Testing FX Hybrids, NSA 29.0 and 29.5's Through the Superior Liner

[jking]

I did a little testing on hear-say that the NSA 29.0gr and the 29.5's shot pretty good through the new "Super" liner. The range was 60yds, with a right to left 5-10mph switching breeze. I already had the Slug "A" liner in the gun so I tried them through it first. For me it was a definate no-go as the slugs were all over the place. I did clean and lube the slugs first. I then swapped over to the Super liner and things started coming together. Regulator set at 120bar I started out on Max hammer spring, shot four or five of each of the two NSA's and then lowered the HS another notch. The sweet spot for velocity seemed to be in the 960-970 range. Both slugs performed about the same which was good news. I also shot four different groups of the FX Hybrids from Max HS at 1026fps down to the number 3 at 930fps. Seemed like 980-1015 was a good range for my particular gun on this given test. JSB Heavies also did well at 950fps.

 

These are both FX Hybrids

Was glad to see the tip was a good one. 

Jking

 

[Nathan]

Good stuff, very helpful.

 

[Ghostranger169]

jking,

Great shooting and exciting results! I assume this is out of your .25 Crown? What length is your liner? Did you manually check the twist rate?

 

[golfer70]

Yes sir. Very helpful. I just received my FX chronograph today and am looking forward to testing out my .25 hybrids and my Nielsen sampler pack. I will use your settings as a starting off point. Thank you!

 

[jking]

jking,

Great shooting and exciting results! I assume this is out of your .25 Crown? What length is your liner? Did you manually check the twist rate?

No, it was out of my 700mm MKII Impact. Yeah, I checked the twist rate and by my measurement I came up with and even 1 in 24. I know FX says 1 in 23 but thats what I came up with. I measure my Slug Liner A the same way and it matched FX's specs. Strange..

Jking

 

[ackuric]

Nice shooting and groups, looks like these new barrel liners may show promise, hope they become the standard or at least option for new FX customers.

 

[DShepard]

The Standard Superior liner will become the standard liner for new guns, according to FX.

 

[AirgunBill]

Nice groups and thanks for sharing your results. Just started my testing and accuracy does look promising. Bill

 

[stoti]

Very nice! I'd love to hear more results as you continue your testing. I'm still compiling as much info. as I can on .25 slugs and even though these results are from a different liner, I'd love to hear what you find out.

Stoti

 

[Diaz]

jking..... I'm glad you can do tests this way we will take note of the behavior of these new liner.
The truth that I am a little stunned with those groups of the Hybrids at 60yds ....... Excuse me but I do not see them at all good, I see the Nielsen much better from 29gr to 969fps
Today I have been testing the King Heavy MKII .25 with the factory stx pellet liner 600mm at 70yds, 940fps and they worked very very well, groups of 0.80inch X15 Magnification. On Thursday the new Hybrids .25 arrive and if I am lucky that they work well, I will have many doubts to buy the standard upper liner.
I hope you continue doing tests.

B, regards

 

[Ranchibi]

Nice groups with the NSA’s!

 

[Drumsnguns]

Very Impressive. I'd love to see a visual comparison of the older Slug Liner and the Superior Liner.

Great information here, thanks.

 

[jking]

 

Drumsnguns, Haha, I would too. I had a hard time at 50yds finding where I was hitting. That's how bad it was.

jk

 

[Diaz]

jKing

Something strange happens since in this video the Hybrids are fantastic with the new upper liner.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R_Hb5JkCSg&t=7s



Today I tested the hybrids on the STX Pellet liner with different speeds from 885fps to 1020fps and the best group at 71yards was 1.6 inches very disappointed as fx advertising said these hybrids would work well in any barrel.

Now I have doubts whether to buy the new upper liner or wait for the other liner that will come out later. Heavy upper liner that still works better ????