I'm keeping the Ghost. It's .25cal so it has it's place. I found some tins of the old Monster Redesigned that I had bought years ago. I'm going to wash and lube them with silicone and try them out after I get the rifle sorted out with the 18gr JSBs.
I degassed my rifle and lowered the reg pressure to start tuning it. I went out today and was adjusting the hammer spring and reg and all went well. This evening I went to refill it off the compressor and it won't build pressure beyond about 140 bar. I then tried my FX Crown and had no problem...
At around the 13:00 minute mark on this video he talks about shooting the .22cal H&N slugs with his Ghost. Says he has thumb nail sized groups at 50M at 900fps.
I received my .22cal XR Magnum and would like to lower the reg pressure (currently 170bar) to around 100bar and then go up from there if I need to. I'm going to be tuning it for the 18gr JSBs. Is there any special voodoo involved with degassing these or can I just spin the bottle off and dry...
Which pellets and spring/settings are you using? I'm using the 33gr JSBs around 900fps. It's been a while but I think the groups fell apart once I increased the speed.
It was the 33gr NSA, or possibly 31gr NSA slugs that the guy mentioned. I'll try some when I get my hands on them sometime next year. Getting too cold out now to shoot.
I have a .25cal Ghost, but have an urge to shoot .177cal slugs for some reason. I don't want to mess with the .25cal so I was looking at trying something else and saw the Sniper XR on sale. Hence the question. I'll likely end up with another Ghost down the road.
I was thinking about buying a .177cal barrel for my Ghost and then started to consider getting another rifle and leaving both in one state of tune. If I wanted to only shoot the 13gr JSB slugs, is the factory stock Ghost HP a capable platform without changing anything? Are there better options...
When I used to reload for .223 you knew the bullet weight range you could use based on the twist rate of the barrel. That translated across different calibers.