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Re: What kinda groups you getting from your airgun at 300 yards?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2010, 09:09:50 PM »
300yrds!!! OMG!! I sight mine in a about 30 yrds and thats about it.  I do shoot out to about 70-80 yrds on the highline behind my house but I live in town so 300 OMG not where I live.....

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Re: What kinda groups you getting from your airgun at 300 yards?
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2010, 08:51:20 AM »
The furthest known shot I did was between 300-400 yards at a tall tree with my RWS 52 in .22 cal.  There were several crows in the tree and I thought I would give it a try.  I allowed for quite a trajectory drop, did not hit any crows but did hear a solid "thwap" on the upper area of the trunk of the tree, did that twice to eliminate any freak possibility that it was luck.

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Re: What kinda groups you getting from your airgun at 300 yards?
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 01:21:55 AM »
300yrds!!! OMG!! I sight mine in a about 30 yrds and thats about it.  I do shoot out to about 70-80 yrds on the highline behind my house but I live in town so 300 OMG not where I live.....

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 Didn't mean to imply that it was me doing the shooting...

 The poster is an Austrailian guy I've conversed with here and there over the years on the other forum. He's an expert at long range airgun shooting. Me, I may hit something smaller than a school bus at 100 yds once in a while.  ;)
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Re: What kinda groups you getting from your airgun at 300 yards?
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 02:45:24 AM »
At 300 yards ,what ft/lb of energy does a 10.0 Gr .177 pellet have when it has a muzzle velocity of 1,000 ft/sec.  I use a Beeman R-1 .177 Cal,  Beeman 1000 22 Cal,  Benjiman 312 .22 Cal, and a Sherridan Blue Streak .20 Cal.   When sited in at 30 yards  there is is to much hold over at 50 yards for me  to expect  to hit a small bird on most shots. At 50 yards holding into the wind is a must . Most all of my shots are taken at 40 or less yards.  At 35 yards I have made clean kills on cottentail rabbits  lung shots  with the pellet rifles but I like the shots to be within 25 yards. A good book to read is AMERICAN AIR RIFLES by James E. House  Krause publications 2001 Yr.  Appendix C Ballistics Tables 

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Re: What kinda groups you getting from your airgun at 300 yards?
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2011, 10:36:19 AM »
Well, tuck2, the energy remaining at 300 yards would greatly depend on the BC of the pellet launched.  While I have never taken the time to figure the BC of any pellet out of my air rifle, I have made 80 yard kills on starlings, and 40 yard pass throughs on squirrels heads.  This from a .22 cal RWS Superdome, launched at aprox 800 fps.
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