Just thought I would share this with you guys as I'm not much of a airgunsmith. But tonight I realized just how important a chrony is to our addiction.
My .22 Cricket Carbine broke a valve stem recently, so I sent it off to Charlie Frear for a new valve stem replacement and a whole new reseal of all the orings why he was at it. Fedex delivered her earlier today but was way to crazy windy to shoot.
Winds finally died down late this evening and I've attached a pic of my experience right before dark.
My first 5 shot groups at 28 yds ( my zero for all my airguns) were all over the place? I ran the gun across the Chrony and it was shooting a weak 869 to 879 across the chrony.
Now bear in mind Charlie just resealed it and fixed it for me. He didn't tune it or anything. Trying to save money there because chrony work and fine tuning would have cost me more and I pretty much knew she was a shooter to begin with.
Figured I'd turn it up a notch. Got it to shooting just over 900 fps and still wasn't happy with the groups, so I put a larger spare .25 cal hammer spring in that came with a pup Charlie had sold me and kicked it up to 930 FPS and I'll be damned if the groups didn't tighten up big time? Looked like less spread from shot to shot on the fps as well? Gotta get comfortable and repeatable with that before I try 50 yds with it.
It's amazing what the right speed and pellet combination will do?
1/4 inch grids on the graph paper
She's the one in the middle. Gotta spend some time with her and get her shooting right before I let her go. Still have too many airguns and four out of five of them are Kalibrgun.
My .22 Cricket Carbine broke a valve stem recently, so I sent it off to Charlie Frear for a new valve stem replacement and a whole new reseal of all the orings why he was at it. Fedex delivered her earlier today but was way to crazy windy to shoot.
Winds finally died down late this evening and I've attached a pic of my experience right before dark.
My first 5 shot groups at 28 yds ( my zero for all my airguns) were all over the place? I ran the gun across the Chrony and it was shooting a weak 869 to 879 across the chrony.
Now bear in mind Charlie just resealed it and fixed it for me. He didn't tune it or anything. Trying to save money there because chrony work and fine tuning would have cost me more and I pretty much knew she was a shooter to begin with.
Figured I'd turn it up a notch. Got it to shooting just over 900 fps and still wasn't happy with the groups, so I put a larger spare .25 cal hammer spring in that came with a pup Charlie had sold me and kicked it up to 930 FPS and I'll be damned if the groups didn't tighten up big time? Looked like less spread from shot to shot on the fps as well? Gotta get comfortable and repeatable with that before I try 50 yds with it.
It's amazing what the right speed and pellet combination will do?
1/4 inch grids on the graph paper
She's the one in the middle. Gotta spend some time with her and get her shooting right before I let her go. Still have too many airguns and four out of five of them are Kalibrgun.
