Thanks to covid and family duties I haven’t gone out to shoot pass 35 yards in a while. wife took the kids to visit her sister so I took the opportunity to check out a local range.
Brought my crown with 177 barrel to try out 12.5 NSA slugs out to 100 yards . They have 200 yards and more but need to get my guns dialed at 100 first. Beautiful day out today, range was busy and lots of boom sticks so I wore plugs and muffs.
obviously the least powerful gun by a long stretch but best looking if you ask me:
Just as I started to enjoy myself I realized I was off Reg and didn’t bring the fill adapter for the crown. Generic or even the extended fill adapter won’t work, it has to be the FX adapter on GRS stocks if anyone wonders. Kicking myself I pick my stuff and went home to get the adapter, that killed almost 2 hours of shooting.
I’ve actually never tuned the crown up since new but got it to shoot the 12.5g NSA slugs around mid 900fps. The 500mm barrel’s sweat spot seems to be around 900 FPS, need to tune my gun better and of course I forgot the Allen wrench to adjust the Reg. So I decided to just shoot with what I got.
he range is well, a range so no features at all at you can see from the picture so couldn’t tell the wind beside a little mirage but when checking target the wind feels like between 2-5mph. My 50 yard groups are hit and miss and more so at 100 yards. But when I feel the wind dies down the group really shrinks. So the poor little 12.5g NSA slugs BC is a bit low, 0.065 is the adjusted BC for them and the wind drift is spot on with strelok.
best 50 yard groups:
Best 100 yard group and the only MOA group at 100 today, Of course wind picked up on the 5th shot…..on just all my groups:
definitely a fun time at the range but I’m a little disappointed on how poorly the slugs did in the very mild wind. Might stick to .22 with almost 40% better BC, I want to shoot at their 300 yard range one of these days and 5mph wind blows the slugs over 1 Mil is not good, will be hard to get on paper like that at 200 yards.
Edit: for those who got the crimson trace scopes on sale I had no issues spotting 177 holes on 100 yard target even with the series 3 scope. Even watched the little 177 slugs curl by the wind at 100 yards still, pretty cool. As much as I love my Element helix scope the glass on the CT scopes is in a completely different league for only 100 dollars more when they were on close out.
Brought my crown with 177 barrel to try out 12.5 NSA slugs out to 100 yards . They have 200 yards and more but need to get my guns dialed at 100 first. Beautiful day out today, range was busy and lots of boom sticks so I wore plugs and muffs.
obviously the least powerful gun by a long stretch but best looking if you ask me:
Just as I started to enjoy myself I realized I was off Reg and didn’t bring the fill adapter for the crown. Generic or even the extended fill adapter won’t work, it has to be the FX adapter on GRS stocks if anyone wonders. Kicking myself I pick my stuff and went home to get the adapter, that killed almost 2 hours of shooting.
I’ve actually never tuned the crown up since new but got it to shoot the 12.5g NSA slugs around mid 900fps. The 500mm barrel’s sweat spot seems to be around 900 FPS, need to tune my gun better and of course I forgot the Allen wrench to adjust the Reg. So I decided to just shoot with what I got.he range is well, a range so no features at all at you can see from the picture so couldn’t tell the wind beside a little mirage but when checking target the wind feels like between 2-5mph. My 50 yard groups are hit and miss and more so at 100 yards. But when I feel the wind dies down the group really shrinks. So the poor little 12.5g NSA slugs BC is a bit low, 0.065 is the adjusted BC for them and the wind drift is spot on with strelok.
best 50 yard groups:
Best 100 yard group and the only MOA group at 100 today, Of course wind picked up on the 5th shot…..on just all my groups:
definitely a fun time at the range but I’m a little disappointed on how poorly the slugs did in the very mild wind. Might stick to .22 with almost 40% better BC, I want to shoot at their 300 yard range one of these days and 5mph wind blows the slugs over 1 Mil is not good, will be hard to get on paper like that at 200 yards.
Edit: for those who got the crimson trace scopes on sale I had no issues spotting 177 holes on 100 yard target even with the series 3 scope. Even watched the little 177 slugs curl by the wind at 100 yards still, pretty cool. As much as I love my Element helix scope the glass on the CT scopes is in a completely different league for only 100 dollars more when they were on close out.
I completely over looked one of my 100 yard papers that was at the bottom of the stack and missed 3 of the of the really good groups I shot on Sunday. Best one is apparently 0.73 MOA C2C! 
