when you realize you have a Love/Hate relationship with it
After the bent cocking arm incident on the TX200, back to chrony work and setting up ballistic data for the gun
had been shooting 8.64's at 860ish..... which is 2-ish ft lbs over the WFTF 12 ft lb limit. some head scratching ensued, then remembered last time I shot the gun in FT competition I shot it in Open Piston, so that didnt matter..... Brain fart and too much time since Ive competed kinda blended memories and I thought I was OK for Worlds power levels
The 8.64's shoot well from that gun, at that speed. So now Im shooting 10.65's at 715 giving 12.11 ft lbs...
Have some 9 grain pellets havnt chronied yet, no idea what they'll do. Issue for me is, the 8.64's are well understood, have a bunch of them. Have no experience with the 10.65's or the 9 grain one..... Did try some 13 gr pels, High 500's for pellet speed....
One thing Ive thought of..... cocking the thing and leaving it a couple days to get it to take a set.
SO I'll ask an old question....Heavy pellet going slow, or lighter pellet going fast?
One thing I did notice, it takes several shots for the gun to settle into a "zone" of acceptable speeds.... the 10.65's started at 738 then another 8 - 10 shots to get it consistently into the 710's. Havent seen that behavior before. for a few minutes was thinking my seal or spring (12 lb kit...) was toast.
Yea... Love /Hate...
After the bent cocking arm incident on the TX200, back to chrony work and setting up ballistic data for the gun
had been shooting 8.64's at 860ish..... which is 2-ish ft lbs over the WFTF 12 ft lb limit. some head scratching ensued, then remembered last time I shot the gun in FT competition I shot it in Open Piston, so that didnt matter..... Brain fart and too much time since Ive competed kinda blended memories and I thought I was OK for Worlds power levels
The 8.64's shoot well from that gun, at that speed. So now Im shooting 10.65's at 715 giving 12.11 ft lbs...
Have some 9 grain pellets havnt chronied yet, no idea what they'll do. Issue for me is, the 8.64's are well understood, have a bunch of them. Have no experience with the 10.65's or the 9 grain one..... Did try some 13 gr pels, High 500's for pellet speed....
One thing Ive thought of..... cocking the thing and leaving it a couple days to get it to take a set.
SO I'll ask an old question....Heavy pellet going slow, or lighter pellet going fast?
One thing I did notice, it takes several shots for the gun to settle into a "zone" of acceptable speeds.... the 10.65's started at 738 then another 8 - 10 shots to get it consistently into the 710's. Havent seen that behavior before. for a few minutes was thinking my seal or spring (12 lb kit...) was toast.
Yea... Love /Hate...