.25 Cal B-28

[longislandhunter]

Just wondering if anyone has had their hands on one of these since they've become available.... and if you did what's your take

I keep looking at it and am really tempted to get one but I'd really like to have some indication of "real world" fps numbers.......

I did see one post on another forum from a new owner who gave amazing numbers, but that's only one gun and I'd like to make sure his gun isn't a fluke.....

Jeff

[longislandhunter]

Well, emailed  Mike Melick and got my answers.  Mike is such a nice guy, he got back to me right away.  Thanks again Mike....

Jeff

[Mark 611]

Well Jeff are you gonna share your findings with us inquiring minds would like to know?

[longislandhunter]

Sorry bout that.......  Mike told me that with 27 grain pellets they were averaging in the mid to high 500 fps range and with Beeman Lasers (which are 17.7 grain)  they were averaging around 770 fps.  He also said that these were averages and that each rifle differed a bit, which one would of course expect.  

Jeff

[Mark 611]

those arnt bad # I wonder what the 20gr FTT's would run in this rifle?

[Mark 611]

By the way thanks Jeff for the info, I wonder if the bigger pellet has tamed the shot cycle down any ?

[longislandhunter]

Funny you should mention the FTS pellets, I was curious also   ...............  I was just in the "Library"  using the Pellet Energy Calculator and these are the results....

For  the 19.5 gr FTS  pellets I took a guess and figured they might fly around 700 fps..... that came out to an fpe of  21.22

As for the other pellet weights that Mike mentioned here are the   FPE  #'s

17.7 gr pellet @ 770 fps  =  23.2  fpe

27 gr pellet    @ 590 fps  =  20.87  fpe

I agree, not bad numbers.  I'm thinking of getting one but have some thinking to do.  I keep thinking that my .22 Condor is currently giving me  46 fpe with Kodiaks,,  62 fpe with 28 gr Eunjins and 64 fpe with 32 gr Sam Yangs..... and giving me ragged hole groups with those numbers.... so I'm trying to decide if there's any hunting advantage for me in ordering the .25 cal B-28.    

I don't own any .25 cal springers and it would be nice to have one but I'm not sure what to do.  I also keep thinking about the "soon to be in stock" .25 cal Marauder which I's also like to get......   Hmmmm,,, what to do  

AS for taming down the shot cycle I didn't ask about that and Mike didn't mention,,, good point though..

Jeff

[Mark 611]

I too have been fighting the .25cal vs 22cal for hunting situations and have been told by others with more knowledge than I that spring guns dont really have enough power to push these pellets, its called the .25cal 25yrd rule or 25-25 in a springer cause thier only good for short range in this cal, PCP's on the other hand I've been told the 25cal really shines PCP's have enough power to push these pellets. But I like you I'm very curious about this caliber. I've been told time an time again that the.22cal out performs it but I still want one.

[longislandhunter]

Seems you and I are in the same quandry  

Another option I keep thinking about would be a very simple solution for me.....  I can get a .25 cal   L/W barrel  from Tony @ "Talon Tunes" for just under $200 bucks.  With that barrel in hand it would take me a whole 5 minutes to swap out the .22  barrel currently on my Condor and replace it with the .25 cal.      :emoticon:

That option would give me the best of both worlds, the ability to choose which caliber to run whenever I want and with power that's available to me with the Condor I would be able to push those .25 cal slugs at some impressive fps numbers  

Hmmm,,,, have to dwell on this  

Funny thing is though,,,,,  even though the "Air Force Option" sounds like the logical choice for me  for some reason I'm still drooling over that B-28  .    This sport is so addicting it's sickening    :emoticon:

Jeff

[Mark 611]

If it were me and I had a gun capable of doing a BBl swap like that I'd be in heaven, but the switching in an out would probly get old, thus the purpose of another rifle sure is tempting, so here again when I get a set up I like I don't like to mess with it cause ya know how hard it can be to get it back but IMO the PCP is the only way to go in 25 if ya want to get any range out of it!

[longislandhunter]

Yeah, I'm just like you,,,, my .22 Condor is set up so sweet that I know I would hate to mess with it even though the transition is a breeze, that is exactly what's keeping me from just ordering the .25 barrel.....

As for the PCP being the best platform for the .25...  I agree.  Perhaps I'll just wait for the .25 Marauder to come out  

Jeff

[Mark 611]

I think I'm gonna do the same my GD M- Rod fully tuned w/LW BBL .22cal should be comming soon so I may just have him build me another one in .25cal and save myself alot of trouble!

[longislandhunter]

Sounds like a plan.  

Just out of curiosity,,,, what does GD charge to do his magic on an MRod  

Jeff

[Mark 611]

Well to do a full tune with a Lothar Walther barrel 802$ but that includes the gun as well and shipped

[Mark 611]

I think the barrel is like 200$ the tune is a 158$ then shipping he was charging 410$ for the rifle