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AirMaks Arms Katran Compact in .22 - oh Yeah!
- By RobBonnell89
- PCP Airguns
- 10 Replies
Nice Katran! Awesome to hear your wife is enjoying the hobby too. Such a great gun and I absolutely love mine. I do like the looks of the tube version better than my bottle. Mine needs a good tuning(wasting air) but shoots so good I haven’t touched it. I was farting with mine last week and shot my best 30 yard group ever. Definitely some luck involved but shows what the gun is capable of. Mine and that 5 shot group from last week.
Utah might still have some on sale if you need one for yourself
Happy Shooting
Rob
Utah might still have some on sale if you need one for yourself
Happy Shooting
Rob
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30-Yard Challenge
- By EPG
- Target Shooting Challenges
- 3332 Replies
Speaking of Crowns... I swapped the 700mm barrel off of my .22 Crown and swapped the 500mm back on.
I had been shooting heavier pellets with the long 700mm barrel since last fall. The rifle shoots great with the 700mm, but it was always insanely accurate with the 500mm shooting 18.13g.
I was texting Greg and Tommy after I did the swap. Sighting it in with the 500mm, I shot 1 group at 40 yards - 5 shots measured .126" center to center - I texted it to Tommy and Greg and said it was now time for a card...
...Tommy texted back and said that I better shoot a 240, lol.
Well, first card with the .22 Crown at 500mm is a leaderboard submission for 40-Challenge (but not a 240):
197 11X
.22 Crown Mk 2 (500mm)
FX 18.13g at 900fps (FX Chrono)
Sightron SII 36X fixed power.
Here is a picture of the current state of my two Crowns. The blue one is using Greg's (NAProf) 380mm .177 barrel. The green one is the .22 500mm. I recently swapped the 480cc bottle on the green Crown to 580cc. Both Crowns bought off the AGN Classifieds. The blue one came with a synthetic stock but had the big 580cc bottle. I found the blue stock used on the AGN Classifieds. Both rifles are insanely accurate as per my leaderboard submissions. I've done some modest work on both rifles refining them (even improvements to the crummy FX triggers) - but if your looking to target shoot with pellets, its hard to beat a used Crown or Dreamline for the money.
-Ed
I had been shooting heavier pellets with the long 700mm barrel since last fall. The rifle shoots great with the 700mm, but it was always insanely accurate with the 500mm shooting 18.13g.
I was texting Greg and Tommy after I did the swap. Sighting it in with the 500mm, I shot 1 group at 40 yards - 5 shots measured .126" center to center - I texted it to Tommy and Greg and said it was now time for a card...
...Tommy texted back and said that I better shoot a 240, lol.
Well, first card with the .22 Crown at 500mm is a leaderboard submission for 40-Challenge (but not a 240):
197 11X
.22 Crown Mk 2 (500mm)
FX 18.13g at 900fps (FX Chrono)
Sightron SII 36X fixed power.
Here is a picture of the current state of my two Crowns. The blue one is using Greg's (NAProf) 380mm .177 barrel. The green one is the .22 500mm. I recently swapped the 480cc bottle on the green Crown to 580cc. Both Crowns bought off the AGN Classifieds. The blue one came with a synthetic stock but had the big 580cc bottle. I found the blue stock used on the AGN Classifieds. Both rifles are insanely accurate as per my leaderboard submissions. I've done some modest work on both rifles refining them (even improvements to the crummy FX triggers) - but if your looking to target shoot with pellets, its hard to beat a used Crown or Dreamline for the money.
-Ed
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HW/Weihrauch Hw30/Olympia Hobby pellet test.
- By Mycapt65
- Traditional Airguns
- 2 Replies
Because I avoid giving more money than I have to to China and all the great stuff I've seen out of Poland lately, I bought this tin of Olympia pellets on a whim from PA. I didn't realize they're labeled Hobby with no specified weight. PA lists them at 7.87 I suspect that's wrong and they're heavier.
You can see in this video
there was a bit of a breeze so I kept the testing to 25 yards and simply ignored the wind through the whole test. The rifle is my Laminate Hw30. It will give just about any springer a run for its money <25 yards and most past that.
The pellets and chrono results are on the target the numbers read Average- Extreme Spread and Standard Deviation.
The Olympia pellets varied a little in fit and it showed in the ES. The average fit was about the same as the other JSB made pellets. JSBs tend to be small to begin with. The power on the Olympia was markedly lower than the Others. It was also markedly lower in my Hw50. I suspect these are really closer to 8.5 grains. I'm too lazy to break out a scale right now. Incidentally they performed about as well in the Hw50.
My overall feel for these is, they're clean, decent pellets, but not a real bargain at 12 bucks a 500 tin. I'd say they're better than an average tin of Walmart Crosmans but not as good as a good tin of Walmart Crosmans. These however are typical soft lead so you won't ever have to scrub them out of a barrel. Since these are the "Hobby" version I'll try other versions from Olympia to see if they're on par with JSB. Olympia is made in the deep south of Poland. Not far from JSB in the Czech Republic. Interestingly they mimic the same weights as JSB.
I'll do more testing with these on a calm day with another rifle.
Be well
Ron
You can see in this video
The pellets and chrono results are on the target the numbers read Average- Extreme Spread and Standard Deviation.
The Olympia pellets varied a little in fit and it showed in the ES. The average fit was about the same as the other JSB made pellets. JSBs tend to be small to begin with. The power on the Olympia was markedly lower than the Others. It was also markedly lower in my Hw50. I suspect these are really closer to 8.5 grains. I'm too lazy to break out a scale right now. Incidentally they performed about as well in the Hw50.
My overall feel for these is, they're clean, decent pellets, but not a real bargain at 12 bucks a 500 tin. I'd say they're better than an average tin of Walmart Crosmans but not as good as a good tin of Walmart Crosmans. These however are typical soft lead so you won't ever have to scrub them out of a barrel. Since these are the "Hobby" version I'll try other versions from Olympia to see if they're on par with JSB. Olympia is made in the deep south of Poland. Not far from JSB in the Czech Republic. Interestingly they mimic the same weights as JSB.
I'll do more testing with these on a calm day with another rifle.
Be well
Ron
30-Yard Challenge
- By EPG
- Target Shooting Challenges
- 3332 Replies
Hi Guys,
Had a calm evening yesterday after a 4 day mini-Nor'Easter (10-20kt winds instead of 30-40kt). So broke out the FT rig to see if I could replace my "Mulligan" score on the leaderboard.
30yd Challenge - 198 - 15x So I didn't quite beat the 198 -17x, but at least it won't have to marked as a "Mulligan Card".
This was shot using a CARM SSL straight out of the FX 13.4gr tin. This lot of tins is primarily 4.52mm heads and this barrel seems to like them better than some of my other lot which tend to be 4.54mm heads. I am not sorting the pellets. I just do a quick test with a 4.53 Pellet Gager (48 pellets at once) when I first open the tin to see what I have. Generally, if they fall through this gage, I find that when measured more accurately they tend to be 90% 4.52mm, 6% 4.53, and 4% 4.51.
Cheers,
Greg
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Awesome card Greg - we will use it to replace your "Mulligan" card - although we know that your mulligan card was legit - that the extra shot was not intentional.
Great shooting with that Crown...
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What are the downsides of semi-auto?
- By jarmstrong
- General Discussion
- 46 Replies
if you are going to sit down and shoot the whole magazine, the semi autos are great, on a target shoot or a massive ground squirrel attack ,, but for me they are not needed for a 'at the ready', just cock and shoot the lone starling or house sparrow that mistakenly drops by,,, or a truck gun for that oppurtunity for a single kill,,, I have a Huben that needs repaired but I am no hurry to send it off,,, fun gun but it doesn't fit my use, that 's all,, not bad mouthing semi auto, it is just me,,, they are for fun vs being a work tool,, as the Kozak popped another collared dove this morn for cat food, shot from bedroom window, one shot, one kill
my Huben has the broken latch/catch for the mag revoling,,
to me semi auto is purely for the enjoyment,,, they are fun
my Huben has the broken latch/catch for the mag revoling,,
to me semi auto is purely for the enjoyment,,, they are fun
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PCP Rifle NLA WTS Panthera 700mm 22 cal
- By drsquall
- Member Classifieds
- 0 Replies
I got this in a trade and it had leak issue. It was sent off and just got it back and pulled it out of the box and it's holding air and shot some slugs thru it to check function and no leaks. I'm having to get out of PRS due to back issues so I'm selling this now. It's in great shape has a few small scuffs on it but in good shape. I bought a used saber tactical front for it and haven't put it on. It will come with that as well. It has the barrel weights (2) still in package. It has 2 factory mags and 2 aftermarket mags made by Orion. It will come with 2 boxes of Zan 33gr .218 slugs and a bottle full of H&N slugs as well. I never mounted a scope on to check accuracy. It has a digital gauge on the reg and saber tactical bag rider. 
I would like to get a $1,000 plus shipping for it to lower 48.
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What did you do airgun related today.
- By RossK
- General Discussion
- 2140 Replies
My airgun activities have taken a back seat, this time of year food planting takes priority.
Now caught up on crops, I found time today to get the new kid out of the cabinet and fasten some glass.
Now caught up on crops, I found time today to get the new kid out of the cabinet and fasten some glass.
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