Dream-tac compact mini bottle .177 tastes it’s first blood!

This little guy decided to explore for new territory in the wrong tree.......7.4 grain crosman pellet at 650FPS turned off the sun for him. It even did the hang man/Batman hanging upside down dance. My FX lego set aka dream-tac compact mini bottle has just tasted its first blood! Woot!!! 



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the lightened DTC strikes again! 


I lighten it a bit more last night with lighter moderator and lower rings to get better cheek weld. Sent half mag worth of pellets to zero it and just about to validate my 34 yard POI and saw an orange blur of movement in my tree 25 yards away! Put my cross hair right behind it’s eye and squeezed the trigger! Think the POI is just a hair low because it was still moving after it fell to the ground but not the brain shot twitch, so give it a follow up shot just in case but a bit too graphic for picture since that shot took out the other eye. Can’t believe my luck today, I literally saw it in my tree right after my re-zero with my gun in my hand with a full mag!!! Really bad luck for this roof eater! LOL! 
 
Ha! That squirrel was definitely in the wrong place at the right time for you...great shot! Gun looks much sleeker now. Nice photo.




thanks, I’m really liking the slimmer and lighter version much better. Really dad luck for him, from seeing him in the tree till he dropped to the ground totaled no more than 30 seconds. Wasn’t for I waited for him to get in front of a tree branch/backstop it would of been even faster. Hahahaha! 
 
My compact came with the air tube and I switched to two different bottles. If I was going to hunt with it, I would go with the air tube also. Makes you think that FX knew what they were doing when they originally introduced the compact. Then we all started sticking bottles on them so they listened. Maybe they knew the gun handled better with the tube but ultimately gave the customer what they wanted. Who is smarter?
 
@qball very nice and well done. I like that little setup. Which brand bottle are you sporting on that dream tact?


the stubby bottle is FX branded, it’s a lot lighter and better balanced than heavier after market bottles but still puts noticeably more weight up front especially with the plenum and that’s why I took it off. I initially took the plenum off and the gun feels nicer but it does help a little with power but ultimately I probably will take it off because the gun can over power the barrel regardless. Like @vetmx was saying, it’s almost like FX knew what they were doing when they made DTC V1. 😂
 
So my crown is on her way to way to her new owner. So I bust out the dream-tac compact and shot 3 mags at 34 yards just to learn how to read the wind. Then I saw a squirrel on a tree in front of the house, it was moving fast so no shot and disappeared. Then my neighbor called me say he saw a squirrel in his yard so I ran over to my back fence with my DTC but all the trees and brushes have thick leaves so didn’t even get a glance at it. About 9am wind really picked up so I decided to load up a mag of 177 hades which shoots at 680fps, zeroed it in filled up the mag. The hades are night and day better than the crosman’s in the wind. got home from grocery shopping and my neighbor said the squirrel was back but ran off again but I got my DTC ready.


Half an hour later saw an orange fur ball on one of my trees, snuck around the house and put the cross hair on its head waited 15 minutes but it won’t move. There isn’t a back stop behind it’s head but at least the tree trunk is behind it shoulder down so decided to just go for a vital shot. Drilled it right behind its shoulder and it fell down flopping. I can see it is loosing steam fast but i got lucky and got a opening under the bush for a follow up shot, drilled it right in the forehead and it’s lights out. Super excited and texted my neighbor who got ravaged by these roof eaters a picture. I went inside to fetch a plastic bag for it and out of the corner of my eye, through my living room Window I saw another bushy tail on my tree! In complete disbelieve I walked quickly and grabbed my DYC and slowly poke the barrel around corner of my house and the tree rat was busy looking for food on a big brand so completely safe shot. Put my cross hair on its head and waited till it looked my way and I turned off the lights for it. 


I’m super excited to have a double bushy tails today, don’t even remember when is the last time I got a double let along back to back!!! Today was awesome!!!

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as you can see the 10 grain hades @680fps doesn’t deform much unless it hit a bone. My shots are 20 and 25 yards, no pass through with the pellets easily found right under the skin on the opposite side. Very happy with hades performance. 

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