Plinkin's done, dieseling's done (takes about 25 shots for the excess lube on the piston and chamber walls to vaporize and exit the barrel). Scope is sighted and is stable (on big springers this is an issue) and my most accurate pellet is a Crosman Premier 10.5 grain Heavy bought in a brown cardboard box with 1,250 match grade pellets of the same lot # in the foam pocket inside the box.
Gots me a lifetime supply of the same lot # I do ....
Shot #1 from a cold barrel and follow up shot #2 are on center and a half inch high to my shortest shooting range and spot on for my longest shooting range which means this sucker shoots purty durn flat compared to my past spring barrel air rifle.
The first shot and the follow up shot are 1/2" away from each other at my max shooting range, second shot tending offset to the right. I am pretty sure it is me operating the break barrel as you have to side load it some when c ocking it (I can't say c ock or any variant of it on this site of course -- too narsty for the list software to tolerate) but this level of accuracy is plenty good enough for squirrels as even when shot good they run and keep running until they drop dead from blood loss.
This is with a very heavy 10.5 grain .177 pellet -- gun goes hypersonic with all lighter pellets and pellets don't do hypersonic very accurately. I tried to group the Crosman Destroyers, but that was me jest kidding myself as a oddly shaped nosed light hypersonic pellet has everything stacked against it.
Power and penetration are considerable -- breezes right on through a soft pine 2x4 thinwise but does not do that end wise which would have been too too scary for my taste.
I'm happy. $79 bought me a very powerful, very accurate gun that gives me an old man's cardio work out every time I shoot it.
I did my shoulder and back exercise for today, Dr. and I do them religiously several times a week now.I gotta be more mindful of where I point this thing when it is cocked. A lap siding style outer wall may not stop it 100% of the time and I know durn well two layers of sheetrock in an interior wall wouldn't even slow it down very much.
"No Ralphy, you'll put your eye out ....." indeed, put your whole silly head out is more like it.
It is noisy -- about like a CB cap in a .22 rifle when not dieseling. Oddly, it is smoother firing than my old springer and actually seems to jar less when fired. Gun and stock is a lot heavier which may explain this somewhat, plus I expect they understand the springer mechanism a lot better than they did when they built my original springer.
Trigger is much improved to my old gun, much much improved.
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OK, I got the grass to mow and some house repair stuff to do as my wife is getting ansy that I'm gonna go off for another week of bike riding -- she says yes in the weeks away period but gets apprehensive as the date approaches .... she can't say she's afraid I won't come back, so she rousts me about a bit just beforehand to make sure I know she doesn't like it very much.
Then I get to promise to call her every time I stop for gas.
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