As always at Rio Salado, the wind separated the wheat from the chaff. I decided in early August to stop shooting .22 RD Monsters and shift to .25 King Heavy.
So I ordered a new .25 Daystate Red Wolf HP in Walnut that I named “Bullseye”. The gun is tuned to shoot .25 Heavy at about 950 fps on the Medium Power setting. It is supported by an Accutac bipod, topped by a Vortex Golden Eagle 15-60x scope, and fed by a MidWest Elite Airguns high capacity magazine.
Not one flyer the entire week. Superb accuracy. Two weeks prior to EBR I had a morning with almost no wind. I shot three ten shot groups back to back at 100 yards, and each one could be covered by a quarter.
I also added a PRS lower rail, and a 2.5# brass weight to keep the little jump straight back instead of up.
Plus that Walnut stock is just gorgeous. I know it’s a cliche, but you can buy an off the shelf pellet rifle and compete well at the highest levels as is, out of the box. I lost to a VERY HIGHLY modified FX Crown and a CUSTOM Thomas HP-X. Trust me, those two guns were no more accurate then mine. I lost because those two guys were better at reading wind than me and it had nothing to do with my gun’s accuracy.
Bullseye below:
An interesting factoid. In 2019 when I won Sportsman I shot a 217, and Nicolay won Pro with a 225. This past Sunday, I shot 216 for third, and Nicolay shot 225 for second. Things that make you go hmmm.
I’m case you’re wondering, that 216 was MUCH better than the 217, winds were significantly harder this year…
So I ordered a new .25 Daystate Red Wolf HP in Walnut that I named “Bullseye”. The gun is tuned to shoot .25 Heavy at about 950 fps on the Medium Power setting. It is supported by an Accutac bipod, topped by a Vortex Golden Eagle 15-60x scope, and fed by a MidWest Elite Airguns high capacity magazine.
Not one flyer the entire week. Superb accuracy. Two weeks prior to EBR I had a morning with almost no wind. I shot three ten shot groups back to back at 100 yards, and each one could be covered by a quarter.
I also added a PRS lower rail, and a 2.5# brass weight to keep the little jump straight back instead of up.
Plus that Walnut stock is just gorgeous. I know it’s a cliche, but you can buy an off the shelf pellet rifle and compete well at the highest levels as is, out of the box. I lost to a VERY HIGHLY modified FX Crown and a CUSTOM Thomas HP-X. Trust me, those two guns were no more accurate then mine. I lost because those two guys were better at reading wind than me and it had nothing to do with my gun’s accuracy.
Bullseye below:
An interesting factoid. In 2019 when I won Sportsman I shot a 217, and Nicolay won Pro with a 225. This past Sunday, I shot 216 for third, and Nicolay shot 225 for second. Things that make you go hmmm.
I’m case you’re wondering, that 216 was MUCH better than the 217, winds were significantly harder this year…
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