Quote from: 2A Georgia on September 09, 2024, 09:14:46 PMQuoteFor hunting purposes the C362 can be pumped ten times and it will produce better than 13 FPE using acceptably accurate, inexpensive, and readily available pellets. I have my pp800r tuned to about 13-15fpe...curious are you taking head or heart shots? And out to what distance?Really been enjoying your thread. The hunting pellet for my C362 is the 17.6gr Norma GTFT Heavy. Ten pumps gets you 593 fps. That equals 13 .74 FPE and it shoots flat enough out to 35 yards. Most of my shots are under 30 yards so this is plenty of medicine. For longer shots the 14.3gr Crosman Piranhas will hit 646 fps and 13.25 FPE for the same number of pumps. The 362 killed a squirrel at forty three yards with Piranhas last year. The ideal is a head shot. The 43 yard squirrel POA was the head but POI was the spine. It still amounted to DRT. I have elected for a boiler room shot but that was on a treed squirrel that would not present a head shot. Range was less than 20 yards and I decided to use the heavy Normas. The shot was a clean pass through of the vitals and the squirrel came down pretty quick after that.
QuoteFor hunting purposes the C362 can be pumped ten times and it will produce better than 13 FPE using acceptably accurate, inexpensive, and readily available pellets. I have my pp800r tuned to about 13-15fpe...curious are you taking head or heart shots? And out to what distance?Really been enjoying your thread.
For hunting purposes the C362 can be pumped ten times and it will produce better than 13 FPE using acceptably accurate, inexpensive, and readily available pellets.
Your first pcp, and you like it….hmmmm, the test begins, LOLGlad you have it sorted out!
Failure again.Short of putting a steel breech on the 3622 I see no effective way to mount a scope. Neither the Buck Rail intermounts nor the Crosman intermounts proved stable enough to mount a scope for anything more than plinking. All of my attempts to use the plastic breech with a scope failed eventually. Considering a Baker aluminum breech and I may buy myself one as a present.If I do I'll keep flogging this horse.
Steel breech is the only way. I shot my 362 once or twice and the put the steel breech on it.I could never warm up to it so I gave it to my son.Look for a used AirForce for your next pcp.
Quote from: Struckat on January 20, 2025, 06:53:37 AMSteel breech is the only way. I shot my 362 once or twice and the put the steel breech on it.I could never warm up to it so I gave it to my son.Look for a used AirForce for your next pcp. "Different strokes. . . . . . "I agree that the steel breach is the final solution but I've become obsessed with finding a cheap alternative. Even the aluminum breech adds a significant amount of weight and I want to keep this gun as light (and cheap) as possible. So far the 3D printed rail is very stable but so was the intermount and barrel spacer arrangement when I first installed it. The 362 and the 3622 are going in the truck. I'm off work today and me and the dog are going to go rattle around the national forest for a while.
The TORTURE test for sure. Now I don’t feel so bad about how my things are treated, lol.
The torture rack. To speed up the evaluation process I’ve developed a series of tests.The gun is balanced vertically on its butt and allowed to fall over onto grass and leaves.The gun is tossed into a thicket of wax myrtle from a distance of five feet.The gun is bounced repeatedly on its butt from a distance of four or five inches on the ground.Smacking the scope and receiver lightly with the heel of my hand.Twisting the barrel and receiver gently.The current 3D printed scope rail has passed all of these tests.The acid test is to carry the gun for several hours in the woods. This gun/rail/scope combo has worked thus far but prior designs also made it to this stage. A few more trips to the woods and I’ll know if this is the solution.
Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on January 23, 2025, 10:58:26 AMThe torture rack. To speed up the evaluation process I’ve developed a series of tests.The gun is balanced vertically on its butt and allowed to fall over onto grass and leaves.The gun is tossed into a thicket of wax myrtle from a distance of five feet.The gun is bounced repeatedly on its butt from a distance of four or five inches on the ground.Smacking the scope and receiver lightly with the heel of my hand.Twisting the barrel and receiver gently.The current 3D printed scope rail has passed all of these tests.The acid test is to carry the gun for several hours in the woods. This gun/rail/scope combo has worked thus far but prior designs also made it to this stage. A few more trips to the woods and I’ll know if this is the solution.Impressive. I do most of that on accident...lol. The 3d scope attachment holding zero speaks to the designer's skills. Whilst woodswalking the Notos, I snagged on a briar... splat face/Notos first. Notos was fine but I SNAFUed my good knee ripping a hole in my jeans and some skin on the seven rocks in the trail/old roadbed
The final accounting.I paid approximately $150 for this rifle from Pyramyd air. I purchased a hand pump for $50 and the 3D printed Pic rail for $12. Both on line. The scope I paid $30 for a few years back.So for under $250 I got a completely hunting ready .22 caliber PCP air rifle.
Quote from: Blowpipe Sam on February 01, 2025, 11:00:48 PMThe final accounting.I paid approximately $150 for this rifle from Pyramyd air. I purchased a hand pump for $50 and the 3D printed Pic rail for $12. Both on line. The scope I paid $30 for a few years back.So for under $250 I got a completely hunting ready .22 caliber PCP air rifle.Enjoyed your thread. Impressed with your discipline to stay on scope schedule budget and stop when the mission objective is achieved, Kudos!