Looks pretty good. I guess I could wish for on board magazine storage. Is there anywhere in that stock where they clip in?
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You are right, is more defined for sure. But not more accurate, and fore sure, less efficient. However, I really want to test the little Poltergeist.Ghost is more refined than a Prophet, and not just by a little bit.
Edit: noticed you said Prophet 2. No experience on the gen 2 Prophets so I should clarify that a Ghost is more refined than the original Prophet.
If it has the classic 1:17.7 LW Rifled chocked barrel, a good polish and some 13.43gr/16.20gr can help a lot at 40y+The example I'm reviewing in the link I shared a few posts back seems to be able to keep 5 shot groups all touching at 30 yards. 10 shot groups at 50 or 55 yards are averaging around 0.7-0.8inches with a couple of the best 10 shot/50 yard groups being under 0.4inches.. That's with JSB 10.34gr pellets.
Every guns suffer harmonics. More or less. Of course, the Ghost has an interesting way to keep the barrel in place.Other than projectile weight, there are three ways to tune for velocity: regulator pressure, hammer spring tension (power wheel), and adjustment of the hammer stroke/travel.
That harmonics word gets tossed around quite a bit. but I'm not sure it's a word that belongs in a discussion of the Ghost. The Ghost's barrel is supported throughout the length of the backbone/chassis. For example, on the configuration that I have, only a few inches of the 17inch barrel extends past the solid aluminum frame of the gun. Within that frame, in three different locations, are orings, centering the barrel inside the billet alum chassis. And two of those orings are small cross-section, so there's not much viton between the barrel and the frame. Furthermore, the mounting screw (or rather BOLT) is relatively large, with small tolerances. In short, the barrel starts out as a solid steel barrel (not thin walled liner) and is further supported by a rigid backbone, for much of its length. Harmonics always makes me think resonance (which a less worry-inducing word for vibrate), and there's just not much opportunity for anything to resonate in the Ghost with all that support.
Not just talking about slugs. I simply mean a fussy barrel. One that only really likes one projectile at one speed.One trick ponies? Meaning they just shoot pellets? You can simply then switch out the barrel to one for slugs… Non issue.
The .177 Carbine behaves the same way (the lower the reg pressure the less influence the power wheel has). My assumption is that the regulator pressure becomes the power limiting factor as it comes down. But when the regulator pressure is high for the pellet weight, then the hammer strike (driven by hammer spring tension) becomes the power limiting factor. Yep, ENDLESS combinations to get the most out of the chosen projectile at the desired fps, all while either focusing on efficiency or power.Did a deep dive into the Ghost 22 hp today so we can ship rifles at a good state of tune. The findings are as follows. The lower the regulator pressure the less the power wheel has influence on speed. We found 150 bar gave 895 fps with 25 grain jsb with wheel at min set. 80 + shots from 250 bar. Wheel on max 980 fps. Did not do a shot count. The adjustments are quick easy and fun to play with. Endless amounts of possible tunes to get the same, more, or less power. We even had the gun running at 90 bar 900 fps 25 grain pellets but was wasting air.
Rob
My Ranger which I sent back had the trigger assembly on the left. Hopefully, the Ranger replacement has the same one.
Old style vs. newer style
What is wrong with ninja regs? Have 2 raptors have the adjustable ninja on one of them and it works fineWell.....I can offer some thoughts there, as I was an early JSAR Raptor adopter and owned one for about 18 months.
The Raptor isn't that bad of a gun. Most that talked (or still do) crap about it never shot nor saw one. BUT, the Ghost is miles ahead of the Raptor, both in design and build quality (one example: HUMA vs Ninja?!?!), but ESPECIALLY in support. That was the Raptor's big downfall, poor support. The Ghost on the other hand, has the dealer network and got-your-back ness of one of the oldest, biggest and most well-respected airgun manufacturers.
Is your Ghost a .22?Mine came with the regulator set at 160 with RDs shooting 985 FPS. They shot fine but faster than I needed. Backed it down to 130 and they are at around 935 FPS. SD is around 1-3 but I need to remeasure and not play around with the power wheel.
Today, my bottle was dropping pressure from shooting so I popped in some HN Baracuda Hunter Extremes just out of curiosity. Zero POI change!!! Shot it all the way down to ~70 bar. No idea about the FPS.
This rifle makes me want to sell my other ones.