Tuning a TAIPAN Veteran for JSB's

This is great news!

Can't wait to see the results.

I have a .25 shorty which is very accurate but my settings information wouldn't be helpful with tuning your long.

Matt



Edit: make sure the gun is not cocked when turning the adjuster.

Awesome. My suggestion is to shoot the 25.39 kings at 880-885 fps and the 33.95 King Heavy, both versions, at 900-905 fps. 


Thank you for doing a little further testing, Nate. 

Awesome Nate, look forward to your results!

I really hate to be the lone dissenter here, Nate. But when before reviewing a product, any product, shouldn't the reviewer take adequate time to learn the product? 

Shouldn't the reviewer know the very basics of the product, e.g. the hammer spring adjuster and "that button right there" on the side -----> the "magazine catch"? 

I find it hard to take a review serious when the reviewer appears to be simply introducing himself to the product for the first time.

I shoot the 34 grain Jsb's at 860 to 880 out of my .25 cal Veteran Long. I have shot down to 840 with good accuracy. When trying to shoot 900 or faster the accuracy declined. 865 is a good starting point with the 25 grain and 34 grain from my experience with my Veteran.

Ask Tony or DonnyFL to send you the speed dialer for the hammer spring adjustment on the Veteran. I think you will like it.

You do offer a unique style of "reviews" with a smidgen of humor added. I mostly find your videos to be entertaining, if not necessarily informative, which is just fine if one knows in advance what to expect.

I also appreciate the fact that you never seem to take offense to the criticism. 

I wonder if we could find a way to (re)categorize your videos, other than "reviews". Just a thought. 

Your enthusiasm for airgunning does shine through.

The kings @880/890 FPS do really good, I got great results with the MK2s @915-920 FPS, I’ve tried the NSA 29gr slugs in my Veteran too, now i call her the Hammer 25 long Lol

Be sure to try the AA 25’s! My longs favorite! And the mk1 both right around 890.

Make sure to try the Edgun 34gr mk2s. Worked great in my Veteran Standard @890fps

Like 2manyAirGunz mentioned - definitely get the DonnyFL speed dialer. On the fly hammer spring adjustments bring this gun to a whole new level. You can tune it for heavy pellets and then a minute later dial it right back down for light or medium pellets. I don't think it's even fair to review the Veteran without this one modification part. 

I've got a Taipan on my short list of first PCP to buy next year.

Just wondering.... When you adjust the hammer spring, wouldn't you also need to adjust the regulator to match it to get the best performance and save air?

When I do an accuracy test on a PCP I do the following. After I do my tuning and accurizing work I get out the following pellets for testing. As for the .25 I test with JSB, FX, Air Arms Diabolo field and the Edgun, that is for the 25.4 grain. As for the 34 grain I test with JSB original and MKII, the FX and Edgun. All the pellets I test with are made by JSB and have their own performance characteristics. 

Their is a belief out there that you can choose a pellet and make that gun like that pellet, after testing hundreds of new and used guns I have never been able to choose the pellet for the gun. I have found testing with the JSB made variants will always yield a pellet the gun will shoot very well. I also have found there is no consistency found between guns tested and which pellet they like.

I tend to start at or near max velocity and work my way back from there to find the sweet spot for accuracy and velocity. For example, the .25 Cricket bullpup after a powertune tends to like the 34 grain variants between 910 to 940 FPS, for the 25 grain I have found best accuracy between 990 and 1030 FPS.

I have found that each barrel is an individual creation. Proper testing with multiple pellets within an accepted velocity range, will find your best accuracy and properly represent the capabilities of a gun.

Thanks

Charlie Frear, Georgia Airguns 

Charlie,

After reading your post, I’m thinking to start out at close to max velocity and test the accuracy of the various pellets with the same weight with no adjustments to the gun during the first tests. Then after finding the pellet that has the most consistent POI groups, using that pellet to fine tune the speed to get the most consistent POI with that pellet? Is this correct?

Beach-gunner

Dennis

Dennis, I think you are right on. I usually start to see good groups at about ten to fifteen FPS below max and work lower in FPS from there. You will probably see one or two pellet choices perform poorly right away, then you can test further with the pellet choices that remain.

Good luck and I look forward to reading your results.

Thanks

Charlie Frear, Georgia Airguns

Nate's reviews are entertaining and informative....... remove gun from box and shoot it.

How does it shoot out of the box?

I was wanting the Taipan Vet .25 and Nate's review of it pushed me over the edge to click the BUY button. I received my Taipan Veteran Long .25, very nicely prepped by Tony at Talon Tunes, on Friday and WOW what a great decision to get that. I've only put a 100 pellets through it but very impressed thus far.