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You have a great channel. Thank you.

Hello , thanks for making these videos, it was nice to meet you at the daystate brk experience days , I am the Indian guy that talk to you 😂

Excellent vid and information, as I've come to expect from this channel. (No pressuire) :D

The best backstop you can use is lead itself. Line the back of the box with a couple of sheets of lead and instead of the pellets blowing through the wood or turning the rags into dust, the pellets themselves add to the lead rather than blow it away.

Nice overview of your scopes. So much choice these days and personal preferences that you could go on reviewing for months.👍

Great video, I do like my springers🙂 quite challenging to shoot with PCP.

Is there really that much difference with a sub 12? I couldn’t imagine that there really is.

Brilliant videos. I've watched nearly everyone. The only thing i could add to the target sizing, if they are all 0.7 mil, the one ar the furthest distance will be the hardest. While the math is excellent 👌 it can't account for wind, the further the target the more it will be affected by wind.

Excellent work, something I must do. Silly questions from a none HFT shooter 1) why do we measure the target distance in imperial (yards) and everything else in metric (mm)? and 2) why do some scopes have mil dot reticles and 1/4 moa turrets? seems daft to me if the turret clicks don't match the subtends i.e. 14.4 moa clicks for one mil rather thah a simple 10?

That was a difficult one Jeff. I think there were too many variables (and not all considered) over relatively few data points to come to a conclusuion but well done for giving it a go 👍

Excellent attempt with a springer Jeff, I love that type of challenge. Just shows you how fickle a 177 pellet is over distance in the slightest breeze. 👍

Another well presented, well explained video tutorial. Now I know what the shooting mat is really for 🐶🤣Thanks

Nicely explained and demonstrated 👍

The comparison between unregulated and regulated was not balanced as you picked the best 10 shot string out of a string of 114. The point of a regulator is to give better consistency over the full charge from max fill right down to the reg set pressure. Using your own numbers, had you compared the results for all 114 shots the unregulated rifle would have a spread of 34.1fps and a standard deviation of 6.32 whereas the regulated rifle would most likely be consistent over the whole shot string. Considering the 45 shots you picked for the HFT course (22-66) they return a spread of 16.4fps and SDev of 3.72. In both instances the regulated rifle produced better results than the unregulated rifle. With a regulated rifle you also remove the worry of slipping outside the “sweet spot”when shooting. I hope this gives a broader comparison of the true difference between regulated and unregulated.

I like that but I'll have to add something more substantial. (American Market) Very nice Thanks!!

Great channel I’m a big Optisan fan my self I’ve 4 at the moment a EVX 3-13x44 a ES 10x44 EVX 4-16x44 CP 3-12x32 my next scope will be a SWFA 10x42 I really like a fixed 10x

Thank you for the tip about nail wipes. Got some today from Amazon and used them on my new rifle. Perfect size and worked an absolute treat. Cheers.

Stuff it full with old rags and towels, I use an old bucket full of towels as back stop for chony.

Great video very useful 👍

Hi nice video will be making one👍🏻👍🏻 Were did you get your stock from for s400 cheers

Good stuff 👏 👍

Very good project, thanks for sharing. Have you thought of those round magnets for holding the corners down when it's a bit breezy?

Jeff, I have to lift my hat to you🤠. Probably the best explanation of parallax error I have come across with demo that is definately worthy of a "Blue Peter" badge. Worthg noting in the calculation that the target range and focus range are "unit less" as they serve to form a ratio, could be yards, metres or even lamp posts as long as both use the same 😀

Very well put. Everyone will have their own preference, I always set up with 2 zeros like shooting down a pipe the diameter of my target (MPBR) but I am definately going to give the single zero a try, much easier to always remember it will be hold over.

Where did you get that stock from for the S400 ? Its gorgeous.

👍 thanks for this👌 you know what I'm going to be making this weekend 👍👍👍👍

Deliberately made mine big enough to take A3 and A4 benchrest and zeroing targets. Also bought some charity shop baking trays,smashed flat, and zero chance of a pass-through😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

I know it's a British quirk. But why are measurements a mixture of metric and imperial ?

Great job on the catchbox, another idea is to put some insulating foam inside glued on the boards for extra silence box. Great job👍

Great minds think alike :-) made one almost identical, works great. By the way, love that stock on the 410 👍👍

I reckon that you could use a large plastic flagon containing polystyrene bean-bag or packing beans. You could then separate the pellets from the fill by tipping the contents into water, skimming the fill off with an old sieve and drying it in a nylon stocking, then pouring the water through the sieve to recover the pellets - so avoiding breathing lead particulates.

Love watching people make stuff 👍I put layers of quality fake grass with a good rubber backing in pellet traps, have used old carpet and clothing before but it smells when it gets wet,the grass can stay out whatever the weather, I'm sure if you've a local installer they'd have plenty of off cuts they'd want rid of 😉

Glue some magnets on the inside of the corners then use either magnets or bits of metal to hold the targets flat

Now we know why cowboys wore jeans... just in case of a shoot-out.

It was 4 shots and one flyer of the Bisley Magnum in the small group and not 3 pellets, as you has shot 6 pellets instead of 5.

Looks like a project for the weekend. I like the adaptability of it.

I use a 70L gas bottle cut in half filled with beach sand and memory foam at the end to hold the sand in very quite the foam lasts a long time I have a king-size mattress of it cut up ready to go. I also use it with my 22LR.

A very good afternoon to you, mate. Just going to grab a coffee and settle in to watch this before I go into the garden for a little tinkering and then plinkering 😋 Just adding a new bipod and red dot to a budget xs38 for messing around with.... Before the usual know it all suspects chime in regarding springers and... well, pretty much anything.... I'll make sure to check with you before I consider anything else that you don't understand and that has nothing to do with you in the future, happy now? Retention relaxed and unclenched?

Nice box! If you glue 2 layers of old conveyor belt or strips of old car tires to the back, it'll stop everything upto 24J. And it'll dampen the sound of the impact completely.

I just mounted a good quality pellet trap for paper targets on an adjustable tripod. I like to shoot on same hight level. Own the green Caldwell rest and it works fine for PCP and powder burners but not for springer use. I rather use a sand bag to lay my hand on for the artillery hold. I never shoot a springer directly from any rest. I see guys doing this and i tried it many times, but the best control and results i'd always get with both hands on the stock. Cheers!

Hello Jeff, never tried a Vector Optics Veyron? Low cost and absolutely very clear. 4 of my 7 scopes are VO... We'll be at Duxford Sunday 21st. Keep up the good work mate!

Great review. Just shows it’s all in the head . 😆👌🫡🙏

Accuracy isn't simply down to the rifle barrel itself, it is also down to testing multiple pellet brands and weights and also possible power adjusting etc. There are many factors.

The Brocock website has to two different lengths stated for the Carbine, it states 633mm and 655mm. Both of which are different to the 665mm which you stated?

Hi Jeff, brilliant piece of work which must have taken ages to put together, I am learning all the time. Not sure about the tin foil method, seems like a very "iffy" way of getting an accurate measurement. How did you discover that a simple mechanical measurement of the scope/barrel was incorrect? Using basic trigonometry, based on a 25 yard zero and a 45mm scope hight (hate mixing units) at the objective (Scope diameter + barrel diameter /2) + gap between top of barrel and bottom of scope) if the barrel sticks out 400mm beyond the scope then the difference in the trajectory lines would be 0.692mm which is nowhere near 5% and is within acceptable error. This is not criticism, just debate to find the best solutions 🙂

Many thanks for this detailed video. However, I am confused. At 17:10 you elude to using the diopter to eliminate parallax, is this correct? The diopter is used to focus your eye on the reticle in the same way reading glasses focus your eye on the pages of a book and should not need to be changed once set. The side focus or adjustable objective is used to bring the objective (target) onto the same focal plane as the reticle, only when this happens is parallax eliminated and the reticle will be static relative to the target even when "bobbing " your head. I have always understood that any movement is adjusted out by small adjustments to the focus. How does moving the diopter focus eliminate the parallax when it does not adjust the object image relative to the reticle focal plane?

"Safe and well" - that's a very bad hangover you need to ditch from COVID! To not be safe would mean they couldn't ever be watching this. Unless it's under duress. .. on with the video. Stay safe.

Thanks. Great vid. 👍🏻

Fantastic informative video thanks for sharing , I'm a big fan of fixed mag scopes , at present my go to scope is a swfa 10x42 , shame you haven't got one to include in your reviews , Optically and mechanically they are second to none from a price point of view

Yo, how about showing your scopes in a woodland setting in a typical HFT course ? No one else is doing it. That would be banging !