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[Rizz01]

I didn't mean to offend. If I did, I apologize.
I understand your post completely.
I am up there in age myself. Over the past 2 years I've had numerous surgeries to fix what I damaged when I was younger. I'm currently drowning in the costs my insurance didn't pay. Might I suggest a gun that I've been looking at? Snowpeak M60B.
Looks like a clone of an FX Impact. There are guys shooting 100 yds and very happy with it. I haven't purchased one because they are hard to get (sell out quick) and I have to order it from a retailer in Canada. Just not big on the wait time to ship back and forth if there were a warranty issue. It's also not much more than the Avenge X.

 

[Smallgrouptherapy]

That is my problem. My range at home has targets up to 150 meter / 164 y and I already made a target I am going to put at 200 meter / 218 y. And that is for shooting pellets. If I want to shoot longer distance than that I have to go to another shooting range.

Today I got hold of a tin of JSB 13.4gr I normally use in my break barrel and shot with my M22 a few pellets over the chronograph to the 25 meter target. I shot the first 5 shots on the left, then adjusted the scope one or two clicks up and then 5 shots on the right. Not the best but at that speed I did not expect it.

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I then shot at 50 meter and 100 meter in almost zero wind. Damn, those 13gr pellets do good if there is no wind. At 100 meter it did about 30mm group. Unfortunately I cannot show it as the target was already full of other shot holes and would not make sense. Maybe tomorrow I will try the 100 meter with the 13gr again.

Now I have a better understanding of what you are trying to achieve and I believe you are going to experience a combination of challenges at distances past 100yards (possibly 75, especially with lighter pellets) that others were discussing. There’s 2 huge factors with light dome style pellets vs higher bc slugs and/or moving up to rimfire or higher caliber pellets. The first you addressed being the wind. In a no wind situation you are correct that they should fly straight but that’s saying a lot. Any wind will start to SIGNIFICANTLY effect a 13g pellet at 100. To the tune of easily a full MOA adjustment for a small change.

The second that’s much more significant is stability. As the pellet slows (which it does very quickly at those low bc’s, the spin rate doesn’t slow as quickly. I can clearly see in my scope at about 75 yards when the pellets go from a perfect spiral to a much more wobbly flight. That continues to become more severe until tumbling starts. It’s a pellet phenomenon that doesn’t happen nearly as significantly with slugs or actual billets out of powder cartridges.

Do your own testing but I feel very confident saying that the avenge x will be very very accurate up to 75 yards and in a very calm day may stretch to 100 with 13g pellets. Moving to 18.13 (I have mine tuned to 2100psi on the regulator and one full turn clockwise on the hammer spring from zero). That gets me crazy consistent speeds and accuracy to 100 in calm wind. Moving up in weight and more importantly sectional density will continue to improve bc and stretch distance (because speed is maintained longer) before the spiraling starts. Moving to a 25.39 (different tune needed) might get you to 164y but the elevation numbers at 218Y they really get crazy. My calculation is a MOA correction of 16.1 MOA at 100 but that goes to 41.3 at 160 and 71 at 210!!! To give a comparison at 210 my 22lr needs only 25.5 MOA and my competition “real” rifle (7 prc) needs 1.1 MOA. So not that your distances are impossible but me shooting my 18.13 pellets at 220 yards would be comparable in difficulty to shooting my .22lr at 400 yards and my 7prc at 1930 yards. Both could be fun but I’m certainly not shooting groups. I’m lobbing up Hail Marys hoping to hear a “ding”. .

Hopefully this is helpful. There are definitely limits to what can be done with light pellets but stay with in them and I can tell you the avenue x is capable of sub moa results out to 100 in good conditions!

 

[Smallgrouptherapy]

Shooting 13gr pellets is not my norm, this was the second time shooting 13 gr's and the first time shooting it at 100 meter, just because I can. H&N18 gr pellets is my normal pellet and I do buy a lot when I find it at discounted price. 25gr is more expensive and I never find it at discounted price.

At 150 meter I have a 200mm x 200mm steel plate and with 18gr in mild wind I can hit it 10 out of ten times and in no wind do groups of around 50mm - 80mm / 1.2moa - 2moa. I did put a 200 meter target but did not shoot at it yet, high winds, today up to 50km/h and because of the cold my rifle's regulator is leaking so I don't get consistent speeds, mostly much lower as the plenum pressure gets to high. I cannot see beforehand as it does not have a plenum pressure gauge. It must be the O-rings in the regulator because when I put the rifle in the sun to warm up it works 100% but since the weekend it was cloudy and it did not heat up. I am just thinking of it, tomorrow I will heat it with a hair dryer to see what happens. I must also look for O-rings that perform better in the cold.

When my rifle is zeroed at 50 meter at 950fps, I must dial 3.3 m-rad (11.3moa) for 100 meter and 7.3 m-rad (25.1moa) for 150 meter to hit center plate. Like I said, I did not shoot 200 meter yet but Strelok say 12.1 m-rad (41.6moa) for 200 meter. In the 12x scope the 200 meter plate, same size as the 150 meter plate, gets quite small. I don't know what will happen but it is fun to try.


That is what I want to see about the X. On YT I don't see much and even less trying 100 meter. The one I saw at 100 meter was not doing so good, about 75mm with 18gr.

I don't want to buy to try, I want to know then buy.

I gotcha. Well if you’re after a video at 100 yards I can probably help but I don’t have a scope cam or anything fancy. I just took 2 5 shot groups for you at 103 yards and it’s not dead calm. Wind is between 2-4 mph today I’d say and not consistent. Here’s what I came up with and these were the first 2 groups after 3 shots to zero. A quarter is 25mm or .9” for reference. Both groups are smaller by measurement than the quarter, the smaller measuring .72”.

 

[Smallgrouptherapy]

Thanks for that.
Yes, that is good groups, no matter what rifle is used.

Is your rifle standard?

Yes. I have the tactical with tube. No mods.