Priest 2, can't reach velocities others can?
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My .25 Priest has the hammer weight and it’s in there. I stopped at 940fps with a 25gr pellet and wasn’t maxed out on my hammer spring. It’s in there because they designed my gun and are smarter than me. The air requirement on your .22 must not require the hammer to smash the valve as hard and have the dwell that a .25cal does.
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I ordered a priest 2 from AOA and my .22 has the reg set at 135 and it is shooting the redisigned at 880 don’t know if that’s tuning from AOA or what but I have made no adjustment. I bought the one with all the bells and whistles.
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They extra hammer is only designed for a 30 cal and/or a caliber with reg pressure more than 150. If you put the weight into a .22 or .25 with a light pellet with a reg pressure of 150 or below, the pellet will probably will be out the barrel before the valve closes. At least that is my understanding.
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Ordered a pretty cheap 150 bar regulator from Ali to look how this would do in comparison with the original adjustable reg @ 150 bar. Got it today and it performs exactly the same as the original one, so nothing going on here.
@150 bar i get 866 fps with the .22 JSB 25 grains Redesigned which is simply not enough to group well.
So RTI advertising the LW Long Range barrel as "capable shooting the Redesigned at up to 1050 fps", well, maybe in their dreams but not with my stock Priest. This thing needs to be opened and heavily tuned to get in that ballpark.
@150 bar i get 866 fps with the .22 JSB 25 grains Redesigned which is simply not enough to group well.
So RTI advertising the LW Long Range barrel as "capable shooting the Redesigned at up to 1050 fps", well, maybe in their dreams but not with my stock Priest. This thing needs to be opened and heavily tuned to get in that ballpark.
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Harold, if I remember when I get home this weekend, I’ll run a few 25 gr old style across the chronograph and see where they are with my setup. I have the shorter barrel and my reg is around 124 bar not 130. I was wrong. I’ll also measure my spring and you can compare it to yours.
Another though, could your barrel maybe be slightly rotated to partially close off your transfer port?
Another though, could your barrel maybe be slightly rotated to partially close off your transfer port?
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Well, with the spring with a length of 2.606”/66.20mm, and my reg at 124 bar, I got 850 fps with an old design 25 grn. With the longer spring, 2.655”/67.45mm, and the 18 gr, I got 980 fps over the 930 fps with the shorter spring. Hope this helps.
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@Harold999: I guess that sentence about the long range barrel could be a bit misleading. What we wanted to say is, when tuning the gun at over 1000fps, monsters will still stay stabilized (and not that if you put that barrel in you will get those velocities). Stock Prophet can reach those velocity. We will test new Priests soon too, but it might be a bit tricky to cock since Priest doesn't have any leverage.
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