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The link says they are 35gr.I was hoping they had the .25 ELR available to try on my buddies V3 .25 pushing 80fpe at the moment. 40gr going 950fps. I'm not seeing either on utah but I did see the .22 elr on zanprojectiles.com
Really appreciate your offer and insight!!! I may trade the gun back (my trading partner is very sorry, he didn’t know and got the rifle used a bit ago as well so offered to trade back immediately). If I decide to trade back I’ll let him know that you made this generous offer!!As long as you pour a lead lap to the barrel you will be fine.. The other option i use on my Airforce plarforms is Air lapping...Stupid simple..Put the valve lapping compound on your pellets or slugs and then shoot through your perfectly clean barrel..I buy the lapping compound on ebay.. Sometimes a barrel sucks and you waste your time roll of the dice... I drilled 1000,s of .177 and .22 cal barrels that were all kind of off center..I often wondered if those barrels ever shot..Production grade is hit or miss.. It sucks getting a barrel machined for Airguns expensive..Out the labor and time.. Ive lapped quite a few barrels know and getting the feel for it. I also have the Tyslong digital borescope..Im not to good at uploading vidoes.. Im disabled and have time. I will hand lead lap your barrel for free .. I have casting pots set up for casting in the garage , and i have a good tipton rod i can use for 30 cal... Here to help
A cheap China one off Amazon is what most people are buying . and for a pistol it should last , look up "how to hand pump a PCP " you mostly use body weight and pump slowly ! Even pulling the handle up Slowly .I may have to break down and get one of those Hill pumps along with a good pcp pistol. Currently I have a HW75 which I find rather difficult to cock and charge a couple of IZH 46m which are a dream to shoot and several Daisy 747 and777 models.
I shot a boar years ago right behind the shoulder with a 150 grain Corelok from a 30-30 at 20 yards. Complete pass through, he flopped in his tracks, laid there a few seconds and jumped up and ran full steam right at me. Another one between the eyes dropped him a few feet in front of me. That’s a hunt you don’t forget. Think hard about a .22 airgun.
I agree 100%. As a bench shooter, I'm a traditional hand loader. However after I received the prototypes of the Manuloader at RMAC last year, I've been using it ever since. Really innovative and time saving. I highly recommend it.The Skout Airguns Epoch / Evo has an open - faceted magazine design which uses a relatively short torsional spring to index the magazine after the bullet probe is retracted from the rifle chamber. Because the magazine capacity is higher than average and the spring is unloaded to begin with, this means the the rotor is turned from 1.5 revolutions (light pellet) to 2.5 turns (heavy slug). As the pellet/slug leaves the magazine and as it is pushed from the magazine to the rifle chamber, the spring exerts a side force, wedging the pellet/slug between the magazine and the rifle chamber. In addition, the open face design of the magazine pockets exposes the rib between adjacent pockets and this rib, representing a considerable multiple of pressure, can easily deform the skirt of a pellet and score the front of a pellet or side of a slug, See the photo.This is not cosmetic but rather a design issue. The Stud loading system ameliorates this issue by using a longer torsion spring that does not load the rotor as much as the Scout magazine but it does not eliminate the problem. The Stud loading system also will not accommodate slugs.
The ManuLoader from Shortcut and his colleague in Denmark solves this problem by eliminating the torsional spring and indexes the magazine manually. It lacks the polished and machined finish of the the attractive Skout magazines: the printing looks crude, and it has the cachet or rather lack of - of most 3D printed products but it works as advertised and is an effective solution. In fact, an argument can be made for those who hand feed their rifles, the Manuloader is less likely to deform pellets than hand feeding… It does require an extra motion as you pull the bolt back, index the magazine, and then push the bolt closed but I found it has a nice rhythm and may possibly reduce inadvertent double loading of pellets/slugs.
Eventually, I think Skout will redesign its magazine; in the meantime, the ManuLoader is a perfectly acceptable workaround. Lest anyone think I am throwing shade on Skout Airguns, that is not the case: I think Skout is a bright light in a chaotic and disorganized industry. I admire their innovation and their customer service is second to none. I own two Evo’s, both dedicated slug rifles, in 25 and 30 cal.
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I like thisQuestion on maintenance. The manual says to use pricey RWS Chamber Oil sparingly at various areas. Are there less expensive alternative lubricants that can safely replace the RWS lube?
I like the thin Diana sights , Maybe i should buy a few HW sights and reshape them ?I agree, I've never been a fan of the poor selection of inserts HW offers for their front sights, and their diameter and side tab pattern is proprietary - no other brand will fit. Seems to me the market is wide open for some enterprising sort to offer some photo-etch alternatives.
I use ring inserts for target work, but my personal fave for old-guy all-round plinkerating is a tapered post with a bead on top (FWB and Diana ones seen here):
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I have a vixen in .177 that I bounce around from 860 to 580ish fps with just the hammer spring adjustment. I know this isn't the best way to get the very most out of a pcp but it's working well and I get consistent results throughout that range. The last 10 shots over a chronograph using JTS 10.4gr averagedDid it come at 13fpe, or did you have to tune it? Can an average Joe adjust the reg and hammer spring on the Vixen, or does it take involved airgun surgery?
Thanks,
-pg