whats the matter with cricket shrouds
My first cricket 22 was bought on yellow which ended up having a bad shroud and finally got it replaced and its back in action and a tack driver. So I take delivery on 25 cal and the darn thing has a bad shroud too. Pellets clip to top of shroud. It shows too as I have to shim scope and turn it up one whole revolution. It didn’t group good from the start. I had a scope on it I bought used on yellow and Hawke replaced it with a brand new one just today. So I figured I’m going to try my luck again with new scope. I also have the Burris rings with inserts so I can bring it close to center but had a time doing that too. Finally I started looking at gun and saw pellets were clipping. Pellets clip so hard they make no streaks on shroud they just paint the whole thing gray on the inside of shroud. The measurement at scope end is 0.056 and one the fill end its 0.037 off from the air tube. Another this is the screws on the scope rail needed tightening too. On my 22 cricket you can’t budge them but on 25 I could tighten them down quite a bit. So I’m wondering how many shroud issues there are with crickets that we don’t talk about .. If I prop shroud up gun groups extreme well at 50 yards but what the heck is going on with me getting all the bad shrouds. My partner sent his 25 back because he can’t get it to shoot. So looks like we have a BC problem of our own :angrymob:
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You are right you have to stretch it to 50 yards to get it to show up
WAGG is shooting and chronographing them and includes the targets. You can judge for yourself from the target. Minor clipping often doesn’t show up until ranges of 50 yards or more. The only way to check for clipping is to scope the moderator for marks. Retailers can’t realistically do that. Manufacturers can but that will raise the price.
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You can send me the shroud, will test, rim out , polish the through hole. this is what I do when crickets are here for a tune even if it doesn’t show any signed off clipping. I seen this to often so this is a
standard tune procedure. PM me I’m the tech rep for WWAG, here to help with issue that prior inspections did not detect or issue while in transit .
You can send me the shroud, will test, rim out , polish the through hole. this is what I do when crickets are here for a tune even if it doesn’t show any signed off clipping. I seen this to often so this is a
standard tune procedure. PM me I’m the tech rep for WWAG, here to help with issue that prior inspections did not detect or issue while in transit .
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If the gun does not shoot a one hole at 35 yards then there is something wrong. Most shops can’t test this property because they would have to clean barrels and then do a 50 yard group to actually get the proper feel of what gun does.
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Maybe WWAG yes but here no. Maybe WWAG have so many clients they have not capacity time & people check each gun…
I thought WWAG tested each gun before sending them out.
I had pellet clipping too. I had sent the moderator to the shop where I bought it and after 3 weeks I received brand new moderator. Seem like is ok. I´m checking chambers time by time for sure and till now I do not see any strikes on baffles.
The same thing happen to me when i bought two Jim Shockey Benjamin’s. The .22 wouldnt shoot out of the box and the .177 had to be adjusted every time it got picked up after 1000 rounds. Im pretty sure that the baffles broke loose. thats why Im throwing 1300 at the Cricket, but with my shitluck it would happen again.
I bought the 22 used on yellow in December and the 25 is brand new couple weeks old
When were these bought?
Your groups will be unpredictable at best and scope will have to be adjusted in very extreme left rights ups and downs.
mine groups around 1″at fifty maybe a bit more. That’s a complete joke for 25 cricket. When I shim shroud up to center it groups well
At this point I don’t want to touch it. I’m want one that’s straight so I don’t have to worry about it even when it would come loose and turn. I really want it replaced with one that works. I’m sure they will gladly replace it but it all takes so much time.
So how can you tell if pellets are clipping the shroud? If you get good grouping does that rule out shroud clipping?
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I have a spare .25 shroud if of any use matey taken from a new gun been tested with no clipping isues