New member from West of Ireland

[Tikkat3tac]

Hi all

After a long time reading posts on here, I have finally registered.

Living in the West of Ireland and I have been shooting and hunting for a few decades.

I shoot shotgun, Pcp air rifle, centrefire rifles for varmint, deer and long range.

Currently have scopes from Nightforce, Vortex, Swarovski and a few more.

Really interested in the various topics being discussed on here and although not all will be applicable to me, I look forward to posting and sharing my limited knowledge and of course learning from all of yours.

Happy holiday season to all

 

[FearNoWind]

Welcome to the forum. I'd be interested to learn about the PCP rifle. Never could quite get the confidence I was looking for in air rifle shooting while experiencing the Gamo, Airsoft, etc. Ended up sending all of them back when they didn't shoot under 12 MOA at 75 yards.

 

[Tikkat3tac]

Thanks Fearnowind

My pcp is an Airarms s410 in a custom walnut stock made to my measurements. It has a standard Lothar Walter barrel and up until until recently had a Swarovski Ffp 1.5-6x42 scope on it for hunting. I recently replaced thats that for more mag and a better reticle in the vortex viper FFP pst mil mil scope 6-24x50 and it is a nice combo.

It groups very well with jsb jumbo heavy 18.13gr pellets running at around 30fpe I get a five shot group of .25 inch or 0.5968 MOA at 40 yards off the bipod. Here is a picture, excuse the homemade target but was zeroing at home.Smaller 3 shot group to the upper right of the final group when I got fully dialed in.

Great for vermin control and rabbit shooting.

 

[FearNoWind]

Are you shooting at max. power? From what I read it's capable of more than 920 fps. Not bad: about 60% of what I might expect from a 40 grain .22 rim fire. I'm looking for .5 MOA at fifty yards.

 

[Tikkat3tac]

Hi Fearnowind

That is at full power, I generally keep it there unless I have a need to shoot lower power.

It's the versatility that I like it for to be honest. You might not need the hassle of rezeroing to adjust the power needed but it is there if you need it. I don't bother with a. 22lr at the moment as this covers my needs better.

 

[trazman]

welcome onboard tikkat3tac!

 

[Tikkat3tac]

welcome onboard tikkat3tac!

Thanks Trazman

 

[Ken gun]

Welcome to the site, how far west of Ireland are you?

 

[Tikkat3tac]

Welcome to the site, how far west of Ireland are you?

Thanks

I'm from Clare / Limerick area.