I've been hearing more and more about boat tail slugs, such as the NSA brand. Has anyone tried boat tails with a .25 marauder / armada? What can you tell me about boat tails?
Marauders and Boat Tails
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Haven't used slugs (yet), but here's my understanding of boat tails in bullets: the design has no significant effect until the bullet becomes subsonic at long range when the air tends to cling to the bullet shape. The tapered end of a boat tail cuts down the size of the base of the bullet and therefore the size of the vacuum behind it. So, they generally buck the wind better and maintain velocity better than flat base bullets.
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I tried many different slugs in stock. 25 marauder barrels. Never found any that were more accurate than jsb's unless I did alot of internal work to be able to push them at higher velocities. I did have a couple Marauders with alot of modifications and aftermarket barrels that shot slugs rather well. In a stock gun pellets have always worked best for me.
Unless I can shoot a particular weight slug atleast 850fps, I stick with pellets. Just my opinion. When slugs performed well for me, it was at or above 850fps.
Unless I can shoot a particular weight slug atleast 850fps, I stick with pellets. Just my opinion. When slugs performed well for me, it was at or above 850fps.
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About the same here, never tried solids , boattails never seeing no need/reason, in a low powered rig. I've only seem them shoot well at a minimum of 50fpe and much better at 90fpe, regular p-ellets rule the airgun accuracy world.
Now if you were to bump it up to 60fpe+ maybe but still no reason for a boattail other than someone wanted a die and the closest dia. the manufactporer had was in a boat tail.
John
Now if you were to bump it up to 60fpe+ maybe but still no reason for a boattail other than someone wanted a die and the closest dia. the manufactporer had was in a boat tail.
John
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