The conventional sight calibration information is stored sight settings are here.
As a matter of interest for beginners I found that using
a laser sight is ideal for training - once set up for distance it pretty
much ALWAYS points where you are going to hit. You can then concentrate
on your form to ensure that your own sight coincides with the laser.
I appreciate the purists will scoff but it took months off my learning regime.
With a wee bit of engineering it is possible to mount both sights at the
one time - sure there some parallax errors but 2 inches at 90m is not significant
in the big picture. Juxtaposition of this paragraph is dangerous as
I have no plans to shoot the big cat discussed below.
Its a year with the merlin, I have been shooting
X7 eclipse 2412 4 fletch
carbon redline 410 420 and 520 3 and 4 fletch, the 520s were for a recurve
but to be honest at anything out to 50m they all shoot the same.
the 410s were on acc/redline parabolic 100 grain
the 520s were on acc/redline parabolic 60 gr
recently moved onto vector 480s - pin nock, (8grain) + plastic nock 2g
+ vector breakoff 480/530 at 110gr
Broke the string! Eagh. NO damage to anyone, broke at nocking
point, arrow hit the target but things were a bit slow for a while.
I was estimating 10000-20000 shots in the year. NO dry fire that I
know of. I am using a speedloop and wonder if that is to blame?
Each picture is a jpg of about 100K. Stored in this directory.
The ground is coarse and at at height of 1000 ft has a very short growing season. See pictures for the ups and downs. In a bad winter drifts of 3-4ft around the buildings are usual. Occasionally the road get blocks - perhaps drifts of 6ft or so. JCBs dig the road open.
This year I bought an old Massey Ferguson tractor - so there will be some ploughing and cultivation going on in the coming year. Expect a crop of tatties.
Crofting is done traditionally. Lambing is outside, shearing is by hand. Castration and docking uses new tools - not the old techniques. My son of 7 can shear 1/2 of a sheep - he is so small that he can't turn them. The older son is too clever even to try you can see him thinking "shears -> sharp, sheep -> big" NO.
The meat tastes good - even the mutton! Using the styles of old we eat the wethers at 2 years - we sell the cast ewes.
Photos and notes of things about the croft.
photos and motes on walking/camping.
Before moving onto the spirits I found it best to start the kids on cornflower and/or drinking chocolate blown through a biro case (or a short piece of 1/4 or 3/8" pipe). After that move onto lycopodium (sp) in a tube. Finishing up with the lyco in the mouth. Mixing the lyco with cocoa powder helps make it more palatable for kids but it does clag up in the mouth much faster than pure lycopodium.
Takes about 2 elapsed weeks and about 1-2 hours of work to get the habit for kids. 20-30 mins for adults.
After this people at least understand volatility, blow back, the effect of the wind. When not to swallow! How to do a rinse out.
Overall I think that the liquid breathing is too dangerous
for anybody to do - both in terms of toxicity and also interms of safety.
see here for some pics James took
You can contact me on (but take the _ out of the name - stops spammers hunting my site for names) jon_@malone.scotnet.co.uk .
Different lead pellets have different spread patterns
Different lead pellets have different spread patterns (.177)
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