Everything set up and ready for use. Steph's new .22 rifle with moderator, short bi-pod and scope, Binoculars for spotting on the target and the wooden poles are a standing rest. The gun table being an old workmate cleverly adapted and is a perfect rest.
Steph using the shooting sticks. The object of this exercise was to line up the gun with the sights... making sure it shot a bull at a given range.
Meanwhile Lucy not particularly happy stayed in the car, for safety and as she doesn't like loud bangs... there again with the moderator (silencer) it was quiet.
The weather wasn't great, not damp and not especially windy thankfully. We did however get some consistent groupings.... in fact we both got exactly the same which was a diagonal line from 7pm towards the bull.
The question was why. No matter what position we used we both got the same result so it had to be the rifle and not us!! Or that was the theory.
Save wasting more ammunition we gave up. Though we did test the gun without the moderator and that appeared to be the problem, as the 3 shots fire flew straight and true. That Steph stripped the moderator down, cleaned and re-assembled it. The theory was that the bullets clipped it internally somewhere, resulting in the skewed pattern.
All fixed we tried again. Looking through the binoculars Steph checks the patterns.
Same thing. Diagonal lines. So we take off the moderator and try again.
Sighting it in at 50 yards...
and then at 100 yards...
That done we repositioned to 50 yards and fires 5 rounds each. Taking care and waiting for gusts of wind blowing up the valley to subside.
Very pleased... a grouping of 0.6 inch.
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