Cheers folk, that's just the job, Moly grease it is . I'll look for the Herridge books. The local shop will sell the grease and the Napier pellet lube.
As to pellets I got him a tin of JSB Match Diablo Exact, a tin of RWS Superfield Field Line and the shop keep gave us a tin of RWS Hobby sport line gratis. He said it may take 100 to 200 pellets to shoot the thing in. Not quite sure what that means but the implication was the groups may be a bit wide until then. How we'll tell as learners I'm not sure!
i dug out a roll of 1.5 x 1.5" flannelette I picked up ( issue for 5.56mm ? ) and I saw a neat little video on making a pull through using fly line, which I think we have some of.
The guns handbook mentions using air defenders! Is that right or corporate @rse covering? We have dug out some Bolle safety glasses we bought on spec years ago. One of the lads does have some issue range ear defenders but....
With you on iron sights, he has been given a unused but old and cheap telescopic ( I assume it was cheap, it's not a brand I've heard of "Gunmark Apollo** 4 x 20") but that stays off. We are going to start off at 10m on big coloured targets although there's space for 30m eventually. At scouts I think it's all 10m with iron sights.
ATB
Tom
But a tin of the cheapest pellets you can get and sit and empty the tin into tin cans etc you'll find it'll be bedded in properly after about 1000 in my experience. Breathing and trigger release are the things to concentrate on especially with low velocities.
5.56 cleaning roll will be a snug fit down a .177 barrel (hands up anyone that's had to bash out an obstruction with welding rods!)
Eat defenders are totally unnessecary for air guns, even for some subsonic powder burners imo. You don't get the crack of the projectile breaking the sound barrier they're fairly quiet. As for safety specs, I would probably invest in a sandbag or wooden taget back so you don't get lead fragments flying around (in all honesty, they don't come backwards anyway) as safety glasses will effect certain shooting positions and just put me off personally.
I have a gunmark kestrel 20 bore, never herd of them making optics though just shotguns.
I would suggest having several tagets at varying distances, teaches you to holdover without knowing you're learning about it! If you want to make things interesting have a look at firebird reactive targets, be warned, they're as loud as a shotgun report, but undeniably fun!
Ps. Apollo optics where distributed by gunmark in the 90s. The ** is a reference to their own rating. They're apparently comparable to the same era same price range nikko sterling range. 5* Apollo where apparently really good and a little ahead of their time (nitrogen filled and etched glass reticle) so I imagine the 2* should have been a half decent scope too. When it's time for an upgrade no need to go crazy on price either js ramsbottom are a good supplier of entry to mid level optics I use them if I'm looking for a scope
