Condor – 25 cal Coytoe ready at 60 yds
I was wondering what is the best setup, for the 25 cal Condor, to deal with everyday pest and still be ready for a coyote at 60 yds. I would prefer using a bipod and not out practicing everyday (if you know what I mean – grab and go).
With the stock hammer, would that be enough and what grain pellet should I be using (26 to 31) ? Or should I upgrade the hammer some but not a lot to avoid recoil and go to the next level of pellet weight ? Clearly I would like to remain in the 850 to 950 optimum FPS range.
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Hopefully you have a decent scope with repeatable settings or else you will doing a few sight in shots before killing anything. 😳
Lots of great info. Thanks
And there is that too!
Excellent point Jerry! 😉
Now, all you have to do is get the scope settings down…
I’m pretty much going to repeat what Jerry just said but i’ll be a little longer winded. I’m getting points for typing extra long posts… 😆 🙄
I think you’d be best served by getting two HiFlo valved tanks (or possibly the Extreme valve if it proves it’s hotter than the HiFlo). Set one tank for the heavier slugs and the other for the lighter weight pellets.
Manipulation of the power wheel will help you bridge the two tank valve combinations. Changing a tank is pretty quick.
For example (and i’m just throwing numbers out to make the point):
30 grain pellets, HiFlo valve, tophat at 0.070″-0.080″ power wheel near zero, pellet traveling in the mid 800’s to low 900’s…
80 grain slug, HiFlo valve, tophat at 0.080″-0.090″ power wheel at about half way, slug traveling in the mid 800’s to low 900’s…
Having the power wheel set at zero to midway and getting a decent but low velocity will allow you to tune up to the optimum velocity as needed. So when that pesky large beastie wanders into the strike zone you twist on the high power set up (larger tophat gap), set the power wheel and load the big boys.
After said beastie is slain and a smaller pest wanders into the zone, lower power wheel, twist off the hp tank, twist on the lower power tank, load pellets and say hello my new little friend! 😆
I bet you could probably get everything to work without having to adjust the power wheel if you tinker with the tophats…
This assumes you have a chronometer and are willing to buy another tank with valve…. 😉
AirGunner,
I read your post earlier and figured the smart guys would weigh in but I guess you’ll have to settle for my BS instead!
I think you might be asking for how to make the Condor into two guns at once. It’s a versatile piece but you can ask too much. I’m assuming your “everyday pest” is small stuff like squirrels and rats or ground hogs. You should have no trouble dealing with those with a stock gun shooting a quality pellet.
For a coyote, you want more power or a really easy shot. Only lots of practice makes for easy shots and you’ve pointed out that’s not in the cards. So, if you want to kill a coyote, you will want a accurate pellet that carries enough power to kill when you make a completely average shot. Don’t pretend that you’re going to just pick up the gun when you see the target out the window and then rush out and put a pellet in his ear… Assuming the gun is properly set-up and ready to shoot, one of our heavy slugs would probably work just fine ripping through a yote’s chest. BUT, the same gun can’t be sitting there ready for a quick shot at a squirrel with a light pellet! At least as far as I know…
Guys who want to shoot the heavies have a set-up that works with a modified valve and/or maxed out settings. If they want to shoot a tin of pellets, they detune the gun by rolling back the pre-load or even switching to a bottle that has a stock valve… The point is that the gun ca’t be grab and go for two hugely different loads.
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Something tells me warning shots are not what he is looking for… 😆
Let us know what you do AG1 and your results, this is a relatively common quest for these super adaptable rifles. 😉