The new gun did great!
Silly me waited for the guy at Dick's to bore sight it with his equipment. I thought it would get it in the ballpark. The first shot missed the entire target and the foot wide board that it was mounted on.
After watching Fred Eickler do it just last week for his son, I did the same thing. I broke the gun open and looked down the barrel. The secret that Fred forgot to tell me is when you look through the barrel left is right and up is down, etc. It took mister slow a minute to figure it out as the more I corrected the worse it was!
Anyway, I got it lined up finally and fired the first shot. It was about 6 inches high and 6 inches to the right. I quickly calculated the "clicks" I needed and got it to within 2 inches of the middle. A few more clicks and I hit it perfectly-right in the middle! Three shots to a perfect zero! Now I've got to admit I'm not bad at scopes since I've scoped nine air rifles in the last few months.
Later, after my wife shot it a bit, I took one of my air gun targets out to about 120 yards. It has 1" red dots on it that I normally shoot at about 30 yards with the pellet rifles. I was happy that at first I could hit it since it isn't a very large piece of wood. Then I realized that it was pretty close to on. I then took careful aim with next three shots hit three of the 1" circles I was aiming for! I'm sure that would have been three VERY dead Prairie Dogs!
I need to move the scope back a little closer for my eyes. The other thing I really need to to get one of those hammer extensions. Though it is okay, an extension would make it a lot better.
