FX Dreamline Accuracy

Wow that is really fast. At least i think it is fast as well , not even half a tin . I have seen some of the fellows on here trying to enlarge there choke with some compounds . If it were me I would just buy a slug liner as they shoot both pellets and slugs well. I could be mistaken but i believe the choke on the slug liners are no where near as tight as what you described. Sorry to hear that for sure. 

Scott

My .25 Impact had to be cleaned every 100 shots or so or the accuracy dropped off. After a break in of 400-500 pellets it got quite a bit better. My slug barrel was kind of the same. I was cleaning often again when it was new. I lube my slugs now and only clean every 500-600 rounds.

My .25 Impact had to be cleaned every 100 shots or so or the accuracy dropped off. After a break in of 400-500 pellets it got quite a bit better. My slug barrel was kind of the same. I was cleaning often again when it was new. I lube my slugs now and only clean every 500-600 rounds.

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That is currently close to what I clean mine at in intervals as well.

I also wash and lube my pellets and cant remember the last time I cleaned any of my (3 original) smooth twist barrels, also have never needed to replace any breach o rings.. I use napier power pellet lube with great results.

Once I saw how quickly my FX barrels/liners fouled when new I decided to JB bore paste them first. Now after doing that its take many pellets to foul the liners. Bill

i would polish too but only by hand and not very much at first and count the pellets until it fouls again. improved ?

in the fx factory tour video with rossi at the acuracy testing they say that say polish a liner if it fails the acuracy test. just watch this part if you hestitate to polish your liner

Paul, Good to know information. I have my JB Bore Paste ready for when I get my Dreamline. Still waiting........

Gary
Venice, FL

I’d like to chime in, if I may. Question, did your accuracy or groups tighten back up after cleaning the barrel? After some shooting they usually do. If so then your accuracy problem probably was a dirty barrel. If not, the POI accuracy issue could be the instability or lack of rigidity of the Dreamline’s free floating barrel.

I own two Dreamline’s and I chased the POI shift issue down every rabbit hole imaginable. From thinking I had bad smooth twist x liners ( too tight of chokes, needing polishing, yada yada yada..) I replaced liners cleaned them and all sorts of rigmarole. It wound up being none of those things. What finally solved all POI shift and accuracy issues with my Dreamline’s was the installation of a quality barrel band.

There is nothing wrong with polishing your liners if you choose to and if done right. But I have a hunch from a years worth experience with the same gun that after all that polishing your POI is still going to shift. I get the same lead deposits, lead dust, and tight pull through (with patchworm) when I clean my barrels, but with the barrel bands there is rarely any accuracy loss. Now the accuracy has long lasting consistency. The airgun’s usually go through a few 500 count tins of JSB’s before I clean them, and even then it is not completely necessary. The cleaning is more of a airgun maintenance routine, more so then to gain back accuracy that has fallen off.

I have tried it all, but barrel bands are what absolutely ended up working to fix my Dreamlines’ accuracy. Best accessory I’ve installed on my Dreamlines! Works so well, put the same rigs on my Streamline! Made already good platforms great! Take it for what it’s worth.






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My point is, that you can polish until you are blue in the face and it sparkles like a diamond. But, with those soft-ish easily moveable Dreamline barrels, your efforts may be in vain.

Thank you Joe. 

My Dream Pup came with the barrel band, I don't know if the other models do or don't now. The only time I am polishing the liners bore with JB's is when I first receive the rifle. When I did not the new liner would foul with less than 100 rounds and accuracy would go. I have heard from others that if you don't polish the barrel it will take a 500 tin count to do the break-in that way. In my opinion why not get better accuracy and get less fouling right away so you can get down to testing and pesting if you are into that. Bill

I posted a thread on my impact liner a few days ago, it it without question the roughest, dirtiest barrel I have ever tested. It is my belief that the external crimping, stretches the internal rifling causing micro fractures in the metal. 


Try pushing a few pellets through the liner, see what it feel like..

Weirdly though, it shoots ok (better now I have given it a polish) but I will be swapping it out for a LW barrel blank sooner rather than later.

Bb