FX FX Impact M4 Compact in .25 shooting Hybrids

[Vetmx]

Have any of you tried sizing them down at all or just shooting the factory sizes? After shooting thousands of solid projectiles of different weights and lengths , I’ve found sizing makes a much bigger difference in accuracy than speed.

Yes, I always test them in .250 and .249 before moving on. Immediate speed jump in .249 but that’s about it. Now I have no problem getting a Hybrid to do pretty good out of a Superior standard .25 600mm at 935fps.

 

[Vetmx]

The reason I still have the 500mm Superior .25 lying around is because it’s the best damn .25 hunting pellet shooter I think I ever owned. I hunted squirrel with it for one season and anything out to 100 yards was dead. But twice that season I ran into coyotes. I boiler roomed both of them with a pellet but prefer to do it with a slug.

When you give up on getting that .25 compact to shoot slugs send me a PM. I’ll give you the Dr. Death pellet recipe for squirrels and hopefully your eternal love and happiness with that gun.

 

[zerochance]

Sizing by means of pushing the slugs through a die. I use NOE sizing dies. The equipment to do the sizing is fairly inexpensive. A Lee hand press and a few dies will usually set you back a couple hundred dollars. The process is time consuming but once you get dialed in worth every penny. I’ve had poor performing hand cast slugs go from 3 plus inches at 50 yards down to less than 1/2 inch at the same yardage.

Your first step should be to slug your barrel and see what size it is. Lots of good info out there on that subject. I typically start at bore diameter then size down .0001 “and not much more than.0005” under size until I find the sweet spot. This works for pellets also.

Wow. That's quiet a bit of additional work to do to be honest. I was hoping for out of the box ready slugs... lol

 

[zerochance]

The reason I still have the 500mm Superior .25 lying around is because it’s the best damn .25 hunting pellet shooter I think I ever owned. I hunted squirrel with it for one season and anything out to 100 yards was dead. But twice that season I ran into coyotes. I boiler roomed both of them with a pellet but prefer to do it with a slug.

When you give up on getting that .25 compact to shoot slugs send me a PM. I’ll give you the Dr. Death pellet recipe for squirrels and hopefully your eternal love and happiness with that gun.

That sounds like a plan. I have quiet a few slugs coming in today. I'll be testing them from 130bar to 150bar with the heavy liner than the STX superior liner. I have read that the Hybrids do well in the superior liner... but was recommended by Utah Airgun to use a heavy. I'll put the results here when I have them... it may even be a few weeks since I have 4 kids... 3 of them between the age of new born and 3 years old... lol