hello to everyone

welcome mate,allways good see new member,not much happening around here at moment for some reason,guess many are just busy trying get life back together after lock down,myself included,not really into springers so dont know much bout them and what ammo works best for them,but there are plenty others who do,some one bound to know what you need.

It aldo took around 200 JSB's to break in the rifle, now getting a 1.5inch group at 40m and still slowly getting tighter. I need a higher quality scope on this gun. Got s cheap 3-9X50. Dreaming for a side focus ffp

big fan of JSB and HN  pellets myself,there  other good pellets out there as well, but very happy with these so i dont bother playing around with others now,preditors work well in my rifles and are very accurate as well,as for scopes the cheaper ones are bit of a lottery,i have had excellent service from Hawk,Airking and evan the cheaper Leapers/UTG scopes on my pcps but dont know how the lighter built Leapers would stand up to powerful springers as i dont own any springers,have found over the years with both firearms and airguns that the lower you can mount scopes to the barrel the less sighting issuses there are as line of sight and bore are closer together and scopes in high mounts are easier to knock out of alignment and can work lose on guns with a bit of recoil over time. the height of buttstock can dictate the scope mounting height too,i am not a receational hunter,like most country boys i am more of a pest shooter,my targets include everything from rats/rabbits/possums/ferrets/feral cats and pest birds like magpies/mynas etc,bassically anything that affects the native wildlife and my free ranging chooks and i am ruthless on all them,i never go anywhere around here without an airgun with me,so i proberly shoot more then most recreational hunters as its an every day thing with me,so am very familliar with the guns i use and know their capablitys very well,have never used a 25 cal yet as have just started work on building my first 25 cal rifle but am dead keen on having rifle in this cal for feral cats having found the 22 cal not allways up to cats,evan with 25.4 gr pellets at 850fps the 22s dont seem to have enough punch once distances get past 40 yds at times,so thinking 30gr 25s at 900fps should do the job better so looking forward to having the 25 due to bigger,heavier pellets at slightly higher velocity and more energy.

we have a constant and ongoing problem with feral cats here,had one get in the house few weeks back,the dog took to it and it bolted back the way it got in and missed the cat door by 4inchs hit the glass and broke it and went out the hole it made,mustve hit glass so hard as not easy to break saftey glass eh!!going on blood left behind must hurt its self bad,as hasnt been back and havnt been able to find it,so proberly bleed to death in bush next to house some where,not first one been inside either,shot the last one as my tom cat had it bailed just inside cat door so couldnt get out,a 25.4gr 22 pellet at close to 900fps in head killed it on spot,it was a real big and heavy cat too,every school holidays we seem get more due to so called caring pet owners dumping pets to go on holidays,there allso seems to be a breeding colony of cats some where around here as well ,but have never been able to locate them dispite some the locals and i having organised tiger hunts every now and again,we keep numbers down but never seem to get on top of them,we all got live traps around our places an catch quite a few as well,i do all my serious cat hunting with a little 22lr rimfire double rifle i built many years ago specifically for hunting cats and possums,as it gives me two very fast shoots and handles like a good shotgun,so its deadly on fast moving cats and have more confidence in the rimfire than the 22 pcp guns on these tough to kill critters.good to hear from another tiger hunter.