... it's like a Lightning XL, only not as healthy!
I got my XL about 2 years ago to go ratting, but I never really gelled with it. On the only two ratting trips I took it on I seemed unable to drop a rat cleanly, some taking several shots to put down. That is not nice, humane, or good, and so I stopped ratting. What with other things I put the rifle away for later, and she's been cased up for a while now.
But finally I go her out and got some pellets down her. And she is not healthy!
Due to space limitations, I set the zero at 12.5 meters. Once roughly zero'd, I started grouping at 2.5m, 5.0m, 7.5m and so on, back to 22.5m. That's as far as I can go without standing on next door's drive to shoot! As it is I'm shooting diagonally down the car port, through the back door into the sun room, out through the sun room, across the lawn, and into a target on a back stop on the back fence! Note: I was the only one at home, and all connecting doors were shut, so no risk of some one randomly walking in on me.
In the mean time, the group sizes seemed to be around 10mm or so centre-to-centre. But as I got past 12.5m the groups began scattering until at 22.5m I was looking at over 55mm! "yee haw, it be a shotgun"!
For comparison with my old Logun-Axsor .22 carbine I could do 15mm at 50m.
So I've got a chrony and some jewelry scales on order, and next week I will run her through the chrony to check power levels. After this she will be being stripped down to parts and checked out.