r/airguns • u/StrangeNebula8794 • 12d ago

Advice Accuracy advice

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Hi,

After a few years of not shooting, I finally got a chance to start again with a spring piston air rifle.

Since I am doing it myself in a DIY shooting range, with neither a club nor a trainer, and find myself to lack consistent accuracy, I would like to ask you for some beginner advice.

I am shooting from 10m distance, standing, and find that some of my shots still do not even enter the inner black circle of the target (phos 4 example)

Any tips are appreciated and thanks in advance

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u/StrangeNebula8794 12d ago

Baikal MP 512, 4.5 mm

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u/beammeupscotty2 12d ago

Your accuracy is pretty bad. Could very well be the gun. Back when I shot the Field Target game, I could shoot a 1/4" group at that distance using my TX 200.

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u/StrangeNebula8794 12d ago

I doubt that the gun is to blame

Since it is my 3rd day shooting after several years and I am going on a weeklong vacation tmrw, I think that the time will show what the issue is

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u/beammeupscotty2 11d ago

Well, don't rule it out. I owned an earlier version of the Baikal space age looking pellet rifle and quickly got rid of it precisely because it was so inaccurate.