I had a good time with this gun this past weekend at a monthly ft match.
It'd been at that 910fps with the 15.89gr power level and had previously figured out 1.5turns of the hammer tension were needed to get back to 800fps with the 13.73s to be FT legal. Got to the match site and got camp set up and then adjusted the power level, crossing my fingers that fps would repeat and all my dope data from the previous monthly match would cross over. It was perfect. Didn't have to do a thing with the turrets and it was just stacking them during plinking and sight in, from 10-55 yards.
At the first match I shot it in (in current configuration with hamster and Midas Tac scope) I shot a 50/60, and dealt with a weird situation where I thought my shots were hitting to the right on far shots, and then adjusted the turrets (Open class so allowed) and then had shots hitting to the left on close shots. I didn't know if I had the scope canted in the mounts or had wind or what so I woke up early enough on Sat morning at the match site to do some windage verification in the still morning air. I was able to figure out that the problem was two-fold, gun cant, and not being careful to get my cheek weld/eye relief just right. When making a conscious effort to have gun level and eye concentrically placed in the eye box, the windage issues I thought I was having disappeared.
Went on to shoot a 45/48. 3 misses were: pulled a shot on my first lane, went 3/4 on the offhand lane, and I think the wind got me on the 1 inch @ 45 yards shot as it was a split at about 2 oclock (got it the second time though
. All three misses were operator error.
I'm very pleased with the gun and the accuracy it provides. Quite enjoyable to shoot, very dead, pull trigger, watch pellet hit where crosshairs were at time of sear breaking. Squad mate commented that it was dang quiet, and that it is (OEM shroud only).
Field target accuracy on par with my .177 USFT (which is clean course/perfect score capable and simply exceptional), just needs a bit more hold-off for the wind than the USFT. Also a little more challenging to shoot on the bum bag just cuz it's so short. BUT I think it was a bit easier on those offhand shots, there's just not a bunch of weight hanging WAY out there in front like there is with my USFT. My only offhand practice in many, many months was 15 or 20 shots taken the evening before the match, so was pleased to drop 3 of 4 4 of them during the match.
Very sweet gun. Excellent repeatability in fps, scope zero, accuracy, precision, etc. One of my favorites, easily.
Also, as this is pretty much my general use gun, I've been grabbing it for when a inattentive starling or euro dove presents itself in my back pasture, I wanted to be able to shoot it from a bipod so I picked up one of the Airmaks UIT rail to picatinny adapters. This is for when I have it in the 29fpe configuration with the Heavy .20s. Had to modify the adapter a bit to work but seems like it'll perform its function now. The tabs that slide inside the UIT rail were just a bit too wide to fit the rail so I needed to file them down a bit. Also, couldn't tighten it down enough as it came from UA to get it to stay put so put some tiny orings on the little bolts holding it all together. They gave enough depth and "squish" for the allen bolts to tighten down and keep the rail fixed in place.
Cheapest place I could find such an adapter, as Amazon wanted something like $60 for a similar one.
https://utahairguns.com/airmaks-uit-rail-to-picatinny-adapter-5-slot/
