Hey y’all.
I‘m new to air guns in general, so naturally I went with a high end setup.
I chose an Edgun Leshiy 2 long with the behemoth moderator. The gun functions, but the NSA (sold through Edgun west, and measuring 0.303 +/- .002) slugs contact the inside of the moderator, leaving lead shavings in the felt, and it‘s throwing some pretty nasty fliers. I took it to a range and shot it with the moderator off and it has no significant fliers, although it was all offhand. The worst impact to impact distance was 16” at 20 yards.
I checked as much of the stuff for tolerance as I could think of, which all looks good, and the plenum pressure came set at 130 bar. One thing I wasn’t sure on was the jump from magazine to lands in the barrel which is about a 1/2”, is that normal or should the rifling be closer to the mag? I did crank up the plenum to 160 bar and I shot another mag of the 61.5 gr and the fliers went away, and I didn’t find more lead in the moderator. I think that means the moderator is aligned with the bore well enough to not be the culprit, it seems to me that the slugs are descending into the moderator because they were running too slowly. Is that a likely thing or am just waiting for a stray slug to make harder contact with the moderator?
I know I’m jumping the gun a little but now I’m thinking about the tune. If I add 30 bar to the plenum and the dwell time doesn’t change have I begun wasting a lot of air as noise? What pressures are people running on the .30 cal for the larger slugs, and how much effort was it to get the gun to group well? Did you have to change jets out when you were tuning? Are slugs even a good choice let alone heavy ones? This forum has a ton of info on the Leshiy 2 but loads of it‘s mixed in with the other calibers and it’s pretty hard for a clueless noob like me to filter through, hopefully I can learn a few things without annoying people with asked and answered questions.
Unfortunately, I moved recently and somehow my chronograph was a casualty, so I’m still waiting on a new one to arrive (fedex claims today, but that’s also what they said yesterday)… Hence the lack of velocity info.
Other than this issue the gun seems to do everything it is supposed to, cycles, holds air, etc.
I‘m new to air guns in general, so naturally I went with a high end setup.
I chose an Edgun Leshiy 2 long with the behemoth moderator. The gun functions, but the NSA (sold through Edgun west, and measuring 0.303 +/- .002) slugs contact the inside of the moderator, leaving lead shavings in the felt, and it‘s throwing some pretty nasty fliers. I took it to a range and shot it with the moderator off and it has no significant fliers, although it was all offhand. The worst impact to impact distance was 16” at 20 yards.
I checked as much of the stuff for tolerance as I could think of, which all looks good, and the plenum pressure came set at 130 bar. One thing I wasn’t sure on was the jump from magazine to lands in the barrel which is about a 1/2”, is that normal or should the rifling be closer to the mag? I did crank up the plenum to 160 bar and I shot another mag of the 61.5 gr and the fliers went away, and I didn’t find more lead in the moderator. I think that means the moderator is aligned with the bore well enough to not be the culprit, it seems to me that the slugs are descending into the moderator because they were running too slowly. Is that a likely thing or am just waiting for a stray slug to make harder contact with the moderator?
I know I’m jumping the gun a little but now I’m thinking about the tune. If I add 30 bar to the plenum and the dwell time doesn’t change have I begun wasting a lot of air as noise? What pressures are people running on the .30 cal for the larger slugs, and how much effort was it to get the gun to group well? Did you have to change jets out when you were tuning? Are slugs even a good choice let alone heavy ones? This forum has a ton of info on the Leshiy 2 but loads of it‘s mixed in with the other calibers and it’s pretty hard for a clueless noob like me to filter through, hopefully I can learn a few things without annoying people with asked and answered questions.
Unfortunately, I moved recently and somehow my chronograph was a casualty, so I’m still waiting on a new one to arrive (fedex claims today, but that’s also what they said yesterday)… Hence the lack of velocity info.
Other than this issue the gun seems to do everything it is supposed to, cycles, holds air, etc.
