Hi, I purchased a gently used Red Wolf HP in .25 as a treat to myself for my upcoming birthday. It was a great price (but my Dad always cautioned - buying used is buying someone else's problem). Upon arrival, I tested it over the chrony with JSB King Heavy (34 gr) pellets on high - it was only doing about 810 fps. Does that seem low to you for high power? It is right on the mark for 50 ft-lbs, but probably not a good speed for the heavy's. Anyway, I polished and cleaned the barrel, polished the sharp corners on the breach, opened the barrel transfer port, and put a new barrel oring in - still doing 810 fps on high power. I was surprised that the port had no effect - I have done it on most/all of my other PCPs with great improvement. The size increase in the port was well polished after I completed. The factory port had a burr on it. My Brocock HR Magnum came in at a factory tune of 890fps with JSB Heavies.
I scoped the RW up and set-out to try it in my 75-yard backyard range. Wow was it quiet with the Huggett!!! The JSB Heavies were visibly spiraling, though - best I got was 1.5" (shooting from the bench with the single shot tray). Some where even off paper! I tried JSB King (25 gr) on medium power and they were better, but not great. On high power the 25 grs were going about 910 fps, with the best group just at 0.75", but still some spiraling and most groups were not great. For comparison, on the same bench, I shot my Impact MK1 and had about 30 shots within .75" of the bullseye and 1 flyer (all were slightly left, but very repeatable). This was after it sitting for 1.5 months, while I was off shooting other stuff. BTW the Impact was dead nuts on from my last shooting session, despite traveling around with me.
So my questions for the RW HP are:
Thanks for the advice!
Dan
I scoped the RW up and set-out to try it in my 75-yard backyard range. Wow was it quiet with the Huggett!!! The JSB Heavies were visibly spiraling, though - best I got was 1.5" (shooting from the bench with the single shot tray). Some where even off paper! I tried JSB King (25 gr) on medium power and they were better, but not great. On high power the 25 grs were going about 910 fps, with the best group just at 0.75", but still some spiraling and most groups were not great. For comparison, on the same bench, I shot my Impact MK1 and had about 30 shots within .75" of the bullseye and 1 flyer (all were slightly left, but very repeatable). This was after it sitting for 1.5 months, while I was off shooting other stuff. BTW the Impact was dead nuts on from my last shooting session, despite traveling around with me.
So my questions for the RW HP are:
- Try MKII Heavies or a different moderator?
- Any way to reasonably power up to about 870 fps for the heavies (e.g. low cost) or are my options limited to the programmer or Heliboard?
- If I power up to 875 to 925 fps for heavies, will I wind up breaking the internal components over time? This is an early 2018 version of the RW HP, so probably has the older board in it.
- Should I get a second 22-cal barrel kit and shoot the Monsters at higher speed?
- Any other suggestions (sell it for a loss and get the RAW that I really should have purchased before the BSA/Streamline/Brocock/Crown/Impact(s)/RW)?
Thanks for the advice!
Dan
