Hi All
I managed to get my hands on a Jackal M10 .25 Cal Chinese barrel and quickly installed it on to my Chinese SPA P12 Scorpion Air Rifle. A word of warning don’t do this a day before you are going hunting, its madness.
A trip to the local 30 m indoor shooting range, and a few shots over the chronograph gave me the following results:
JSB Kings (170 bar) 996, 998, 1009, 1012, 1012, 1012 fps
JSB King Heavy (170 bar) 921, 922, 921, 931, 929, 920 fps – that’s 64 fpe
On the first farm I managed to clock 6 Francolin with the King Heavies, but I could see that birds shot under 50 m, would take a few drunken steps and then fall over dead. Birds shot at app. 75 m and further it was lights out.
http://imgur.com/fxJohzR
I drove to the second farm and managed to pick up 2 more Francolin and my first Guineafowl with an air rifle. The Guineafowl was shot at app. 85 m, the heavy whacked him like a sledge hammer.
http://imgur.com/ji4Vfi4
From 10h00 the Rock Pigeons come and sit on the pump station power lines and one has shooting all day.
http://imgur.com/rgddHqm
So far, I am very impressed shooting King Heavies at 920 fps, I normally shoot JSB Beast 16.2 gr .177 out of a HW 100 barrel at 925 fps. The first pigeon at 30 m took a heart/lung shot and flew off for 100 m then died. I sent my GSP “Roxie” for a retrieve and this proceeded to happen now and then over the next 10 shots.
I tried JSB Kings with the same result, so I fished a tin of Samyang domed pellets out of my shooting box and they were very effective in killing pigeons but I missed more than I shot. Pellet brand number 4, JSB Polymag’s a quick re-zero and I was good to go. First pigeon up, I could see through the scope how the pigeon was instantly killed and how the pellet actual picks the pigeon off the line a flings it backwards - Awesome.
Man, JSB should have call their Polymag’s “Hammer of Thor” and not Predator. I spent the rest of the day shooting pigeons with polymag’s doing over 1000 fps. I didn’t have one pigeon flying off and dying elsewhere and did I mention that they also grouped very well.
http://imgur.com/uROdtaR
In conclusion I realised that I am shooting the King Heavies too fast at 920 fps (64 fpe) for pigeons at 30 m. I have dialled my P12 down to 820 fps (50 fpe) and will keep you posted on my next hunt trip, which should be this weekend.
I managed to get my hands on a Jackal M10 .25 Cal Chinese barrel and quickly installed it on to my Chinese SPA P12 Scorpion Air Rifle. A word of warning don’t do this a day before you are going hunting, its madness.
A trip to the local 30 m indoor shooting range, and a few shots over the chronograph gave me the following results:
JSB Kings (170 bar) 996, 998, 1009, 1012, 1012, 1012 fps
JSB King Heavy (170 bar) 921, 922, 921, 931, 929, 920 fps – that’s 64 fpe
On the first farm I managed to clock 6 Francolin with the King Heavies, but I could see that birds shot under 50 m, would take a few drunken steps and then fall over dead. Birds shot at app. 75 m and further it was lights out.
http://imgur.com/fxJohzR
I drove to the second farm and managed to pick up 2 more Francolin and my first Guineafowl with an air rifle. The Guineafowl was shot at app. 85 m, the heavy whacked him like a sledge hammer.
http://imgur.com/ji4Vfi4
From 10h00 the Rock Pigeons come and sit on the pump station power lines and one has shooting all day.
http://imgur.com/rgddHqm
So far, I am very impressed shooting King Heavies at 920 fps, I normally shoot JSB Beast 16.2 gr .177 out of a HW 100 barrel at 925 fps. The first pigeon at 30 m took a heart/lung shot and flew off for 100 m then died. I sent my GSP “Roxie” for a retrieve and this proceeded to happen now and then over the next 10 shots.
I tried JSB Kings with the same result, so I fished a tin of Samyang domed pellets out of my shooting box and they were very effective in killing pigeons but I missed more than I shot. Pellet brand number 4, JSB Polymag’s a quick re-zero and I was good to go. First pigeon up, I could see through the scope how the pigeon was instantly killed and how the pellet actual picks the pigeon off the line a flings it backwards - Awesome.
Man, JSB should have call their Polymag’s “Hammer of Thor” and not Predator. I spent the rest of the day shooting pigeons with polymag’s doing over 1000 fps. I didn’t have one pigeon flying off and dying elsewhere and did I mention that they also grouped very well.
http://imgur.com/uROdtaR
In conclusion I realised that I am shooting the King Heavies too fast at 920 fps (64 fpe) for pigeons at 30 m. I have dialled my P12 down to 820 fps (50 fpe) and will keep you posted on my next hunt trip, which should be this weekend.
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