A good adult sized pellet rifle is great for practice. Just sight in the scope and start shooting at fun targets in your backyard from all of the off hand field positions. Most common are standing, kneeling and sitting. Prone is the most steady. Good targets are potatoes. They really splatter when you hit them. Put them on a stick and stick them in the ground or on top of a fence post. You can also do a lot of practice with your real rifle without even firing a real round in it. In fact most of your practice should be with an empty gun. It's called dry fire practice. Just take a steady position, aim and squeeze the trigger. Practice your breathing control when you do this and get into the habit of calling your shots, i.e., take note if you think you ended up shooting low, right, left or high. Only a small part of your practice needs be with live ammo. Most of you familiarization comes from dry fire practice. Most important of all, love your rifle, i.e., spend time with it and appreciate it. Sounds weird, but you will never really get good with it unless you do. Enjoy.
