My first Cricket 22 shooting
Got my Cricket 22 standard from WWAG last week. I finally got a chance to go to the range to try it today. I shot 6 groups of 5s at 50 yard and 75 yard (3 groups each) shown below.
Few disclaimers and notes:
– Pellets used are JSB 15.8 in all tests shown. I plan to test the JSB heavy 18.1 in a later day to see which gives more consistent results.
– I sorted my pellets to exclude the deformed ones. I have to say that in general I am not impressed with the symmetry of the pellets tails in the tin, but JSB is the best I can get.
– This is an indoor range so no wind effect. Occasionally some vibration in the dangling target when the guy next to me shoot his high power rifle, but I wait to rest.
– The tank pressure was between 180 bar and 120 bar throughout the tests.
– The scope used is AEON scope 6-24 set at 20x.
This is my first ever shooting with the cricket aside from some warm up shooting in house (15 yrd) the days before, and I did my best to eliminate shooter error. In total this gun has less than 200 pellets shots at the time of this shooting. Overall I am pleased with the accuracy which is far better than anything I ever shot with. The 50 yrd groups are dime size and the 75 yrd groups are quarter size. My best 50 yrd group was about 3/8″ CTC and my best 75 yrd was about 5/8″ CTC. I tried to do 100 yrds but the AEON scope does not have enough mildots. I know I could go around this but decided to wait until I install my Hawke scope later and try the 100 another day.
While I am happy with the results, I wonder how it compare to what people who are familiar with the gun see. Do these guns need break-in too like springers? Should I expect my groups to improve with time (assuming barrel cleaning)? Did anyone try oiling the pellets and if so is that recommended for better accuracy? Are there better pellets to try? Any advice for improving the accuracy further?
Feedback and suggestions are appreciated.
Awny
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Thanks. I did see posts of nearly one holer at 50 yrds. I wonder what they do or just a lucky stock. We can always welcome more accuracy 🙂
Thanks Octavius
I did not clean the barrel. Charlie from WWAG already did before sending me the gun. He also tested the gun with the 4 mags using JSB 15.9 and 18.1 at 30 yrds and verified a good grouping and sent me the targets with the chrony numbers. I have to say I was really impressed by Charlie and WWAG service and commitment. They got a customer for life. I even added a Webley Aletco Ultra pistol to the order, which is a fine pistol (plan to test it once I got a good sight for it).
On the scope side I do prefer the Hawke SW over the AEON mainly because of the range of the mildots. The AEON has $200 advantage so I likely will use it for my talon SS. The Hawke is also few ounces lighter which would help reducing the weight of the gun which stands at 10.5 now with synth stock, AEON scope and Harris bipod.
Pointed or domed bellets?
What batch of JSB you have? Backside of jsb tin. Take a picture please.
Yeah those are extremely good groups in my opinion. Well done!
I think it is unbelievable result. You can not get better result 😆 Really very nice. Did you clean barrel when you got the rifle from WWAG ?
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I will send you a pic. Its a tin I got from PA couple of months ago.
Keep in mind however that I did sort out almost 30% of the pellets that are not symmetric enough. All what it takes is one flier to mess up you 5-group. I will use them for blinking later, but certainly not for hunting target shooting, or calibration.
Tejani, those are diablo jumbo exact which are domed.
I wonder if anyone experimented with oiling the pellets for the cricket?