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Springer for Hunting ?
- Thread starter Katran King
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I couldn't have put it better myself
chouchin66
Top Tier member
I will not...tis the fella pulling the trigger, nowt to do with hardware used...
Ok mate .Love to see a pellet on pellet from 30 m with a springer though .Pcp will always have the edge in accuracy over a springer which is why springers are now largely redundancy in the hands of die hards .Nothing against anyone hunting with one mate just your blinkered view of accuracy .I will not...tis the fella pulling the trigger, nowt to do with hardware used...
Cammie1314
Super member
60m FTT's 97K 3 shots
Ok so I think a few are confusing pin point accuracy with accuracy .If there’s a springer on the market that will put 10 pellets on top each other at 30 yards then please enlighten me or if there’s a man that can do that in the first place .
Ive used both mate and I’m very willing to admit it may be just me but I can’t do that with the hw80 but gets boring with the hw100 clover leaf with flyers yes possibly but not pellet on pellet and that’s what I call accuracy. .
So which of those killed the quarry mate as all 3 didn’t .
chouchin66
Top Tier member
Your pfffter due to lack of recoil makes 'em easier to shoot, not more accurate...
Bit further than 30m , but I can do this most all day..
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Cammie1314
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It's to show the accuracy potential of a springer. I don't shoot quarry at that range. Funnily enough my Kral Puncher Maxi hasn't shown this grouping potential......yet
Nice shooting mate but not pellet on pellet is it .I’m not a paper puncher by any means but I check the sights once a month and at 30 m with the hw100 it’s pellet on pellet to the point I usually write my name on the paper as I get bored
chouchin66
Top Tier member
Pellet on pellet ,off a bench? I care little about " pellet on pellet", I just put one in the brain 1st time , tis all I need to do.Nice shooting mate but not pellet on pellet is it .I’m not a paper puncher by any means but I check the sights once a month and at 30 m with the hw100 it’s pellet on pellet to the point I usually write my name on the paper as I get bored
near a 50 yard squiz, day
before yesterday. OSOK
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I guess we all have different standards mate .P on p at 30 m off quad sticks .
Now tell me your 50 yard was freehand 
Now tell me your 50 yard was freehand
chouchin66
Top Tier member
NopeI guess we all have different standards mate .P on p at 30 m off quad sticks .
, FT style , off my knee.
Dodgyeye
Member Extraordinaire
@squirreldropper
Sighting in brand new .25 springer with new scope prior to trigger adjustment/tinker.
Bringing shots on to bull, right to left. Then moved card back to 30 yards at 9 o'clock group and then a couple more at 30 yards through bull hole made previously at 25 yard.
Shot off, new to me at mid 60's, seated elbow on knee position.
1.5-5 X 20 scope on x3 mag.
And yes this .25 springer will be a hunter for restricted boundary situations once run in and a tin of pellets through it.
A springer barrel/bore is exactly as accurate as same barrel/bore on a pcp, the rest is down to the user.
Sighting in brand new .25 springer with new scope prior to trigger adjustment/tinker.
Bringing shots on to bull, right to left. Then moved card back to 30 yards at 9 o'clock group and then a couple more at 30 yards through bull hole made previously at 25 yard.
Shot off, new to me at mid 60's, seated elbow on knee position.
1.5-5 X 20 scope on x3 mag.
And yes this .25 springer will be a hunter for restricted boundary situations once run in and a tin of pellets through it.
A springer barrel/bore is exactly as accurate as same barrel/bore on a pcp, the rest is down to the user.
chouchin66
Top Tier member
Cammie1314
Super member
I don't even know what quad sticks are!Brilliant shooting Mike
chouchin66
Top Tier member
Folding scaffolding, for all intents & purposes
Cammie1314
Super member
People actually drag that stuff around when shooting, wowFolding scaffolding, for all intents & purposes
. I usually used the Landie bonnet 
chouchin66
Top Tier member
I only sometimes carry a walking staff, during "snake season", my knee works well though.People actually drag that stuff around when shooting, wow
No offence mate but this is just nonsense. Off a bench with the same external factors there are many premium springers which will easily match a pcp for ‘pin point accuracy’ and ‘pellet on Pellet’ if you take out the mitigating factor of the person shooting it, especially if the springer has been tuned and fettled etc and the barrel matched properly to its best pellet etc.
Also in a hunting scenario pellet on pellet has no real relevance to accuracy. You get one chance to hit a spot about the size of a pound coin at whatever distance you are shooting at. If you can hit that spot every time you ever shoot at live quarry then what more accuracy is there, there’s not pin point accuracy or accuracy there is purely and simply have you dispatched your quarry cleanly and humanely if so then that’s good shooting and is the only relevant standard.
So basically it is simply practice isn’t it, some people are good enough to hunt with a springer and others probably not. Everyone just needs to find the distance at which they are comfortable hitting the target every time and then work with that.
I think you are probably confusing are the majority of people more accurate with pcps, novice shooters etc then yes almost certainly they are but there are also many people who are just as good with a springer through years of practice.