who wants to try to predict the future?

Well, it does look cold and I swear as the rifle cools to the temps outside they change things like how the hammer springs uncoils from the firing of the rifle. Plus the entire rifles are nothing but some sort of metal that is releasing all sorts of pushing and pulling as the temp of the rifle gets closer to the temps out side or from where your shooting from…

Shooting from your garage as you do, try topping of the tank on the rifle, then let it sit in the garage for a couple hours, this will give the rifle enough time to get even with the temps of where your shooting it from. Leave it near the door and the door open will be best…

Then try shooting for groups dude. I shoot out the back door of my shop, basically as you do here, I have seen the temps of a warm rifle from the house nuke any chance of good shooting for best groups while the rifle is warmer than the temps outside or where your shooting from…

Leave the pellets with the rifle as well… Damn winter, I feel as Jerry on that as well. I like things green and growing LOL… One of the things I do like about winter is having the pecan and walnut trees with nuts in them and no leaves to hide them from me shooting at them LOL…

“It’s so pretty” , “Fuck you, I hate Winter!”

So, I am guessing you are going to try the Ringed slugs of Jerry??? I know I am wanting to try his slugs for sure… I look forward to working on this .25 barrel as time allows me… I am looking forward to reading what everyone else does as well…

Joey,

Dude this has been like the best of the best reading… Despite a grim situation, you and others here have cut up and had fun with all this, to help lighten the bad carmma of the rifle you just got… I have LMAO on more than a few posts from you as well as others…

I will say I understand what all you have went through here, as when I bought my Condor NIB, it was like this… Mine spit out rubber bushings where rubber bushings should not have been. Trigger broke, sear broke, threads in frame that hold the tank in place was pushed out, while firing, the valve in the tank was a total disaster and at many different levels, breech bolt knob blew out at one firing cycling, scarring the bejesus out of me LOL… Then there was the Safety, OMG the safety… The safety on these rifles are just not ever going to work for me… The top hat never staying adjusted right. Trust me dude, I know exactly what you have been through…

The PIC you put up first of the top hat and barrel not lining up, I thought to myself OMG his damn frame is bent!!! You could roll the barrel in the frame easy enough to confirm that, lucky that was not the case. I am glad; as that could be a real bitch to fix… I do think we have more than enough frame flex with these rifles as is anyway…

The dirty diaper looking patches you pushed out of the .22 barrel that had never been fired through, don’t give that a second thought, hell every friggin’ piece of carbon steel that was on my Condor looked like this. The three trigger components all were rusty as crap dude, the bore of the barrel would be no different… I took the three trigger components out of my Condor and brushed and honed all the non effective sides off to get the rust off, all to see the stress cracks next LOL… At that time the factory would not even talk to you about getting new parts to fix yourself, even when you offered to pay for the parts LOL…

At this point of my Condor owning experience, sending my Condor back to them was the farthest thing on my mind… They didn’t build this right to begin with, the last thing I could see happening was going to be, them trying to fix this Condor of mine and still trying to make a living $$$… I knew damn well I could make the rifle better than they could at this point, after all, they are trying to make money, I was going to try and make a rifle from this, and more importantly than that, a rifle I would be proud to own!!! That alone would make a world of difference…

The past track record of some of the rifles has been lets say somewhat less than steller LOL… I was nothing short of pissed when mine came from the box like it did and that these rifles are made in the same state I live in at that!!! We Texans have a reputation to live up to and all, you know??? LOL… Some Texans don’t even try I guess… Least now the factory sells the parts on-line… You should have heard the talks I had with the factory when I first bought my Condor LOL… Finding all the mess inside I did, sending it back to them was going to be the last thing I was doing…LOL

I got to know just what is the OAL of your Condor with the shroud on??? The rifle looks longer than mine does when I put my 24″ barrel and shroud on her… I also know your glad that the group buy of the barrels with Walt made it… There was a point I was thinking I was just going to buy however many extra, to make this batch gel LOL… You order your barrel in a 24″ or whatever longest size Walt can get from the blank or ???

You going to use the bushings you have, or are you having new bushings made??? You have a target in mind far as FPE??? I look forward to reading how your rifle gets on, once you get the new barrel from Walt… Then maybe your neighbors will let you alone long enough to get her all dialed in and have a little fun for a change LOL…

Sounds like a plan. Now, it is easy to get the chrony down range and not shoot it. First, assume that you will shoot low and hit it. Second, prevent impact of the expected stray shot with the chrony; place a 4×4 in front of the chrony so you can’t hit it. Third, (since you can’t see the chrony anymore) draw lines on the 4×4 and on the backer behind the chrony so you know where the sensors are and can shoot over them. A chrony with a remote display or recorder works best in this set-up but most chronies have at least a 10 shot memory…

The above is posted for the benefit of all who have sent a chrony to an early grave and still wonder about the BC of their favorite pellet! 😆 😆 😆