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Stoeger  New to pcp, need help airing it up

Hey team, quick question. I got a stoger xm1 and am using a small 68cu 4500 psi tank with the air ventur coil. My issue is when I put the valve in and slowly turn on the tank, it's full, the guage does not move at all. I have tested and air is definitely going through the cpil.and pit the valve just not seeming to get in the gun or the guage is broken. It's brand new by the way. I shot it a few times last night as it had some air in it and the guage did go down

FX  First time tuning M4 what are your thoughts and advice (with pics)

Hey guys

So first time tuning my new M4. I was shooting at 54 meters and have a little wind maybe 2-5 randomly…. I did not change my aim point for each target just wanted to see where the pellets were hitting and how consistent they are… the targets white section is 1.5” wide for reference

Gun:
M4 700mm
.30
JSB .30 Diabolo 44.75gr
900fps
Reg set at 97bar
Adjuster set at 4.5
Valve screw at line 4

You can see the groups and the fps I’m also new to shooting so some of it could be me

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Check your speed before you shoot

I was able to go out to the starling farm today and did some shooting with my M60B. I haven't been shooting my M60B for a while now and I was missing a lot of my shots especially out passed 50 yards. It was a bit windy and cold so I thought I missed because I got the windage wrong.

After missing a few shots, I decided to put up my target box at 32 yards and check my POI and windage. Yup, the windage was off to the left and the POI was much lower than before. I got out the FX Chrony and found out my current speed of the NSA 17.5gr was 888 FPS compared to the reading of 920 FPS back in May. 32 FPS dropped in velocity was a lot and hence it changed all my POA with my turrets tape.

I entered the new data into the Element Ballistic Calculator and got a new POA range data. I marked out the new POA at each distances on my turret tape and went back to shoot starlings. I was able to drop starlings with the proper windage allowance. Luckily I brought my radar and did some testings; Otherwise, I would have missed all of my shots today.

So check the speed of your projectile to make sure you make the POA adjustment accordingly.

Video to follow this Saturday.

Results  SVFTC .... October Field Target MATCH REPORT

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What a great year it has been for the Sacramento Valley Field Target Club ! Tho we got rained out for our start up in March moving our first match to April we were able to have our Monthly matches as scheduled. This match is our traditional seasons end and with that we put on a pretty killer event !!

Being we're into fall the suns up a tad later and some of the crew converge a bit before 8am gathering up all the gear & moving it on out to range #9
More help arrives rather quickly so we get a very speedy set up done, practice target paper & Quads are all out before the 9 o'clock hour ... Nice job guys !

Today's match is 15 lanes with *2 targets per for a base of 60 points, with *3 targets set on the offhand/kneeling lane #11 making for a 62 point potential match.
We ended up setting out a 3/8" and a 1/2" to really test everyone as well having a real stinker side by side at 55 yards having 1 1/4" next to a 1 7/8". The difficult value on that smaller target an Expert level 49.5 Troyer ! Post match survey it had just 2 shooters hit / get it twice.
As is typical when we 3 target the offhand lane, we allow one target to be taken kneeling if the shooter is inclined.

Today we had also per-anounced that a Club Swap meet would happen as well keeping it for after the match & during lunch.


TODAYS RESULTS by Class / Shooter / Score XX/62

WFTF PCP

Joe H 54

WFTF Piston
Son L 51
Jim P 44

HUNTER Piston
Bill C 44
Fred B 34

HUNTER PCP
Chris K 59
Zack L 58
Scott 57
Marty G 56
Erick S 56
Conrad R 52
Alain D 49
John D 49
Dane 47
Sam R 45
Weiye 45
Kevin H 43
Larry g 40
Grant S 42
Jeff S 29
Jim B 15 * 1st time FT shooter

Post match the crew quickly picks up the course and re-converge to set up the swap meet and have some lunch .... O' and what a lunch Sam put together !!!
Having soda & water, granola bars & chips out all morning .... Main course for lunch was Costco Pin wheel sandwiches and a SPECIAL TREAT being ...... SQUIRREL ( being Grey & Douglas tree squirrel ) slow cooked in a crock pot pulled like pork to make Street tacos having steamed taco shells, cilantro, onions, lime slices and some other condiments .. WHOA some killer eats right there ! Thank you Sam R
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Swap meet had several rifles, Scopes, rings, Air tanks and a Shoebox F10 among other misc items ... Stuff found new homes & some did not .. such is a swap meet.

In closing I personally WISH TO THANK all of our shooters who came to matches threw out the summer even if you made just 1 match or all of them, for without your participation the club would not continue to grow and prosper. THANK YOU ALL !!


The 2025 season for the SVFTC will continue to be held at the same location and same range #9 being held on the 4th Sunday of each month @ March till October. A formal date list will be posted later and any special activities etc included.

Until next season .. Stay well, practice that marksmanship and tell your shooting buddies what a good time we have inviting them to join us sometime.

Scott Schneider
SVFTC Match Director

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EDgun  Who wants the beloved Leshiy Classic back????

Who wants the beloved Leshiy Classic back????

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 84.2%
  • No

    Votes: 3 15.8%

I love my Leshiy Classic. I think it’s a wonderful piece of engineering. Simple, accurate and just plain bad a$$. I really wish they were still around in all their awesome colors they were once offered in. Yes I own the L2 but the classic is just pure bad a$$. Would you buy one if it came out again? I would

PCP Rifle  SOLD WTS Uragan 2 compact

Uragan 2 compact with carbon fiber stock .22
Excellent condition, includes soft, case, fill, probe, manual, Three magazines and shipping to Conus. no leaks and everything works properly. Reasons for selling is that it’s my only.22 and I prefer.25. New lower price $1150
Not interested in any trades.
PayPal f&f or add 3.5%or Venmo
Scope is not included.
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FX Impact

Two for one tunes, I've been wanting to tune my M3 for JSB monsters 25.39 and had time today, so I raise the reg and set the adjustments to shoot them @920fps then backed the Macro from 16 to 4 and the 18.13s are shooting 890fps. both are getting good groups considering the wind is howling today 12-20 variable from around 4oclock position from my shooting table. Heres my groups @ 40y. Blues are 18s greens are 25s and yellows are a sighter. About 6shots in each group more or less

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The Ultrapod 😱

No tricks, just an awesome treat! 🎃 The Ultrapod from studmagloader is a highly portable field use fully adjustable rear rest. 😱

No more squeezing the rear bag thousands of times during sight in and testing 🤙🏻


Benjamin  Unhappy with de-pinger for .22 Benjamin Marauder air rifle

I purchased this de-pinger for my .22 Benjamin Marauder rifle: https://hillairgun.com/product/hill-airgun-pcp-depingers/

I installed it yesterday following the installation instructions (maybe I made a mistake, I do have a question, see below please), filled the gun back up and did some shooting. I must say I am not impressed. To me, the gun sounds the same. I also noticed that the gun went from 3000 PSI to 2500 PSI after one magazine, where as before the de-pinger I'd be at around 2600 PSI after the first magazine before the de-pinger (I don't know the exact PSI but I know that by the end of the third magazine I was at 2000 PSI from 3000 PSI).

I removed the factory de-pinger, inserted the Hill de-pinger (large opening first) and pushed it in until it could not longer move. This is where I have a question: The instructions say "Push it until you feel it stop against the gauge port". Since I pushed it in until it could not longer to in any further, does that mean I reached the gauge port or should I have stopped pushing it in before that?

People seem very happy with the de-pinger so I am blaming my insatisfaction with it on me and possible mistakes I made during the installation. Any advice? Thank you!

AEA Centerpunch 30, 50.5 gr, 950 fps

So, just a survey of my fellow quantitative shooters out there. Labradar 1 data and group size are metrics.

I purchased some AEA pellets and so far, so good. The Center punch 30 cal, 50.5 grain are going out of my RTI P2 at an average of V0=951.4 fps with a ES of 6.78 FPS and SD of 2.45 fps. KE 0 is 102 FtLb. Group size is excellent. Regulator pressure is 170 BAR with just enough spring preload to reliably have the hammer knock the valve open. The AEA pellets "SCHWACK" my 50 m target with 83 FtLb of KE and practically uproot the 22 rimfire spinner. So satisfying!

Any tips? Do you guys see any glaring flaws in my data or results, the correction of which might lead me to even better results? A low reg pressure of 120 BAR restricted V0 (muzzle velocity) to 875 ish fps. The pellets are still accurate at 950 ish V0 and hit harder.

Let me know,

Mike
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Congratulations to the new Italian champion Elio Brambilla

We would like to congratulate the new Italian champion in the Airrifle Benchrest 50m Unlimited Mr. Elio Brambilla.
Mr. Brambilla is not only the new Italian champion but also holds two national records:
Italian record on 2 signs with a score of 494/14.
Italian record on 3 signs with a score of 729/25
(Surpassing his European record from 2023 by 19 points)

and is the European champion from 2023.

He started using our slugs in caliber .22 ATP King 40gr 5.52mm it just 3 weeks before the World Benchrest Championships in Pilsen in 2023 and the day before this most important competition, we delivered new packs of slugs, yet he still managed to win the title of European champion .
Since then he has been winning domestic competitions and we believe he is a hot candidate for the upcoming World Championships in Finland 2025

Among other things, became Shooter of the Year 2024

Once again we congratulate him on a great end of the season and thank him for excellent representation of our slugs.


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Let's talk radar chronographs

I'm in the market for a radar chrono. I ordered the Garmin and it works like magic, so I'm liking it pretty well. I'm still in my return window on it and am jonesing for the FX True Ballistics Chrono, as my analytical mind wants all the info I can get. But, here's the deal.

The FX doesn't have a ballistic model for pellets, (I'm guessing it will someday), so you're not going to get any kind of real data that will enable you to simply run a ballistics model and shoot the drop table and hit like you would if it had the appropriate bc model? Correct?
So, if it doesn't give me that info, then the only real gain I would have is velocity at different ranges, which is nice, but doesn't really tell me much to go on. I'd be more accurate by simply shooting a couple or three distances and calculating bc, and it would be as close as the $900 chrono.

From that premise, I have to say the Garmin looks better to me. It seems accurate compared to my old CE ProChrono light chrono, and never gives me any headaches. I know muzzle velocity and extreme spread, for tuning, and the FX wouldn't give me any more useful data?

What's the consensus?

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