A few weeks ago I got a portable bench rest which is now set up in my den. A bullet trap is set up in the storage room 10 meters -33 ft from the bench. It has ben to darn cold and windy to try out a Sheridan 20 Cal pump up pellet rifle I got at a few days befor Christmas. But now I can get all the trigger time I wont. But my old bird dog at times looks at me , then at the target ,pore old dog dosent have any thing to fetch.

bracer, nice set-up. Better make sure that bullet trap is large enough to catch any stray pellets so you don't have to dig them out of the sheetrock.

go on give the old dog a break
put some bread out on the back lawn and snot over a few we dickybirds for it to retrieve for ya.

Slimjim. I measure the outside edge of the five shot group then deduct the diameter of the pellet. I have tryed out six different pellets in the Beeman 1000 22 and three different pellets in the Blue Streak 20 Cal. My smallest group was .15 and the largest where I pulled one was 1.6 inch but most groups were under 0.60 inch. I use 1/2 inch dots on typeing paper for my targets. My next test will be using a variety of pellets in the Beeman R-1 .177 pellet rifle. The bullet trap is 9X15 inch so I may just get by with it. Elvis, today the dog sat by me and would beg for some petting after I had fired five rounds. You got me, what is a dickybirds ? If I were 40 years younger Id like to go hunting in your country.

bracer wrote:

If I were 40 years younger Id like to go hunting in your country.

You should go anyway. You will never be younger than you are today! Sounds like you have a great set-up and are having loads of fun!

sparrows and such like. pesky garden digging blackbirds are good too starlings taste too oily but a good dog will get them too. Its real funny when the family cat gets in on the act aswell.