The Air Arms zeroing target is a useful tool for setting up a gun to zero within 1 inch.

Saw this at Pomona store and thought it very interesting. Anyone ever use one? Seems like a great way to zero a gun! Go to Pomona and scroll down on "Accessories"

http://www.pomona-airguns.com/Air%20Arms%20Airguns.htm#prosport

Dave@vabch

Ps Notice that they do trigger tunes and spring tunes and are going to have new shrouds for Springers

They are great but get a bag of end retaining clips (McMasterCarr 98430A120) for the spinner shaft since they fall off every once in a while. A locking ring with screw in stop would solve this issue for good but I haven't had a chance to replace with one yet. I've got a bag of 100 of the clips so that is what gets used. The shaft dia is 6mm but the .25" retaining clips work OK. Usually the clip gets lost in transit or when someone carries the target to or from the field. This target gets brought out on every shooting session of mine and placed at 35-50 yards for sight in. I generally progress from a rough sight in and then the 1" red circle on top for fine tuning. This target is a bit light for anything 35+ ft.lbs. at 30 yards range. For that power level I generally setup at 50-80 yards. When sighting in the target gives you quadrant information as to where to adjust. I generally have this target out when checking out 5-6 guns after tunes/mods or scope swaps and do rough sight in with the center target then hit the top target and then switch to paper.

After a few years in the field
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Closeup of 1.5" center target. Top target is 1" dia.
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Also I don't think PAG is going to do springer shrouds. He just wants to stick with Rapid/Daystate full length shrouds for now.

Thanks Pell for the info and Pics!

Dave

Those targets look too similar to our spinners.

First made about 6 years ago.



Hmphhhhhh!


Anyway, I wish him the best of lucks, he is a good guy.



Un Abrazo!




H�ctor

I had something like that at one time. Worked ok, but the thing was cheaper than what you guys are showing. I summarily shot the shnookies out of it. Blew it into oblivion.

Mind you it was fun

Now I set out those Crosman orange disks out for a little... visual effect lol.

Tell you what, at the longer ranges where the birds get used to pellets smakking paper targets, when one of those Crosman shatter disks explode, man the birdies absolutely freak out.

Harv

They are pretty flimsey but do work great for 20 yd sightin with open sights. The hard part is during a shoot to keep the rifle guys from walking up on the pistol lanes and reforming the target into a wad of twisted mess.

Hi Hector, actually Air Arms are the guys making the targets and they are available to all Air Arms dealers but few carry them due to the high price. Your's actually look better with more spinners...
I like yours with the 1/4, 1/2 or 3/8" sized center targets. The only thing is you have to be directly lined up with the hole/spinner but if 6 guys are sighting in at once the end guys shooting at a 30 degree angle can't hit the spinner unless the spinners are really large to catch the angled shots. Since the center hole on the AirArms is 1.5 we move the target out to 50-60 yards.

Is there a business or club selling those?

Would have a 1/4" center spinner if possible or near that size for 30-35 yards. And it looks like those pictured would lay flat...

To my knowledge there is no current production either by the original manufacturer in Argentina or the Mexican Pneumatic Shooting Club, to whom the design was registered.

I have located an outfit here in the States that COULD be interested in making them as we made them way back then. Yes, you are right, they lie flat and whether you shoot straight at it or at an angle, if you hit the center ONLY the center will spin. We used the spinners as sighters in our FT shoots, it accelerated the sighting-in period a LOT with more than 20 shooters on the lanes. And yes, also, you are right, the spinners were made of 1/4" thick hardened steel armor plate, you can shoot the 1/2" with a 50 ft-lbs. Air Ranger from 20 yards and it will not bend nor be destroyed.

IF there is interest from the shooters here and elsewhere, perhaps I can convince this company to make a few sets and place them among the interested parties. I could easily have them made in México, but there are two aspects that would make it preferable to make them here:

1.- Transportation costs would drive the price up unnecessarily

2.- If I am now in the US, I might as well try to work WITH local outfits to keep the jobs and works going, given the economic situation. They are not so complicated that you need too much hand labour / fit to make them. Design is rather simple and production can be automated quite a bit.

If anyone is interested in exploring this idea, start a new thread on "Spinners" and we can get the ball rolling.



Un Abrazo!




H�ctor