Hello AirgunNation Peoples,
Spring weather finally co-operated, blessed with a beautiful and sunny weekend to try out my slug tuned FX Crown .25!
With the handful of various power and barrel upgrades, all geared towards using NSA slugs (33.5g). Maxed, she’ll give me 70 FT/LBS.
My Crown .25 definitely has the umph, but does it have the accuracy? Saturday morning had almost perfect conditions in regards to the weather for putting slugs on paper at 60 yards. So good indeed that I chose to double that distance to 120 yards. Beyond 100 yards is not the norm for me, but “Hey, why not?” ,try longer groups since slugs are made to go the distance.
The remnants of this thread will be a photo descriptive write-up of how the 60 and 120 yard group shooting experience went.
First thing was to set up the range/targets at 60 yards. Going to be using 8” shoot-n-see’s on some dura-seal swing targets.
60 yards
The left target will be the designated sighter and the right target will be the final five-shot groups.
So, I set up to shoot.
Unfortunately, there were two moments I goofed on the shooting session. Here is the first instance.. Well, I was so excited to move the targets out to 120 yards I just ripped off the 60 yard five-shot groups and forgot to take a close up photo of the groups. Oops! (1x) Best I can do to illustrate the groups is zoom in on the scope-view after completing the 5 five-shot groups.
Here it is:
We’re talking 3/4” to 1.5” groups @ 60 yards. I’m not perfect. This may not be record breaking or even as good as you think it could be, but for my use it’s plenty good enough.
Now, it’s time for some fun because I have never shot my .25 Crown this far on paper before. It’s probably a joke distance for some of you pro-shooters out there in airgun-land, but for me, it is a challenge. I don’t own any fancy wind meters or gps ballistic range calculators to help me out. Just good old country boy ingenuity.
120 yards
Walked out to take a look.
Remember the left target was a dedicated sighter and the right target was the final ten-shot group. Here it is by itself.
Okay, here is the second time I goofed for the session. The low shot was my mistake, the holdover for 120 yards with the Crown .25 is 4 mils high and for the low landing shot I mistakenly held 3 mils high. Oops! (2x)
Brought the targets in to analyze and measure.
The first five shots just slightly a half-inch group. Then, two things happened 1) I got cocky, and 2) the wind died off some. It was a pretty consistent 8 MPH right to left then it lessened to about 5 MPH.
So, the real center-to-center measured 2.32 inches shown in the photo below.
There was about three years of tinkering and tuning my FX Crown .25 to obtain decent slug accuracy. I was tickled that it even grouped like this. I’m not ready for house sparrows at this distance but for a novice I am happy with how the gun is performing.
Thanks,
JK
Spring weather finally co-operated, blessed with a beautiful and sunny weekend to try out my slug tuned FX Crown .25!
With the handful of various power and barrel upgrades, all geared towards using NSA slugs (33.5g). Maxed, she’ll give me 70 FT/LBS.
My Crown .25 definitely has the umph, but does it have the accuracy? Saturday morning had almost perfect conditions in regards to the weather for putting slugs on paper at 60 yards. So good indeed that I chose to double that distance to 120 yards. Beyond 100 yards is not the norm for me, but “Hey, why not?” ,try longer groups since slugs are made to go the distance.
The remnants of this thread will be a photo descriptive write-up of how the 60 and 120 yard group shooting experience went.
First thing was to set up the range/targets at 60 yards. Going to be using 8” shoot-n-see’s on some dura-seal swing targets.
60 yards
The left target will be the designated sighter and the right target will be the final five-shot groups.
So, I set up to shoot.
Unfortunately, there were two moments I goofed on the shooting session. Here is the first instance.. Well, I was so excited to move the targets out to 120 yards I just ripped off the 60 yard five-shot groups and forgot to take a close up photo of the groups. Oops! (1x) Best I can do to illustrate the groups is zoom in on the scope-view after completing the 5 five-shot groups.
Here it is:
We’re talking 3/4” to 1.5” groups @ 60 yards. I’m not perfect. This may not be record breaking or even as good as you think it could be, but for my use it’s plenty good enough.
Now, it’s time for some fun because I have never shot my .25 Crown this far on paper before. It’s probably a joke distance for some of you pro-shooters out there in airgun-land, but for me, it is a challenge. I don’t own any fancy wind meters or gps ballistic range calculators to help me out. Just good old country boy ingenuity.
120 yards
Walked out to take a look.
Remember the left target was a dedicated sighter and the right target was the final ten-shot group. Here it is by itself.
Okay, here is the second time I goofed for the session. The low shot was my mistake, the holdover for 120 yards with the Crown .25 is 4 mils high and for the low landing shot I mistakenly held 3 mils high. Oops! (2x)
Brought the targets in to analyze and measure.
The first five shots just slightly a half-inch group. Then, two things happened 1) I got cocky, and 2) the wind died off some. It was a pretty consistent 8 MPH right to left then it lessened to about 5 MPH.
So, the real center-to-center measured 2.32 inches shown in the photo below.
There was about three years of tinkering and tuning my FX Crown .25 to obtain decent slug accuracy. I was tickled that it even grouped like this. I’m not ready for house sparrows at this distance but for a novice I am happy with how the gun is performing.
Thanks,
JK
