Fun with air

Cost of gasoline getting you down?  The ever increasing cost of ammo and hard to find primers making your hobby less fun?  Can't ever find time to make it to the range if you had gas and or ammo?  Why not shoot air in your back yard.  Pellets are cheap, no primers, no need to travel to the range!

Last weekend Bill F. had a great airgun setup at the club to introduce folks to the fun of air.  The "Pellet Palace" was probably the busiest station at the club.  After sighting in one of the Gamo specials and hitting the mushroom can, I recalled just how much fun air can be.

I had promoted air when I first got to NH but it received a luke warm reception.  After a few un-attended approved NRA matches I decided to pack it in.  I had gone to some considerable effort to have a nice set of resetables shipped from Texas.  John Livingston welded them back together and that was that.

Now, I know of four silhouette shooters who have 10m air rifles.  Heck, a Gamo special from Wally World will work. My first airgun was cheap Chinese copy which was enough to start me off in AAA for my first air silhouette match ever.  I was hooked.

We shoot what is called 1/10th scale animals at four distances.

Chickens 20 yards
Pigs 30 yards
Turkeys 36 yards
Rams 45 yards

I will try to post some targets with something of familiar scale.  They are small but seeing them fall is just a hoot! 

Here is a video, first animal falls at 40 seconds in, I had to run back 45 yards and then shoot.  I was using my Anschutz 2002SSP, JSB Exact pellets and a Bushnell Elite 4200 8-32x.  Scope on a customer riser made by Fenton S of Alba, TX.

All we need a an indoor space with 50 yards.  One club in FL actually had a little door and they opened the door and put the rams outside to make an indoor silhouette league.  One thing that is nice, EASY to set up a match and you just pull a string and the animals pop right back up.