Epic Airgun Range!! | TAOutdoors

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We went to film possibly the coolest Air Rifle range at Furnace Mill. Not only do they have a zero range to sharpen your gun sight, but they also have a hunter field target shooting course with targets that you can shoot and self-right. The Airgun facilities at Furnace Mill offer chances for both beginner shooters and experienced shooters to test their skills. It can work on both a day ticket system and a longer-term membership. Airgun shooting is becoming increasingly popular here in the UK and around the world. We have more airgun videos coming your way!

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welcome to the totally awesome outdoor show we're down here furnace mill fishery and they've got an air gun range here and it's something to see because there's a variety of ranges you go on a Whitney is the owner Ed Brown Eddie's actually going to tell me something about it or what's on offer here ed good to see you now you've got beautiful sitting here you obviously got woodland everything now I secretly 50 legs behind you for those who want to go fishing but if we sit down can you just give us a run through basically you know what the whole operation is here and what's on offer

yeah absolutely okay um well we're here at the zeroing and plinking area at furnace mill fishery and air gun range which is this distances on the range here from 8 yards out 45 yards we have a discipline which we work to which is hft which is short for hunter field target shooting and that most of their targets are within those ranges anything between 8 and 45 yards now I see this on that wood slope do you have to have that that ground barrier at the back as a pellet goes off is that well you've got it here we do like to use a natural backstop here for safety reasons okay now just for people to know this is tell us a little bit if they want to get into any rifles we did any shooting you've got to 0 and this is why it's called a zero ranges explain what that's about absolutely yeah the zeroing is used to find where the pellet hits the target at a certain distance you might like to zero you're going 25 30 35 yards something around those sort of figures and things which means your aim point will be when you're looking at the target that range are we hitting it perfectly in the center and then you'll get pellets or the drop or certain ranges

some closer ones you'll find a higher someplace or what the way you'll find drops and things and also then you have to think about the wind blowing or blowing air compel it from side to side as well there would you make an adjustment with the site for that maybe the telescopic sight then all adjust I imagine like a full on say deer rifle with baby yeah it is it you will adjust once you've made that adjustment to that zero range then you won't really fiddle with the scope at all then I will unless you were shooting another type of airgun discipline which she's calling field target shooting and they can adjust their scope during a shaft or in between a shot and aborting the competition with hunter field target shooting once that scope is set you can't touch it at all especially in the competition okay now just run me through the different ranges you got here this is the 0 1 this is the first one you come to what's the rest of the features you've got here ok yeah we've got a 30 targets course to the left of it which he set out to the United Kingdom and to feel target specification terminology put off anybody who's new to the sport we just base it on that so we try to explain old posters aim for really we really want people just to come and have a fun day we've got five courses altogether so even on our busiest days of the week if we do happen to have a competition we always keep other quartey's open for people who just turn a CA on the day on a date or the ticket basis really so you come you can use all your data here if you like and you can go on different courses and sort of rotate try different ones if you want to yeah that that's the idea really yeah we the the main course which is open to the sort of public for a day's shooting is normally the one to the left of the plinking area yeah but we do open other ones on certain days the other courses tend to be competition courses yeah

so and they get to see different areas in the shooting range because it's not you know would you give everybody a fair crack at the weapon and I'm looking you know really okay maybe when I was much younger that's a long time ago guys a very long time ago it was 177 and tutus and it was like a spring or break breech barrel now I imagine it's moved on from there so what is there now that people can go and buy what should they be looking at yeah well the great barrel Springer's are still around actually and people do use them although you don't see so many of them now here we've moved on to preach ours air guns now which will have compressed air in they still have to be sub 12 quarter pounds to be within the legal limit of having an air gun before it moves on to firearms today but yeah you're right so we 177 predominantly to to do come into it for instance if we had a competition here you probably find out of 60 shooters yes three or four might be using spring break barrel guns Oh still yeah yeah and maybe one or two using two two caliber but the majority would be using one sense I would have understandability where there's no no it's 177 for target shooting generally no no's most common no now the other thing I must have changed guys out there is the pellet the shape of the pellet the weight the pellet when it's made for just touch some of the begins so they know maybe even the BB different balls I've seen you know what's what's what's what's the ammo was the mo for beginners okay yeah and still still basically and on the sights

type of shoot and we tend to use this for the dome headed yes that's right the waisted skirt that is it with a little gap at the back for the airs going up yeah yeah and a lot of that some of the top shooters will go to the lengths of weighing them and make normal diode damage inspecting qcf pinpoint accuracy yeah now move on to you can go out and shoot and eat this candy you know I don't all got to say this pigeons and rabbits and stuff like that absolute it's just a little bit about that what should you be doing kiss kill zone comes into it you know the length of pellet travels before it kills something if you want to kill something out life you can just run it through that as well because a lot of guys like fishing you would occasionally you will eat some if you're trout fishing salmon fishing some of the guys probably will want to go and try it full on for hunting yeah it was about that yeah well yes I've actually been employee recently to set up a squirrel control initiative in the wild forest area using our members control grey squirrels yes are in the increasing problem with in forestry and causing the millions of pounds worth of damage to forestry is year yeah and part of my job with that is to liaise with landowners around the whole wire forests especially the private landowners and promotes squirrel shooting using air guns control method really most the shots will be towards a feeder where we yes and to come and feed so we get a safe shot and we know where that's rule is going to be not shooting towards anything parts and things are saying to ourselves so we're shooting into the ground again there's that backstop sort of things safety factor I think yeah and with that we keep records and the distance we generally set are to be a little high Japan things away from the feed that wood the about 30 to 40 yards no distance difference this distance but far enough away so the chorion don't know we're there really but close enough to take a very accurate head now I'm gonna say something because I was out fishing a couple of days ago sharp vision on my boat with Wayne combin who's done shooting as well and he was telling me this exactly this what are we talking about grace cause he's been shooting him in his back garden because they on his bird feeder he was telling me they were real chicks they will take eggs yeah so guys out there if you think I'm my god the poor little school I don't think a lot of people realize they are passive what is going on you know and as you say they can do a hell of a lot of damage yeah I can't remember the actual figure now but I read somewhere I think the death rather than people calculated about 14 billion mid-story 14 a million times with the damage speech alone was talking about the wildlife on top there tonight yeah yeah yeah now yeah I think about shooting squirrels sounds like great fun to me because there's been sporting there every someone singing screwed it's run around the back of the tree so that's the idea of bringing a feed around the front I could see that now oh yeah what about rabbits what would you do for rabbits rabbits again yeah it's quite nice to guides rabbits

usually early morning first light in the evening and store consumed part of the skill ease be able to get as close to you quarry as you possibly can yep and taking a nice swift clean shot yeah and that's the pleasure I would get certainly he's getting close without them knowing that I'm there yeah the hunted that he's coming into it isn't it yes yes I can see that now it obviously high-powered rifles that type of thing fully licensed is there any form of Licensing or do you need gun covers for air guns the whistle okay oxy in England no licensing walking to a gunshot he was wrong here over there over the age of 18 by one sub 12 foot pounds Megan in Scotland this year in 2016 now it's just become law that you have to have a license for an airgun in Scotland we set up this about nine years ago actually and we went into it very sort of carefully because we didn't wanna sell fishing was on business we didn't want to disrupt the fishing things gradually we found that some of the Fisher's wanted to do shooting to be on site to maintain that same way as we've seen a massive increase was young younger people could come in it with an adult supervision as well

exactly yeah yeah we got a lot of youngsters which is nice we're getting less and less discrimination we get disabled people we get wheelchairs youngsters a lot retired people popping away here we'll do this Aaron maybe were some of your guys here would show us around their guns yeah absolutely I could introduce you to a couple of the regular members show up and maybe they'd like to talk through hi I'm Mick and I'm a member here at furnace mill how come a PS you know Chauncey and basically I use this predominantly qcb competition gun you tonight's W 101 it's got a couple of little modifications to the stock make it's pretty much standard of wise this is my preferred scope it's a rhino or shoot on quite a low magnification a lot of shoot to shoot on about ten times use mil dot scopes which this is it's a PCP rifle so basically it's nice and easy to shoot you just cock it down here you pull the lever back and that's cocked you put a pellet in on the breech which I ain't got at the moment which is really well prepared but we'll get that one cuz I'm good like that and you pull it in here on the slot pointing forward and then you just push the IVA forward and that's the gun loaded right basically as I was saying it's a PCP which stands for pre charged pneumatic and what it is it's basically compressed air and it feels like this year it's a dyed bottle and he's got a probe on it which is a yeah and that basically goes into the front of the gun I'll just fire it off cause he's alone did and basically that just floats into a little hole there pushes right the way in and then you fill it up with air up until the two hundred which it is nearly full and that's it basically and then you're ready to go for about 90 shots as I was saying it's a single shot which means it's one pill at a time which just goes onto there to the trailer you can get done with magazines which make the multi shots but for target shooting you don't really need a multi thing there's your pellets here and as I said I'm just 177 put you onto the tribe load it and you're ready to go manual safety undies that's safe it won't shoot and then it's ready to fire basically you pull it up little flip up to keep it clean aim at your target and fire

that's it job done all right basically this is a carbine gun which means it's quite short of a got a short barrel in all fairness it doesn't make a great deal of difference the carbines I think was more invented for when you want to need more confined spaces but um I find shooting it there's less movement from the middle have gone to the front of the gun when I use a carbine a longer gun moves a little bit more at the front when you wiggle so that's it really there's not a lot of difference of it than that alright basically you could use this for pest control if you wanted to which like sort of a little scrolls in grab used to being a bit of a pain but normally you would use one at silence so when you shoot something dovish don't run off basically and then it's like safe whether it's full length carbine it doesn't make no difference whether it's a spring that it can all be used launch can shoot a tree at rhythm you could use a bigger scope this is more a target 5 scope if you've got a bigger front lens includes more lighting so you can see a little bit better in dusky conditions right as I was saying when you filled a rifle you fill it with a probe in here we've compressed there and you feel it's up to 200 bar basically a dive bar when it's filled from a shop wherever if it's old or a dive center it's filled up to 300 bar but that just realized to get more fills out of the bottle when you're at 200 bar on this it shoots at just under 12 foot pound about 11 free if you want to be precise which is a pretty much ideal place to be you get different rifles they made fill up to 160 170 180 bar some unregulated some I'm not but ultimate goal is to get your rifle shooting around the 11 foot free 11 4 5 pound mark which is well under the legal limits of what you needs and FAC license if it goes over 12 foot pound and it's like you just sort of shoot away with them you get about 90 shots IDs and sometimes you get a little less sometimes you get a little bit more you tour depends basically under capacity of the scene done what you've got your rifle right now I'm gonna just check my zero in the gun I said I just kill it 25 yards which I think a lot of shooters do so it's basically loader it says and what I do here does a board out there at 25 yards and I'm aiming to hit the bull's eye and that way I know my rifle shoots straight when I do what so now so I'll just do that now so what I would do down would take the turret cut off but the top and this is how to adjust you see a route and where you go names on the air dishes for up and down and basically it's anti clock wise up and clockwise down so if I move about three or four clicks that should bring it down enough for the next shot what I'm aiming to do 25 yards will be the top of my trajectory because an air rifle will shoot with a bit of an arc in it so therefore if I shoot at 10 yards or 45 yards dependable it lover than the top of the arc so I'm aiming to get yourself a nice trajectory where it's something like ease and from 10 yards to 45 yards and then wanna go and of course to shoot and hft competition I know where my aim points are which is like mill docks which when you look down to scope you would say how much food you can do that music camera so but we can try

the position basically fizzy Ronin you want to be as still as possible take all the human error out of it so the guns perfectly still all as perfect as you can get it I'll use one of these rests which are provided by ed up here I think someone's donated them in the past and quite sturdy protect your gun quite well and what I'll do arrest the front of the Amster which is the bottom part of the gun yeah and I put my hand at the back so it's nice and still why not put my shoulder to the rifle it's nice and still and I can keep perfectly still while I'm shooting so here we are on the hunter field target course this consists of 30 targets set out in the woodland environment from ranges between 8 yards we'll be in the closest and 45 yards being the furthest away some of them might look further away than that that's the art of our deception really to try and try and get the air Gunners thinking that they're different ranges and making a mistake on that on those basically each target is a knock over the target which is at the end of each string and if the pellet passes through this the hole in the target hits the paddle the target will fall over and we use the string to reset the target after it's been shot this is a shooting position which is marked by a peg can be varying lengths the standard length is normally about 18 inches or so high but we do use longer ones for extra support and things occasionally and then it's clearly numbered the target or lane number there so each lane is marked with a post here which is in hunter field target shooting you must be in contact with that post can be any part of your body you put your hand the gun any part at all must be in contact with that that's so we can position the targets in certain ways and also it's a safety point of view as well it stops people standing away from the target and potentially somebody could wander in front of them alright basically I'm gonna shoot this target for ya I use a map because I'm gonna shoot prone on this one and basically it's a little bit grippy up here stop your elbows slipping around so you don't slip while taking the shot there you go that never load your rifle until you make the fire line so what I do I lie down and as you'll see the muzzle of the rifles over the fire line it says and then I'm safe to load up allowed to pellet and we're ready to go I'm allowed to use the post and what I do in my style I have the butt of the rifle on the floor which is here so here we go you

this is named actually the enchanted wood by one of our regular shooters who when he first shot this during a national competition which we set it up for he said that his pellets were guided by fairies because the different terrain and environs and things can can cause your pellets to do different things here there's there's elements of wetland there's some water and and they do do strange things so this was named the enchanted wood course it was set up for a UK a hft national competition where a hundred and forty shooters took part and we've since used it for a big field target shooting competition where there was a large number of shooters that came into a part in that and you'll see there's about 70 targets out on this course 40 that were used for the field target which is a slightly different discipline to the hunter field target and then there's 30 targets set out which we use for the national competition

Written on 30 July 2016.

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