Thank you for making these videos and sharing your enthusiasm for exploring and working with airguns. I can SO relate to the way you are drawn to these fascinating devices! Please keep doing what you're doing: sharing your honest passion for the sport.
1st thing came to mind when saw the thumbnail; I think he likes the Norica 😁 I like the exercise. Almost all my shots are free hand. I so far, obey use open sights on anything I shoot. I only purchase open sight toys. That may change - I’m very interested in JTS THUNDERLANCE, that hasn’t freaking been released yet! At shot show they said , November. 🤨 You crack me up, I do the same self talk. Been trying to become proficient with pickle fork style slingshot. At 65, I’m rediscovering stuff that is cooler then I knew in my youth. CHEERS
@@bayouflats5054 This video was really run to film. 😄 I’m definitely liking the recoilless nature of this gun, I think it allows a shooter to be more accurate than they typically would be with a standard springer or gas ram gun. Not having to modify the way you hold the gun or alter your shooting style around the recoil habits of a particular springer/gas ram gun makes things more fun. I’m having a desire to start shooting more of my guns with open sights just to see how both I and the guns do. Cheers!
Super sweet shooting! The one leaf commander scope is a freaking awesome scope. Mine is on my Benjamin F&T Marauder and it's superbly accurate, If you are going to shoot open sights, I think 30 yards is great distance but if you can manage 50 yards you are a true marksman. I enjoyed this one a lot. Thanks for sharing
@@gmanneod8085 Thanks! I really enjoyed filming this video as the shooting was so fun and rewarding. 😄 This is the most fancy scope I’ve ever used! I’m intimidated in doing a review about it as it’s got so many features. I’m going to try shooting open sights off camera to see how I do at that range. I suspect my biggest issue will be if the rear sight has enough elevation adjustment.
Ok sent it back , after reading and looking at all of the reviews, I do not think that it will be a consistent enough pellet gun for me so I didn’t even open up the box just sent it back. I did shoot my HW 97 yesterday and it is the best built gun I have seen in 15 years. Only thing. Comparable was my freedom arms 357 in quality not joking point shooting with no site on the gun. I hit my 50 yard gong twice my 62 yard gong once and put a pellet in a water barrel at 72 yards with no sites my first four shots with a gun. I think I’ll stop playing around with all these other type and get real serious with this 97 . thank you for all of your reviews and cold-weather reports you did help make up my mind. I just couldn’t except something less than the best at my age. Pellet on pellet is very important especially when you’re old and probably got an 8 inch woggle as it is.
@@BravoBassin The more I shoot it the more I like it! I bought a new German made springer I’ve not yet shown on the channel. I can’t shoot it anywhere near as well as I can this Norica. I like recoilless much better than doing the artillery hold.
@ it was pretty eye opening earlier in the week. I tried shooting the same silhouettes I was nailing with my Norica and I wasn’t hitting for shit with the expensive German springer. It got me thinking about what a pain in the ass it is dealing with springer recoil. It’s pretty unnatural to hold a rifle so light and gingerly in order for it to be accurate. You don’t hold a powerful center fire rifle in that manner when you shoot it.
@@airgunsofalaska very true I have always found it very interesting my self the difference when shooting an air rifle verse a real powder burner for sure.
I’m glad you liked the video and thanks for commenting. 😀👍 I really like my Norica, it’s so easy and pleasant to shoot. Just know going into it that due to the way the scope mounts there will be a trade off in ultimate accuracy when using a scope. With open sights it’s dead on. With a scope the groups (at least on mine) don’t stay as consistently tight as they could. The gun is certainly capable, but the tolerances to have a recoiling action and solidly mounted scope create some variation in the groups.
Yep, the nut behind the scope loosened on you. All you needed to do was set the rifle down the nut reset itself. Same happens to me all the time! Great video. Shooting is a mental and physical hobby/sport. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Amazing. That was good shooting. After all the ups and downs with the Norica I expected to see the chassis with can opener marks on it.....That was a really good sum up, yes its possible it may be off a little with a scope, but its so smooth. I would love to try cans at 50 if I could pick them out !!! Had the Sheridan at 20 1st time today and that was good fun. Cold day, multi pumps keep you warm. All the best and good luck with the next challenge. Keith
I’m interested in possibly modifying the tube on one of these guns but I’d want to buy a spare tube to try it on. I suspect it’ll be easy to screw something up. I noticed with my Benjamin pumpers that the open sights seemed to max out at 20 yds. My 397S is capable of easily hitting targets accurately at 50 yds but I have to use a scope to do as the rear leaf sight doesn’t have enough elevation adjustment. They do make a Williams peep sight for the Benjamins that might allow for longer distance shooting but I’ve not looked into it.
@@airgunsofalaska I can get one from the US and its not that expensive. Its the next stage after I get as far a I can get withe the open sights. Thanks for the reply Keith
@@jackpotparty58 It’s definitely not cheap! So far it’s been very dependable and I was happy to see it was consistently accurate enough with a scope to hit out at 50 yds. I kept wondering about the POI wandering with how the scope is mounted on the chassis but it works pretty decently.
Ha ha! Yesterday I was looking at my collection and thinking about a top 10 favorites like Nibs did in a recent video. For ease and pleasantness of shooting this Omnia is at the top. But then I get sentimental about certain guns and that mixes up the order.
Nice shooting, sounds like you talked into another challenge, open sights at 50, go for it!!! Then if you do well with open sights off the bench, then………drum roll…….open sights off hand. Back along you painted can bottoms, i might suggest doing that, It seems like on the ice and snow, the can kinda blends in, or maybe just get some bright colored round stickers to put on can bottoms. Good luck, no doubt you will pull it off.
I think I have talked myself into it. 😄 I just need to see if the rear sight is capable of providing enough elevation for that range. I’ve found that most airguns open sights are not. But I still want to try.
I really like that air rifle but the price is too steep for my wallet. I will wait till the price comes down a bit. I also own a few air rifles myself and I can consider including this one in my collection. I like the .25 cal from Norica. Great video. Can’t wait to see the price go down a bit. Stay warm 🥶🥶
It definitely isn’t cheap but I’m pretty sure it’s the lowest priced recoilless airgun aside from a pneumatic or lower end PCP. I really like it but it’s not for everyone. We are finally getting some snow today! 😀
I have the PelletGage in .22 and .177 and I'll warn you that they will trick you on some pellets. Crosman pellets tend to have flashing along their length that prevents them from passing through the proper hole in the gauge much of the time. It seems to be a bigger deal with Crosmans because they are a harder alloy than most other pellets and the flashing doesn't easily shear off when you put it through the gauge hole. That leads you to mistakenly believe that the pellet head is bigger than it really is. At least that's been my experience over the last 5 or 6 years that I've had the gauges.
@@mrhalfstep That’s interesting and thanks for the info! This Norica has been the most picky break barrel I’ve had with pellets being more difficult to seat with your finger. I’ve noticed the tightness of the pellet has an effect on velocity.
@@airgunsofalaska When you do start gauging your pellets, as you do the Crosman Domes, add a little pressure to the pellet on the first hole that the pellet won't fit through. It will suddenly pop through. Then try it in the next smaller hole and it may hang up, but with just a tiny amount of additional pressure, it will pop through. You may actually get the pellet to pass through a hole that is .05 mm or 5 holes smaller than it felt like it was originally wanting to pass through. I think it's because it is gradually shaving off the flashing. It's a pain to try 5 different holes to get to the right size, but eventually you'll get to a hole that obviously is too small for the pellet to pass through and that will tell you the true size. Unfortunately you will also have a bunch of different sized pellets from each tin. I find that there are about three sizes that are fairly well distributed, but also a lot of outliers and I think that accounts for why lots of reviewers get fliers that they say "oh, that was probably just me" That's my take on it. Try it yourself and I'll be watching to see if you experience the same thing. I never see it discussed on YT and I don't know if it's my imagination or that others just aren't adding that tiny bit of pressure required to shear the flashing and get down to the true head size. Sorry this comment got so long. I guess it's probably hard to read through the long ones. LOL
I was recently thinking how offhand is a good measure of effectiveness. Like for me comparing the .22 Stormrider to .177 Fortitude. The Stormrider is great for accuracy but it's jumpy and has a very flat stock, where as the Fortitude has much less recoil and the more ergonomic stock makes it easier to hold steady. Say I was battling a rat infestation the Fortitude would likely get more kills for those reasons.
I’m finding it just takes practice. But, not dealing with recoil makes things way easier than the I’d jump and vibration of the typical springer or gas ram gun.
I’ve got a pair of dial calipers but was thinking it’d be terribly boring and a fit frustrating to try using them to sort pellets. I think I’d be happier with one of those crazy expensive $50 gauges. But I fear I’d use it a couple times and away it’d go in a drawer next to my little scale. Still, I’d like to try it and see. 🤔
Not sure where your at in AK. I'm 26 miles west of Fairbanks. Now onto the air rifle. I'm waiting to see if that company is coming out with a .25 or .30 air rifle. I like the idea of no recoil like other break barrels are.
@@Yaaqov777 I’m in Valdez. Norica offers this model in .25 cal, I’m not aware of a recoilless .30 cal air rifle in any brand. I don’t know if Diana or any other company makes a .25 cal recoilless springer? I’ve got two Hatsan break barrels in .25 and .30 cal. They recoil really bad for an airgun and the pellets are really expensive.
Still think putting a good red dot on the back rear sight . connected directly to the barrel the red dot would handle the recoil and you would get dead on accuracy for being hooked up directly to the barrel 50 yards a good red dot will pop them cans.. I hit bull’s-eye target with a 22 pistol at 50 yards with a red dot dead on accuracy. Well I used to be able to. I can’t shoot shit with the pistol anymore.i would think a good holosun 507 would fit just right . I have the ice color coming today ,I was going to send it back didn’t like the reports on it in accuracy. With the scope mounted and some fluctuation but with the red dot mounted directly to the barrel that would be gone and if the gun shoots good open sites, then you should have a good shooting gun so I think I’ll keep it for hunting . I got it for 300 new ,same cost as a Gamo just about . thinking it will probably last just as bad as long and hope I can get parts. I was thinking about sending it back in and getting a HW 50 or 80. do have a hw97 .22 , With the trade-in value, I could get a hawke compact air light 24 power scope for the 97 ….what to do ….
I’ve got an idea of how to make it super accurate with a scope but need to get another tube for the chassis so I could modify it. The gun is dead on accurate with open sights and will make a guy a better shooter as they won’t be flummoxed by recoil.
@@fernan12pNo, not the barrel, the red colored receiver. It’s called a tube on the parts diagram. I was thinking if I got a spare one I could modify it in such a way to allow for the scope to mount directly onto the action. That would increase accuracy but the downside is it would subject the scope to recoil forces.
Thank you for making these videos and sharing your enthusiasm for exploring and working with airguns. I can SO relate to the way you are drawn to these fascinating devices! Please keep doing what you're doing: sharing your honest passion for the sport.
@@markb9959 Thanks for the kind words and watching my channel! 😀👍
1st thing came to mind when saw the thumbnail; I think he likes the Norica 😁 I like the exercise. Almost all my shots are free hand. I so far, obey use open sights on anything I shoot. I only purchase open sight toys. That may change - I’m very interested in JTS THUNDERLANCE, that hasn’t freaking been released yet! At shot show they said , November. 🤨
You crack me up, I do the same self talk. Been trying to become proficient with pickle fork style slingshot. At 65, I’m rediscovering stuff that is cooler then I knew in my youth.
CHEERS
@@bayouflats5054 This video was really run to film. 😄 I’m definitely liking the recoilless nature of this gun, I think it allows a shooter to be more accurate than they typically would be with a standard springer or gas ram gun. Not having to modify the way you hold the gun or alter your shooting style around the recoil habits of a particular springer/gas ram gun makes things more fun.
I’m having a desire to start shooting more of my guns with open sights just to see how both I and the guns do. Cheers!
Just shows what practice does for you you are getting better great videos keep them coming
@@donoliver96 Thanks! I was really stoked at how well I was able to shoot today. 😀
Super sweet shooting! The one leaf commander scope is a freaking awesome scope. Mine is on my Benjamin F&T Marauder and it's superbly accurate, If you are going to shoot open sights, I think 30 yards is great distance but if you can manage 50 yards you are a true marksman. I enjoyed this one a lot. Thanks for sharing
@@gmanneod8085 Thanks! I really enjoyed filming this video as the shooting was so fun and rewarding. 😄 This is the most fancy scope I’ve ever used! I’m intimidated in doing a review about it as it’s got so many features.
I’m going to try shooting open sights off camera to see how I do at that range. I suspect my biggest issue will be if the rear sight has enough elevation adjustment.
Well done 😁 The fourth can went like a rocket 😆👍Cheers!
@@rapalaron6348 That one was awesome to see! I was really stoked at how well everything came together while I was shooting. 😀👍
Ok sent it back , after reading and looking at all of the reviews, I do not think that it will be a consistent enough pellet gun for me so I didn’t even open up the box just sent it back. I did shoot my HW 97 yesterday and it is the best built gun I have seen in 15 years. Only thing. Comparable was my freedom arms 357 in quality not joking point shooting with no site on the gun. I hit my 50 yard gong twice my 62 yard gong once and put a pellet in a water barrel at 72 yards with no sites my first four shots with a gun. I think I’ll stop playing around with all these other type and get real serious with this 97 . thank you for all of your reviews and cold-weather reports you did help make up my mind. I just couldn’t except something less than the best at my age. Pellet on pellet is very important especially when you’re old and probably got an 8 inch woggle as it is.
you seem to be really liking that Norica glad it is doing well for you.
@@BravoBassin The more I shoot it the more I like it! I bought a new German made springer I’ve not yet shown on the channel. I can’t shoot it anywhere near as well as I can this Norica. I like recoilless much better than doing the artillery hold.
@@airgunsofalaska cool look foward to seeing the new german air rifle.
@ it was pretty eye opening earlier in the week. I tried shooting the same silhouettes I was nailing with my Norica and I wasn’t hitting for shit with the expensive German springer. It got me thinking about what a pain in the ass it is dealing with springer recoil. It’s pretty unnatural to hold a rifle so light and gingerly in order for it to be accurate. You don’t hold a powerful center fire rifle in that manner when you shoot it.
@@airgunsofalaska very true I have always found it very interesting my self the difference when shooting an air rifle verse a real powder burner for sure.
I gotta thank you for making these videos, I'm definitely purchasing one of these Noricas.very impressive airgun.
I’m glad you liked the video and thanks for commenting. 😀👍 I really like my Norica, it’s so easy and pleasant to shoot. Just know going into it that due to the way the scope mounts there will be a trade off in ultimate accuracy when using a scope. With open sights it’s dead on. With a scope the groups (at least on mine) don’t stay as consistently tight as they could. The gun is certainly capable, but the tolerances to have a recoiling action and solidly mounted scope create some variation in the groups.
Yep, the nut behind the scope loosened on you. All you needed to do was set the rifle down the nut reset itself. Same happens to me all the time! Great video. Shooting is a mental and physical hobby/sport. Thanks for sharing it with us!
@@motorgearhead Ha ha! 🤣 That’s a great description!
Very nice accurate hits with that nice scope. My hat off to you and the rifle if you can better that display with open sights!
@@greg4161 Thanks! I’m curious to see how it’ll do with open sights. I don’t know if it has the elevation adjustment for that range.
Modern day Red Ryder.🤠🇺🇸
@@johnnybbgunner2136 I’m really digging it! 😀👍
It was fun to see you enjoy using it. 😎👍🏼
@@Beanflip Thanks! I didn’t realize I’d end up liking this gun so much. 😀
You do realise i can no longer use ‘it’s too cold’ as an excuse when i miss! 😢
@@HarryBunnGRVOTV Sure you can! I was at 33.5°F when I filmed. It wasn’t super cold. 😆👍
Amazing. That was good shooting. After all the ups and downs with the Norica I expected to see the chassis with can opener marks on it.....That was a really good sum up, yes its possible it may be off a little with a scope, but its so smooth. I would love to try cans at 50 if I could pick them out !!! Had the Sheridan at 20 1st time today and that was good fun.
Cold day, multi pumps keep you warm. All the best and good luck with the next challenge. Keith
I’m interested in possibly modifying the tube on one of these guns but I’d want to buy a spare tube to try it on. I suspect it’ll be easy to screw something up.
I noticed with my Benjamin pumpers that the open sights seemed to max out at 20 yds. My 397S is capable of easily hitting targets accurately at 50 yds but I have to use a scope to do as the rear leaf sight doesn’t have enough elevation adjustment.
They do make a Williams peep sight for the Benjamins that might allow for longer distance shooting but I’ve not looked into it.
@@airgunsofalaska I can get one from the US and its not that expensive. Its the next stage after I get as far a I can get withe the open sights. Thanks for the reply Keith
Man, I'm really liking that gun, among a couple of other Norica models but at the current prices in the US, I can't bring myself to spend the money. 😅
@@jackpotparty58 It’s definitely not cheap! So far it’s been very dependable and I was happy to see it was consistently accurate enough with a scope to hit out at 50 yds. I kept wondering about the POI wandering with how the scope is mounted on the chassis but it works pretty decently.
@airgunsofalaska Yea, as you mentioned, I guess you got your pros and cons, depending on how the scope is mounted.
I think I found what your new favorite gun is! Nice!
Ha ha! Yesterday I was looking at my collection and thinking about a top 10 favorites like Nibs did in a recent video. For ease and pleasantness of shooting this Omnia is at the top. But then I get sentimental about certain guns and that mixes up the order.
Nice shooting, sounds like you talked into another challenge, open sights at 50, go for it!!! Then if you do well with open sights off the bench, then………drum roll…….open sights off hand. Back along you painted can bottoms, i might suggest doing that, It seems like on the ice and snow, the can kinda blends in, or maybe just get some bright colored round stickers to put on can bottoms. Good luck, no doubt you will pull it off.
I think I have talked myself into it. 😄 I just need to see if the rear sight is capable of providing enough elevation for that range. I’ve found that most airguns open sights are not. But I still want to try.
I really like that air rifle but the price is too steep for my wallet. I will wait till the price comes down a bit. I also own a few air rifles myself and I can consider including this one in my collection. I like the .25 cal from Norica. Great video. Can’t wait to see the price go down a bit. Stay warm 🥶🥶
It definitely isn’t cheap but I’m pretty sure it’s the lowest priced recoilless airgun aside from a pneumatic or lower end PCP. I really like it but it’s not for everyone. We are finally getting some snow today! 😀
I have the PelletGage in .22 and .177 and I'll warn you that they will trick you on some pellets. Crosman pellets tend to have flashing along their length that prevents them from passing through the proper hole in the gauge much of the time. It seems to be a bigger deal with Crosmans because they are a harder alloy than most other pellets and the flashing doesn't easily shear off when you put it through the gauge hole. That leads you to mistakenly believe that the pellet head is bigger than it really is. At least that's been my experience over the last 5 or 6 years that I've had the gauges.
@@mrhalfstep That’s interesting and thanks for the info! This Norica has been the most picky break barrel I’ve had with pellets being more difficult to seat with your finger. I’ve noticed the tightness of the pellet has an effect on velocity.
@@airgunsofalaska When you do start gauging your pellets, as you do the Crosman Domes, add a little pressure to the pellet on the first hole that the pellet won't fit through. It will suddenly pop through. Then try it in the next smaller hole and it may hang up, but with just a tiny amount of additional pressure, it will pop through. You may actually get the pellet to pass through a hole that is .05 mm or 5 holes smaller than it felt like it was originally wanting to pass through. I think it's because it is gradually shaving off the flashing. It's a pain to try 5 different holes to get to the right size, but eventually you'll get to a hole that obviously is too small for the pellet to pass through and that will tell you the true size. Unfortunately you will also have a bunch of different sized pellets from each tin. I find that there are about three sizes that are fairly well distributed, but also a lot of outliers and I think that accounts for why lots of reviewers get fliers that they say "oh, that was probably just me" That's my take on it. Try it yourself and I'll be watching to see if you experience the same thing. I never see it discussed on YT and I don't know if it's my imagination or that others just aren't adding that tiny bit of pressure required to shear the flashing and get down to the true head size.
Sorry this comment got so long. I guess it's probably hard to read through the long ones. LOL
I was recently thinking how offhand is a good measure of effectiveness. Like for me comparing the .22 Stormrider to .177 Fortitude. The Stormrider is great for accuracy but it's jumpy and has a very flat stock, where as the Fortitude has much less recoil and the more ergonomic stock makes it easier to hold steady. Say I was battling a rat infestation the Fortitude would likely get more kills for those reasons.
I’m finding it just takes practice. But, not dealing with recoil makes things way easier than the I’d jump and vibration of the typical springer or gas ram gun.
Awesome
@@Indiana424 Thanks!
I’ve got a headsize gauge. But a pair of cheap digital calipers works just as good.
I’ve got a pair of dial calipers but was thinking it’d be terribly boring and a fit frustrating to try using them to sort pellets. I think I’d be happier with one of those crazy expensive $50 gauges. But I fear I’d use it a couple times and away it’d go in a drawer next to my little scale.
Still, I’d like to try it and see. 🤔
Not sure where your at in AK.
I'm 26 miles west of Fairbanks.
Now onto the air rifle. I'm waiting to see if that company is coming out with a .25 or .30 air rifle.
I like the idea of no recoil like other break barrels are.
@@Yaaqov777 I’m in Valdez. Norica offers this model in .25 cal, I’m not aware of a recoilless .30 cal air rifle in any brand. I don’t know if Diana or any other company makes a .25 cal recoilless springer?
I’ve got two Hatsan break barrels in .25 and .30 cal. They recoil really bad for an airgun and the pellets are really expensive.
Nice. Your shot count is getting high with that rifle.
Still think putting a good red dot on the back rear sight . connected directly to the barrel the red dot would handle the recoil and you would get dead on accuracy for being hooked up directly to the barrel 50 yards a good red dot will pop them cans.. I hit bull’s-eye target with a 22 pistol at 50 yards with a red dot dead on accuracy. Well I used to be able to. I can’t shoot shit with the pistol anymore.i would think a good holosun 507 would fit just right . I have the ice color coming today ,I was going to send it back didn’t like the reports on it in accuracy. With the scope mounted and some fluctuation but with the red dot mounted directly to the barrel that would be gone and if the gun shoots good open sites, then you should have a good shooting gun so I think I’ll keep it for hunting . I got it for 300 new ,same cost as a Gamo just about . thinking it will probably last just as bad as long and hope I can get parts. I was thinking about sending it back in and getting a HW 50 or 80. do have a hw97 .22 , With the trade-in value, I could get a hawke compact air light 24 power scope for the 97 ….what to do ….
Esperamos qwe llegues a afinarla,y ver grupos bien cerrados y precisos ,gracias por tu trabajo.Un saludo.
I’ve got an idea of how to make it super accurate with a scope but need to get another tube for the chassis so I could modify it. The gun is dead on accurate with open sights and will make a guy a better shooter as they won’t be flummoxed by recoil.
Te refieres a cambiar el tubo del chasis de la parte delantera?,sería buena idea cambiarlo por uno de más diámetro....
@@fernan12pNo, not the barrel, the red colored receiver. It’s called a tube on the parts diagram. I was thinking if I got a spare one I could modify it in such a way to allow for the scope to mount directly onto the action. That would increase accuracy but the downside is it would subject the scope to recoil forces.
Pero ,solo conseguirías más ,presicion con miras abiertas,...no sé si te estoy entendiendo....😅😅
LOL there are always those comments "i did it at 1000 yrds with a .177 in a blizzard". Ya, sure ya did.
@@flashgordon99999 Exactly! 😆 Dumbasses that make claims, argue about them, but can never back them up.