Ooooookay. So some of y’all will be aware of a small part of my journey with my Impact 30 which now also includes a dreamlite 22. Having similar issues with the 22, but I think I’ve got it ALL FIGURED OUT...lol. It’s dirty barrels. And the barrels get dirty and lose accuracy waaaaay sooner than I anticipated given how they’ve been sold on the interwebs. It would seem that each of them need to be cleaned appropriately every 100-200 shots. I was expecting them to need to be cleaned maybe every 500-1000 shots, or as some of you have said, practically never. Maybe our standards on group sizes differ...maybe yours actually don’t need it. Maybe results will vary over time. Idk.
But I have a dilemma. 1-clean barrel. 2-rezero scope. 3-harmonically tune it again. 4-clean the barrel, n repeat. Mind you, sometimes it only takes 20 shots or so to get it tuned again, which gives me 100 shots or so before the groups start opening up...but sometimes it takes 80+ shots to get the group size back where I want em, which is one hole at 50 and 1” or better at 100. I’ve gotten pretty good at this process by now.
Now my questions...does your poi shift on your fx gun when you remove the barrel? Do you have to sometimes completely retune it after cleaning? And can you clean it without removing the barrel? My patchworm kit can’t make the bend at the breach end. I have a rod system for powder burners, but am hesitant to ram a rod down the muzzle. Will cleaning it in place solve the issue? Do y’all share this experience?
I must say that at this point I am EXTREMELY satisfied with both purchases. They are both incredibly capable rifles. But this cycle is unsustainable. There’s got to be a way to clean these things without losing all that hard work and money on pellets. Thoughts gentlemen?
But I have a dilemma. 1-clean barrel. 2-rezero scope. 3-harmonically tune it again. 4-clean the barrel, n repeat. Mind you, sometimes it only takes 20 shots or so to get it tuned again, which gives me 100 shots or so before the groups start opening up...but sometimes it takes 80+ shots to get the group size back where I want em, which is one hole at 50 and 1” or better at 100. I’ve gotten pretty good at this process by now.
Now my questions...does your poi shift on your fx gun when you remove the barrel? Do you have to sometimes completely retune it after cleaning? And can you clean it without removing the barrel? My patchworm kit can’t make the bend at the breach end. I have a rod system for powder burners, but am hesitant to ram a rod down the muzzle. Will cleaning it in place solve the issue? Do y’all share this experience?
I must say that at this point I am EXTREMELY satisfied with both purchases. They are both incredibly capable rifles. But this cycle is unsustainable. There’s got to be a way to clean these things without losing all that hard work and money on pellets. Thoughts gentlemen?