🎯 Living and Shooting in PERU!

[JungleShooter]

Long range is like an addiction.

Once that bug bit me, I started gobbling up what I could find on the internets....

Didn't take long to run into this forum.
Joined a while ago — and just lurked.

Now finally decided to go active and update my profile.




I'm living and shooting in South America.
● PERU ●
Based in Lima.

We've got 10,000,000 people.
At least that many pigeons.

(At 60 yards a pigeon is mighty small....)




I'm particularly interested in:

▪ Long range ballistics — how to get it way out there!

▪ Terminal ballistics — what kills!

▪ Scopes (did I say scopes?!!) — what makes me see the white in their eyes before they close them one last time!

▪ Airguns — because they don't require a Peruvian gun license!

▪ Ballistic coefficients and custom drag models — what flies farther and truer!

▪ First hit probability calculations — what's the likelihood to hit my KZ at range R, with a gun with precision P moa, with wind estimation error W, with range estimation error E, with my first shot?!

▪ Silencers — what you can't hear didn't happen!


Matthias

 

[crystalgayleguy]

welcome and greetings from north texas glad to have you on board this is an awesome forum you'll love it

 

[epags]

OP wrote: ▪ Airguns — that don't require a Peruvian gun license!
Just out of curiosity what type of airgun requires a license?

 

[JungleShooter]

OP wrote: ▪ Airguns — that don't require a Peruvian gun license!
Just out of curiosity what type of airgun requires a license?

epags,

yeah, what I typed in the middle of the night wasn't quite clear!
Better:
Airguns — because they don't require a Peruvian gun license!


The red tape to get a gun license is so THICK down here, you'd need a diamond drill bit to make a dent!




Anyhow, the typical challenges of estimating wind and precise range when making a long range powder burner shot at many hundred yards out are similar when shooting airguns at 60 or 100 yards.


FOR EXAMPLE — and do consider the tiny kill zones of typical airgun quarry (pigeons, squirrels, etc.).

▪At 60y a light wind of 3mph drifts the pellet 2.5" off (4 moa: the gun is a SPA PP700).
▪At 100y that same 3mph wind drifts my pellet 4" off center (3.7 moa: Diana Skyhawk bullpup).

▪ Misranging by just 2 short yards (range finder error margin) at 100y results in a 3/4 moa error.

▪ A MV variation of as little as ±9fps causes at 1 moa error at 100y.


It's hard. And it's fun!

Matthias

 

[epags]

Here is my go-to air gun company: https://www.pyramydair.com/air-guns/rifles

 

[ShtrRdy]

Welcome to the forum! I like to stay out of jungles

 

[ndking1126]

Welcome.. it's always good to meet gun owners from other countries and see what their gun culture is like.

If you don't mind me asking,, what all do you have to go through to get the firearms license there? What is the typical person who likes to shoot in Peru? Upper class? Rural? A good mix? So most shooters hunt or is it more for recreation and sport?

 

[Cowboyblaster]

Long range is like an addiction.

Once that bug bit me, I started gobbling up what I could find on the internets....

Didn't take long to run into this forum.
Joined a while ago — and just lurked.

Now finally decided to go active and update my profile.




I'm living and shooting in South America.
● PERU ●
Based in Lima.

We've got 10,000,000 people.
At least that many pigeons.

(At 60 yards a pigeon is mighty small....)




I'm particularly interested in:

▪ Long range ballistics — how to get it way out there!

▪ Terminal ballistics — what kills!

▪ Scopes (did I say scopes?!!) — what makes me see the white in their eyes before they close them one last time!

▪ Airguns — because they don't require a Peruvian gun license!

▪ Ballistic coefficients and custom drag models — what flies farther and truer!

▪ First hit probability calculations — what's the likelihood to hit my KZ at range R, with a gun with precision P moa, with wind estimation error W, with range estimation error E, with my first shot?!

▪ Silencers — what you can't hear didn't happen!


Matthias

Welcome from British Columbia Canada

 

[Bob Wright]

Welcome from central Arizona!

 

[joseph singleton]

Welcome from central Florida,,Wow you are from down SOUTH,enjoy,,the site is just awesome....

 

[338 dude]

Long range is like an addiction.

Once that bug bit me, I started gobbling up what I could find on the internets....

Didn't take long to run into this forum.
Joined a while ago — and just lurked.

Now finally decided to go active and update my profile.




I'm living and shooting in South America.
● PERU ●
Based in Lima.

We've got 10,000,000 people.
At least that many pigeons.

(At 60 yards a pigeon is mighty small....)




I'm particularly interested in:

▪ Long range ballistics — how to get it way out there!

▪ Terminal ballistics — what kills!

▪ Scopes (did I say scopes?!!) — what makes me see the white in their eyes before they close them one last time!

▪ Airguns — because they don't require a Peruvian gun license!

▪ Ballistic coefficients and custom drag models — what flies farther and truer!

▪ First hit probability calculations — what's the likelihood to hit my KZ at range R, with a gun with precision P moa, with wind estimation error W, with range estimation error E, with my first shot?!

▪ Silencers — what you can't hear didn't happen!


Matthias

Welcome to the forum from Tennessee

 

[GLTaylor]

Welcome from NE Alabama! Very interested and following your post.

 

[JungleShooter]

If you don't mind me asking, what all do you have to go through to get the firearms license there?

Getting a gun license in Peru requires:

▪Detailed psychological evaluation
▪Gun safety course (no, NOT free!)
▪Criminal records report
▪And lots of photos, forms, and fabricated expenses
▪Patience, as this usually takes several months
▪For a hunting permit you get to add a hunting course to the list (no, not free, of course!)


I ran the gamout not once or twice, but four times.

Spent more money on trying to get the gun license than on the gun.


▪The gun is still locked up in the government controlled weapon vaults.
▪To be released when I show up with my gun license....
▪Not going to happen.


▪I guess what I was expected to do was to bribe a few officials....
▪Not going to happen.


Matthias


PS: Let's all be thankful for the 2nd Amendment.

 

[ndking1126]

Oh wow, you weren't kidding. Is the idea you have to take it back to the vault when you are done shooting each time, or do they just keep it while all the paperwork and evaluations are being completed?