Other Bent my M3 barrel......ughhhhhhhh

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dens228

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Well, having it dialed in at.25 cal in the 700 mm barrel was sweet. Today it was sitting on the table when I was walking by and knocked a vase, went to catch it, saved it, and knocked my M3 end over end off the table. Of course it hit end of barrel first on my tile floor. Went out to shoot, all over the place. Took off my Falx, still all over........damn.
Put my .22 cal 600 mm barrel back on. I usually use the slug port but decided on using the pellet port. Keeping everything the same tuning wise it went from shooting the 34 grain .25 cal JSB's at 916 to shooting the 25 grain .22 cal JSB's at 864. Increasing the macro up two didn't increase it at all, going up another lowered the fps. So, I went with the original.
Here's the pleasant surprise of this ordeal...........
The .22 cal at 864 is shooting absolute lasers...........And I'm sure it's got enough pop for the local squirrels and racoons.
 
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I would disassemble the multi piece FX barrel and roll everything on a flat surface. If nothing is glaringly wrong, I would reassemble it. With these guns and their components all consisting of many pieces, sometimes even if the gun takes a hard shot to let’s say the butt plate, it jacks the whole gun up. You have to loosen everything to relax it. Then tighten things back up to specs..
 
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Good luck getting it straight. Sometimes there is a silver lining. I have long seen reports that a sweet spot or good starting point for accuracy and all around performance with Diablo pellets is a velocity around 875 FPS. Write your settings for the .22 configuration down in your log somewhere so you can come back to them in the future sometime.

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dens228 said:
Well, having it dialed in at.25 cal in the 700 mm barrel was sweet. Today it was sitting on the table when I was walking by and knocked a vase, went to catch it, saved it, and knocked my M3 end over end off the table. Of course it hit end of barrel first on my tile floor. Went out to shoot, all over the place. Took off my Falx, still all over........damn.
Put my .22 cal 600 mm barrel back on. I usually use the slug port but decided on using the pellet port. Keeping everything the same tuning wise it went from shooting the 34 grain .25 cal JSB's at 916 to shooting the 25 grain .22 cal JSB's at 864. Increasing the macro up two didn't increase it at all, going up another lowered the fps. So, I went with the original.
Here's the pleasant surprise of this ordeal...........
The .22 cal at 864 is shooting absolute lasers...........And I'm sure it's got enough pop for the local squirrels and racoons.
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Just straighten it. Its not that hard to do.
 
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Two options..

Save it for when you need to shoot around corners. 😉

Or..you could try putting it on an old-fashioned arrow straightener. They have rollers an a run-out gauge. If it’s really bent, it will show where and how much..in thousands

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