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Aaah, great classic here.
Stop fiddling, start shooting. Groups come with practice.
Did the same, grouping gets better over time, whether it’s you or your rifle breaking in…
And invest in different pellets, you’d be amazed to see the differences between them and maybe find one that groups better than your current one.
That is – of course – assuming that you haven’t done all that yet 😉
You guys are so freeking talented with these things. I’ve been working on mine for a year now. Lost multiple girlfriends due to my merely found tuning obsession and STILL can’t get these groups!
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Indeed! Very nice groups… but you missed the bull’s eye by 3″!!! :suprisedn: :winkn: :biggrinn: :rofl: :rofl:
Nice shooting Drumsguns !
~ Greg
I recently had my Cricket 25 completely torn down to replace o-rings. I had been waiting for the gauge removal tool which I finally got and replaced the totally worn-out o-ring, Anyway …not the story. I put it all back together but forgot to pull the barrel. I read this post and went home yesterday to do just that after work. The barrel had been previously pulled but this time I forgot. I decided to shoot a “before target” at 50 yards. There was a very light right to left breeze. I shot 4 targets, 5-6 shots each. Posting both sets…worst target was the first with a “cold gun.” Best was 6 shots in to 0.262.” I’ve never seen that before! Honest to goodness truth. 0.477″; 0.379″; 0.320″; 0.262″
I’m thinking I’ll just leave the barrel alone as these are currently personal best targets at 50 yd. with EK Heavy, MK I @ 855 fps.
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My pleasure, Sippy.
On my side, had to cut down the bolts I ordered by 5mm. Had ordered M4x40, needed M4x35, more choice in 40, even found high tension steel screws with torx head. So Dremel out, cut down, polished, chamfered and blued the cut end – ready to fix.
Fixed everything using the barrel centering bolt, which came with the gun, as shown in Earnest’s video. Torqued down the bolts in a criss-cross pattern with my torque screw driver, similar to the one Sippy just ordered at 22 in-lb.
All fine, one-hole groups in veeery gusty winds with 16gr AAs with a 14 ft-lb gun at 22yd, down from 200 to 160 bars, no POI-shifts (for the moment, will stretch out more this week). :5:
If I could do it, then you should be fine, too, Sippy, crossing fingers.
Cheers
Thank you, brother!
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Yep, that’s the good one.
DAAAHHH! I just bought this stupid thing. It’s okay?
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Can get one from Amazon for example, type torque driver or torque screw driver in the search field.
Careful though, they come in torque ranges, be sure to pick the right one. Don’t do as I did, mixing up ft-lb and in-lb…
ft-lb is too strong and will crack the screw at best (don’t t ask…) 😐 .
No big harm done, pulled the screw head out, pushed out the nut with the other half of the screw and screwed it out without issues. Shot her with only three screws (tightened the Earnest-way) and worked very well. Ordered new screws, will do the assembly process today with the right torque in IN-LB. Cross fingers.
One thing though, make sure that the screws can be turned without forcing until the head’s flush with the clamp. Mine came with one screw cross-threaded, had to rethread and reblue the screw and the nut (no it’s not the one that cracked) :biggrinn:
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You can also use wheeler engineering Fat wrench. The have a manual and digital version:
Manual https://www.amazon.com/Wheeler-Firearms-Accurizing-Torque-Wrench/dp/B0012AXR4S
Digital https://www.amazon.com/Wheeler-Digital-Firearms-Accurizing-Torque/dp/B01B3NW5TG
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Do you have a link?
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Indeed very nice shooting Drums…..