Taipan Veteran. 177 pellet testing at 55yards.

Hello friends. 

I just bought one tin of Jsb Monsters, one tin of Monster redesigned and a tin of. 177 Jsb Hades.

I decided to test them at 51m which is 55y.

Each pellet was tested with 2 targets to see if there is any consistency.I turned the hammer spring to max power and then i just back it out 1 turn.At that tune monsters were going around 810 and monster redesigned at around 790.

After testing heavier pellets i backed out hammer spring to my older tune for Jsb heavies 10.34 gr.At that tune i tested first Hades pellets and then heavies.

You can see that in my rifle the best pellet is Jsb exact heavy all the others gave bad results.the best group is 4 pellets in 1/4" and one a little of but still 1/2".The other group with 10.34 grainers was shoot in little worse conditions because wind starded blowing more but still four of five pellets under 1/2".

I also shoot one group with heavy jsb's on higher power tune and they were fast about 925 fps.I saw one pellet spiraling at that speed and also the group was not great around 1,5".I didn't take a foto of that target. Those pellets in this rifle likes to be under 900fps.

Maybe if i could push monsters faster i would get better results with them. 

For now best pellet remains Jsb exact heavy at 870 fps. 
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Regards Marko
 
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This WAS how my VET was shooting with some modified LDC baffles ... was getting odd fliers as shown. Sense then took the modified parts out of the LDC and the VET now shoots the same W/O those fliers. This a taipan Std VET in .177 cal using AA pellets at 920 fps. AH ... that's 10 shots at 50 yards



Yea it shoots GREAT !!

Interesting. Lower caliber Taipans are quiet. Why did you mod the baffles? Did you have flier problems with the stock stuff? Do you have a theory on the fliers?
 
👍 very nice.Now i need those air arms 10.3 gr pellets.


Just so you know ... The AA pellets are also manufactured by JSB

Heard once they used proprietary dies ( may have been debunked by now or not ? ) but threw the years like many simply have found the AA branded to out shoot the JSB branded.



Your mileage may differ .... My AA's are 5-6 years old production FWIW
 
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This WAS how my VET was shooting with some modified LDC baffles ... was getting odd fliers as shown. Sense then took the modified parts out of the LDC and the VET now shoots the same W/O those fliers. This a taipan Std VET in .177 cal using AA pellets at 920 fps. AH ... that's 10 shots at 50 yards



Yea it shoots GREAT !!

Interesting. Lower caliber Taipans are quiet. Why did you mod the baffles? Did you have flier problems with the stock stuff? Do you have a theory on the fliers?


I was just looking to reduce the report more, cap and baffles were @ .280" which would work with a .25 caliber. made I.D. reducers for the 3 baffles at @ .210" and made stripper cone for the end cap. Shot a bit quieter which was nice, but it seems for high precision / accuracy I'm required to keep the holes larger. Was an experiment to begin with and only showed the shortcomins upon testing in which that picture demonstrates.



Scott S
 
I wonder if a .177, because of how light it is, is even more susceptible to the slightest bad turbulence when silencing.


It appears so and not all that surprising being that the valve dwell required to get the small area caliber up too speed appears greater than the larger calibers require.

More dwell = MORE excess air blasting out behind the pellet upon muzzle exit. More air = greater stability upsetting potential with such a light and small projectile.

Larger caliber and weight projectiles certainly require longer dwell for big power, but they weigh a lot more and are getting shot at very similar pressures.



Sort of a WAG .... ???



Scott S