I wanted to see how the onboard crony was performing so, I whipped out my Air Chrony and sent some shots through.
There was an 11 fps average difference between the two readings. But, the difference was
consistent. I expected that there would be a few fps difference between the on-board crony and an external crony. (I didn't quite expect it to be ~11fps but, I could believe it to be true.) This test shows me that the on-board crony works and that I can trust the numbers it's showing me.
It does make me wonder though. If someone says that MKII's shoot best at 860, are they technically shooting around 870 at the muzzle? When I chrony my other rifles, I don't go through the trouble of exposing a bare barrel so my crony gets a true "at the muzzle" reading.
A few notes on the screen readout. 1st off, don't necessarily program your rifle to shoot the numbers shown. That's not a secret recipe, it's just me messing around.
On the top, you can see "
168 bar reg" That's the actual reg pressure. If you decide to adjust the mechanical reg, that's where you'll be looking to set the pressure. The reg can be adjusted UP at any time with a flat head screwdriver. But, the air
must first be fully drained, if the reg is to be adjusted DOWN!
"
Active Set", and everything below it, is the programmed recipe the rifle is working towards achieving.
The last line, "
PRES. 170 bar" is what the program wants the reg be set to. In this pic, my reg is technically 2 bar lower than what the program wants. That's well within the margin of error (5bar+/-) and the rifle will function just fine. In other words, you probably won't notice a difference by chasing down those 2 bars of pressure.
The very first change I made to my rifles setting was the "Auto Power Off" time! It arrived set at 1 minute and was constantly shutting off before I wanted it to. This setting has a bunch of selections ranging from :30 seconds to 1.5 hours. The rifle does make a noise when it turns on so, if you're using it in the hunting environment double check your time setting.
Red Wolf owners have to cycle the bolt in order to turn their rifle back on. With the new magazine design, this could lead to a double load, if the shooter wasn't paying attention to what they were doing. This is changed with the Delta Wolf. In order to turn the rifle back on, you just need to cycle the safety switch.
I'm not really one to post pics of groups and the wind is blowing all over the place today so, no accuracy pics or reports. Besides, I'm really just learning the rifle and messing with settings. So, I'm sure you can imagine what some of those groups would look like! lol!
Tom
