This freakin wind!!!

Maybe tonight it will finally calm down. I do most of my shooting at night when I am testing. All my targets out to 100yrds have remote control lighting. A 20mph wind with a 22-250 on prairie dogs is tricky. With an airgun? Good heavens!

The wind died down shortly after I bitched about it online. Might have to start other topics about things that are bothering me. I am done with trying to make my Leshiy a slug gun. The .25 barrel I made seemed to be accurate but the gun was nasty. That’s what sent me in the .177 direction. I used a choked china barrel just like I did with the .25. After shooting some shots, I thought I must be becoming a wimp. In 177 the gun was nasty so I backed the reg down to 100b, put my 250mm .22 barrel in and set the hammer to 15 clicks. Back to shooting 15.89’s at 850fps and the gun is nicer. Here is where I stand. I tune my Leshiy 20+FPS below max speed for whatever reg setting I am at. I am not shooting a slow slug, it’s not worth it over a fast pellet under 100yrds. When a Leshiy is pumping a slug at a respectable speed, I would rather shoot a .22 magnum. Getting ready to establish a 125yrd zero with my Priest using 34gr slugs and my Taipan using 22gr slugs. The Leshiy will stay what it was meant to be. For now. 

It’s 1:50am and I just put 5 hours in behind guns and barrel swapping. It’s amazing how frustrated you can get behind a gun and think things are hopeless. Then you nail the right tune and projectile and the gun leaves you speechless. 

The Taipan and Priest always leave me speechless. The Priest with my TJ slug barrel went off its load last night for some reason. Now it’s liking 30gr instead of 34gr. Now I just have to move back out to 125yrds and test them. Something else dawned on me last night while shooting several guns back to back at over 100yrds. I discovered something about the Taipan that contributes to it being such a great shooter. Dead weight. It just sits there like a block of cement during the shot process. The Priest and FX are a little more lively. 

I debated selling my Taipan standard CZ when I got my FX shooting 18’s around the same speed. The FX is just a nicer offhand shooting gun. I got my Taipan out to shoot some farewell groups and realized I can’t part with this gun. It’s a shooting machine. Since the FX is staying a pellet volume shooting gun, I decided to see if I can get the Taipan to falter with slugs. I upped the reg to 140b and it seems to like slugs. With bullpups, because everything is going on right by your ear, you can tell when you really start leaning on a gun for power. The Taipan with the reg up to 140b and a Talon Tunes hammer spring that is as stiff as a truck spring, it is still a peaceful gun. I have owned a lot of guns, if you can accept the ergonomics of the Taipan, I believe it’s the best airgun made.