Some of you may know that I have Gauntlet2 that I have been disapointed with since I've owned it. I have allready returned it, but Umerex was happy with its accuracy, and sent it back to me. I just thought that a rifle aught to be able to out shoot my pistol? To fix my problem I purchased an Fx Crown Mk2, and kept this guy to learn on.
I want to mention that my G2 is not representative of all G2's out there. Some folks have great shooters.
Right now Im intensionaly shooting coarse ammo in an attempt to break in the chamber chamfer, which didn't exist when I got it. This idea was passed along by someone who knows Gauntlets. Besides I'm ejoying it, and the guns is improving.
I had purchased a couple cans of Copper thinking that those should be harder than Crosman's. One of the tins shot awful, and the other shot as good as i've seen this gun shoot.
The awful ones were Excite Spitzkugel's Giving me a group of 4.5 inches at 28 yards, 153 shots
The others were H&N Baracuda Power. They shot about an inch and half, with most centered and fliers around the perimeter. The Baracuda's were good enough that I could get off the paper and do some plinking.
Next I'll shoot all of my Crossman and Benjamin's, then clean the barrel meticulously, and shoot some JSB 18gr, and see if we're making progress.
The gun is in its best shape at the moment with a nice trigger, and cocking without missing, you know, when you have to pull the mag to prevent a double load? It hasn't been doing that any more.
I'm still having to hit the bolt with my palm to seat the pellets though, but it is getting easier.
Here's the target
The Excite group in the middle, and the Barracuda's lower left. They had some pretty good pop on those Co2 cartridges. Took a primer out of a shotgun hull, and all kinds of other amall targets.
