hawkster wrote:
I just tried the Ruger and was able to hit toonie sized groupings at 25 feet! Not sure if that is good but I can't get any further distance in my basement to try. I was shocked at the power compared to my other pistols. Whereas the pistols couldn't pierce a coke can (just dent it), the Ruger went right through it, through a bunch of cardboard and foam pads and embedded in my basement insulation when it finally hit concrete! Whoah! I'm using pointed 0.177 lead pellets, the cheapest I could find ($10 for 500).
Any guidelines on what to expect or aim for skill wise, as far as distance and grouping size? What is a normal shooting range distance? What targets are safe to avoid bouncing the pellets or do they tend to stop with a thud when they hit hard thick metal also? For now I am limited to 25 feet unless I can find a safe place to shoot outside without disturbing anyone. My guess is the best place is to go to a shooting range for air gun hobbyists.
Wow~ and no need to surprise~ It's a rifle, so the pellet went through the longer rifled barrel with much higher FPS (said 490, right?) than your BB pistol, it got such a power to penetrate those objects. I use my pellet pistols with under 400 fps power and alloy pellets, the pellet can go through the thicker spay paint cans. And my BB MP5 with 400 fps, can also smash the coke can into pieces.
BTW, I found card boards will be good as a stopper (of course not one or two layers, maybe 5+), but the foam pads looks no use at all. The pellet from my pistol can go through even one foot thick foam pad... so use a duct tape to put together several flatted card board boxes would be a good stopper for you I think...
Go search from websites, Youtube, Google, forums... you can find many tips, experience, knowledge to help you improve your skill, postures, techniques... and it's the same to learn from the real firearms, most of us all started from the replicas right? And said many buyers are using this replicas to train themselves for a better understand and control on the real thing.