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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Airgun Gate => : December 14, 2006, 09:28:52 AM
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I read the other day where someone had made a sandbag that cradled most of the forestock and it worked out quite well. I have a new R9 and am sorting pellets using a sandbag atop a cardboard box on my shooting table. It's working out pretty good but I thought I'd just give the longer bag a try at 25 yards.
I made a bag that's 13" long by 6" wide and about 2" high and filled it soft with uncooked rice. I put the forestock of the rifle lengthwise on the bag and fired 5 rounds...into the same slightly expanded hole. Fired 5 more and that hole widened just a tad (my fault).
This is much better than I've been doing with the CFX's or this Beeman. It really tells me if the rifle is happy with the pellets because I'm not injecting my own error into the tests. I had narrowed the search down to Sized RWS Superdomes and that's what I used for this test. The sizer takes the skirt down to .180 from the stock .185 and removes all those little bent areas on the skirt. Which means no more flyers!!
I fired 4 groups using this combo and decided I was satisfied with the gun/pellet combo. Now I'll go see if it'll perform as well with unsized Superdomes and some FTS. I'm really happy with the new sandbag configuration...and my thanks to whoever it was who reported on it.
Bob
Lakeside CA
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How much are the sizers?
They used to be very expensive.
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After what you have just done, you shouldn't be concerned about the price of any accessories. Best of luck...
Rabbit :) :)
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Amen................:) Rabbit, I was gonna ask Ed to sign these adoption papers for me. hehehe
Gene
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Sizer price? I don't know. I've had this one for several years and as I recall it cost about 5 bucks. It's just a little cylindrical steel thing about 2" long with a stepped hole through it and a matching piece with a pin sticking out of one end to push the pellet through. Very precise and works like a champ. Takes about 45 minutes to size 500 pellets.