Looks good Steve. How does that compare to the .25 V3 with 49.5 Smooth or 60 Queens?
You know the 32.3 Smooth come in 5.50 and 5.52?
Also, what is your reasoning for shooting the Queens (60g) versus the Smooth (49.5g) in .25. Seems like you did well last weekend with the Queens, but which is more accurate? I heard the scoring conditions were excellent, and it couldn't be all about BC because Peykan shot a slug with a 0.125 to 0.130 BC.
Ooops messed up again, "32.3" gr not 32.5gr, and mine are the 5.52.
After trying them a few more times now those 49.5's in my V3 throw flyers some times. The 60's are more consistent in my V3 as far as the slugs I've tried which have been only the Altaros. So that's the #1 reason I use them.
I suppose I should try some other brands of slugs for the heck of it.
Though certianly I'd rather be choosing when to shoot via the extra time afforded me using the gun as a repeater vs waisting that time taking the mag out to single load and putting it back in again. This convenience would cost me points with this gun and the 49.5's.
Any advantage using the Queens I would have against others with mid BC slugs would be if its windy, meaning 10 mph+, otherwise I'm not seeing it. Actually I'm surprised that I still have to aim towards the edge of the KZ in normal winds past about 80Y.
On the other end of the BC spectrum Ben getting a 46/48 with pellets at UFT was quite a feat!
Yeah remember when we contemplated this BC, FPS, and weight for slugs, on a thread back when Peykan first shot his Panthera at UFT, and I mentioned that we didn't know exactly how that would pan out??? Well I'm still not exactly sure.
Some thoughts.
Personally I'm struggling to shoot my V3 well.
In one way it's because the LOP is a bit too long for me.
In another way it shoots best for me when muscled into my shoulder or I should say I'm steadier with it that way vs a relaxed hold. BUT the downsides of that is if my NPA is slightly off I get bit to whichever side I'm torquing the gun, and I suspect its because the gun is light and the extra recoil at 60gr/99 fpe/862 fps becomes a hindrance. I can see the crosshair jump to the side when I do this. One of my misses was attributed to this last Saturday as I was holding in the KZ when I shot but the strike was almost an inch left yet no way the wind was that hard and on a mid difficulty KZ size. Try as I may not to make this mistake its happening here and there.
My Anschutz 22rf has the LOP and cheek piece set perfectly for me and even though its also a light gun it fits me nice.
1060 fps so out of the barrel quicker.
Awesome trigger.
Short lock time.
More precision than the V3.
Ergos A+
These all help me out or the very the very least I shoot this gun better.
Like I mentioned in the recent UFT thread - Peykan's Panthera is a BEAST with my guess of 16-ish pounds and weighted perfectly. I'd sure like to try it out a few shots.
That being said I suspect that the extra weight, "now that the offhand stage is aided with a high bipid" is a great benfit.
It'd be fun if we could all try each others gun and slug combo's out on the course and discuss how we felt afterwards.
