I read that a lot, and lots of thing have changed in the last donno 6 months...
6 months + ago test on slugs and pellet liner A on stx liners, where a NONO, but just a few slugs worked ok on pellet liners. You can check some tests here: https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/test-results-after-600-slugs-shooted-022-cal-600-mm-slug-liner-on-my-x/
As today, things have changed, better designs, price drop and the 2 big manufacturers of pellets are making slugs, NSA making a huge range of slugs, FX making the Hybrids, H&N & soon JSB will be in the scene. So to the question: CAN I SHOOT SLUGS ACCURATELY OUT OF THE STX PELLET LINER A?: YES YOU CAN (TODAY!)
I personally tested a few slugs, out of a 700mm STX pellet liner A over my impact black mamba, that one has no other modification that elongated brass transfer port and pellet probe, that gives me about 50 fps more, so basically is a stock impact, nothing special about it. I use it for hunting shooting 18.2gn JSB @ 980fps. I took the 3 lighters NSA slugs, the 17.5 gn, the 20.2gn and 23gn in .217 (the 23gn was .218), put them on the mag and shoot, I DID NOT made any special tuning at all and the results were great. I also Have read good results on 25gn slugs H&N (not tested on pellet liner) and for sure with the FX HYBRIDS on STX PELLET LINERS.
So, IME you can shoot slugs out of STX Pellet liners if you can tune your FX (should work with any STX Pellet Liner A) to shoot 18.2 gn @ 980 fps, try light slugs
TEST MADE on .22 cal and STX Pellet liner A
17.5 gn .217 slugs will go at about the same speed than 18.2 pellet, 980 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7LqhVvBNne/
20.2 gn .217 slugs will go at about 910 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Lso7pBODW/
23 gn .218 slugs will go about 850 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BpPtEBI4V/
I shoot pigeons with that setup at distances from 40m to 120m, and they are very accurate, and I am thinking in saying bye bye to pellets considering this. (except for benchrest since there is no option)
Hope that helps for the ones looking to shoot slugs and do not want to get a slug liner (slug liner shoot all slugs good, specially heavies), donno about other barrels (LW, TJ, CZ) but I think they should be ok too.
If you want I can test .25 and .30 too, let me know in the comments
6 months + ago test on slugs and pellet liner A on stx liners, where a NONO, but just a few slugs worked ok on pellet liners. You can check some tests here: https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/test-results-after-600-slugs-shooted-022-cal-600-mm-slug-liner-on-my-x/
As today, things have changed, better designs, price drop and the 2 big manufacturers of pellets are making slugs, NSA making a huge range of slugs, FX making the Hybrids, H&N & soon JSB will be in the scene. So to the question: CAN I SHOOT SLUGS ACCURATELY OUT OF THE STX PELLET LINER A?: YES YOU CAN (TODAY!)
I personally tested a few slugs, out of a 700mm STX pellet liner A over my impact black mamba, that one has no other modification that elongated brass transfer port and pellet probe, that gives me about 50 fps more, so basically is a stock impact, nothing special about it. I use it for hunting shooting 18.2gn JSB @ 980fps. I took the 3 lighters NSA slugs, the 17.5 gn, the 20.2gn and 23gn in .217 (the 23gn was .218), put them on the mag and shoot, I DID NOT made any special tuning at all and the results were great. I also Have read good results on 25gn slugs H&N (not tested on pellet liner) and for sure with the FX HYBRIDS on STX PELLET LINERS.
So, IME you can shoot slugs out of STX Pellet liners if you can tune your FX (should work with any STX Pellet Liner A) to shoot 18.2 gn @ 980 fps, try light slugs
TEST MADE on .22 cal and STX Pellet liner A
17.5 gn .217 slugs will go at about the same speed than 18.2 pellet, 980 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7LqhVvBNne/
20.2 gn .217 slugs will go at about 910 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Lso7pBODW/
23 gn .218 slugs will go about 850 fps: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6BpPtEBI4V/
I shoot pigeons with that setup at distances from 40m to 120m, and they are very accurate, and I am thinking in saying bye bye to pellets considering this. (except for benchrest since there is no option)
Hope that helps for the ones looking to shoot slugs and do not want to get a slug liner (slug liner shoot all slugs good, specially heavies), donno about other barrels (LW, TJ, CZ) but I think they should be ok too.
If you want I can test .25 and .30 too, let me know in the comments
, still I felt sharing my results, maybe it can help others.
