Anyone in the St Pete / Tampa FL area that has a Fx Impact that knows how to tune one the right way. Also wanting some shooting and hunting friends in my area. About my stick: Im the owner of a new to me FX Impact MK2 with the 700mm .25cal STX premier heavy liner and the utah airguns .25cal slug probe and block. I just ordered Ernest Rowe"s duel port.. Im shooting the NSA 34.9grn flat back slugs. Made a few kill shots out to 200 yards so far but I noticed the ballistic data on strelok pro was off a little. I guessed 920fps when entering data on the app. Well I dug out my old trusty chronograph and put a few rounds through it. I was at 806fps. So needless to say i was way off on my guess. I was at 130bar on the power plenum and way out on the hammer spring set screw. So i started to tighten the set screw to the hammer spring slowly also opening up the reg some and watched the numbers rise. I ended up at 150-153 bar and now im at 922fps. I feel like this is still kinda weak for 150bar and the hammer spring hitting so hard. My goal is to be at or just over 1000fps
Anyone in the St Pete or Tampa Fl area with Fx Impact knowledge?
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ken did a fabulous job with a quick turnaround on my impact. Don’t know what wait time is presently.
ken did a fabulous job with a quick turnaround on my impact. Don’t know what wait time is presently.
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Reach out to Steve/AEAC. He's in our area. I'm in LOL so I may be too far north for a get together. I don't have an Impact but I do plan on buying an M3 in the future. I too am looking for others who enjoy our hobby in the area.
Keith.
Keith.
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There are a bunch of us over towards Orlando, if you’re interested in a drive. Look up Central Florida Airgunners on Facebook. We have monthly get togethers and guys like Steve, DonnyFL and Ken Hicks often make it out. Ken is great at tuning, but he lives in the Jacksonville area.
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Not a tuner, still playing with tune on my .22 Impact MK2. Tuning on 18gr pellets at this time. I’m in Palm Harbor, been looking for a good open area shooting range. Would like to get together with other air gunners in the area to share experiences shoot together.
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Orlando isnt to far at all to go shoot. Im not a facebooker though. I do have Instagram if i could find yall that way.
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So I just looked up Steve with AEAC and ive watched a ton of his videos when I was trying to figure out what gun I really wanted. Dude seems to know his stuff very well and I though I seen some videos of him in the Tampa area shooting.
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I have the same Impact setup. I'm at 126 bar on the regulator and slinging 37.4 gr at 930. I have "Ernest Rowe transfer port" installed as well as the slug kit. At your current 150bar on reg and saying your hammer is hitting hard. I think you made an error,
I would back it back down to 130 bar and reset the hammer spring to get you into the 900 where you want to be. You'll need to retune any way once you get the larger transfer port installed.
when tuning the Impact, make sure you open the valve adjuster under the barrel to 4 lines first. then tune reg and then hammer spring. once you get about 10 fps above where you want to be, then start closing the valve adjuster to get to your target speed. that's how I tune. Oh and make sure your power wheel is on max.
I would back it back down to 130 bar and reset the hammer spring to get you into the 900 where you want to be. You'll need to retune any way once you get the larger transfer port installed.
when tuning the Impact, make sure you open the valve adjuster under the barrel to 4 lines first. then tune reg and then hammer spring. once you get about 10 fps above where you want to be, then start closing the valve adjuster to get to your target speed. that's how I tune. Oh and make sure your power wheel is on max.
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Thanks Dannya1a I felt like i was off on the tune. Hell I burned up alot of slugs and air to get to where i am. Once my dual port TP comes in and i install it i will back it all back down and try again. Lol i want be at that 1020fps and accurate mark.
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Why so fast? You’ll see a lot of strange things happen at that speed. Bob stern just put out an interesting article on hard air magazine that might change your mind when you see how much more drag is put on the projectile. Things get pretty extreme in that area. Like by a factor of 2 maybe even 3.
I personally don’t want much over 950’s, but I also like to be as covert as possible. That sonic crack may only give you a one chance shot. But if it strictly punching paper then go for it. But the drop back down to subsonic from sonic may do some odd things.
I personally don’t want much over 950’s, but I also like to be as covert as possible. That sonic crack may only give you a one chance shot. But if it strictly punching paper then go for it. But the drop back down to subsonic from sonic may do some odd things.
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