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Phantom

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Hi guy's,

 

I took the good weather today as a blessing and went out to have a play with my XS19 Springer as some of you know I've had a spot of bother with my baby :(

 

Before I went out I took the trigger guard off and unscrewed the trigger pull weight adjuster all the way out, in the hope that it would make the trigger a little lighter as my fingers just refuse to heal for some reason.

 

So I got to the paddock and took the beast out of her slip, she is a fine looking rifle really and I must say I have actually missed holding her close and putting her through her paces, she provided me with many bunnies in the days gone bye and it was a nice little shot through the chest cavity of a mouse with her that got me into this hunting game :wub:

 

So I felt happy with the sun out, the heat on my back and this powerful, slender, smooth rifle in my arms once again :yes:

 

I set out my target and portable backstop out at about 14 yards and cocked an loaded my rifle.

Taking aim through the sights I let loose an AAF towards the centre of the target and of course I closed my eyes when I felt the recoil :doh: the pellet ripped through the top of the target and became wedged in the putty after denting the steel backstop.

 

Hell that felt good :yes: Another round was chambered and the scope raised to my eye. The crosshairs went onto the centre of the target and the pellet let loose, this time I didn't close my eye and I followed it through to the pellet becomming wedged by the putty.

It was High and left, the following one went high and right, then high and left again and again until I had a rough idea of where the pellets were landing and the ones to the right was obviously down to my hold on the beast :yes:

 

I made windage adjustments first until the bulk of the pellets were landing high but within a couple of centimeters of each other, then it was a case of making the elevation adjustments until the pellets were ripping through most of the centres.

 

I became very aware that my trigger finger was becomming so fecking painful it was making me hold my breath as soon as I began to take up the slack on the trigger blade. The release of the sear felt no different from before I had made the adjustment to the screw, whats the betting I turned the screw the wrong way :duh::laugh:

 

After putting a good 30 rounds through her and changing targets a couple of times I decided to move the target out to 20 yards.

This was going to be good if I can keep up that kind of grouping, CGP told me my optimal Zero would be 28 yards So I figured, if I can keep that at 20 I could probably do it at 28 and then learn the dots on Si's (Zini's) old scope.

 

At 20 yards, my fingers were really beginning to hurt, the pressure of the trigger made the skin split further and I started to bleed, I managed to stick another 50 or so pellets through a few more targets but my tightest grouping was just an inch, which to me is just not accepatable for hunting, so more practice is needed :yes:

As my trigger finger was now so painful, I swapped and tried to use my middle finger on the trigger (its not a problem with the S200) but with the Beast it was a different matter altogether!

I could pull the trigger; but it felt very awkward and the strain made me cant the gun on almost all the shots :doh: So after another thirty shots producing scattergun groups I decided to return to my normal trigger finger.

 

I put another target out at 28 yards but my fingers were so bloody painful. After another 25 shots or so my groups were well out, more like two inch than 1 so I decided as the blood was flowing and I seemed to be getting worse groups than an infant with a 12 guage I'd call it a day :yes

 

Perhaps if I had been prone or kneeling the groups would have been tighter but after picking up an unwelcome family of guest's from the paddock last week I really didn't want to get down in the grasses and nettles. So all my shots today were standing.

 

As I packed away I noticed that much of the canopy on the old Conker Tree in the Cemetery a few yards to my left had all but gone and there in the branches is what I am hoping is a Drey :hmm: A Squirrel last week running through the Cemetery, heading in this direction? Could my luck be in? I'm hoping so :yes: but only when I have sub 1 inch groups at 28 yards with my Beast :yes: or I get my baby fixed :wub:

 

Phantom

 

 

 

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