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Well got a decent morning to head out to the range. Been quite some time since we had a decent morning. I started at shooting at 9am, club has a no fire before 9am rule. 
The Wind did pick up about 10am or so :evil: Little peas and wind don't get along so well. I only lasted till about 11:30 though as the wind stirred up the blasted pine Pollen and it was horrible and tore my eyes up. :evil:
Anyway while I was hoping to see what the little guy would do I was mostly interested in testing functionality of the rifle, especially this barrel and get the scope more or less on paper. I did have an issue with caps right off, well falling off that is. Seems the nipple that came with this rifle is small on the end and the CCI #11's just fall off. Hard to actually use my TDC capper as when you pull them out of it they fly off the nipple and landed in the action. So had to start off Pinching the caps, putting them on with my fingers then pressing them on but they would fall back if the rifle moved too much. Wondered if this nipple was for a #10, are they smaller? Was not bad but did have some that did not fire on first try, I think they were still falling back when closing and locking the bolt. But cock the bolt again and then they fired. I know this is not an issue of a nipple that is too large because I tried with the nipple out too. This did get a little aggravating though. I also found that the plunger in the bolt was getting a little sluggish from the blowback that was getting back into it after several shots. I plan to get another nipple for it before taking it out next trip. I would have just swapped it out but it is a metric 6x1mm nipple and all I have are 1/4" x 28 nipples.
So hope that just a nipple change with sort of solve the blow back and no fires, i think it will. It took me a few shots to get on paper.
I pulled a rookie move this week too. After installing the thimble I was looking at it mid week and noticed that I had a little cant in the scope so loosened it and corrected the cant and then decided to move the front ring just a bit more forward, then forgot to check it with the borescope. So first 2 shots were not on paper, then it hit me what I did. 
So got one of the guys to spot for me, I did not want to pull the barrel to get the plug out to sight it that way, and got it on paper for shot #1 then a 2 more changes left and I stopped messing with the scope for now on shot #3. I only shot 25 grains of PyroP on this trip. Like I said, I was curious more about functionality but then that blasted pollen had my eyes a mess and then had my nose leaking so it was just getting to miserable. about 4 others left at the same time but most complained about all that yellow/green pollen on all of their equipment. Next trip should be sometime in June, heading home to Ohio for some vacation and work around the farm. I might take it with me but unless I can find a nipple on the way, shooting it is out of the question so may not take it. 
Forgot to take any pics of the range but here is a picture of the target. Since I had removed chips down in the barrel that still left a slight tight spot I was also worried about it tearing up the patches but they did not look bad. Overall not too bad of a morning for a shake down session.
The Wind did pick up about 10am or so :evil: Little peas and wind don't get along so well. I only lasted till about 11:30 though as the wind stirred up the blasted pine Pollen and it was horrible and tore my eyes up. :evil: Anyway while I was hoping to see what the little guy would do I was mostly interested in testing functionality of the rifle, especially this barrel and get the scope more or less on paper. I did have an issue with caps right off, well falling off that is. Seems the nipple that came with this rifle is small on the end and the CCI #11's just fall off. Hard to actually use my TDC capper as when you pull them out of it they fly off the nipple and landed in the action. So had to start off Pinching the caps, putting them on with my fingers then pressing them on but they would fall back if the rifle moved too much. Wondered if this nipple was for a #10, are they smaller? Was not bad but did have some that did not fire on first try, I think they were still falling back when closing and locking the bolt. But cock the bolt again and then they fired. I know this is not an issue of a nipple that is too large because I tried with the nipple out too. This did get a little aggravating though. I also found that the plunger in the bolt was getting a little sluggish from the blowback that was getting back into it after several shots. I plan to get another nipple for it before taking it out next trip. I would have just swapped it out but it is a metric 6x1mm nipple and all I have are 1/4" x 28 nipples.
So hope that just a nipple change with sort of solve the blow back and no fires, i think it will. It took me a few shots to get on paper. I pulled a rookie move this week too. After installing the thimble I was looking at it mid week and noticed that I had a little cant in the scope so loosened it and corrected the cant and then decided to move the front ring just a bit more forward, then forgot to check it with the borescope. So first 2 shots were not on paper, then it hit me what I did.
So got one of the guys to spot for me, I did not want to pull the barrel to get the plug out to sight it that way, and got it on paper for shot #1 then a 2 more changes left and I stopped messing with the scope for now on shot #3. I only shot 25 grains of PyroP on this trip. Like I said, I was curious more about functionality but then that blasted pollen had my eyes a mess and then had my nose leaking so it was just getting to miserable. about 4 others left at the same time but most complained about all that yellow/green pollen on all of their equipment. Next trip should be sometime in June, heading home to Ohio for some vacation and work around the farm. I might take it with me but unless I can find a nipple on the way, shooting it is out of the question so may not take it. Forgot to take any pics of the range but here is a picture of the target. Since I had removed chips down in the barrel that still left a slight tight spot I was also worried about it tearing up the patches but they did not look bad. Overall not too bad of a morning for a shake down session.
