So I have a FX Dreamline with a 500mm barrel in .22 cal. It's pretty dang accurate shooting Diablo Exact pellets. I'm wondering if switching the barrel liner to a slug liner would increase the accuracy at 100 yards. I would love to hear your thoughts and what slugs you like to shoot.
Pellets verses slugs
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I would say maybe. And that maybe is gonna cost you a good bit of cash to find out. You definitely have a good pellet gun. And some guns should always remain a pellet gun. If you want to chase slugs, buy a separate gun for that. Then when you’re frustrated, the gun is broke because of something you saw on the internet or you’re waiting on a do-dad that is going to cure everything, you can shoot your good pellet gun.
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How far do you intend to LIKELY shoot, and what power levels? I have an impact dedicated to slugs and it never gets brought out anymore. Only a disco and my 380mm dreamline. I have much more to comment but I need to know your intentions.
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Id say no heavy liner, you have slug options the pellet liner will shoot to 100 well. Don't overlook jsb monster redesigns or heavy hades.... Those are crappy bc slugs imo. Don't slug liner it, when I did I lost use of all pellets except monster redesigns.
Hopefully you have your reg at 150 bar already on that dreamline. Try some 217 patriot javelin 23 grain slugs in that pellet liner. Keep it a pellet gun, that also digests a couple light slugs with no new modifications.
You should be able at 150 bar to achieve everything you want. Mines 25 but I'm popping pigeons at 115 yards with it in 380mm maxxed out at 860fps.
For a year I referred to it as the "3000 dollar miss machine" till I figured it out. 75 fpe 22, and I Still mostly shoot monster pellets or 23 javs out of it on minimum power settings which is 55 fpe. If the impact hammer weren't so painful to remove, I'd put it back to stock power capacity and be shooting jsb 18 and monsters thru a bore sized hole all day.
Its nuanced but I will give you the jist of it, i spent a fortune and ruined the enjoyment of an m3 impact going down the stupid slug rabbit hole, and it's too powerful to shoot most places now. I completed the task to see if i could. Not a good reason.
Hopefully you have your reg at 150 bar already on that dreamline. Try some 217 patriot javelin 23 grain slugs in that pellet liner. Keep it a pellet gun, that also digests a couple light slugs with no new modifications.
You should be able at 150 bar to achieve everything you want. Mines 25 but I'm popping pigeons at 115 yards with it in 380mm maxxed out at 860fps.
For a year I referred to it as the "3000 dollar miss machine" till I figured it out. 75 fpe 22, and I Still mostly shoot monster pellets or 23 javs out of it on minimum power settings which is 55 fpe. If the impact hammer weren't so painful to remove, I'd put it back to stock power capacity and be shooting jsb 18 and monsters thru a bore sized hole all day.
Its nuanced but I will give you the jist of it, i spent a fortune and ruined the enjoyment of an m3 impact going down the stupid slug rabbit hole, and it's too powerful to shoot most places now. I completed the task to see if i could. Not a good reason.
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I will follow the trend and i would recommend you buy something with a CZ barrel, as they tend to love both pellets and slugs, aren't hard to tune, and have thick barrels.
Not saying you can't do it with FX, but it could be a luck of the draw, along with a lot of time, and extra money invested.
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In my opinion a 500mm dreamline isn’t a gun to put a heavy liner in. It isn’t going to push the weight slugs requiring that liner.
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