I've been surprised by the "out of the box" accuracy differences between my 3 rifles. My Wildcat .22 mk2 and Air Arms .177 S510 sl carbine both beautifully accurate out of the box with marginal improvement over a couple of hundered pellets. My EDgun Lelya .177 on the other hand was almost on its way back up to about pellet 150! Over the next 50 or so it showed quite sudden improvment out to 30m. Still not doing the business at 40m but I now hold out more hope. Anyone else had similar experience?
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Hi Anthony, my Wildcat mk2 in .22 was underpowered when first bought( less than 10 ft lb.) it was sent back for adjustment and came back at 13 ft lb with poor accuracy. My local gunsmith sorted the problem, it now runs at 11.5 ft lb and he found that the pellets were clipping the silencer which had been slightly damaged. A new silencer has sorted the accuracy and it now shoots tight groups at 40 yd’s
Hi Anthony, it occurred to me that, if it's a leading issue as Michael suggests, a good barrel clean would probably replicate your first experience.
A change of tins half way through Antony, or the same ones? Did you check for damaged skirts etc? Guessing you did....
I have just bought a FX Radar Chrono as it stores everything and you can email yourself (or anyone!) the results to play around with in excel. I have a new (ish) PCP to go with the TX200s and if you have your iphone / ipad (other OSs are available) with the voilume up, it will read out the speed or the muzzle energy (you have to tell it the weight of the pellet, it isn’t that clever!) each shot.
My point is, as you shoot you can get a feel for the consistency of then power, which will effect up/down PoI, and to a lesser degree windage. My PCP is varying by up to a ft / lbs between shots, which makes a difference at 40 yards.
That is odd then, probably some weird leading characteristics.
Pllets were all over the place Michael. Both elevation and widage. wind was negligable at less than 3/5 mph on testing, grouping at 25m was anything up to 3cm . Now 1 cm at 35m with the same Air Arms Fields.
Could you elaborate, specifically, is it elevation, windage or both that was the issue with the EDgun?