30-Yard Challenge

This isn't for the leader board. I got my Athlon Argos 10-40 late yesterday and this is the first target. I sighted right in the middle of the target at 30 yards and barely hit it up to the right of the 4 block. But I got adjusted and decided to just shoot the target. The scope shifted right and low around block 6 but I shot another target with it since and it seems to be working great. The second target was in a different stock and worse but I think that was the wind. This target was in an old stock with 2 lbs of lead on it.

I’m continuing to play with 700mm barrel on my FX Crown Mk2 .22.

Shot three 40-Masters today:
196 11X
192 13X (darn wind and shift on #3)
194 9X (ended with 3 straight 9s)

Thoughts:
Using 700mm the Crown uses less air per shot.

Why bother with any pellet over 18.13g out to 40 yards?! The FX/JSB 18.13 is an awesome pellet - and comes 500 to a tin.

I can’t shoot in a jacket or heavy shirt without it catching on the rifle butt. So I’m freezing in a tee-shirt shooting these cards.

I finished by shooting a 40-Masters with a .177 Dreamline using 10.3g. Shot a solid 185 5X. Using a relatively new 6x24 Midas Tac.

TommyB - I now agree that the Midas Tac dot covers a lot of the 10-ring at 40 yards. Its an awesome clear glass scope, but can’t compare to the ultra thin reticle of a Sightron SII 36x for precision holds at 40 yards.

Hope you guys are still getting lead downrange… our leaderboards don’t close till December 31st, lol. Mostly, its just fun to shoot - despite the cold !

This one is for the leader board. At 196 13x it's a couple points better on the master target and only one point worse than my best challenge target this year with this rifle. The new Athlon Argos 10-40 definitely helps. The 7mph wind did not help but it was pretty consistent which is much better. The scope is especially helpful on the master target because I can see the sighter circles. I couldn't with my 24x scopes.

Last day at the range before Thanksgiving. Went at 2pm vs. early morning. Just wanted to see if the wind died down. It did, and it was perfect for shooting the 30y Targets.

I had the HW100 .22 carbine, which I recently tweaked to increase velocity from 805 to 825-830 FPS. I was shooting the FX Atomic 15.89 pellets, very slightly lubed.

I noticed something that helped me today. I re-zero’d in between targets to get a very precise X or 10 ring hit, two or three times, and then felt confident enough to go right at the 10 ring with no holds.

I will submit two targets for December leaderboards:

200-18X 30Y Challenge - This is the first 200 score for this rifle. Thanks Ed for the fix!

198-11X 30Y Masters

tommyb said:

Last day at the range before Thanksgiving. Went at 2pm vs. early morning. Just wanted to see if the wind died down. It did, and it was perfect for shooting the 30y Targets.

I had the HW100 .22 carbine, which I recently tweaked to increase velocity from 805 to 825-830 FPS. I was shooting the FX Atomic 15.89 pellets, very slightly lubed.

I noticed something that helped me today. I re-zero’d in between targets to get a very precise X or 10 ring hit, two or three times, and then felt confident enough to go right at the 10 ring with no holds.

I will submit two targets for December leaderboards:

200-18X 30Y Challenge - This is the first 200 score for this rifle. Thanks Ed for the fix!

198-11X 30Y Masters

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Dang Tommy, I’ve shot 17X with 5 different rifles – including a couple at 40-Masters, but I’ve never shot 18X – Congratulations on both the 200 and the 18X !!

“Our” HW100 is amazing with those FX Atomics that we discovered that it likes so much. We actually both have “our” same HW100 on this year’s 30-Challenge leaderboard – I shot a 198 16X with your rifle using 18.13g back in late February. I wish I could have had more time with it using the FX Atomics.

I see that you tweaked the tune – slightly increasing the fps. That extra speed with the 15.89g Atomics may get you improved results at 40 yards – try it on the next low wind day.

That Weihrauch would make an incredible hunting rifle as well – it shoots 200 18X with hollow point ammo – amazing !

I’ve got a .25 Crown barrel today coming from NAProf – I’m excited to see what my Crown will do at 50 yards with the .25 25.4g pellets.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Challenge shooters !!

-Ed

EPG said:

Dang Tommy, I’ve shot 17X with 5 different rifles – including a couple at 40-Masters, but I’ve never shot 18X – Congratulations on both the 200 and the 18X !!

“Our” HW100 is amazing with those FX Atomics that we discovered that it likes so much. We actually both have “our” same HW100 on this year’s 30-Challenge leaderboard – I shot a 198 16X with your rifle using 18.13g back in late February. I wish I could have had more time with it using the FX Atomics.

I see that you tweaked the tune – slightly increasing the fps. That extra speed with the 15.89g Atomics may get you improved results at 40 yards – try it on the next low wind day.

That Weihrauch would make an incredible hunting rifle as well – it shoots 200 18X with hollow point ammo – amazing !

I’ve got a .25 Crown barrel today coming from NAProf – I’m excited to see what my Crown will do at 50 yards with the .25 25.4g pellets.

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Challenge shooters !!

-Ed

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Thanks Ed.

Confession - wind was almost zero at both muzzle and at 30 y. But, the increase in velocity from 800 - 805 to 830 FPS was the ticket. I will try at 40y next outing. I discovered how important it is to check and double check your zero as we shoot these cards. Here is an example:

I have been using my initial zero and pretty much then adjusting for holds from first card. Yesterday, I decided to re-zero until I hit two X’s or close to two X’s in a row on a sighter card. Then, I went back to shooting more cards. My thought is if I can hold on 10 ring ( vs. holding on 9, or 8 ring) using the clock as my holds, much better accuracy. I think I got more X’s because of this and in significant wind, it doesn’t matter that much because the holds and knowing the hour value on the clock are more difficult. Simply stated, the farther out your holds are from the ‘X’ dot, the harder to hit 10’s and more X’s.

Ah Ha!! Greg sold you his .25 caliber ‘lottery winning barrel.’

Shoot some targets and post up when you can.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Hi Guys!
I have spent most of my shooting time the last couple of weeks trying out some new pellets in the .22 Crown NW . First I tried the 380mm barrel and then went to the 500mm barrel. I got several tins of JTS Dead Center .22 18.8 gr pellets from the JTS booth at the Pyramid Air Cup. They look like really nice pellets! They appear to be very consistent in shape, almost no bent skirts, and very clean. I ran a bunch through my .22 PelletgageR's and the batches seemed to be a mix of head sizes between 5.54 and 5.51mm. Only weighed about 30 pellets and the range was similar to the JSB's (not as tightly grouped as the FX's). Anyway, after almost 750 shots on lots of Challenge cards at both 30 and 40 yds I can emphatically say "Blaaaaaa...". Not one card came close to my leader board numbers at either range. Tried several different velocities in each barrel - just not scoring as well as the FX's.

So, today I went back to the good ole Green Mountain Crown with the 500mm .177 barrel (my FT rig). Shot just two cards, one 30 yd Masters and a 40 yd Challenge. Shot the 30 yd first and did well - 198-12x (with six 10's). The breeze picked up a bit (though not much) and I shot the 40 yd card - 191 - 8x. I think both make my leader board for this rifle for 2024.






Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! And I will lift a glass for Tommy and his marvelous 200-18X!

Cheers,
Greg