bowtie427ss
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Should be easy to convert the 112 to modern CO2 bulk fill, or PCP.
I bagged one today,... first one in a _l o n g_ time. I tagged it out at a hundred yards. I toyed with it yesterday, but hadn't shot in this same down time. So, yesterday was rough. Today, I had dialed in the shot, and, pop went the rodent.
If you want to put them all through the same hole, and you're doing everything else right.................
Wash your pellets carefully in warm, mildly soapy water, dry them well. Small batches are easier to handle. The manufacturing process leaves crud on them.
When you're ready to find the limits of your platform's accuracy, get a series of pellet sizers. I've sourced them out of the UK in the past, they usually graduate in size by hundredths of a mm. Find the optimal pellet diameter for your setup and carefully size your pellets prior to shooting. When sizing i strongly suggest using a pusher/probe that fits the inner skirt profile of the particular pellet you use.
I've noticed this with the CPHP pellets sold in the tins. They are much too hard to be regular lead and little bits of material tend to flake off of them. The boxed CPHP pellets don't suffer from this in my experience. That said, I really love Daisy wadcutters for pest birds in my yard in suburbia, but man are they filthy! They have to be 100% lead or close to it, the skirts deform so easy. Even easier than the JSB and RWS pellets I use.I agree on the complexity factor. The pellets that are 100% lead have less issues, from what I have read. Partial lead pellets tend to foul the barrels. Because of the way pellet guns are built, cleaning a barrel is more of a PITA than with a normal rifle
I have done a large amount of reading about airguns. I want to learn before making a purchase. At this point the amount that I would spend on the gun and all the accessories is running in excess of a grand. That is a lot, but I have not purchased anything for my self in many years. My biggest expenditures in the last 8 years was the cost of having the following rehabbed: SX-1250, SX-1280, G-8000, Sansui Deluxe Model Eight, Sansui Model Eight and my Onkyo TX8500MkII. It cost a bundle, but now I can relax a bit, if only the stock market continues its upward movement, I'll be okay.