I am getting used to my new 54. Actually I am growing on it. I never thought I'd ever have such a fine rifle. I simply like all of its features - even the often scoffed at weight doesn't really bother me. Surely a "real" .22 would weigh less but i would never get this sort of accuracy out of it: I've tried Weihrauch, Steyr, TOZ, chinese brands as well as Savage .22's but none ever came close to the results I can archieve now everytime I lay my hands on this masterpiece. As soon I know the distance to the target I know that I will hit it. Since my BSA scope has no mildots I think I will buy a laser range finder. This should also be helpful to finally have a distance spreadsheet attached to the stock of this darling where I could note the clicks necessary to adjust my scope to the given distance. I wonder if anyone could suggest a cheap range finder out to some 70-80 yards... Anyways, today I emptied my first tin of RWS Meisterkugeln cal .22 and this superb rifle constantly archieved five-shot-gruops of the diameter of my thumbnail on a distance of about thirty yards. I am really looking forward spending the remaining 2,000 shots :D Thank you, Diana for issuing such a perfect rifle!

Sounds like you might be interested in Field Target!

FT with .22?

If you know exactly where it's going, why not? There is no rule that FT cannot be shot with .22 - most rules state 'nothing larger than .22'. Most folks use .177 for two reasons - 1) flatter trajectory 2) less chance of a 'lockup' when the pellet hits the rim of the hole.

And sure FT with a .22. The first match I went to with a hunting parner I was using a .22 Bam50 and he had a .22 48 w/4x scope and a good time it was indeed.
Lots of people shoot .22 and they place high in major events, some of us just improve our ranging ( just get any decent A/O scope) for Squirrel hunting.
What scope do you currently use? And if you really need a range finder the Leica units are nice.

John

John,

Its a BSA.
They have three different scopes for air rifles.
Mine is the smallest. No zoom, just a parallax compensator ring on its front end.
Dunno the type exactly. Got to look it up on the BSA site.

Just checked. Its a BSA 4x32

browsed through some rangefinders today.
I picked the Bushnell Yardage Pro Sport 450.

If you have a Sportman's Warehouse selling out nearby, you may be able to get a BSA 3-12x for around $50 - don't forget a GOOD mount.