Is my woman a Godsend or what? This is what she had done for me. Recently I had my 22cal RWS 54 gone through by the one and only and dearly departed White "OC Boulding" Fang. Matter of fact, it was the last rifle that he had worked on before his passing. Now I feel sorry for those who may have never talked to OC and/or not had the pleasure of shooting and rifle worked on by Fang. He, like Nitrocrush, are amazing men when it comes to airgun smith's.
See I really messed up my attempt to recrown my rifle as well as noticing its dramatic drop in fps. Literally in some instances a 100fps+. It had a Vortek PG2 in it. Now many of you probably already know that I like to tinker but always seem to mess something up and finally my old lady took my dremel and threw it away, lol.
Ok, back to business. Fang chopped, choked and recrowned my barrel. He lapped and polished my barrel, replaced the piston buttons, got rid of the PG2 and installed a ARH (Jim Macarri-hope thats how its spelled) ZRT spring kit with piston and breach seals. Fang made fitted guide and top hat out of delrin, replaced all lubes with kyrtox, honed the comp tube and cylinder. Fixed the piston stem or something like that, lol, that was loose (Apologies for the lack of vernacular.). He made a muzzle brake from delrin, made a cheek riser because I had a bunch of black/grayish pipe insulation glued on top of one another and told/asked me what the heck was I trying to do. And to top it off, he polished the stock, which I thought was impossible to do, to a beautiful sheen. He also fixed the "rocking" of the action in the stock to where it does not go no where except forward and back, like it should. I know that I am missing something else, sorry Fang.
Power output is as follows:
Now I used a Pro Chrono with the plug in light shade thing. At first I thought the power output was low for a ZRT spring, but for one, I am not a power junky/seeker. Two, the rifle is basically brand new inside with tight fitting guides and three, its plenty enough for me in a 22cal spring gun.
10 shot strings:
JSB 18gr= 730fps; ES-4; SD-3
JSB 15gr Hades= 785fps; ES-7; SD-2
CP 14gr= 835fps; ES-6; SD-2
H&N FTT= 785fps; ES-25(hey!?); SD-4
H&N Snpr Lht= 835; ES-9; SD-3
Out of these 5 types of pellets I had the best accuracy with the Hades, hmmph, who would have known. Special thanks goes out to Hector Medina who at one time recommended fitting the rifle with a Sightron 4-12x MOA-2 scope sitting in a HM accurized ZR Mount. Hector I haven't forgotten about you. FYI, that Sightron scope is cheap price wise but do not let that stop you from getting one. Yeah it has a front AO instead of the side types that we all love and ok, it's under $200. But its clicks are repeatable and precise. I don't like that between each "mark" is considered 2 MOA and the the crosshairs are thick but for less than $200, I haven't had, used nor seen anything comparable within its price range. I like it...a lot
Well to wrap things up, I am happy with the outcome. It pains me that I cannot express and convey my happiness with the results of OC's work back to him. You know, just talking with him on the phone, he made me feel like we known each other for years. I hope everyone who reads this gets something from it. Take care guys/gals
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See I really messed up my attempt to recrown my rifle as well as noticing its dramatic drop in fps. Literally in some instances a 100fps+. It had a Vortek PG2 in it. Now many of you probably already know that I like to tinker but always seem to mess something up and finally my old lady took my dremel and threw it away, lol.
Ok, back to business. Fang chopped, choked and recrowned my barrel. He lapped and polished my barrel, replaced the piston buttons, got rid of the PG2 and installed a ARH (Jim Macarri-hope thats how its spelled) ZRT spring kit with piston and breach seals. Fang made fitted guide and top hat out of delrin, replaced all lubes with kyrtox, honed the comp tube and cylinder. Fixed the piston stem or something like that, lol, that was loose (Apologies for the lack of vernacular.). He made a muzzle brake from delrin, made a cheek riser because I had a bunch of black/grayish pipe insulation glued on top of one another and told/asked me what the heck was I trying to do. And to top it off, he polished the stock, which I thought was impossible to do, to a beautiful sheen. He also fixed the "rocking" of the action in the stock to where it does not go no where except forward and back, like it should. I know that I am missing something else, sorry Fang.
Power output is as follows:
Now I used a Pro Chrono with the plug in light shade thing. At first I thought the power output was low for a ZRT spring, but for one, I am not a power junky/seeker. Two, the rifle is basically brand new inside with tight fitting guides and three, its plenty enough for me in a 22cal spring gun.
10 shot strings:
JSB 18gr= 730fps; ES-4; SD-3
JSB 15gr Hades= 785fps; ES-7; SD-2
CP 14gr= 835fps; ES-6; SD-2
H&N FTT= 785fps; ES-25(hey!?); SD-4
H&N Snpr Lht= 835; ES-9; SD-3
Out of these 5 types of pellets I had the best accuracy with the Hades, hmmph, who would have known. Special thanks goes out to Hector Medina who at one time recommended fitting the rifle with a Sightron 4-12x MOA-2 scope sitting in a HM accurized ZR Mount. Hector I haven't forgotten about you. FYI, that Sightron scope is cheap price wise but do not let that stop you from getting one. Yeah it has a front AO instead of the side types that we all love and ok, it's under $200. But its clicks are repeatable and precise. I don't like that between each "mark" is considered 2 MOA and the the crosshairs are thick but for less than $200, I haven't had, used nor seen anything comparable within its price range. I like it...a lot
Well to wrap things up, I am happy with the outcome. It pains me that I cannot express and convey my happiness with the results of OC's work back to him. You know, just talking with him on the phone, he made me feel like we known each other for years. I hope everyone who reads this gets something from it. Take care guys/gals
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