AccuracyTest (Part 2)
Channel: TIM MONTANO
Date: 2021-07-21

I need to mention a couple of things before I explain the sequence of events in this particular video clip.

First of all; I had unknowingly set up my rifle rest right on top of an active Ant Mound loaded with a bunch of pissed off little black ants.  They were eating me alive.  

Second of all; This video looks a little choppy because I cut out all of those parts where I'm frantically swatting away those damn little Black Ants as they began to attack me.

Rather than relocate my shooting position I decided to just saturate the ground in that area with bug repellent.  It seemed to work well enough to allow me to continue with the testing.

If I look mystified after shooting some of these pellets it's because the first two shots went into the same hole about an inch above the bullseye.  The third pellet hit about an inch above the hole that the first two pellets had made.

The fourth shot then hit low and to the right of the bullseye. The fifth shot went into the same hole that the third shot had made and then the sixth shot went into the same hole as the third shot had made.

If that sounds confusing well, now you know why I had that mystified look on my face after taking some of these shots. I had to get up and walk over to my target to confirm what I was seeing.

I got the sense that the second batch of pellets really wanted to cooperate with me and give me some nice tight groups but they were still  lacking in just enough Concentricity to allow them to group into  tight little clusters in the same way that my store bought pellets usually do.

I'm thinking that with the next Airgun Pellet mold I print, instead of using a classic wasp-waisted, shuttle-cock geometry pellet as my model, I'll use one of the new slug-type of pellets that are presently all the rage for PCP Airgun shooters.

This is because the smoother outside geometry of the newer Slug-Pellet styles are a bit more conducive to printing concentrically rounded pellet mold cavities.  

The new bullet-shaped pellets don't have as many of the curves and/or angles, which tend to make achieving a perfectly round or concentric projectile harder to attain.

After shooting these six shots with using the more concentric pellets from my second batch of cast pellets, I tried shooting some of the pellets from that non-concentric first batch of cast pellets.

At twenty-five yards away from the target, I was able to hit the backstop but none of those shots were hitting the paper target.

The accuracy (or Lack Thereof) was horrendous.  At ten yards, shooting pellets from that first batch of non-concentric pellets,  I WAS able to at least hit the paper target but, at twenty-five yards the closest I could get to the paper target was about three inches high and to the right of the paper target.