{"id":4202,"date":"2021-12-23T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2025-06-15T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:02:08","slug":"sunday-plinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2021\/12\/23\/sunday-plinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Plinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Comment:  This article was originally drafted March 18, 2018.  It may have originally been intended to be posted in the old Straight Shooters Forum; who knows?  Lost and found; posted for shits and giggles.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>After a 7-8 year hiatus (seriously \u2013 it\u2019s a long story), I got out my some of my old friends 3 weeks ago and the rest today. A lot has changed in eight years \u2013 with SS, these forums and with me.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, my wife actually wanted to shoot today, so I decided that my R7 .177 was the best option for her, since it is my lightest air rifle. Unfortunately, it was really too heavy for her \u2026 but she was actually interested in plinking, so that was huge bonus \/ surprise. I\u2019m going to have to get some sort of bench setup for her or maybe my first air pistol, which surprisingly, she was happy to support as long as she gets to use it!  As I said; a lot has changed over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>I love the R7, but I have to admit that I still long for one in .20 caliber (or maybe a .20 HW30S). More stuff that has changed \u2013 I\u2019m not sure that Beeman is still around.  I also gather .20 is way out of favor, but I can still hold on to old dreams, right? At any rate, after my wife gave up, I quickly dispatched multiple cans and plastic bottles. Probably not instant \u2018kill\u2019 shots, but I was happy with my accuracy, considering I was a good 25 yards out from those pesky targets. If they were vermin, they would have been toast \u2026 just not nice and tidy.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a good bit of time with my .22 Benjamin Marauder.  I can\u2019t believe what a pain it is to pump. Super happy that it doesn\u2019t seem to leak (pumpped it all the way to 3000 psi yesterday); Hill pump still functions nicely. What a PITA those 10 shot cartridges are to load! At any rate, I went through 4 clips, and was seriously impressed with the accuracy. I didn\u2019t remember how much fun it was to pull back the bolt, load a pellet \u2026 pfifft \u2026 ping \u2026 pfifft \u2026 such fun (hitting can after can, almost at the same time as each trigger pull). Wow; impressive!<\/p>\n<p>The fact that my R7 and Marauder requires zero maint. before shooting, is a testament to their quality; not to mention the Hill pump functioned wonderfully. Three weeks ago, I had the same great experience with my R1s \u2013 my lovely .177 and my favorite.20 Carbine. Those are stories for another day.<\/p>\n<p>I figured I would post because a) I haven\u2019t in forever b) it is more or less theropudic c) I almost forgot how much I love my air guns.<\/p>\n<p>Happy plinking!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Comment: This article was originally drafted March 18, 2018. It may have originally been intended to be posted in the old Straight Shooters Forum; who knows? Lost and found; posted for shits and giggles. \u2014 After a 7-8 year hiatus (seriously \u2013 it\u2019s a long story), I got out my some of my old &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2021\/12\/23\/sunday-plinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Plinking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[35,36,33],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-beeman","tag-benjamin-marauder","tag-pcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}