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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 07:58:56 PM

Title: pellet gun
Post by: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 07:58:56 PM: i have a quick question i was wondering if a bipod would help with a spring piston pellet gun for accurecy. im just not sure because of how they recoil. any help?
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: krout81 on December 08, 2010, 09:09:11 PM: anything to give you a good rest should help accuracy.
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 09:15:28 PM: ya thats my problem tho we live on 20 acres and have lots of pest birds and i kill them by the dozens but there is no where for me to rest the gun so i am constantly free handing it.
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: krout81 on December 08, 2010, 09:20:38 PM: get one of the shooting sticks that telescopes so it can easily hang on your belt.
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on December 08, 2010, 09:26:33 PM: Find a military surplus bipod for a M16. They are spring loaded and clip right onto any round portion (barrel, tube under barrel, etc). I have two of them somewhere. Quick and easy to deploy.
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 09:28:05 PM: wow im a tad tard i never thought of that thank you.....looks like i got one more thing to add to the ol Christmas list lol.....cant wait till i get my 12 guage then there will be a drop in them strlings lol :)
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: h2ofowlr on December 08, 2010, 09:34:25 PM: Quote from: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 07:58:56 PM
i have a quick question i was wondering if a bipod would help with a spring piston pellet gun for accurecy. im just not sure because of how they recoil. any help?
If you can learn to be a good shot in offhand everything else will seem easy. I would try to pull a rest on a tree or a post or get a shooting stick. I would say bi-pod, but I always seemed to be shooting straight overhead back in my pellet gun days when I was picking starlings out of the trees. Good luck.
Title: Re: pellet gun
Post by: Fl0und3rz on December 09, 2010, 11:56:21 PM: Quote from: willie_81 on December 08, 2010, 07:58:56 PM
i have a quick question i was wondering if a bipod would help with a spring piston pellet gun for accurecy. im just not sure because of how they recoil. any help?

If you have not yet been there, check out this site.

http://airgun-academy.pyramydair.com/blog/?s=artillery+hold&search=Search (http://airgun-academy.pyramydair.com/blog/?s=artillery+hold&search=Search)

Excellent pellet gun blog. The guy knows his stuff (published in Shotgun News and others).

There, they describe an "artillery hold" (do a search there as the link has) useful for maximizing accuracy on finicky spring guns. If you read a few of the articles, you will also find that like firearms, pellet guns can 'prefer' one type of pellet over another, in addition to being finicky about how they are held. So it may be worth experimenting with different weights and shapes of pellet.

Happy hunting.