oowee Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 When I bought the Ranger a number of people told me I would have to use heavy pellets to keep the MV down and retain accuracy. I have been running it with 15.6 grain pellets and its been spot on. Today I dropped a crow at 95m dead where it stood. The pellet went clean through the birds upper chest. I did have a great rest to take the shot but the accuracy and trigger on this rifle is superb. Its easily out shooting my cz 455 .22lr although I think thats mostly down to the trigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted April 5, 2016 Report Share Posted April 5, 2016 hello, that is some shooting with you FAC rifle and i think your right on the trigger looking at the spec on the air ranger, i find my 455 trigger very heavy and looking to get the magic trigger kit as the reviews say will transform to a much better and lighter pull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 I have always preferred lighter pellets in my FAC PCP's as well as HW90 running at 16.5 ft lbs, the heavier pellets are very accurate but you do get a flatter trajectory with lighter pellets and although I have not done side by side accuracy tests at 75 yards, I have shot the odd magpie at huge range to know they can't be too shabby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 Fair play thats excellent. I would have thought 18gn would be as low as you could go, but this proves otherwise. I have just bought a Caldwell chrono delux kit so I can do near and far calibration on my FAC and sub 12 air rifles and also rimfires. Then I can practise stretching the legs out on the FAC AIR. ATB Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) Can you not do near and far with other chronos? Don't they hold the shot string in memory. Heavier pellets are usually more stable at higher energy. Over 50ftlb lightweight pellets can fly inconsistent. Edited April 6, 2016 by figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted April 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 Fair play thats excellent. I would have thought 18gn would be as low as you could go, but this proves otherwise. I have just bought a Caldwell chrono delux kit so I can do near and far calibration on my FAC and sub 12 air rifles and also rimfires. Then I can practise stretching the legs out on the FAC AIR. ATB Matt Cheers Matt. I would like to calibrate it to see what its doing with the lighter and heavier pellets. Daystate say its a 40fpe rifle but without a chrono you don't really know. My refill bottle has just gone out of test and i refilled it before i did. The chap in the dive shop said I would need a new pressure guage when its tested else it will fail (its a little bent). he checked the pressure on the guage at 180bar and then tried both the guage on the refill machine and a new guage against it for comparison. They all gave different readings which does not fill me with confidence when filling the rifle. Now I am going by the colour guage on the side of the rifle which I dont think is the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 Can you not do near and far with other chronos? Don't they hold the shot string in memory. Heavier pellets are usually more stable at higher energy. Over 50ftlb lightweight pellets can fly inconsistent. For the near and far you need a chrony you can shoot over both at the muzzle and at distance. I do Muzzle and 40/45 yards, this just couldnt be done with Chronos like the crombo or bluechron, but the Caldwell an F1 types you can. As it happens I just bought the Caldwell over the F1 as it has an app to recod the shot strings to my phone that i can send out in many different ways, it has plain and iluminated shades, tripod and carry bag - IMO better VFM over the F1 especally if ou buy the printer also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 I looked at the Caldwell and thought it looks good value. Only thing it looks long and don't fold up like the F1 and Alpha chronny. I'm waiting untill I see a Caldwell up close befor a decide which chronny to buy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted April 6, 2016 Report Share Posted April 6, 2016 The f1 and alpha are smaller but there's alot less kit with them,if you want all the toys like I did go Caldwell and it's in an over sholder carry bag too. Atb Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveo26 Posted April 8, 2016 Report Share Posted April 8, 2016 What are you filling to gun to? Iv got one in .25 I've adjusted the power down to 48 ftlb and iv found it needs a much lower fill pressure than daystate suggest. I fill to 175 bar now which is only in the green in the guage. I think with out doing a chrono string that's the heart of the fill. All I'm going off is poi at 40 yards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted April 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 The gun is marked up for 210 bar but I fill to top of green on the rifle which says about 180 bar on bottle (which I believe to be wrong)? You have just given me a thought re calculating the pellet speed from measuring the drop. Its zeroed at 50m and if i measure the drop at 75m should be able to calculate pellet speed using Chairgun. Is yours synthetic, and have you got a sling fitted? I would like to know where to mount the stock swivel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRDS Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 My 50 ft lb rated Ranger does 56 ft lb with JSB Jumbos 500cc bottle 47 shots at full power and very accurate. Great bit of kit to use near habitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveo26 Posted April 9, 2016 Report Share Posted April 9, 2016 Mines wood! I use the jsb exact kings. Mine says 220 bar but when I fill to that the first mag land low so I tried a lower fill pressure. 175-180 seems to be better then I get 4 or 5 mags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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