Something wrong?
Just got back from Xmas vacation to my rainy town picked up my powerful, modded condor that shoots 25 cal benji domed 28 gr like a laser. I put a wine bottle average size 30 yards away. I know that my condor shoots these pellets 1050 fps on the first power setting. I took the first shot I hit the bottle on it’s left side center and the bottle fell over but did not shatter. I presume that I did not steady the shot enough that it grazed the bottle and knocked to it’s right side.
For any household shooters: why did the bottle not shatter? At that velocity and even though it grazed the bottle the bottle should have been in pieces upon inspection not a scratch. If I had used a pointed pellet would it have shattered? I noticed as I put the pellet in the barrel it seemed loose, I have found maybe 8 of 200 pellets that just slide freely in the barrel. Does this loose velocity? I know my aim sucked. I don’t think the rain had an effect.
Does anybody have any ideas why the wine bottle did not shatter at 30 yards and with my pellet gun combo.
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If there’s no mark on the target I think you have to accept it as a miss. OK it did blow it over so it’s a near miss.
I’d sort those pellets if some are noticeably loose. I picked up roll sorting from “powderburner” and even with match quality you’d be surprised by the difference of a few pellets. Roll sorting isn’t perfect but you’ll regain confidence in your shooting and have a better idea if a miss or flier is something you did.
You guys are right just clipped it. Readjusted the scope a couple of clicks to the right and bam center shot the bottle shattered.
Another problem: what would you guys do if you had a condor with 25 barrel and modded valve and you were switching back and forth with a 12 inch 22 cal barrel and modded standard valve with ss end cap and internal shroud parts. Would you just get another scope and mount so that you don’t have to keep adjusting my scope or does anybody know where I can get a talon ss frame. What to do?
If the pellet was loose, the velocity was probably lower. Some air can escape around the pellet. I think it quickly expands, so not a lot of air is lost, but some.
But yeah, a direct hit would probably bust it. The round shape makes it easy to deflect hits, so if you hit to one side it probably just bounced right off.
You must of literally just clipped it, maybe the skirt of the pellet brushed it.
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Barklee,
I at one point had a Condor with 24 inch 22 barrel, a 12 inch 22 and end cap an airarcher and an extra Talon valve on a seperate tank.
Taking them a part to play with different combinations, was raising hell with my arthritic thumbs, so my wife said, why not just get two other frames?
So I searched for a cheap Talon SS, checking here and on the Yellow. Finally I found one, sold the 12 inch barrel. Then the second fram I aquired was in a purchase I went in with 80 Grit, he bought the gun and canabalized it and sold me the frame.
I ended up being about $235.00 average on each frame and that included the hammers and trigger assembly, basically everything but the barrel and one tank.
So now I have three Air Force frames, two Talon SS’s and one Condor, with different setups.
Roachcreek
