Zero @ Dusk

[Rez 4,961]

I dont know if this is even worth a post, but it dawned on me while shooting this weekend for what must of been about 8 hours... 1 1/2 tins of Fields later... [expensive day] that as the light started fading and using the small 6 score on the Bisley dartboard style targets as the aim point through the day, it must only be 4mm edge to edge, my grouping tightened up to literally one hole groups, as in one pellets width hole at my zero of 32 yards. I wouldn't say I was pro, there are much better shots out there, but think Im an ok shot at normal distances, and can only put it down to not actually knowing where the last shots POI was for such groups.

 

In the dark, so to speak, I wasn't concentrating or thinking about my last shot and what I might have done wrong, as I didn't know where the shot hit, and so lost all the stresses of thinking about shooting the rifle, my 97 in this case and without knowing where the shot hit, didn't change any part of my shooting technique, there was almost a purity of using the rifle, the same way over and over.

 

I dont know if its a tip or what, but try zeroing your springer while the light fades... See what happens, not in pitch black of course, just enough to see the bull or your aim point, but not the impact holes. If your not sure where your shots are going, you have no need to adjust your shooting position, thus hopefully finding that the shots are landing on top of each other.

 

Funnily enough, the 97 gave up on me before the end of the day, some right racquet of something or other while cocking, like a stone caught somewhere, needs a strip down. The most accurate, consistent twenty two I have shot or owned so I thought Id show it you, I know you've seen it before. And my best 25 shot target, image was taken this morning to be honest, but I save them on the fridge, under the sausage dog fridge magnets

 

 

[villaman 9,982]

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

[Rez 4,961]

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

Nice one V'man. Needs a click left really, bet you thought that though

[Blackbriar 8,569]

Not bad shooting, I suppose - a bit high and right, for my liking !

[villaman 9,982]

 

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

Nice one V'man. Needs a click left really, bet you thought that though

 

I was going to say that ,but didn't want to up set you

[Rez 4,961]

 

 

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

Nice one V'man. Needs a click left really, bet you thought that though

 

I was going to say that ,but didn't want to up set you

 

 

 

 

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

Nice one V'man. Needs a click left really, bet you thought that though

 

I was going to say that ,but didn't want to up set you

 

Ha. Its fine mate. Im rather thick skinned... just ask the mrs...

[David.evans 5,323]

Rez

Have you tried the sticky target that are black , but it's shows yellow where your pellet land , I've for got what there called now they may be birch wood Casey

Here's one I stuck on

[bigmac 97kt 13,836]

 

Some good shooting mate , I bet you are pleased with that

Nice one V'man. Needs a click left really, bet you thought that though

 

At least your in the circle Rez aaaaaaahemmmmmmm VM

[bigmac 97kt 13,836]

Rez

Have you tried the sticky target that are black , but it's shows yellow where your pellet land , I've for got what there called now they may be birch wood Casey

Here's one I stuck on

Shoot and see targets

 

and there mint for night zeroing

 

atvbmac :thumbs:

[jonnie bravo 572]

Oooft. That's a bit nice, think you are right in what you say.

 

It annoys me when I shoot under pressure compared to shooting completely relaxed. Completely different results

[pianoman 3,589]

It's not a wasted post; it's actually good and thought provoking Rez. I've spent many years zeroing my scopes and rifles at dusk, so to be ready to be out for a dawn foray before first light. It conditions us to think more about and fine-focus our shooting insticts.

I think, perhaps we shoot with greater subconcious levels of concentration on our target in low-light conditions like dusk and dawn, than we do in more comfortable levels of daylight from mid-day to early evening. The rifle is a non-thinking, unfeeling machine so it doesn't matter what time of day or night it happens to be. It's us that has to adjust our sensitivies to the change of the light. Whether we are aware or not.

I do almost all my shooting in the early dawn these summer mornings and from afternoon to complete nightfall. I find I have to work harder to see in very low light or near-dark light and really focus myself on my hold in the aim and what I'm trying to see.

 

Rabbit fur colours are amazingly effective at rendering the animal almost invisible against the lighter colours of grasses and flourishing wheat and barley crops at this time of year.

 

A zero of the scope on 5-6 Mag power copes well throughout the longest shooting day through all light-conditions and the changing light of dusk to night, though, I find.

Great group on the Bisley target by the way. (You know about the click-left bit! ) But this is exactly what I have always found Weihrauch spring rifles were capable of if you put the work in to bring this kind of accuracy out.

My HW77 .22 can produce this tight a group at 35 metres and possibly, if I push myself, a bit more.out to 50 with H&N 5.53mm ammo. In the hands of a world champion it must be bloody astonishing what these rifles can accomplish. That's why I rave about HW77s as the finest spring rifle of all. They have always been stunningly accurate in both principle calibres and pack a fair wallop on long range rabbits.

 

And that's a lovely looking stock on your HW97 mate . Custom Stock CS500 Sporter?.

 

Top Shooting!
Simon

 

Edit to add.

 

It's getting on for 04:00 A.M. now and I'm heading out to a permission about half an hours drive away. check-zeroed up in the last embers of last night's shooting trip.

Edited June 30, 2015 by pianoman

[Rez 4,961]

It's not a wasted post; it's actually good and thought provoking Rez. I've spent many years zeroing my scopes and rifles at dusk, so to be ready to be out for a dawn foray before first light. It conditions us to think more about and fine-focus our shooting insticts.

 

I think, perhaps we shoot with greater subconcious levels of concentration on our target in low-light conditions like dusk and dawn, than we do in more comfortable levels of daylight from mid-day to early evening. The rifle is a non-thinking, unfeeling machine so it doesn't matter what time of day or night it happens to be. It's us that has to adjust our sensitivies to the change of the light. Whether we are aware or not.

 

I do almost all my shooting in the early dawn these summer mornings and from afternoon to complete nightfall. I find I have to work harder to see in very low light or near-dark light and really focus myself on my hold in the aim and what I'm trying to see.

 

Rabbit fur colours are amazingly effective at rendering the animal almost invisible against the lighter colours of grasses and flourishing wheat and barley crops at this time of year.

 

A zero of the scope on 5-6 Mag power copes well throughout the longest shooting day through all light-conditions and the changing light of dusk to night, though, I find.

 

Great group on the Bisley target by the way. (You know about the click-left bit! ) But this is exactly what I have always found Weihrauch spring rifles were capable of if you put the work in to bring this kind of accuracy out.

 

My HW77 .22 can produce this tight a group at 35 metres and possibly, if I push myself, a bit more.out to 50 with H&N 5.53mm ammo. In the hands of a world champion it must be bloody astonishing what these rifles can accomplish. That's why I rave about HW77s as the finest spring rifle of all. They have always been stunningly accurate in both principle calibres and pack a fair wallop on long range rabbits.

 

And that's a lovely looking stock on your HW97 mate . Custom Stock CS500 Sporter?.

 

Top Shooting!

Simon

 

Edit to add.

 

It's getting on for 04:00 A.M. now and I'm heading out to a permission about half an hours drive away. check-zeroed up in the last embers of last night's shooting trip.

Your a diamond. Tar Pianoman.

 

Its a standard HW77 stock mate. Just sanded down and wiped over with with WD40... gives in a somewhat Oaky finish. The honey colouring is actually appearing from all the muggy hands, rain and usage. The 97 is most defiantly for use, and not the gun cabinate.

 

Atb.

[pianoman 3,589]

You're welcome mate! It looks lovely Rez. It's the newest model stock then, by the look of it.

Funny enough, I have my .177 HW97 in a Mk.I HW77 stock and it absolutely suits the rifle to a T.

Conversely I have my HW77 .22 in an HW97K Bavarian sporter stock and again, a perfect match for the rifle's performance!

[random 659]

Interesting read this,gave me something to think over,good post...