First Steps for Air Rifle Hunting

[Scythe13]

(9 May 2014, 20:41)Talon Wrote: Shooting has gotten a really bad press these past few years so it's best that we try to ensure we keep to the rules for the preservation of our shooting heritage..
Air rifles can have a tendency to stray over the limit even when bought new from a RFD,especially after they've bedded in after a 1000 shots or so.
Looking forward to part 2.

That's one of the reasons I recommend the BASC insurance. It's a solid policy, and the BASC do some great work with preserving shooting for us all.

With the off the shelf stuff, if it is over the limit, the police will come down heavy on you if you modified it. But if you can prove it's off the shelf, it will get confiscated, but you should be able to get a new one straight off the manufacturers at no extra cost, as 'it must have been a default' in the initial product that made it over 12lbs.

I'm going to be doing a few more posts about simple mods, e.g. moderators, bipods, scopes, etc. But that's really not needed to build an awesome foundation.

I know guys that went straight for the really high tech stuff. Great PCP's, fully kitted out, Zeroed to perfection, etc. No field craft or marksmanship. Their gun was hitting the targets, not them. They could hand the gun to their grandma and she would be hitting bull, every shot. The real funny thing...they couldn't stalk a dead crow, couldn't shoot any other gun than their own, and they had ZERO skill without a scope, or from standing. When it came to hunting, they could not control the adrenaline and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!

Without great foundations, shooting is nothing more than luck.