I finally like many here got my shipment of the new FX Hybrid .22 caliber slugs. I went about initially shooting them in my FX Impact with the slug liner to get a velocity. This was done in my basement were the temperature was 60 degrees. The next day I took out the slug liner and installed the pellet liner as they say this will be more accurate with the FX Hybrids. Now the temperature outside was 32 degrees and my first shots were down from 919 fps to 875 fps or 44 fps. So the question was how much of this loss was due to temperature and how much to the barrel liner differences. Next I went back to the basement at 60 degrees with the pellet liner and used my FX Radar to get the indoor velocity. I got approximately 900 fps or a gain of 25 fps due to temperature. This meant that I also lost about 20 fps probably due to increase friction in the pellet liner. I plan at a later date to test both liners at 50 yards and beyond to see if there is an accuracy difference.
Next on to the expansion testing. I decided to compare both the .22 caliber FX Hybrids at 22 grains to the NSA 23 grain HP FB for expansion shot into a 12 oz. block of 20% Clear Ballistic gel. This is the approximate weight of an pigeon. There has been a lot of hype about the Hybrids expansion with people shooting into dense heavy clay blocks, buckets of water and items that weigh much more than many of the pests and game we shoot. I already had found out shooting appropriate weight gel blocks with the NSA's there was very little expansion. I am not downing the NSA slugs as they get the job down at longer distances with their better b.c. , accuracy and also are way less costly than the Hybrids. I did want to see the difference in expansion between the two on a more accurate pest testing media.
After getting my base reading with the Impact I switched over to my FX Dream Pup with slug liner to do my testing. You may ask why do this? Well I did my testing in my basement and with only 14 yards to the block I did not want to hit it with full power and exaggerate the expansion. Well I did the testing between the two slugs and made a mistake of not have the same impact energy at the target and got skewed results. I was able to correct this error and my results for distance on my Chairgun tables were very close. I think the results I got will be closer to what you would expect hitting a pigeon at 106 to 110 yards. This is with your rifle shooting about 900 to 920 fps at the muzzle with the Hybrids. Hopefully the video will make it more clear how I did my testing. The bringing of the hybrid slugs by FX looks like another great advancement for the airgun world. Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9PFWn5Qnn4&ab_channel=GunPowder%26AirPower
For those not wanting to watch the video. Here is the result of hitting a 12 oz.pigeon weight ballistic gel block with both the NSA 23 grain and FX Hybrid 22 grain
with approximately 28.88 fpe. For my FX Impact that translates to hitting a pigeon at about 105 yards. The NSA's not much expansion while the FX Hybrid expanded
to almost 30 caliber.
Next on to the expansion testing. I decided to compare both the .22 caliber FX Hybrids at 22 grains to the NSA 23 grain HP FB for expansion shot into a 12 oz. block of 20% Clear Ballistic gel. This is the approximate weight of an pigeon. There has been a lot of hype about the Hybrids expansion with people shooting into dense heavy clay blocks, buckets of water and items that weigh much more than many of the pests and game we shoot. I already had found out shooting appropriate weight gel blocks with the NSA's there was very little expansion. I am not downing the NSA slugs as they get the job down at longer distances with their better b.c. , accuracy and also are way less costly than the Hybrids. I did want to see the difference in expansion between the two on a more accurate pest testing media.
After getting my base reading with the Impact I switched over to my FX Dream Pup with slug liner to do my testing. You may ask why do this? Well I did my testing in my basement and with only 14 yards to the block I did not want to hit it with full power and exaggerate the expansion. Well I did the testing between the two slugs and made a mistake of not have the same impact energy at the target and got skewed results. I was able to correct this error and my results for distance on my Chairgun tables were very close. I think the results I got will be closer to what you would expect hitting a pigeon at 106 to 110 yards. This is with your rifle shooting about 900 to 920 fps at the muzzle with the Hybrids. Hopefully the video will make it more clear how I did my testing. The bringing of the hybrid slugs by FX looks like another great advancement for the airgun world. Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9PFWn5Qnn4&ab_channel=GunPowder%26AirPower
For those not wanting to watch the video. Here is the result of hitting a 12 oz.pigeon weight ballistic gel block with both the NSA 23 grain and FX Hybrid 22 grain
with approximately 28.88 fpe. For my FX Impact that translates to hitting a pigeon at about 105 yards. The NSA's not much expansion while the FX Hybrid expanded
to almost 30 caliber.
