I thought this might be of benefit to some of the Wildcat BT fence sitters out there as well as any of you who may be frustrated with inconsistency.
After attempting to tune and harmonic tune my new Wildcat BT to the JSB Hades as well as other pellets I was ready to send it back and get a new one - until I watched Ted's video (Ted's Holdover), and heard him say something about keep shooting and shooting and at some point your ES/SD will shrink and become crazy consistent. I've watched more than one of Ted's videos and if nothing else I believe him when he says he's done something with X result. So I've put approximately 600 pellets down stream and ya know what??? Ted was right! Yesterday afternoon I sat down and ran my pellet selection over the FX radar again with some astonishing results. I shot 10 shot groups after several fowlers till it settled in - no more than 4 shots were needed. My settings are irrelevant to anyone else but I will share my chrony data with respect to each projectile tested.
JSB Redesigns Power wheel 7 - AVG FPS 854, ES 7, SD 2.3 NOTE: last week with the same settings my lowest ES was in the high 30's.
JSB heavy 18.13 Power wheel 5 - AVG FPS 939, ES 3, SD 1.1 I ran this 3 times throughout my testing yesterday with almost the exact results. 8@939fps and 2@937fps.
JSB Hades Power wheel 2 - AVG FPS 846, ES 14, SD 4.4 / Power wheel 3 - AVG FPS 902, ES 23, SD 8.3 second set just for a comparison.
FX Hybrid Power wheel 7 - AVG FPS 878, ES 9, SD 2.8 NOTE: last week my ES was no less than 23.
Now, I have not as yet harmonic tuned any of these however I was tuning for the Hades with MOA ish results out to 58 yards. The 18.13 Heavies were always the best with the Hybrids giving intermittent best groups. I hope that the harmonic tuning will now go much better.
As a side note; I was concentrating on the Hades because I had 2 occasions to use them within 30 yards at around 950 ish with absolutely devastating results. One chicken house raider was 21 lbs and the other was closer to 15 lbs.
I will now second Ted's advice, if you have a Wildcat BT and it seems like its all over the place and is inconsistent, shoot it, shoot it, shoot it and shoot it some more. I believe it will settle in, mine did.
After attempting to tune and harmonic tune my new Wildcat BT to the JSB Hades as well as other pellets I was ready to send it back and get a new one - until I watched Ted's video (Ted's Holdover), and heard him say something about keep shooting and shooting and at some point your ES/SD will shrink and become crazy consistent. I've watched more than one of Ted's videos and if nothing else I believe him when he says he's done something with X result. So I've put approximately 600 pellets down stream and ya know what??? Ted was right! Yesterday afternoon I sat down and ran my pellet selection over the FX radar again with some astonishing results. I shot 10 shot groups after several fowlers till it settled in - no more than 4 shots were needed. My settings are irrelevant to anyone else but I will share my chrony data with respect to each projectile tested.
JSB Redesigns Power wheel 7 - AVG FPS 854, ES 7, SD 2.3 NOTE: last week with the same settings my lowest ES was in the high 30's.
JSB heavy 18.13 Power wheel 5 - AVG FPS 939, ES 3, SD 1.1 I ran this 3 times throughout my testing yesterday with almost the exact results. 8@939fps and 2@937fps.
JSB Hades Power wheel 2 - AVG FPS 846, ES 14, SD 4.4 / Power wheel 3 - AVG FPS 902, ES 23, SD 8.3 second set just for a comparison.
FX Hybrid Power wheel 7 - AVG FPS 878, ES 9, SD 2.8 NOTE: last week my ES was no less than 23.
Now, I have not as yet harmonic tuned any of these however I was tuning for the Hades with MOA ish results out to 58 yards. The 18.13 Heavies were always the best with the Hybrids giving intermittent best groups. I hope that the harmonic tuning will now go much better.
As a side note; I was concentrating on the Hades because I had 2 occasions to use them within 30 yards at around 950 ish with absolutely devastating results. One chicken house raider was 21 lbs and the other was closer to 15 lbs.
I will now second Ted's advice, if you have a Wildcat BT and it seems like its all over the place and is inconsistent, shoot it, shoot it, shoot it and shoot it some more. I believe it will settle in, mine did.
