Skout Skout EVO precision with slugs

[steve123]

I figured out the trigger problem. The trigger bar was binding some how causing the trigger to intermittently stay stuck back rearmost. I'm not exactly sure where. It was either where the pin goes through the trigger bar or the bar was dragging against the frame. I didn't want to disassemble it all. I fiddled with trigger adjustments hoping setting the trigger heavier would help, nope the problem remained.

There's a "hex screw/is also the trigger bar pin, on the side of the trigger housing so I loosened it then retightened less than before and the trigger worked correctly again??

Then when I went to fill the gun it couldn't take more than 2000 psi??!!
The leak is by the bottle qauge and fill nipple. I replaced those orings and it didn't fix the leaking.

This gun is really pissing me off!!!!

 

[manabeknives]

Careful with that pin...it fell out on a friends rifle during competition and killed his chance of winning..loctite it in

 

[manabeknives]

I figured out the trigger problem. The trigger bar was binding some how causing the trigger to intermittently stay stuck back rearmost. I'm not exactly sure where. It was either where the pin goes through the trigger bar or the bar was dragging against the frame. I didn't want to disassemble it all. I fiddled with trigger adjustments hoping setting the trigger heavier would help, nope the problem remained.

There's a "hex screw/is also the trigger bar pin, on the side of the trigger housing so I loosened it then retightened less than before and the trigger worked correctly again??

Then when I went to fill the gun it couldn't take more than 2000 psi??!!
The leak is by the bottle qauge and fill nipple. I replaced those orings and it didn't fix the leaking.

This gun is really pissing me off!!!!

I tried to do a maintenace on the Evo on/off valve. Followed the video and did what they did, but somehow, it ended up leaking no matter how many orings i replaced..I finally called Darryl and asked for another on/off ...hasn't leaked since. I really don't know how i messed it up??

 

[EDventure]

I believe the o ring that you need to replace is SK-ou7008 ..that's a 70 durometer 08 ..it is on part MFE 107
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That o-ring visually appears okay. It's a little dry but otherwise fine.

 

[manabeknives]

That o-ring visually appears okay. It's a little dry but otherwise fine.

What was the picture you posted?...was that showing the regulator?..i can't see it when i click on it.

 

[steve123]

What a funky gun because 3 days later I went to try to air it up in the chance it wouldn't leak and guess what, now the darn thing takes all 4000 psi so I've been putting lead down range?! Last Wednesday I let some other guys shoot it and there's no challenge on a larger steel at 150Y in 10-15 mph winds. I took a few shots and was hitting the leg of a full size ram. I did miss it a few times left and right but the ones that hit made a small group.

BTW the trigger is working normally again.

I bought a bunch of steel to set on my property. They are the Shooting Target 7 NRL22 AR500 semi spinners. Have 11 total because they gave me two because I surpassed the money amount they set. Anyway I can't recommend these enough and a "far superior" system used than any company selling steel so far.

I tried Zan 28gr slugs yesterday for the first time and NOPE it wouldn't work out because of huge flyers. 2-3 touching at 100Y and then one 4" away. It only took 15 shots to abandon the notion of using these. I'll try Zan 33gr next.

Man those Altaros 32.2 grain shoot well as usual. My farthest steel is 132Y away and I was able to put in some 1" to 1.2" groups with 3-4 out of 5 making a large splat. This was in the wind too. That .18 G1 BC makes quite a big difference at 49 fpe!
When this gun works it's impressive!

POI shifts from different shooting sessions are small or not present which is a positive reason I like the gun. I've been laying the gun on both sides because of how and where I store it and also with some other guns on top of it with a blanket in between them so I haven't been nice to it. If I ever take it to a match again it'll be in topmost place a few days before though.

 

[steve123]

Hadn't shot the EVO since my last post so I wanted to see if it was working okay. Well except for the air leaking out since the last time I shot it a month ago it worked fine. As usual it shoots those Altaros 32.3's very good and it had retained it's zero. I set a 10" steel at 200Y to see how that would go and made a first round hit lower on the steel, corrected, then only missed once in 20 or so shots.

I haven't tried it with pellets yet with the HP reg dialed down so I experimented with that too. I used 16gr Daystate Sovereign's and kept dialing the HP reg down until the SD's got bad which was at 750 fps/20-ish fpe then dialed back up to a 10 or so SD where it shot decently which was 770 fps. This only took a few minutes to do. It put in enough precision to hit a 1.5" spinner at 50Y, and a 2" spinner at 75Y, much of the time. It was really the wind that was causing the misses, though my impression was that the power needs to be bumped up a tad more because the precision was almost a inch at 50Y. I just wanted to see how low I could go and have it still shoot with decent precision.

It's funny how huge the difference is in the G1 BC of these projectiles which is .18 for the slugs vs .031 for the pellets.

I was getting tired so I stopped shooting but it'd be fun to see how many shots I can get out of a 4000 psi fill using this pellet speed. Might have to do a plinkfest in the near future to test it out.

It's convenient to change power levels and a versatile gun as far as that goes. Long range slugger to mild pellet plinker in minutes.