Futzing around with my Umarex Komplete
10mon 17d ago by ani.social/u/zabadoh in airguns@piefed.social
Being a utter noob on shooting in general, I tried zeroing the included scope in my living room, which gives me about 7 yards between walls.
I'm sensible enough not to actually fire a pellet inside my apartment, so I used a laser bore sighter, which of course is also untested technology for me.
If course when I went out to a range for the first time in my life, I couldn't see where my pellets flew off to, and at closing time, my paper targets sheet was clean, except for one hole that I 'm not sure whether I made because the guys in the next lane were shooting at a target under mine. It's a permissive range...
Fortunately, YouTube delivered unto me the scope factory reset trick with a mirror.
I am also grateful to YouTube for teaching me this home alignment trick where you just let the scope crosshair and bore sight dot maintain their distance between the center of the scope and the center of the bore onto a sheet of paper taped to the far wall
Imagine my delight at my second trip to a range, a different one from my first adventure, when I actually could find my shot on the target at 25 yards!
A few more pellets later, and I finally had the thing more or less zeroed at the distance.
I was able to shoot groups at the hand drawn +'s on the target card.
I considered the 1-2 inch groups joyously acceptable given my lack of skill, crappy Gamo Hunter pellets with deformed skirts and casting flashing noted, but I didn't care. I could see my shots at last!!
By shot groups #6 and #7, the cartridge was visibly running out of pressure (#5 too, in retrospect), but that was a good time to wrap up this session, and even watching my shot groups drop was fun to watch and see how exactly this gun behaves.
