Aimco model M300, ammo .22 Hunter's, location , neemrana rajasthan,that was the only shot I fired after lugging around a 4.5 kg deadweight for 3 hrs. Does that count?

[essdee1972]

10 M (indoors), beer / soft drink cans, hanging from strings (hence some movement due to wind), 80%+ success rate, using .22 local (Kolkata) made air rifle, started shooting a month back, no bipod / other support. How bad is this?

[fantumfan2003]

58.79 yards at a coke can ? Yeah but you are good. I know that. Have never seen anyone shoot better with open sights and that too with a springer. Those two beaus are like an extension of your body.

M.

Hi.. did some open sighted plinking, yesterday, over a reasonable distance so thought will post it here & then pose the question.

Air Rifles used: Diana Magnum 350, 0.22 cal & HW80 0.22 cal, both open sights
Pellet used: G-Smith High Impact (dome shaped)
Pellet weight: 18.6 grains
Target: Beer cans (not filled...& neither guzzled by me else you'll will say "accuracy is due to that" )
Distance: 58.79 yards (i.e 53.76 meters or 176.37 feet)
No bench used, free hand stance.
Percentile accuracy: 70% i.e. 7 out of 10 shots fired were taking the cans. Remaining 3 misses can be attributed to many things but I will attribute it to my own errors, in principle.

My question is:

Considering a standard target size of the beer can & keeping open the choice of air guns used (any caliber, any make, any power plant, any stance or bench rested BUT open sighted only)

what distances have you plinked at, accurately enough, to consider it a satisfying day?

Cheers!

[Basu]

I rediscovered this thread and found the topic interesting.
My best 10 mts shooting is hitting pecil cell 5-6 times out of 8-10 shots both by National-25 and SDB 45 Classic.
Longest distance I get is about 40 yds , a 2.5" bamboo ,which I hit with SDB 45 while leaning back on wall with peepsight 5 out of 10 times with ordinery pellets.
Recently I am targeting at 1.5" water pipe at 30 yds ,sitting with knee rest with some success.

Basu

[bennedose]

what distances have you plinked at, accurately enough, to consider it a satisfying day?

My daily high is hitting 3-5 tin can targets (approximately 2.5 inches across) from 15 to 17 meters. 0.22 Orion or SDB 50. Open sight, artillery position. Some days I get 100% hits. But if I get 75% I go to work feeling happy. Got to make those cans jump or else the day does not start well.

[essdee1972]

Had canned beer after a long time last Saturday, so decided to try the IFG version of ice-bucket challenge on Sunday morning, on the terrace. Used one can for each distance level. All were standing shots with artillery hold. I do not have any experience of sitting / kneeling / prone, hence didn't try those.

6 m: 10 out of 10 (this is the exact distance in my "indoors range" aka drawing room).
10 m: 9 out of 10 (I thought "Nice. Shooting after a long time, probably beginner's luck working.")
15 m: 6 out of 10 (not bad for me)

Last can was used up by my son, shooting standing, barrel supported on my arm. Since he was rather insistent, and I need his services as pellet holder, spotter, target changer, and general factotum in shooting and other DIYs, I had to give in!

10 m: 10 out of 10!!

I was so shocked by this, although I shot 25 more at paper targets, my aim seemed to have suffered badly by being beaten by a chap whose diapers I used to change till the other day!!! I still need to load and cock the gun for him.

My capacity for canned beer being 3, and my better half's one, that was the end of the ice-bucket!

[moulindu]

Hi Essdee Da

I was so shocked by this, although I shot 25 more at paper targets, my aim seemed to have suffered badly by being beaten by a chap whose diapers I used to change till the other day!!! I still need to load and cock the gun for him.

My capacity for canned beer being 3, and my better half's one, that was the end of the ice-bucket!

I can come up with few reasons for that result
1) I guess its hangover from last night
2) Generation gap....kids are far advanced than their dads' in every aspect
3) Or u lost intentionally to boost your kid

Regards Moulindu

[Basu]

Dear Moulindu,
Please let us know what is your best with IHP and TX200.

Basu

[essdee1972]

I guess its hangover from last night

After 3 cans of beer? Sir, you underestimate my capacity!

Or u lost intentionally to boost your kid

Nope. Not since he was 5 or so. Unless, of course, it's something he might get hurt, like boxing or wrestling.

He has the advantage of shooting AR since he was 7, and young minds and bodies are far more adaptable than oldies like me!

[moulindu]

Hi

I guess its hangover from last night


After 3 cans of beer? Sir, you underestimate my capacity!

I guess there are bad days & good days just like shooting. In my case in best days i can beat my old record by mile in both shooting & drinking but in bad days I am a mess
No Sir no way in hell, there are certain ways to judge people, one is the way they drink & behave after......

Nope. Not since he was 5 or so. Unless, of course, it's something he might get hurt, like boxing or wrestling.

He has the advantage of shooting AR since he was 7, and young minds and bodies are far more adaptable than oldies like me!

Then i guess my second point is correct that kids surpass their father in certain field....unlike Abhishek Bacchan & Rohan Gavaskar.

Please let us know what is your best with IHP and TX200.

Basuda with IHP open sight i can hit ball pen at 15yds 7/10 times(offhand). But TX 200 has no open sights so with scope a 0.22 pellet at 20yds 9/10 times(bench rested) & the same target at same distance 6/10 times(offhand). But i am taking about best days
regards Moulindu

[brihacharan]

Hi
Basuda with IHP open sight i can hit ball pen at 15yds 7/10 times(offhand). But TX 200 has no open sights so with scope a 0.22 pellet at 20yds 9/10 times(bench rested) & the same target at same distance 6/10 times(offhand). But i am taking about best days
regards Moulindu

> This is an in-explicable malady (I mean AR shooting)
> Just like any other game...there are days when anything you aim & shoot at hits 'bulls eye'
> Then there are others - when getting a 1" group or plinking a beer / deo can at 20yds just doesn't happen
Briha