Sumatra 2500 with slugs experience?

[dook22]

Does anyone have any first hand experience with a stock Sumatra in 25 cal and using the commercially available slugs available (i.e. nielsen, hunters supply or etc)? I have no desire to make my own slugs and work with molten lead. Is it accurate enough to do head or body shots on coyote at 75 yards?

 

[2511bless]

I have not had any luck with my gun so I just stick with the old jsb 33.95 & Benjamin domes. I am Achieving great accuracy out of those two pellets. With JSB 33.95 I have taken a nice 150 boar hog around 35yards.

 

[blackdiesel]

AGD did a review/test which included a Sumatra and Hunters Supply slugs.



https://youtu.be/e0FsQaCkVSs

 

[dook22]

2511bless, is your sumatra stock? Have you tried the hunter supply slugs like the video that airgun depot made?

 

[2511bless]

Yes I haven’t had any luck but that was on full power I never try them on low or med power. The groups was not bad but not to my liking especially when I know that the gun can shoot a half inch at 50 yards all day with JSB and Benjamin domes but I Prefer the JSB 33.95 if I’m hurting a bigger game because of the bullet coefficiency and it holds it Energy down range better.

 

[D-RIG]

First off do you have a older Sumatra or one of the newer ones " it makes a difference "



the older guns have a larger bore to them and need a larger diameter than most slugs

provide , Toby aka HunterOne has seen good results from this slug here 57 grain HP .

If you have one of the new rebranded Sumatra's they do well

with a slug thats .250" and I've had one customer state that his

shot a 3/8" group at 50 yards with a 45 grain slug . 

 

[dook22]

I don't have a Sumatra but was considering one just for slugs. I suppose since the new ones do better with the 0.250" ones I should look at the nielsen or hunter supply slugs since they are closer to that size? I'm also assuming that hunterone slugs are for the older sumatras?

 

[2511bless]

You will definitely Enjoy it. A true 100 fpe 25cal

 

[Makoda]

Anybody else tried the nsa slugs in this? Also how does it do with the grizzlies from h and n?

 

[blackdiesel]

Anybody else tried the nsa slugs in this? Also how does it do with the grizzlies from h and n?

NSA is not a good option for 25 cal Sumatra because the barrels are .253 and the standard .250 slugs are too lose and not accurate.

 

[Makoda]

Isn’t that the older guns though, I am wondering if you buy one today what slugs has anyone shot well out of them? Are the new ones .250 or .253

 

[Roachcreek]

I ordered a Seneca /Sumatra carbine from p.a. today, I will see what It slugs at.

Years ago, that 25 acp bullet was the first slug I tried in a Condor, the chocked barrel made it a non starter. I purchased a 

.254 lbt mold and a Lee w.254 sizing die, and a new hacksaw blade, used the 253 sized slug inside and the hacksaw on the outside. I then learned You can change the choke but not the twist.

Next was to try a 257 TJ and 257420 mold I had laying around in the last 257 Haley Scandalous Jack made, that was when I started making video’s exploding 12 oz cola cans at 500-550-615 yards, that was in 2014.



I posted almost most daily groups from 260 to 300 yards on the old Yellow under Unrepentantsinner with that Haley.

Roachcreek