Took the Mata Gallina out to our Thursday league match tonight. Just got the pellets a few hours before so I had no time to sight in. Only got a few chickens. Bitter came with and snapped a pic of me shooting chickens with the taco grip typical for shooting Silhouette.
I had to do it on the fly on a windy rainy night. Still need to work on it a bit. Bitter ended up shooting a 14 in a 60 animal match, with open sights. She really did quite good for a first time shooting air pistol. It’s not an easy sport, and I gave her a gun with a half empty CO2 cartridge in an attempt to sabotage her, but it didn’t work too well!
I can see why Rowland prefers the .22. For one, when the CO2 is dropping, the gun sounds and feels different. For two, you can actually see a .22 pellet headed downrange under more lighting circumstances than you can see a .177 pellet, so you can do Kentucky windage better. If it hadn’t been for being able to see the pellet, I wouldn’t have hit much of anything tonight.
Ahh – so that’s the Taco Grip…
How well does that work on a full-slide semi? (Also, I think it violates one of the handling rules at the NRA range – IIRC both thumbs have to be on the same side of the weapon)
It certainly didn’t help that it was bitter cold last night. Get it, “biter.”
Thank you, I’ll be here all week!