rimfire or centerfire

[deadeye ive]

that's a ridiculous comment, i've been shooting since i was a teenager, just never been into rifles, i've had a shotgun for over 20yrs and i'm fed up chewing on lead pellets.

and no offence taken.

cheers

brian.

 

A fair comment IMO

FWIW I was a complete novice to ballistic ammo when I had my first rimfire ,previously it was a shotgun and Air rifle and FAC Air rifle .My knowledge of centre fire was non-existant (albeit for the theory side )even though I was granted a .223 so basically I am very much self taught on the practicle side.It was quite a learning curve .

Experience gained on the range and a absolute knowledge of the lie of your land is a must really when using ballistic ammo .

When you aquire your .22rf you want to be looking at a 50m zero and try to keep most of your shooting around that range .80 yds + head shots are easily missed no matter how skillful or experienced you are and normally the end result is a lead bullet whizzing off somewhere due to ricchochet so the higher your firing point the better for those tricky shots .

 

See ..your not on your own fella

[Paul223]

Experience gained on the range and a absolute knowledge of the lie of your land is a must really when using ballistic ammo .

When you aquire your .22rf you want to be looking at a 50m zero and try to keep most of your shooting around that range .80 yds + head shots are easily missed no matter how skillful or experienced you are and normally the end result is a lead bullet whizzing off somewhere due to ricchochet so the higher your firing point the better for those tricky shots .

 

See ..your not on your own fella

Good advice there, also find an area where there's a good bank, may be the gully you talk about? some where were lead cannot escape, put in lots of practice and learn how high / low the bullet is for varying distances, concentrate on getting good groups, for rabbit getting all your shots into 40mmish circle and see how far out you can hold that sort of group, only take shots out to this range, with more practise this will extend . Try using sticks over bipod as this will give you a better angle for less ricochet or if your ground is undulating and good back stops are plenty then a bipod is great.

 

Sticks, two pieces of hazel the same length, piece of bike inner tube about an inch or two long, stretch the inner tube over the hazel and roll down about 6 inch, open sticks out to form an upside down v, acts like a third leg on soft slippy and hilly ground

 

Take care and always watch out for your backstop, you need something that will catch AND retain the bullet, trees and hedges don't do this, soft earth will, hard dry or frozen earth and stones will cause ricochets which can go off at any angle.

 

Enjoy :o