First day shooting highs and lows
I had my first experience today with my new Talon SS .22 and Condor SS .25, and the outcome was not all good. I shot the Talon first and was getting it sighted in and on the eighth pellet the valve stuck open and all the air slowly hissed out. I tried a few dry fires to no avail. The Talon is for my kids to shoot with me and so I was wanting to keep the power a little lower (velocity around 800 fps), I found power setting 5.8 gave me right at 800 fps with JSB Exact .22 pellets. Anyway Airforce is sending me a new tank. The part that really sucks about that is now I am going to get to fill another tank from empty with my hand pump.
Things went better with my Condor. It shot a little faster then I was expecting. The first power setting I tried was 10.0 and that shot 1044 fps with JSB kings .25. I tried tuning up the power but didn’t get any really gains from that so I went back to 10.0. I did not try any settings lower then 10.0. I got the Condor sighted in and shot a couple groups. My best group was a little worse then I expected, about 2 inches at 50 yards. Some of that was probably me, some of it was that there was a little bit of breeze, and maybe the gun will break in and groups tighten up a little also. I am hoping for the 1 inch groups at 50 yards that I that others are shooting.
As for sound, the Condor was very quiet. There was of course the hammer slap, but that didn’t bother me like it seems to bother others. I personally was very impressed.
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Yep, as we all have learned, that is way too fast for a .25 King pellet. You are getting into the trans sonic area, and this will play hell with pellet stability. They are pin point accurate at 880-890, and in some guns can go to 930fps before getting squirrelly.
The problem is not with the gun, it is just the way it is with a wasted pellet. They are designed this way for a reason. For lower velocity, and this is what sepprates them from their cousins, “The Bullets” “And some of us here are playing with those as well.” 😉 😈
The tank dump, (What we call it here), could be caused by several things.
1. valve stem bent.
2. valve stem adjusted too far out.
3. Tank filled too high. or shot down too low. We mostly don’t fill much over 2700psi, and don’t shoot much below 1800-2000 psi.
Lots of info here, and we are always happy to try and help. 😉
KnifeMaker
Thank you for the input. I will definitely try slowing it down a bit. I think I have a lot of experimenting ahead of me. Oh by the way I just got my first kill, a Starling at about 30 yards, dropped like a rock. I guess a .25 pellet traveling at 1000 fps doesn’t give a starling much time to flap around and die slowly. 😀
Thanks for the Condor SS report – I’m waiting for mine to show up.
I’ve been reading those JSB’s shoot nice and tight right around 930’ish. Maybe slow them down a bit and see how they group.
Also try to find the sweet spot where your string velocity flattens out and just fill to that pressure.
Enjoy! Please keep posting data!
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Thanks for the info. I will turn it down some and see if get better results.