Panthera Fx King is in the house! yeah I know ......

[Woogie_man]

FINALLY!!!! My 3 mags are in the house and ready to go. Of course coming from Orion they are top notch and look great, and they function as they should. And now of course my wife and kids will be getting home soon so no range day today, and tomorrow I have a few appointments I need to get to as well as my son having trap. Maybe Wednesday after work I will be able to swing by quickly, if not Thursday for sure.

 

[Dairyboy]

FINALLY!!!! My 3 mags are in the house and ready to go. Of course coming from Orion they are top notch and look great, and they function as they should. And now of course my wife and kids will be getting home soon so no range day today, and tomorrow I have a few appointments I need to get to as well as my son having trap. Maybe Wednesday after work I will be able to swing by quickly, if not Thursday for sure.

Lol i feel you there. Haven't shot my RAW mini much yet due to its been windy and work busy and behind on yard work. Now kids start soccer today every Monday and Wednesday evening. Always something. But glad your mags came in!

 

[Woogie_man]

Well I was able to get out and do a little over an hour of shooting.

Was able to shoot from 30 grain slugs up to the 40 grain ACE slugs. The ACE slugs looked to be a little bit to heavy, where as the lighter weight 30-34 grain slugs were shooting great. Now they were all shooting great groups at 50 yards but the lighter weight slugs were pushing 980 fps where as the 40 grain slugs were struggling to get 900 fps. I ended up pushing the regulator up to 150 bar and the setting maxed out. While the heavier slugs were able to get some decent speeds, but the rifle was working hard to push the speeds.

So planning on cleaning things and getting some 30-34 grain slugs to push them around the 920 fps range. As long as I can get the groupings to stay the same out at 100 yards then I will be happy. So far happy with the way things are going and am excited to keep going.

 

[Woogie_man]

I have some 33.5 grain dish base hollow point slugs made up that I am going to try next time. Doing some reading around the web these seem to be a good medium slug weight. So going to see if I can't get these pushing around the 950ish fps and get some good accuracy. Really don't want to push the gun to much and damage anything, and also have a decent shot count.

 

[Woogie_man]

Ok took the 30 grain and 33.5 grain slugs to the range today. Started off with the regulator at 110 BAR and ended on around 135 BAR. With the micro wheel at 3.5 or so. Got the slugs shooting a comfortable 930 fps and getting a ragged hole at 50 yards, pushed the target out to 100 yards and group is just under an inch. After some fun shooting at 100 yards, I brought the target into 25 yards to see what happens. And with no real surprise the group is one nasty hole. So this seems like a decent tune for the rifle, and am going to keep playing with this.

Now when the wind dies down, and weather warms up a bit I will hit the outdoor range and shoot steel at different distances. This will also let me set up the KYL rack and do some shooting there at 40 - 50 yards. This is typically where these racks are when shooting the NRL22 matches.

Grouping at 50 yards with the 33.5 grain Corbin dish base hollow point slugs.

 

[Woogie_man]

Well just spent the last 2 hours pumping out slugs on the Corbin press. Hoping to get some free time this weekend to get out again and do some more shooting, as well as some hunting. Planning on getting the thermal sight out as well.

 

[Woogie_man]

Took the King out with the rimfire. Verifying things before a nrl22 match tomorrow. Would like to use the king, but will see how the wind is. Was gusting to around 20mph

Steel plate was at 100 yards. I pulled one bad and the wind took the other. But the vast majority were very nicely stacked. Was having no issues with the 2 inch plate at 100 yards.

 

[Woogie_man]

Ok match is done and I am finally relaxing after some spring clean up.

When I got to the range I set things up and started prepping. Shot a few shots at the 50 yard board and a few at some conformation targets at 50, 75, and 100 yards. Got my dope cards set up and went to attach to the scope.....only to find out I forgot my darn holder!!

So sadly I shot the rimfire and placed 7th out of 20. Not bad for not competing in over a year. After the match I was able to do a few stages with the airgun and the rifle did quite well. Was shooting at a 1.5" target at 100 yards and smacking it easily. A few others were shocked that a lowly pellet gun was able to shoot that far.

Will make sure I have ALL the equipment next month..lol