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 Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:10 pm |
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| Coyotehunter_ |
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| Location: Southern IN |
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| AirGunEric wrote: |
Ah, ok, that kit is normally referred to as an "Air
Source kit"- as it allows the use of AirSource 88g canisters. |
I got the name off the box that the Air Source Kit came in. I didn't have the receipt handy and didn't think to go to the Crosman web site. Sorry if that was confusing to everyone.
The Air Source Kit allows me to shut off the air to the tube so the CO2 88 gram cartridge when punctured won't leak out. But if I screw the Air Source kit into the Crosman 1077 Air Rifle's CO2 port and turn the Air Source Valve on, all the CO2 gas leaks out of both the 1077's.
I wish it didn't cost so much to fix them as I really did like those two Crosman Air Rifles when they worked. I shot a lot of blackbirds/starlings with it over the years and also downed a few fox squirrels out of my back yard along with a couple or rabbits. It had a much slower FPS rating but it was precise.
My Gamo has a 4x Gamo Scope on it and it's ok with shooting at a tartet that's on the same level as the gun. But if I'm, shooting at birds sitting up in a tree and from a 30 to 45 deg angle up I can't hit them. I know that the line of sight distance is not the same as the distance to the target and I understand the principle of the bullet drop and bullet path and all. Still with this scope I don't have any mil dots below the cross hair and can't determine how low below the target to hold the cross hairs. And I think that the windage elevation is off. I also wonder if the clicks and reticle are staying put. The Scope mount is stronger now and staying put on the rifle's receiver since I got new screws and added the Blue Loctite to the screws' thread and torqued them down properly on the scope rings etc.
But the Gamo is not shooting straight. I've only hit one Starling in about 15 shots this past month of Jan. I have huge flocks that fly into my yard at times and eat the suet blocks in a manner of a few hours. Normally it takes the wood peckers a week or more to eat the suet plugs.
I even thought of reviewing my Trig Book and taking a short calculus class the other day to try to figure out how to get the right aiming points and hit more of these stupid starlings. They now fly off as soon as I put the Caldwell Shooting bag in the window and put the rifle out the window to shoot them. They have learned to not stick around when they are being shot at even if I miss 95% of the time. They don't like the loud noise that the pellets make when exiting the Gamo Bone Collector Rifle. The pellets are those blue tipped light weight allow type from Gamo that travel at 1300 fps. I guess the wind had a huge effect on their flight path even at only 30 to 40 yards away.
I aimed at a fork in one of my maple trees the other day and saw that the pellet hit high about 8" and to the left about 2" or so. But I didn't have an exact aiming point and I'm not that steady while trying to shoot out of the window even with the Caldwell shooting bag on the widow ledge. I'm trying to shoot leaning over the kitchen sink from an awkward position and am hurrying the shot as I know that the starlings are not going to sit there and wait for me to shoot them. Most all of them fly off as soon as I start to open the kitchen window. And the rest fly off right after I put the Shooting bag in the window. If there are any left by the time I get the rifle in the window they fly off too.
I should start a thread about shooting pellet guns up hill or down hill. But I guess I'll try to do a search for that topic first just to make sure it's not already been hashed over in here. |
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