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SPRINGERS LIFT THE SOUL!
Talk about a custom issue of your mag! The last issue had not one,
but two of my favourite airguns – the Pro Sport and the Baikal
Makarov, both of which are the pinnacle of their type, in my opinion;
the Pro Sport is the best springer and the Baikal Makarov the best
BB pistol, both are beautifully made, solid quality products.
Like you, I have fitted my own Pro Sport with a small, some may
say ‘retro’ scope. A simple 4 x 32, no bells, no whistles, and it
looks great on the rifle. For a springer, I’d have nothing more on
board. When I was younger and it was all spring guns and no one
had anything much bigger than a 4 x 32.
Even though I am the proud owner of two top-notch PCP rifles, a
good quality spring rifle feels just right. The quality of engineering
and the deep bluing of all the metalwork always lifts my soul.
PAUL J. FORDMILES BETTER
I just wanted to say thanks for publishing Jim’s article on pellet
flight. For years I have been seeing all the rubbish being produced
on the Internet by ‘experts’, without being able to put the record
straight, so I was thrilled when Jim agreed to write something.
I understand it is somewhat different to the type of article you
would normally publish and I am very grateful to you for including
it in the magazine.
MILES MORRISThank you, Miles, and
even more so for assisting
Jim in the production of
that article. Your
contributions, and your
prodigious knowledge on
ballistics, are always
welcome in this
magazine. - EdSAME EXPERIENCE
I’ve just read Phil Hardman’s
piece in the July issue in which
he mentions the actions of the
jackdaws after he shot the
magpie. I had the same
experience a couple of weeks ago
and I have never seen anything
like it in 70 years of shooting. I
took one out of three magpies and
the other two flew away out of
range, one staying there for a long
time afterwards. There were three
or four jackdaws on an adjacent
building and they went mad. The
magpie never made a sound, just
dropped stone dead, but the
jackdaws created such a racket
as I have never heard before,
swooping down at the dead bird
and calling loudly for about five
minutes. If I was trying to be
unobtrusive, my cover was
completely blown. Does anyone
know why this happens? I thought
it was a fluke because I hadn’t
seen it before, perhaps because
there were no jackdaws in the
vicinity, but when I read Phil’s
article it surprised me.
DENIS CHADWICKLike many, Paul is in touch with his
springer on an almost spiritual level!Phil knows a thing or two about
wildlife behaviour.We’re always happy to
feature articles on
‘somewhat different’
topics, especially when
their subjects apply to
us all.
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Tnormally shy away from because it encompasses areas of physics that are close he science of projectiles in flight is called ‘external ballistics’, and it is a subject I
to impossible for the layman to comprehend, and much of the subject defies explanation by
way of simplification. The great problem is that some people have written about it, and HAVE attempt to over-simplify it, often using
flawed analogies, with the result that a lot of what has been written on the subject, and is contained in videos available on the Internet,
is plain wrong.I was fortunate enough to be approachedTECHNICAL AIRGUNJim looks at how on earth our tiny lead pellets manage to hit distant targets»last year by retired ballistician, Miles Morris, who was keen for me to publish an article that
set the record straight, which meant that between us we first had to educate me (no small task). Three months on, with much help
from Miles, and many hours studying the NASA and Hyperphysics educational web sites, I feel ready to give it a go.
travel throughout its flight from the muzzle to OVERVIEWIdeally, the pellet would point in its direction of
the target, although for a number of reasons, the pellet won’t constantly be pointing quite inits direction of travel, and the difference between its direction of travel and the direction in which it is pointing is called ‘yaw’. Yaw can
trajectory, and the potential ill effects from yaw are mitigated by the mechanisms of stability.cause the pellet to deviate from its intended
air rifle benefits from three types of stability that help to keep it on course to the target, The waisted, or diabolo, pellet shot from an
and these are; spin, aerodynamic and dynamic stability. In order for the pellet to stand any chance of hitting the desired pellet
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