Is that a Squirrel in the Next County?

So this weekend has definitely been an eventful one.

First off, its the weekend before Mother's Day (don't forget!) and I got to be off!

When working in a Florist, this is like, unheard of.  Seriously.

Also, we were recently chosen as a qualifier for a local outdoor giveaway.  Way exciting!  

I got all the way down to fifth place and came home with tons of paracord and a free rafting trip!

After all that excitement and almost passing out in front of a bunch of people with cameras, we decided to finally sight in the BB gun.  Yes, a BB gun because we unfortunately live in the city and can't play with our big boy toys.  It is still worth having it "zeroed," as my husband puts it, because it is more than capable of putting a little squirrel or rabbit meat in the pot.

Any who, being 12 year-old's at heart, my husband rigged up a poor man apparatus to make sighting in that much more serious.  I mean, he had to have this Perfect.  So he took this weird metal crate thing that is made to be a stepping stool but really has no practical use at all with some wood clamps he attached to it and clamped her down.

Now this is the Crossman Model 1077 12 Shot CO 2 Air gun ordered on ebay.  The sight was bought separately.  After laying a mat down on the grass next to the contraption 39 yards away, we then shot bb after bb and went through 3 CO 2 cartridges before finally calling it done.  Yes, it took forever.  And we still never got it in the center.  Even after everything was perfect and held in very still, no dead on shots were to be found.  

I guess you could say there was a possibility of human error, however we refuse to believe that.  No one else has gone to that much effort of sighting it perfectly that I've heard of.  So the results:  This BB gun is highly unlikely to be accurate from that far away.  Especially once the CO 2 starts running low.  If you want to use this to go squirrel hunting, keep in mind you will have to aim high after the first 12 shots or so.  At least we still have a somewhat tactical toy to play with when the urge strikes.