Ignorant Hillbilly shoots .25 Cricket with chrony results…
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when I first saw this graph, I almost had a stroke…thinking “Good Grief, that’s all over the place!!!”
Then I checked out the next display and my heart started to slow down a bit:
Finally, the end results made me happy indeed. Not bad….not bad at all with just a hammer spring adjustment:
The .25 Cricket Synthetic came from AOA set at 920 fps, 51 fpe, and the hammer slap/pellet impact were quite loud! It was a beast. So I lowered the hammer adjustment spring three or four turns and came out at about 890 fps, still faster than I wanted, by 10 fps or so.
I got four good magazines out of the 200 down to 100 bar stopping point. Actually, I had four more shots, (for 52 total) but the pellets didn’t load because I kept forgetting to move the magazine lever down and forward when I reloaded, so on all four magazines my second shot didn’t load. Wasted air. But, this should give you a good idea of what 893 fps average will do. For my purposes, I will lower it down to 850 fps average and see if the hammer slap and pellet impact is reduced. I know at 820 fps it was very quiet. I may have to settle in at 850 fps, or so, to keep the “balance” of accuracy, power, and noise I can live with.
My neighbors next door are inbred swine of the lowest order! However, what they can’t hear, or see, didn’t happen. They can suspect…and they do…but they can’t prove a thing. And…my IR scope just arrived. Gen 1, with an optical center the size of a grape, but big enough to nail the critters I go after at close range!
As it was daylight, I had to shoot fast and get back inside before the police showed up. I had a Christian music station on extra loud on my deck, but I still made some racket. So, accuracy was not a factor, although may I state for the record that I hit every tree I aimed at!!! You can’t laugh at results. 🙄
Regards,
Your humble and obedient servant…
Kindly ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 t
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Two weeks wait. I got lucky!
Congrats on your .25 How long was the wait? I`d wait till its broken in then run a string.
A few of them may be odd of pellets or gun or combination of both, such as,
883, 881,878,879,888.
The rest of 43 pellets delivers the true trending of reg.
That 879 followed by 898 will give you about 1″ offset at 100Y.
Now that’s something I would never of thought of…. :twak:
Might be interesting to sort the next batch of 50 pellets, by weight, on my chinese gram scale, and see what happens with the next shot count.
It’s about to cut loose and rain here today, so perhaps Friday will provide some more info. Good night to sort pellets by weight. Also, to see if Benjamin has any significant variations in weight per pellet.
More later…
Let us look at the first diagram this way,
A few of them may be odd of pellets or gun or combination of both, such as,
883, 881,878,879,888.
The rest of 43 pellets delivers the true trending of reg.
That 879 followed by 898 will give you about 1″ offset at 100Y.
What a good looking shot string that is hoot.
well done,,,(loud christian music on deck :6: ) just got a mental picture of you blastin away with the mighty bug while heavenly vibes flow,, :8:
love it,,
atb adam
Yeah…the Air Ranger had to go. Sad, but that hard hitting beast provided most of the money I needed for the Cricket.
I don’t regret the sale. The buyer got a good deal and a beautiful rifle, and I got a more manageable bullpup, and it shoots just as hard!
The accuracy is awesome, and the 51 fpe is with 27.5 gr Benjamin pellets. I’ve got some Jerry’s 6-rings I want to single load and see what I get in fps/fpe. I have a male tree squirrel, a big bull, that has been posing a serious threat to my life and limb. If he ever charges…I need a one shot stop solution.
When you are closer to the end of life, than you are the middle, you have limited time to find what works for you, and then get out and enjoy it while you can still function.
When the end comes, I hope to go out like a real man….in the woods, a dead savage grey squirrel attached to my jugular, and a blooded knife in my cold dead hand!!!
Kind regards,
Uncle H 😯 😯 t
Sounds like your having a good time there brother Hoot!
Did you sell your beloved Ranger? Beautiful Stock! 😉
Knife
Hoot,
What length is the .25 cricket ?
Thanks.
dear Uncle Hoot,
I am basically a benchrest shooter. I have ceased to hunt a long time ago, after a tragic incident. I have both 177 and 22, won a few matches with the 22, have shot a friend’s Mrod 25, and the thought of long range precision with an airgun had always been fascinating to me. Some are already casting lead into bullets and reaching out into the 400y territory, but I think I will just stick the the true airgun, hence, the diabolo pellet, not bullet. I have had my time with bullets while in the service…. and now it is time to enjoy the pleasures of airgunning.
I hear even in the silence, whispers of 25 it has to be… and Cricket seems likely it is.
Wood or synthetic… hmmm.. maybe synthetic.. and make the wood myself… 🙂
Looking forward and dreams.. perhaps, a first focal plane scope and a Cricket…hmmmm
Best regards,
Thanks for sharing Uncle Hoot.. I am on the fence for a Cricket.. someday soon.. looks like a real fun baby to shoot thumbtacks at 100y.. though I am not sure which… 22 or 25.. ❓
My dear friend…
Since 1970 I have owned .22, .177, .20 and .25…of all these, the .25 has proven the most versatile.
The potential power of this caliber can take down almost any game or predator animal you are likely to encounter, including hogs. Yes, I would not hesitate one minute to take a head shot on a full size boar. Yet, the power can be turned down to achieve very respectable shot counts in a regulated gun. The .25 holds a steady course through side winds, and retains a lot of energy much further downrange than the other calibers.
For general use, I don’t believe it can be beat.
The pellets cost more per 200 count. A premium I’m willing to pay. Oddly, the Benjamin 27.8gr pellets have performed to excellence with the Cricket. They are not extremely soft in nature, which in my mind is good, because of less “leading” in the rifling. I have used pellets twice as expensive, yet both make the same hole, in the same place! Seems silly to overlook this fact.
I believe the Cricket will be an excellent buy if the “Spring Special” of $1650 becomes a reality. The .25 might cost $50 more, but worth it. The wood stocks are beautiful and have cheek guards, but the synthetic is bulletproof and “warm” to the touch. Even the cocking lever can be made black and warm with a bit of heat shrink and some bed liner.
I had to sell every gun I owned to get this rifle. I firmly believe it was worth it. Tomorrow I intend to do some accuracy testing if I can keep the neighbors off my ass while shooting. I live in the mountains in the woods. I have located a place in the woods near my house where I don’t believe these nosy people can bother me.
Results to follow. For the first time in a long time, I’m actually having fun with an airgun.
Kind regards,
Uncle H 😯 😯 t
More than a hundred views and not a single word of congratulations to the hard work to my dear uncle Hoot for his splendid report… hmmmm 😯
Thanks for sharing Uncle Hoot.. I am on the fence for a Cricket.. someday soon.. looks like a real fun baby to shoot thumbtacks at 100y.. though I am not sure which… 22 or 25.. ❓
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Hoot, Thank you for taking the time to share your results with us Cricket Lovers. :8:
I got my cricket in 4 or 5 days, but I got the wood stock (bulldog).
I haven’t had much chance to shoot mine due to weather and work. The weather will clear up and I only have to work a couple more months before I retire 😀 . then I will be able to get out much more.
Keep it coming H :8: :8: T, I love reading all your posts.
Stan