Great shooting and congrats, Never allow anything to touch the barrel of your rifle as youll change the harmonics and it will NEVER perform as good as it could. If you want to keep the barrel warm use a gel heat pack and remove it when firing ur groups. Try it and Ill bet youll see a marked improvement. Great shooting
My 22 shoots 1/2" groups at 50 yards/meters all day! Really? Prove it!
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Great shooting and congrats, Never allow anything to touch the barrel of your rifle as youll change the harmonics and it will NEVER perform as good as it could. If you want to keep the barrel warm use a gel heat pack and remove it when firing ur groups. Try it and Ill bet youll see a marked improvement. Great shooting
Nice shooting. I added you to the successful list.
If you're lucky, he also sold you some of the CCI Subsonic ammo he used to get those incredible results. With five groups averaging .203 and .208, they are worthy of a much more expensive BR rifle using twice the scope magnification.
Ammo is certainly part of the equation... I have 5K from that lot, but I kept it for my hunting rifles, a 77/22 RSI and a CZ 453 Lux... I also have a 54 action I am just starting to tune. The 453 is "almost" as accurate but not nearly as consistent... plenty for head shooting grouse out to 100 yards... I can usually get to 75 yards from the lookout sharptail grouse. The other factors are the conditions and supports and of course the jerk behind the trigger....I would love to see lowburb post some incredible results with this rifle... I really did not work with that rifle much and think that there was potentially more in the tank.
"The 453 is "almost" as accurate but not nearly as consistent."
The CZ 453 Lux seems to be very uncommon in Canada. I've read on the US websites that there were only 50 imported to the USA.
Mine seems to like SK Flatnose best, so I'm using that to practice for the challenge. Had five of ten groups less than .5 inches a couple of days ago but all on one large piece of paper, so not admissible.
The CZ 453 Lux seems to be very uncommon in Canada. I've read on the US websites that there were only 50 imported to the USA.
Mine seems to like SK Flatnose best, so I'm using that to practice for the challenge. Had five of ten groups less than .5 inches a couple of days ago but all on one large piece of paper, so not admissible.
This one has shot many groups in the .1's and 2's, hence the "accurate" assessment, the lack of consistency is due to the one or two fliers in every set of five 5-shot groups, an arbitrary round that impacts 1" left... this is the same lot of ammo used with the Anschutz 1416, which exhibited no fliers. So far no consistent pattern has emerged to help explain the fliers, but I am working on it.
I have a similar problem that I think has to do with using Burris 1 inch rings on my Vortex 4-16. I just picked up a set of CZ rings which I hope will solve the problem. The Burris rings would not stay in position even when firmly attached and the fastener blue-loctited.
I'm using a set of custom rings and a proven scope... everything is locked solid and tracks as it should... fliers can often relate to bedding issues, I have the gun apart and I am going over the bedding and relief now.
I use a Nightforce 15-55 scope - it has never been lower than 40X. I shot my targets at 55x.
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I’ve shot a lot of 50M groups lately for CRPS ammonia testing and such. The issue is vertical spread. Your rifle may very well not be the weak point. Mine have far more vertical than horizontal spread in the groups, but it isn’t worth it for me to try real top end ammo if I have to buy a brick. Spend the $$$ on high end ammo if you want to to be successful in the challenge.
That would be incredible if you can do it with a spring piston air rifle, espcially a Diana 45, a springer with a heavy pre-T01 trigger. It's not necessary to shoot more than one target with five sub-.5" groups, so show readers a target. It would be a most extraordinary accomplishment to have a successful springer entry.
Edit: I see you picture posted below showing the trigger is indeed a T01. Yours must be one of the very later Model 45s's.
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Didnt appreciate the accuracy until I scoped it with a fine glass. Amazing really.
Using FAR less pellets since the scope came aboard.
Fine, fine springer rifle...
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Now we need to see a target with 5 5 shot groups at 50 yards under 0.5"
