I had a friend give me some slugs... said he was sick of trying to tune/find the "one"
Today was a slightly breezy day... no big deal.. I decided to try these slugs that he gave me....17.5gr .2165 nielsen slugs in my fx dreamline compact... 22..380mm barrel. I have it tuned to shoot jsb 18gr 853fps.(groups are great) Reg set at 125bar.. hammer spring on 3. When I go up from there the fps doesn't change....it just waist air.. So with the same tune... shooting the 17.5gr slugs... it starts to group ok..wonders some...it wants to group... ok??? I set up my chrony it shooting 832fps with slugs.. just as I was thinking this little compact just wont shoot slugs..it wasn't built to do so anyway just give up and move on... I crank up the hammer spring to max and shoot... the groups tighten right up... fps stayed exactly the same!! The groups still isnt as good as the pellets... close though... I'm not sure what to think here.... what waist air shooting pellets and cause my pellet groups to open up...make the slug groups tighten up?? What does this mean... it may like the 17.5gr .217 better than the .2165... does a half a thou make that big of a difference
Today was a slightly breezy day... no big deal.. I decided to try these slugs that he gave me....17.5gr .2165 nielsen slugs in my fx dreamline compact... 22..380mm barrel. I have it tuned to shoot jsb 18gr 853fps.(groups are great) Reg set at 125bar.. hammer spring on 3. When I go up from there the fps doesn't change....it just waist air.. So with the same tune... shooting the 17.5gr slugs... it starts to group ok..wonders some...it wants to group... ok??? I set up my chrony it shooting 832fps with slugs.. just as I was thinking this little compact just wont shoot slugs..it wasn't built to do so anyway just give up and move on... I crank up the hammer spring to max and shoot... the groups tighten right up... fps stayed exactly the same!! The groups still isnt as good as the pellets... close though... I'm not sure what to think here.... what waist air shooting pellets and cause my pellet groups to open up...make the slug groups tighten up?? What does this mean... it may like the 17.5gr .217 better than the .2165... does a half a thou make that big of a difference