Preface

Previously I had posted about the Theoben Air Rifle of my fathers that needed an overhaul. Well I got chance to visit Dudley Rifle Club tonight which has a 25 yard, 4 lane indoor range.

Not only was I trying out the rifle to see how well it shoots after it’s overhaul, I was also trying out my camera over wifi to see if I could make out where my shots are down range by looking at my phone screen. This would be a big help for my Target Rifle stuff so I wouldn’t have to line up my eye in the eyepiece of a scope, I could see from a glance.

Anyways, these shots were taken from the firing point by using the WMU app from Nikon.

Darn I pulled the first shot off right…

Considering that I had completely stripped down this rifle, scope off, rings off and dismantled the entire action, I think that’s a pretty respectable first shot at 25 yards. The 10 ring is smaller than a 5 pence piece. in fact, the whole 9 ring is exactly the same size as a 10p piece.

Entire first magazine

The shot in the 4 ring and outside the 1 ring are the result of me completely being a cartridge shooter. I accidentally loaded 2 rounds into the chamber, hence the low falling shots as 2 pellets got pushed out with the same amount of air. Oops!

Let’s try a little harder…

Another 12 shots into the middle target.

I was trying to move the point of aim over, but there was a lot of vertical stringing and all to the left. I’m not sure if this was because I wasn’t giving the bolt enough time in the rearward position to fill the chamber consistently, maybe because I was just not aiming particularly accurately.

A bit better grouping, 3rd target, 12 rounds.

First couple of shots were dead on, but then the group dropped. Aside from my flier in the 9 ring, it’s not a particularly bad 12 round grouping.The first and last targets would both first all shots (apart from where I loaded 2 into the chamber at once) onto a 10p piece. The last card fits all shots under a penny.

Firing Point

The Bench

25 yard firing point. Off a bag rest from the seated position.

And one of me on the firing point for good measure!

Hairy man-beast

Addition: 10/01/2016

The results of this rifle deteriorated, see the follow up blog regarding this and our efforts to fix it on Theoben Rapid S Repair blogpost.