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Testing Procedures:
Every airgun we review is put into a fairly standardized series of tests so that we can provide some sort of a baseline for comparison purposes. So, what do we do. Well first we try to shoot in whatever we are testing. As most airgunners know, spring guns in particular typically need a break in period before optimal performance is reached. We shoot the gun until we start seeing that it appears to have settled in. As we are doing this, we play around with different pellet combinations, not so much to report what that particular pellet is, but just to see what that particular gun seems to like best.
Once the break in is done, we clean the barrel and have at it. We first chronograph 50 shots or until we get something that looks as though it's representative of what the gun does. Then we shoot the gun for accuracy by tinkering around with it until we get our best consistant groups at 10m. Then we shoot at additional distances approrpriate for the type of gun we are reviewing, all the way out to 50 yards/meters for field target rifles and magnums.
Then the fun part starts, we just shoot the rifle in situations suitable to the type of gun we are reviewing. For target guns we shoot targets at 10m, for field target guns we shoot at field targets at field target distances. For sporters, we shoot a little of this and that along with the odd varmit. When we are done, we each write up our seperate opinions.
