Hi Ed,Hi Tommy - Thoughts on 40 scores improving:
We only started doing 40-Challenge and 40-Masters in the last half of 2023.
As shooters are now gaining experience at 40 yards, they are tuning their rifles for that distance.
If you scan our leaderboards, I believe that the 18.13g is the most common pellet. I am guilty of tuning many of my rifles for the 18.13g JSB/FX pellet – because it is perhaps the best all-around pellet JSB has offered. I’ve had success with it at velocities from 700 to 1,025 fps. In the case of my Taipan Veteran, as soon as I tried the 25.39g pellet at 40 yards, I was beating my 18.13 results with that rifle.
It would seem that a good 30 yard tune would also be good at 40 yards, but optimizing for 40 might require some tweaks – or even a different pellet.
I note that Ricky (Airgunnero) is a competition shooter that posts very high 190 scores at 40 yards. He recently was shooting our target at 50 and 55 yards to get ready for an upcoming 50 yard competition. He shot a 185/4X at 55 yards (Wow!!) with his FX Maverick using the 18.13g at 960fps. He then said “more tuning is needed”. So he plans to tweak his great 40 yard Maverick tune to perform at 50 yards.
I think benchrest target shooters almost REQUIRE rifles with adjustability – ideally external adjustability to make it easy to tune. Hunters may prefer rifles like a Daystate Huntsman that come with a good factory tune – that you don’t adjust (easily).
So a 10 yard increase seems to be a significant change for ultimate accuracy with an air rifle.
i’m not using my Maverick because I have to replace all the regulator o-rings and I will use my bnew Philippine made PCP (GCMAG Magnum Gen 2) with a Philippine made barrel (Kalvin barrel or a GF1000) for next weekend’s BR25 and BR50 meter .22 cal categories.
and I’ll try to tune it tomorrow and post some results if the weather is good.
-Ricky
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