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Airgun Hunting Video - Mac1 Prepped .177 Caliber Discovery - Earning Her Keep

I wound up with this rifle by accident.  I wanted to include some footage in my DVD, "Airgun Hunting the California Ground Squirrel" of the then new, Benjamin Discovery PCP by Crosman.  I ordered one from Mac1 in .22 caliber, but when I received the rifle, it was a .177 instead.  Since I had it in my possession, I decided to shoot the rifle to see what it would do. The thing was very accurate, so I decided to keep it, and still get one in .22.  The .22's were on backorder from Crosman, so I wound up using this rifle in .177, in the production of my DVD.  It performed flawlessly.  It especially liked the Beeman Ram Jet pellets, but also shot the DYNAMIC PCP-1 tin pellets very well. 

I no longer have this rifle.  I have since moved it along to a deserving young man that was just beginning to hunt with airguns.  A lot of folks are interested in the Discovery rifles, so I wanted to include it in my, "earning their keep" series on my blog.

The following video shows how well the .177 Disco performed in the field while, "earning her keep."

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These are my original sight-in targets.  They were shot over the hood of my 4Runner, the evening before I started filming my hunt with her.  It was obviously a very nice shooting rifle.

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Hunting California Ground Squirrels With the Mac1 Tuned .177 Benjamin Discovery

As you guys may remember, I ordered a Discovery in .22 from MAC 1 and received one in .177 that I decided to keep. At about the same time, I sprained the heck out of my right ankle, so all I could do was shoot it inside the house at 15 yards. I found a pellet that it shot into a bug hole, and that's nice but not much of a test.

My ankle is healed, so I headed to California to visit a friend and shoot some ground squirrels on his place. The first thing I did was to put the Discovery on paper at 25 yards. She shot another bug hole. COOL! I made a scope adjustment, and put another 5 down range and she shot an even smaller bug hole. COOL! I made another small scope adjustment and moved the target frame out to a lasered 40 yards and put another 5 down range. She put 3 onto almost the same hole and 2 just outside that. WAY COOL!!!

This little rifle is a shooter. I'm glad I spent the extra few bucks and had MAC 1 go through it. In the accuracy department, she's holding her own against some of my higher end rifles. The trigger is a bit heavy but crisp, and after shooting the gun for awhile I didn't even notice. I started shooting some of the ground squirrels around my buddy's property and hardly missed out to 60 yards. I still like the .22 cal. better for hunting ground squirrels, but if this were the only gun I had, they would still be in deep, deep, trouble.

This gun can shoot. 

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