HI, can i shoot FX hybrid slugs with the DRS 500mm .22 with Superior STX barrel liner?
FX DRS - .22 with 500mm Superior STX barrel liner. can i shoot hybrid slugs?
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I don't know what the Drs valve can achieve for power but I can tell you my buddies maverick with 500mm can push 23 grain javelin slugs at 980 fps with reasonable efficiency and noise limits. Hybrids aren't the fastest or most accurate from either of our guns but they do have a very unique terminal performance. Pellet fx liners shoot all but upper mid-heavier slugs quite nicely.
The slug liners won't shoot pellets too well ime other than monster redesigns and their sister hades pellets.
He's got 500mm and I have 700mm and we shoot 23 at the same speed, Mines ONLY more air efficient.
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I've been wrapping my head around hybrids and why they're slow. My best estimation is theyre probably pure lead to be soft for terminal results and manufacture , and have a massive bearing surface. Would you agree on either?
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I’ve never had a problem with them being slow compared to another slug by a margin that caused concern. But in my DRS, they shot pretty good at 805fps. When I turned the reg up to around 140b, I got 865fps and a horrible shooting gun. Because the gun became a blast cannon from pushing it I started playing with different mods to see if I could clean things up and tighten groups. Then I came to my senses and remembered it was a good pellet gun. So I adjusted back to its Hades setting and eventually sold it.
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Probably not the same as op asks about, but i shot 26.5gr zan (the lightest slug in .25) in my drs 600mm at 980 with pellet liner and they group good enough for me at 50 - 160m.
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Think that the hybrid is primarly designed to shoot through choked bores of medium power airguns and they are optimized for that.
The soft lead and internal structure would compress and pass through the choke with less distortion/difficulty than a typical, solid slug.
The market for people with low to medium power airguns that want to try slugs must be pretty big, makes cents ($$$ ?) to go after it.
Just guessing here.
Cheers!
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That's my thinking too, as well as the circumferential distribution of the weight. It's a genius design to get slugs into pellet guns. They're never the top performer on my tuning tests but they do consistently perform decent enough. In 22 I can't speak highly enough of the light javelins in 217 for fx liners.
Back to the op's question about barrel length and slugs. It's doable, and I know my saying xyz other 500mm fx gun can shoot them doesn't mean much to you. I've learned over the years that specific barrel lengths have a window of performance that they can support that is reasonably constant, the question is typically the valves ability to deliver the needed power to that barrel without getting too wasteful.
I can tell you I bit and went 700 mm to do slugs and was rather disappointed when I applied what I learned in tuning my 700 to my friends and their 500mms in 22 and 25 and their guns are much handier. In the lighter range they were able to keep up in power and get close on efficiency. The real work was the tuning had to be much more precise to limit waste and noise. Skip the expensive hybrids and try some light javelin or nsa slugs. Not that they're the only option, they're just what I've used and can talk about.
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