Thread: 22 Fun in the wind!

It's confirmed - I'm a 22RF nut and the other day a CZ 457 Synthetic 20" pencil barrel" followed me home.

It shoots astoundingly well, I'm out of my "top shelf" ammos so I haven't reached its limits yet, but it has been shooting my good ammos such as Norma Tac-22 and S&B HP subs reliability into sub 0.5" groups at 50M - and I mean reliably!

It was blowing like heck here this evening ahead of the front - a boiling, gusting, rollicking rambunctious 40 plus km/h. Coming across my 50M range between 10 and 11 o'clock.

So I went out to shoot. The wind was sometimes rocking me on the bench. I got 3 groups shot in about 5 min in fading light. Shots were not timed for wind, I just let them go when I could hold target centre.

Here is the result:



Average is 0.89. That's a lot less than I thought it would be ( even at 50M) and it sorta makes one wonder why I'm so wary of sighting in and testing in the wind - I often postpone 100M CF testing when there's 10 Km/h or more and really it wouldn't make a big difference especially if shots were timed for consistent wind condition.

Cheers