Apr 4, 2012

Death of an egg

I spent a little while this afternoon, trying to sight my Sheridan air rifle a bit more accurately. The other day I installed a scope and zeroed it shooting with 5 pumps worth of pressure behind each pellet. Today I decided it ought to be zeroed using the maximum amount of force; 10 pumps. And so I set the targets up again, at exactly 15 yards. This time I made a make-shift shooting bench from a pile of bricks and a towel. This greatly improved my accuracy. Below are the results.







I was able to put 6 pellets in the bull, four of which were overlapping, so I decided to have some fun. I placed an egg on a log and took aim. The egg was pretty much the same size of the bull so I had no problem smacking it on the first try. I perched my camera next to the egg to capture the desctruction. Below is a video I made with Adobe Premier Pro. Enjoy:

3 comments:

recumbent conspiracy theorist said...

Fine shooting sir!

I love airguns. They have some great advantages over their powder driven cousins. Less noise is great for backyards as you've shown. I like them when your done you can just put them away -no messy powder solvent to work with.

I have a Benjamin .22 cal pistol. and a .177 spring piston barrel cocker that shoots 1000fps. The rifle has a old made in USA Weaver scope on it shoots great.

spruceboy said...

Neat video!

Mike said...

RCT:
You're right, it is awfully nice not having to give air guns the same attention with regard to cleaning.

I actually just put a 4X32 scope on this gun yesterday. I'll have to post up some more target practice pics!

I would love to pick up one of those Benjamin EB22's. They look so nice. Soon...