Me and my two sons have a field target match this weekend so I just did a quick speed verification over the chrono.
9year old Colben will be shooting the .20 Veteran Short, using 13.73gr JSBs. Five shots came in at: 819, 817, 819, 815, 818. That makes his gun marginally legal. By my interpretation, 809fps would be just under 20fpe, 2% variance would get us up to 825fps. So his gun needs the 2% variance. I don't like being that close, and it was down around 805 last time I checked it. After the match I'll check again and see where it's at.
5 year old Cabe will be using a .22 Veteran Standard, with the JSB RS 13.43gr pellets. 5 over the chrono yielded: 812, 809, 811, 812, 807. All of those are legal, without needing the 2% variance.
And I'll be using the Ghost .20, also with the 13.73gr JSB. As explained elsewhere, Im compromising with a higher than necessary reg pressure so I can spin the power wheel and shoot the .20 Heavy s for long range fun, and as a result, the first two cold shots with the 13.73s are low fps. After I got those out of the way, I was 799, 804, 807, 804, 806. Those are all also field target legal.
This is Colben's third year but this match will be Cabes first one. On Saturday we were plinking/practicing and they were both popping paintballs at 40 yards with ease. I found some 3/8" water beads in the grass (that they'd been playing with a day or two earlier) and set them at 40 yards. They exploded them too. Cabe got his first water bead on the second shot, Colben on his fourth shot. After I'd been going back and forth setting the paintballs up for them to shoot I was hoping the water beads would be a tougher target and keep them occupied for longer, but nope.
Colben and I will be Hunter class and Cabe Freestyle (b/c of the creative use of that camp chair as his gun rest).
It's been fun practicing with both of them the last few weeks.
9year old Colben will be shooting the .20 Veteran Short, using 13.73gr JSBs. Five shots came in at: 819, 817, 819, 815, 818. That makes his gun marginally legal. By my interpretation, 809fps would be just under 20fpe, 2% variance would get us up to 825fps. So his gun needs the 2% variance. I don't like being that close, and it was down around 805 last time I checked it. After the match I'll check again and see where it's at.
5 year old Cabe will be using a .22 Veteran Standard, with the JSB RS 13.43gr pellets. 5 over the chrono yielded: 812, 809, 811, 812, 807. All of those are legal, without needing the 2% variance.
And I'll be using the Ghost .20, also with the 13.73gr JSB. As explained elsewhere, Im compromising with a higher than necessary reg pressure so I can spin the power wheel and shoot the .20 Heavy s for long range fun, and as a result, the first two cold shots with the 13.73s are low fps. After I got those out of the way, I was 799, 804, 807, 804, 806. Those are all also field target legal.
This is Colben's third year but this match will be Cabes first one. On Saturday we were plinking/practicing and they were both popping paintballs at 40 yards with ease. I found some 3/8" water beads in the grass (that they'd been playing with a day or two earlier) and set them at 40 yards. They exploded them too. Cabe got his first water bead on the second shot, Colben on his fourth shot. After I'd been going back and forth setting the paintballs up for them to shoot I was hoping the water beads would be a tougher target and keep them occupied for longer, but nope.
Colben and I will be Hunter class and Cabe Freestyle (b/c of the creative use of that camp chair as his gun rest).
It's been fun practicing with both of them the last few weeks.
