last week I painted up the scope rings to match up the scope, along with the Butler Creek eyepiece cover.
Final finishing touches on my Hercules Bully
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last week I painted up the scope rings to match up the scope, along with the Butler Creek eyepiece cover.
Nice job, great looking gun! I have a Neil Clague CF shroud on my Cricket mini and its awesome...
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Yes, I do!! Heavy Impact makes an awesome bottle clamp!
i was actually his first customer, lol
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He wants to know what scope you have.
How does the Bully sound compared to the wildcat now ?
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Heavy- that Bully is a beast on its own as far as rapport goes. The Wildcat is very quiet, thank you for that, but the bully still has some rapport. It’s way better now, way better than without, but a Bully will never ever become a “backyard friendly” gun. Not unless I want to hang a foot long, costly, Emperor on it.
Talking with Neil, in all fairness, he made a good point. Go outside, away from fences, walls, and then have someone off to the rear and side of me, and ask what they hear. All this time I’ve been judging moderator effectiveness in my garage while shooting out at front lawn targets. The only moderators that are quiet enough to be labeled backyard friendly is your Wildcat concoction, and Tim Hills Marauder moderator. Consequently, both yours and his use the air stripper inverted cones.
To credit Neil, he did such a fantastic job in fabrication. It came powdercoated black, so some pre prep was involved for it to accept the flat dark earth paint. I had a Shogun on there previous, which is a bit quieter than Neil’s, but not by much. It’s only that much quieter cause I’ve had to resort to changing out the Shoguns fabric inside to a very dense foam, and have had others re create the Hatsan QE baffles and spacer out of 3D print.
Neils moderator just looks better on my gun, I feel. More sleek looking, unique, if you know what I mean.
Talking with Neil, in all fairness, he made a good point. Go outside, away from fences, walls, and then have someone off to the rear and side of me, and ask what they hear. All this time I’ve been judging moderator effectiveness in my garage while shooting out at front lawn targets. The only moderators that are quiet enough to be labeled backyard friendly is your Wildcat concoction, and Tim Hills Marauder moderator. Consequently, both yours and his use the air stripper inverted cones.
To credit Neil, he did such a fantastic job in fabrication. It came powdercoated black, so some pre prep was involved for it to accept the flat dark earth paint. I had a Shogun on there previous, which is a bit quieter than Neil’s, but not by much. It’s only that much quieter cause I’ve had to resort to changing out the Shoguns fabric inside to a very dense foam, and have had others re create the Hatsan QE baffles and spacer out of 3D print.
Neils moderator just looks better on my gun, I feel. More sleek looking, unique, if you know what I mean.
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Looks great man! Now shoot it and show us your results
This gun has become its own, lol. I’ve had to de tune the speeds by way of chronograph testing with hammer spring manipulation to get it at a decent shot count, decent velocity, and accuracy. From 1,075 FPS from the factory, it gave 16 shots and ended around 880 FPS. Currently I have it averaging between 875 and 880 FPS, for 20 shots, maybe 23.
At 50 yards, it’s grouping around 5/8” center to center.
The shot to the right away from the group as the first shot to start the sight in process.
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I'd call my 104 fpe .30 impact "backyard friendly" on report only. The noise comes when you hit something... other than the pellet's impact it sounds almost exactly like my .22 barrel. I'm still struggling to work the bugs out of my new printer. I've got a few nice parts out of it but it's not consistent yet.
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My other beef, which really isn’t the scopes fault, is something i learned with FFP scopes. I shot at this filled water bottle set out at 55 yards exactly. I drew a 1/2” sharpie dot on it. The Monstrum scope is a FFP, MOA reticle, with mil dots at he cross hair mid point and all along the horizontal and vertical axis.
Well, at full zoom, 16 power, that centered dot completely covered my sharpie mark. Ha! Lesson learned.
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Oh, and lastly, with the Shogun on I was at 44 1/4” from end of moderator to end of shoulder pad. With this Neil Clauge one I’m at 43 3/4” in length.
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Neil is a great dude and can make anything you want as far as moderators and shrouds go. I'm lucky to have him as a neighbor and friend!
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