I managed another testing session yesterday, about 360 pellets!
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I've tried five scopes on the Crosman so far, and while I'm still finding the little 4x20 Chinese thing to be the most enjoyable, I've got a Bushnell 6-24x40 on it currently. I used a laser on the barrel to boresight it and I left it on for the first hour or so, just in case I wanted to change the scope. The bore had had 636 pellets through it at this point - no cleaning.
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I shot a ten-shot group to settle the barrel with each pellet, then a second ten-shot group. It did tend to show a better second group, so if you use different pellets it's worth checking zero when changing. Before I fired the first group on paper I fired one or two off to the side to check that the pellet would be on the paper. Most were shot initially aimed at the top "8"
I finished off the A&P Pro-Pell's the other day so I started off with the H&N Field Target Trophy. I fired ten just to set the barrel, then put ten onto paper. But I aimed at the centre of the target which is a very coarse aim point, especially at 12.5m and 24-power, and it went 25.5mm. So I put the second group aimed at the black dot in the bottom loop of the top "8" into 19.5mm.
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Then the H&N Finale Match Heavy into 44mm and 18mm groups, showing immediate credence to the barrel liking to bed in a new pellet before shooting well. These were shooting well right so were aimed at the lower loop of the "8" on the left of the target.
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Next was the Gamo Sniper Magnum at 29mm and 14mm (nine shots as I pulled one). These were well left so were aimed at the lower loop of the "5" on the right side of the target.
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The Gamo Rocket shot 38mm and 20.5mm groups.
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Gamo Red Fire went 29.5mm and 34.5mm.
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H&N Crow Magnum went 25mm (9 shots, I pulled one) and 22mm.
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I only had eighteen H&N Hornets left, so I shot an eight-shot group of 25mm, then a five-shot group of 24mm. Then I removed the laser from the barrel and fired another five-shot group. The first shot went wild but the next four went into 17.5mm. Point of aim only changed by about 5-10mm upwards with removing the laser.
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H&N Barracude Hunter Extreme went 28.5mm and 17mm.
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RWS Diablo Basic went 32.5mm and 16mm.
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RWS R10 Match 7gn 4.50mm went 18.5mm and 19mm, and then I had a play and shot a group with the pellets reversed into 39.5mm. The third shot was very hard to chamber and then went way wide so may have been deformed, which might've reduced the group to 32.5mm for nine shots.
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RWS SuperMag went 33mm and 20mm.
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It was getting difficult to see the black reticle over the black dot in the "8" now so I moved up to aim at the lower loop of the top "6" instead.
RWS Superdome went 25mm and 28mm.
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RWS Powerball went 12.5mm and 12mm - very impressed with these but will likely find them unavailable in Oz with my luck.
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At this point it was getting quite dark so I started shooting double groups on one card to save time, aiming at the lower loops of the "6" on each side of the target..
RWS SuperPoint Extra went 30.5mm and 29.5mm.
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RWS SuperField went 20mm and 18mm.
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And H&N Field Target Green went 30mm and 20mm, and were very loud, I think they went supersonic.
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I noticed the moon was well up, I could hardly make out the target, and the mozzies were pissing me off so I quit.
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I had left the three "alloy" pellets to last so as not to mix them with lead but ran out of light. It was way too wet and windy today to finish them so I sat inside and collated this lot. Those are the Gamo Armor and Raptor and the H&N Barracuda Power.
The standouts for today are the RWS Powerball and the Gamo Sniper Magnum, with the RWS Diablo Basic worth another look I think.