Time sure slips by! Must be getting old. Well I finally got around to trying the 10 metre thing on my home practice range, shooting from beside my workbench out the bathroom window into a trap set up hanging from the eaves. I seem never to get out of town, so 10 metres is all I can do so far except for a fun plinking session at a friend's cabin in August, about 40 metres downhill. Didn't bring any targets along, just shot holes in a rusty bit of metal until my wife said it was time to stop bothering the quietude of the forest... oh well.
Anyway, this is with my wire-stocked Brocock Atomic .22" pistol, which I've found much to awkward to shoot as a pistol so I use it carbine style, with an RWS 4X compact rifle scope. Pistol and scope both from SSSO. Shooting JSB Exact Jumbo 15.89gr pellets. Rested on a 3/4" x 1-1/2" aluminum bar clamped to my workbench with a Jacobson clamp on the top end, wrapped in a rag. Not the steadiest of single-point rests, so I'm fairly sure the carbine's capable of slightly tighter groups if I ever get around to a sandbag test. Still, not bad, with about a 0.35" (just under 9mm) centre to centre maximum spread in a 10 shot group. Not an 'official' entry into this challenge as my trap doesn't really allow for that sort of bullseye layout. It's my 10 metre formal air pistol trap, hence the 17cm x 17cm pistol target with 11mm 10 circle.
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I managed about a 0.60" 10 shot group the other day un-rested. Bit more vertical spread than horizontal. Heartbeats. That must be really hard for competitive rifle shooters to master, the chest booming regularly with the elbow against the ribs. In 10 metre air pistol I don't see much heartbeat influence on the sights.
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If/when I manage to do the challenge offhand with iron sights I'll post again! 
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