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I would never do it in a break barrel, but I wanted to see which one of you had the audacity to try it. I just imagine it getting stuck or farting out in low fps
There are sorts of weight slugs out and I had no issue trying some out of my Beeman RX2 which shot them pretty nicely but only out to about 30 yds if I recall. It has nothing to do with break barrel just need enough power to push them out, they make slugs as light as 10gr in .177
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Yes that is what I’ve heard too- that 700 and under FPS doesn’t work well unless the profile is less long and the weight less as well, but then you are kind of in a hybrid area between pellet size and slug size. Slugs don’t expand below 815-880fps too, so there is that too. It would probably be neat to shoot them out of a 18-20+FPS springer
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I didn’t shoot slugs out of a break barrel, but I shot my NSA 26gr in .25 at 700fps in a 600mm Superior liner and got some pretty decent groups at 40yds. I think I measured about .6 ctc. Certainly surprised me because of how slow they’re going
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Have used them in my Hatsan 125 .22 and .25 they have the power to use the lighter grain slugs. Also have tried them in the XS28M. 25 and Benjamin super streak .22.
They work fine out to about 40 yards or so.
They work fine out to about 40 yards or so.
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Oh wow. Do they group better than pellets? I bet they could shoot semi well out of one of those 135/130s in .25 cal where the FPS is higher
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Hatsan 125 specs
.177 – 1,550 FPS
.22 – 1,250 FPS
.25 – 900 FPS,
Hatsan 135 specs
.177 – 1,550 FPS
.22 – 1,250 FPS
.25 – 900 FPS
these are factory specs with lead free pellets. below is with lead pellets. Hatsan tests its rifles with lead pellets and their stated fps is very close.
.177 – 1,300 FPS
.22 – 1,000 FPS
.25 – 850 FPS
I have always been surprised when their guns perform close to and sometimes above their stated fps even before working on them.
The slugs I've used are
26.8 Grain, .25
17.5 Grain .22
.177 – 1,550 FPS
.22 – 1,250 FPS
.25 – 900 FPS,
Hatsan 135 specs
.177 – 1,550 FPS
.22 – 1,250 FPS
.25 – 900 FPS
these are factory specs with lead free pellets. below is with lead pellets. Hatsan tests its rifles with lead pellets and their stated fps is very close.
.177 – 1,300 FPS
.22 – 1,000 FPS
.25 – 850 FPS
I have always been surprised when their guns perform close to and sometimes above their stated fps even before working on them.
The slugs I've used are
26.8 Grain, .25
17.5 Grain .22
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A 15.5g NSA slug in. 177 absolutely expands, fully, at 55yds starting at 720fps at the barrel.
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Really impossible to say at what speeds slugs expand as there are a good variety of them from different makers to weights etc. plus what caliber plus what they are being fired into...
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I know what I've seen at my rubber mat backstop at 60yds, and a few squirrel's around 30yds that contained the round. So not all that impossible, really quite predictable.
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I was actually responding to the other post about how they don't expand below 815-880 and also trying to point out many different designs, weights and what the slugs are shot into make huge differences so to say the do or do not expand as the other post mentioned is way off the mark.
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Oh nice. Thanks John_in_Ma. I read a few times about expansion with slugs being only in the 800s, but that was really before this craze or movement has taken over. That is good to know. I bet it depends a lot on the HP design and how soft the lead is. Always amazes me his soft a JSB pellet is, you drop it and it is toast. I wish a lot of my HPs had as soft as lead as JSBs.
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