Flyers.
- Thread starter muradtexas
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I don't care much about a chrono, yes it is always ON but when I shoot at the club that is at least 200 shots a day and more ... and I am monitoring the POI @ 100, and scoring.
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Solo1, how about you shoot a 200 at 30 yards and I'll consider redoing my pellet sorting tests at 100 yards.
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After recording my target shooting with my pard, I noticed some of the unexplained flyers were in fact my fault. When I played back the recording and saw the x hair actually moved off the bulls eye and hit slightly off because I pulled it off.
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I have purposely run pellets with bent skirts. Meh wasn’t a big deal. Decided to clean my barrel fo no good reason, BAD HORRIBLE MISTAKE. Groups were horrible, after 60 or so it went back it very tight groups. If I don’t follow through in the shot for a second I get a ‘flyer’. I can shove most anything in my guns and they shoot insanely well At 30 yards. Slugs are the exception. Purely hit and generally miss.
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I've only messed around with slugs. My P35-25 will shoot a couple reasonably well, like 3/4 inch groups or so at 30 yards. It shoots pellets into groups half as large or less, however. My P35-177 sprays 10.3 grain knockouts all over the place. Others report great accuracy with these in their Snowpeaks. I can't reliably even hit a piece of paper at 30 yards. I hit a chronograph (fortunately a cheap one) with one and ruined it. It definitely has not given me results worth the money I've spent on the slugs.
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Shooting at 30 has very little to do with shooting at 100 and if you shot at 100 you would soon learn that. I don’t shoot at 30 specifically because it pratcice more varied distances( field target) and i shoot at 100 which is why i know its a whole different animal than 30. But just for the hell of it here are 15 5 shot groups shot single loaded 1 right after the other with no consideration for the wind and only stopping to put more air in the gun
The only other difference is velocity on top row 950 fps. 810 fps middle 810 fps less mod bottom. And i would love to see you shoot at least 200 out of 250 at 100. I don’t think you can
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Solo1, Those are really good groups at 100 yards. I rarely shoot at 100 because I have to drive an hour or more to a range to shoot that far. When I have done it my groups were not even close to yours. Sorting pellets might help, I haven't tried it so I don't really know. I've only shot at 100 when there was noticable wind which I am pretty sure was a factor.
My point about the 30 yard challenge is just that I think most people find it harder than they think it will be to hit a 1/8th inch 10 ring and a dot of an X ring at 30 yards consistently. I can shot 30 yards in my yard so I do that a lot more often.
Jim
My point about the 30 yard challenge is just that I think most people find it harder than they think it will be to hit a 1/8th inch 10 ring and a dot of an X ring at 30 yards consistently. I can shot 30 yards in my yard so I do that a lot more often.
Jim
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Thanks, man. These JTS pellets worked. I took them to the range and although they group slightly worse overall, they produced no flyers. Since people were asking what exactly I mean by flyers, here's a picture of a 30m 6-shot JSB group with 2 flyers. You can see how tight they group when they do group and how bad it opens up.
Took her to 70m with JTS to get some dope, this is the group they gave me....couldn't ask for much more.
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Muradtexas, give the rifle more rounds. My rifle has about 1000-rounds through it now and the bore has just started to 'come-in' and start grouping well!
I wasn't pleased with the rifle's performance to start with, but it's really starting to show it's potential now!
I wasn't pleased with the rifle's performance to start with, but it's really starting to show it's potential now!
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Interesting. I know firearms require some amount of copper fouling to shoot their best, is that something similar in airguns? But yeah, I'll keep those pellets around to try them again here and there. Will also play with different tunes once I have a compressor setup or at least a tank. Pumping it by hand doesn't make it easy to tinker with tunes haha.Muradtexas, give the rifle more rounds. My rifle has about 1000-rounds through it now and the bore has just started to 'come-in' and start grouping well!
I wasn't pleased with the rifle's performance to start with, but it's really starting to show it's potential now!
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