So, it’s been raining and storming just about every afternoon for the past few weeks so I haven’t been doing much with my Condor air rifle. Today I finally got a chance to take it outside and shoot it.
Up until now I had been zeroing it in at 25 yards. Today I moved that back to 35 yards. My groups actually improved. I was putting pellet after pellet basically into the same hole, leaving smaller than dime sized groups.
There is one issue with the gun though. The way the gun is designed, using the air reservoir bottle as the butt of the gun, makes it just a bit more difficult to get your head situated for a good scope picture. The result is that you can rather easily get your eye out of line with the scope, and even a mild misalignment of your eye and the scope will mean half an inch to an inch of drift at 35 yards.
I am getting better at it though, but I may look into a modification that moves the bottle down an inch or so. The other option is to get different sight rings which raise the scope higher, but the higher the scope, the more parallax you have to adjust for at different distances…
Anyway, it’s really, really sort of silly to complain since it shoots so crazy accurate already, but it would be nice to have a more comfortable shooting position.
Yeah…. I know, there are other guns out there that use a traditional wooden stock and so would not have this particular issue, but they don’t have the Condor’s benefits.
Really liking this gun. It’s awful sweet to pull the trigger and see four pellets in a row fit well inside a bottlecap…
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Cosmic, I had to do my annual qualification with my pistol on Tuesday. I swear, I was all over the target…
Left eye getting worse…got some kind of tendonitis going on in my right shoulder that makes it difficult to shoot unsupported…can’t hear thunder with the ear protection on…and I had a supreme marksman right next to me (adding pressure).
Plus, I didn’t have the time to go to the range a couple of days ahead of it, just to make sure the dang pistol would still fire (or that I could hit something with it).
I sucked!
I shot 49 of 50, but the poor paper bastard I shot at would have been wounded in every possible place in his upper body…and would have lived to tell about it!
Getting old (and lazy) sucks!
Andy, I took my Ruger single-action .22 revolver (six shooter) out to the shooting range a week ago. I shot about three dozen shots as fast as I could cock, aim and fire the gun at a target about fifteen yards away. I wasn’t real pleased with the result, but I missed the six inch outer target ring only twice (both misses, strangely enough, were within half an inch of each other on the very upper left edge of the paper). However, I did not get anything like a respectable “grouping”. I was all over the target. In fact I think I only got two within an inch of the very center of the target.
I was using a two-handed hold with the gun in my right hand, using my thumb to cock the hammer and with my left hand supporting my wrist with my index finger along the bottom edge of the grip. I dunno if that’s an “approved” grip, it’s just what feels comfortable to me and seems to work.
I did a couple of six-shot attempts holding the gun in one hand, but shooting slowly enough to reset the sights each time and did much better than the “blast as fast as you can” approach, but again, nothing I was very pleased with.
In fact I was downright disappointed.
Then, that evening, cleaning the gun with a brass brush, I dislodged a half-inch long wafer of lead from the barrel where it had apparently built up while shooting.
I dunno if it affected my shooting or not, but I don’t ever remember seeing such a significant bit of lead coming out of my gun when cleaning it. It was like a drop of paint had spread along the inside of the barrel, it was thinner than paper, but somehow had gotten left behind.
Now that it’s cleaned out, I’ll try the two techniques again after my .22 rifle gets re-sighted. Which is taking forever…
Next time you’re over (swamp?) make sure to bring it. In case a fuzzy, hopping, target of opportunity should be around.
LOL… I can bring it by some other time too. It might be worth just checking out how loud it is. I don’t think it’s terribly loud, but then my ears aren’t terribly sensitized to suburban living expectations. It’s not at all uncommon where I live to hear a chainsaw crank up at 7:00 am.
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