Some ponderings after cleaning a choked barrel that I shoot A LOT of slugs through...
All the patches in the bottom right of the photo. Took four to get to clean. (.177 patch wadded around a qtip is just the right level of tightness for this .20 barrel). Gunzilla works great to clean the barrel. Inspected the choke area of the barrel and no lead buildup.
This is the gun/barrel/slug I referenced here....
I shot 11x5 shot groups at 100 yards yesterday and the average 5 shot group size of those 11 groups was 1.295." This gun typically does slightly better than that so figured I had a dirty barrel as it's been over 900 slugs since I last cleaned it (3 boxes) and a bunch of pellets too. But nope, barrel pretty dang clean, the 1.3" average 5 shot group size likely has more to do with it being the first time I've shot at paper from a benched position in months. Just out of practice.
Anyway, general knowledge is that choked barrels and slugs don't play well together. Usually we see folks stating that the lead will build up at the choke. Might be true for higher fpe/bigger calibers/etc. but it sure doesn't apply here. This choked barrel is VERY good with slugs.
Might be worth shooting some slugs through your choked barrel to see how it does.
(.20 LW 12 land and groove, 1:17.8 with the .20/18.9grain NSA averaging 905fps).
All the patches in the bottom right of the photo. Took four to get to clean. (.177 patch wadded around a qtip is just the right level of tightness for this .20 barrel). Gunzilla works great to clean the barrel. Inspected the choke area of the barrel and no lead buildup.
This is the gun/barrel/slug I referenced here....
The elusive airgun that AVERAGES 100 yard sub moa groups.
I've been chasing long range airgun accuracy for 4 or 5 years now. And mostly trying to do it with relatively low power setups. The combined variables of "long range" and "low power" make it quite the challenge. While I do stretch out the distance shooting pests to much further, the metric for...
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The elusive airgun that AVERAGES 100 yard sub moa groups.
I've been chasing long range airgun accuracy for 4 or 5 years now. And mostly trying to do it with relatively low power setups. The combined variables of "long range" and "low power" make it quite the challenge. While I do stretch out the distance shooting pests to much further, the metric for...
community.hardairmagazine.com
I shot 11x5 shot groups at 100 yards yesterday and the average 5 shot group size of those 11 groups was 1.295." This gun typically does slightly better than that so figured I had a dirty barrel as it's been over 900 slugs since I last cleaned it (3 boxes) and a bunch of pellets too. But nope, barrel pretty dang clean, the 1.3" average 5 shot group size likely has more to do with it being the first time I've shot at paper from a benched position in months. Just out of practice.
Anyway, general knowledge is that choked barrels and slugs don't play well together. Usually we see folks stating that the lead will build up at the choke. Might be true for higher fpe/bigger calibers/etc. but it sure doesn't apply here. This choked barrel is VERY good with slugs.
Might be worth shooting some slugs through your choked barrel to see how it does.
(.20 LW 12 land and groove, 1:17.8 with the .20/18.9grain NSA averaging 905fps).
