AusVarmint

The importance of "sight picture recognition" ...........Working with the little pocket Casio camera taking movies through the scope has once more highlighted to me the importance of "sight picture" recognition even at the expense of poor light transmission and of blurry images.

What is interesting is that good accuracy can be achieved even using a sight picture on the camera screen for sighting. It is far less distinct than normal sighting through the scope, dimmer and can be blurry, depending on what I am doing with camera and scope to get focus on the pellet and at what distance I want that focus, near, far, or all the way from rifle to target to analyze the flight.. ...

Watch these shots for precision at 50 yards ... especially watch the last three shots with blurry sight picture on the ram's eye . The silhouette swingers were made by Graeme Whatman (an Aussie rep ) and are scaled for size for 50 yards. Edit ... It may take a few seconds to start, just be patient.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v392/ ... dated2.mp4

Rifle: BSA Hornet air rifle shooting JSB Exact pellets at 50 yards.

So much for our penchant for the absolute clearest, sharpest images from our scopes! Identifying same "sight picture" is what those of us who grew up with iron sights were taught and it is still a good shooting concept ................ Best regards, Yrrah.

Looks like I may have spent too much on my scopes over the years Harry!

Which cal was the Beesa running? The .22 or the .25?

Nice video. Thanks for posting.

regards, curan

curan wrote:Looks like I may have spent too much on my scopes over the years Harry!

Which cal was the Beesa running? The .22 or the .25?

Nice video. Thanks for posting.

regards, curan

The .22 cal running at 895 fps with 15.9 gr Exacts Curan. This is the first BSA from JB. The second one presently wears the .25 cal barrel. Sometime soon I will put the .22 barrel back on it as I want to see what all these pellets are doing at velocities up to and above 1000 fps. I want to see if they lose stability and begin to spiral and if so at what range does it happen. ... Also what are the real effects of a pellet traveling out of quiet air into/ across a stiff wind and vice versa; out of a stiff cross wind into a quiet zone. ... Lots to do.

I already know that many of the so called fliers are pellets that lose it and spiral as you saw with the Gamo pellets compared to the Stratons. Other pellets can throw one in 4 or 5 as a whooopsy . I'll put up another movie that shows this with Baracudas when I get it arranged.

Thanks for your response. This place can be like talking to oneself and that gets old early. I often think of you and Dr G and some others out in the Never Never when I write this stuff and think it just may be of some interest after a long day .................. Kind regards, Harry.
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Hi Harry,

Well I'm out in "the never never" as we speak.

I actually have 3 airgunning regrets:
1. I haven't met you or Dr G yet.
2. I haven't met Lewis yet.(many good deals, but never met)
3. You are not doing all you testing with .177 !

The first two wishes are just "nice to happen", or "wish it could have happened".

The last is pure jealousy of having you do my .177 research for me!

All good fun!

cheers, curan

curan wrote:Hi Harry,

Well I'm out in "the never never" as we speak.

I actually have 3 airgunning regrets:
1. I haven't met you or Dr G yet.
2. I haven't met Lewis yet.(many good deals, but never met)
3. You are not doing all you testing with .177 !

The first two wishes are just "nice to happen", or "wish it could have happened".

The last is pure jealousy of having you do my .177 research for me!

All good fun!

cheers, curan

I'll try to balance that out a bit in the future Curan.

I just may get out your way in the Spring if the Lake Eyre and The Warburton and Coopers hold up ...
We would like to fly over them while things are lush ........ Kind regards, Harry.