Sweet Sunday
Dec. 23rd, 2018 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdaySo this morning I couldn't help myself. As soon as I was up, I went downstairs, drew my customary 12 oz. glass of filtered water, and headed down to the basement, still in my PJs. There I grabbed tape measure, marker, and socket hex wrench and went for my airgun cocking station.
Within minutes, I had the steel pipe dismounted from the floor flange, the inner plastic tubing and wooden spacer removed, and the pipe up on my drill press. And minutes after that I had the whole thing back together and ready for action.
But it wasn't until early this evening that I decided to get the Benjamin Trail out for another trial. It'd been literally months since the last time I'd sent anything downrange with it and yesterday, when my grandson and I tried it in the cocking station, something was obviously amiss. So my objective, this time, was to find out what.
Not knowing what I might need to adjust, I took off both the windage and elevation caps, checked the pellet skirt for any damage that might result in a "flyer," and sent one downrange. It was WAYYY high but almost perfectly centered above the bull's eye. So I dropped the elevation 10 clicks and sent another one. Bull's eye!
The next one was a little right but still well within the inner ring. The one after that, I had to walk down and check because I couldn't see where it hit from my chair. Turns out it was almost exactly on top of the previous one!
In all, I put five shots within a quarter-size grouping. Which, although shot at ridiculously close range within the narrow confines of my basement, is pretty much what I was hoping for.
So, although a rough piece of road had been encountered earlier in the day--around some matters unrelated--this has made it, overall, a "Sweet Sunday..."
LPK
Dreamwidth
12.23.2018
Within minutes, I had the steel pipe dismounted from the floor flange, the inner plastic tubing and wooden spacer removed, and the pipe up on my drill press. And minutes after that I had the whole thing back together and ready for action.
But it wasn't until early this evening that I decided to get the Benjamin Trail out for another trial. It'd been literally months since the last time I'd sent anything downrange with it and yesterday, when my grandson and I tried it in the cocking station, something was obviously amiss. So my objective, this time, was to find out what.
Not knowing what I might need to adjust, I took off both the windage and elevation caps, checked the pellet skirt for any damage that might result in a "flyer," and sent one downrange. It was WAYYY high but almost perfectly centered above the bull's eye. So I dropped the elevation 10 clicks and sent another one. Bull's eye!
The next one was a little right but still well within the inner ring. The one after that, I had to walk down and check because I couldn't see where it hit from my chair. Turns out it was almost exactly on top of the previous one!
In all, I put five shots within a quarter-size grouping. Which, although shot at ridiculously close range within the narrow confines of my basement, is pretty much what I was hoping for.
So, although a rough piece of road had been encountered earlier in the day--around some matters unrelated--this has made it, overall, a "Sweet Sunday..."
LPK
Dreamwidth
12.23.2018
