I'm sorry may sound lame, the guy took all hisshorts with his scopetargeted to the right a little was that because of the wind?
Hi,
If you listen to his commentary--he explains his shooting in technical terms---talks about the direction of the wind, what adjustments he made for that---plus what adjustments he made for the long shot.
People need to understand----an 18 grain pellet is extremely light in weight as compared to a 180 grain .308 round that the firearm sniper would use. For that reason, any kind of burst of wind would drastically change the direction of the pellet, whereas the bullet would hold its parabolic and sideways sway line of fire for a longer distance.
In the fire arm rifle---the each bullet has a specific charge---so each round would have similiar ballistics---on the other hand---a pre-charged air rifle---the first round would have the highest pressure, the second less and so forth---. A pre- charged air rifle has either a chamber that has pressurized air in it or has a co2 bottle attached to it. Then there is the spring loaded break barrel where the spring is compressed to proved the pressure---then there is the pump action---where a handle is pumped to build up pressure.
Edgun Matador is an expensive air rifle and there are other manufacturers of air rifles whose product ranges in the 4 figure dollars---.
The shooter tests all major brands of air files, puts them through there paces and puts his results on the video----. He is making those 60 and 70 yards shots look oridinary---and he is teaching the observer---if you want to learn to shoot---here is the way to do it---.
Ai rifle shooting is getti g extremely popular in the u s----. The air rifle start in the .177 calibre to .20--.22--.25---9 mm----.45 calibre and yes they are available in .50 calibre rifles as well---and in the u s there is no license for the .50 calibre.
You can literally shoot any animal with the .50 calibre rifle other than an elephant and a rhino----.
Those of you who are intrigued---check out the you tube videos of the shooter edgunusa ----or if you wan to learn about air rifle---go to www dot pyramid air dot com ---look for air rifles---look for the calibre that you are interested in and check them out.
Then there are comments by people who own them---they would give out a lots of information.
And please remember---the people who are commenting on the preformance of these rifle---they are not kids---they are adults with good incomes and jobs and resources----because once you start to build up a collection of air rifles and accessories---it is as expensive or more so than the fire rifle.