How Do You Cock Your Air Rifle?

[PasadenaMike]

Don't forget screeming in pain and the Guy a amimal cruelty activist and on the police dept also his wife is a lawyer.

How my luck runs

I think that about explains the neighbors

 

[Ezana4CE]

When testing firearms, we always used complex fixed gun mounts to hold the gun securely, but still allow recoil. We could not use a human to hold or fire the gun, as they would have been fried by the large radar just behind them. The problem for most people using fixed clamps is that they do not allow for any recoil, which may affect the POI. The gun needs to be clamped to some form of sled which allows for repeatable recoil and which can be returned to the same position for each firing. Unfortunately, holding the gun and placing your sights on the same spot every time will introduce human based errors, which for normal people, may be larger than the gun based errors. For most of us though, the errors will be more relevant to our own shooting abilities with the gun and thus possibly of more value, as a pellet or slug fired from a fixed gun may not behave the same as when fired by a gun held by a human. Remember, you are part of a gun/projectile/carriage system where you are the carriage. If you change any one component, you may change the flight characteristics of the projectile.

As for projectile drop being solely due to gravity, this is not quite correct where air is present. This is because as the trajectory turns down an element of the drag force acts vertically producing a small vertical acceleration which will reduce the effect of gravity.

@Miles_M How about something like this? HySkore Dual Damper Machine Shooting Rest

 

[MountainSportAirguns]

To keep with the question, without using any specialty equipment it might be very difficult to cock the rifle without some considerable movement. For me I just try to make myself as comfortable as possible, the height I'm sitting to the table is usually what's made a big difference. I usually have a bag that I jam under the rear of the rifle to help better motivate my elevation. By being comfortable I can usually get more consistent accuracy, I think what's comfortable might be different for every shooter. Nothing wrong with experimenting, even something as simple as moving the bipod further forward can sometimes help.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

I now got to wonder how rough and bulky this action is .. .