RTI MORA .25 CAL STANDARD
First impressions after 10 days ownership
Before jumping into pros and cons, let me give you an introduction first.
I do not promote guns nor brands because I’m getting paid or free stuff, I do what I do because I’m passionate about Air gunning and love sharing.
I always paid for my toys.
These are just my opinions and nothing comes from “ What I have been told” but straight from what I have experienced.
So let’s do it.
I chose the MORA Standard version .25 cal because it suits my needs: it’s a Hunting set up, the choice of the scope, slugs and Vo depends only by your personal preferences, in my opinion there is no best gun/scope/ammo but only what works best for you.
As soon as you open the beautiful rifle case in which the gun comes in, you notice the manufacture quality, the foam is precisely laser cut and all the accessories are placed neatly. As you pick up the gun, which is on the heavy side especially on the back, I have noticed how well was made and I did not t get the impression I got anything cheap, all the machining are superb and having owned several different models and brands I can say only a few can brag about a similar level. The gun comes also with 2 beautiful 15 rounds (.25 cal ) magazines designed to accommodate huge slugs even beyond what is available in the mass produced slugs market. RTI is the only brand doing this unique magazines, needles to say they are also well made. The Mora comes also with the huge Hush 50 suppressor, is very effective taming the noise level down; if you shoot the gun with the shroud only, which has a monocore inside wrapped with felt, you notice a crack noise more similar to to a .22 lr with no moderator installed. Using the Hush .50 will make the gun backyard friendly.
The gun came set by the factory to shoot JSB 25,39 gr at 280 m/s or 920 fps, it has 2 Regs, the first comes at 220 bar and the second Reg at 90/100 bar, analog gauges are notoriously imprecise and not easy to read, lately I installed a digital one and noticed that the factory one was reading 10 bar less than the Seckmeth. I did not shoot on paper with pellets, as I’m not interested in that kind of projectiles anymore but used them to break the gun in before adjusting the power to my needs. I really suggest you to shoot 2/3 hundreds of rounds ( the more the better) before adjusting anything to your preference, let the gun settle down and break in is a must for me.
One of the most interesting features is the new pneumatic hammer, what RTI did is routing the air from the plenum behind the hammer, a pin that acts as a spring, changing up or down the pressure to the regulator will automatically change the force needed to open the valve correctly which means you do not need to adjust the hammer tension anymore to get the best consistency. As I’m not the most entitled person to talk about this particular subject nor technical stuff due to low experience of this particularI rifle, I suggest you to watch Gregor Kamensek You tube channel and Brendan Mahaffey channel. Another good source is obviously Steve Ott who has a deeper understating and ownership of this gun.
Talking briefly about the valve: The purpose of the valve is determine how much air is pushed behind your projectile of choice, opening it up will add more velocity and closing it down will do the opposite. You don’t use the valve to bring the Velocity up but only to bring consistency in, the Reg will be used to increase the velocity, usually 30 fps ( more or less) above your ideal velocity, then with the valve fully open you start reducing the velocity until you get the best result you are satisfied with. This is the best way I learnt to tune the gun.
The Mora is equipped with an awesome 600 mm RPB light choke barrel, made by Lothar Walther barrel according by RTI specification . It has a 1.22 twist and it was made to shoot nominal calibers, in my case .250
The only slug I shot trough it until now is the Zan 45 gr at 1007 fps which performed unbelievable good. The reason I did not tried anything else yet is because they performed so awesome that I thought I would not have found anything better than that. Keep in mind that what I think is the best result for me may vary for others . I’m not a paper puncher so the included random group is more than enough for what I need. The group is the only one I shot at that distance, not cherry picked.
Coming about what I dislike.
What I don’t like about the gun is just a couple of things: the rubbery butt pad is prone to come off easily and if you do not keep an eye on it you can easily lose it in the filed. The bottle protector with m lock slots is quite good, a bit flimsy in my opinion but nothing tragic. What is missing is the arca rail adaptor, if you shoot from a tripod is mandatory and also a picatinny rail as well. I bought them separately. I also include the lack of but pad adjustability, making shooting prone uncomfortable.
Concluding.
What impressed me the most about Mora: the gun is the easiest tunable gun ever tried, less hold sensitive, more accurate out of the box gun ever tried. Period.
It can deliver unmatched power out of the box, I set mine at 182 bar and with this configuration I get 50 shots at 101 FP or 138 j. Being a hunting Gun, capable of taking large pests like coyote size even at 200 plus yards dropping them stone dead with a solid shot placement (neck area and not body shots). Jaylee Britt rules
I want to point out also: Mora does not lose the POI even if you leave the gun sit for days or if you clean the barrel, found only 1 click difference.
When you take the rifle out of the case, you do not need to purge it taking dry fires to make it shoot straight and true. if you do your part and if it’s dialed correctly it’s 1 shot 1 kill. Tried “cold bore shots” at 150 yards, orange size targets and it is what I like to call a “Death sentence”
I really suggest you to give it a try, it will make you smile for days after you realize there is nothing else like that on the market and until now has proved to be a solid, reliable Air rifle.
The last thing worth to mention and the only one coming from "What I have been told" exception that proves the rule
is not easy getting spare parts because of the high demand of this product. So do not mess around with it too much, do not strip it unless you are sure about what you are doing and at least getting your self a spare o ring kit is a must
Cheers.
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