FLEX .30 field test and Review

[ancient1one]

   Ancient1 one, I'll ask Travis if he can help me. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to electronics. I'll ask one of my grandsons to help me lol they are 10yrs to new born!! Jajajajaja I have really got to learn more about these iPads and pics!!!! A 7shot group at 135 was 2" and the 100yd group was just under 1" I sent Travis a text and asked him if he could help me. You can email if you like and I'll send you pics.
chachovg1013@hotmail.com
Thnx

The photos you emailed me. The top 3 are 100 yards / The bottom 135 yards.

[WHITEFANG]

Spot on. SO the gun will do as advertised if the shooter can do his part.

[only1harry]

Great groupings.  Thanks for posting. 

The .308 sounds very interesting.  I am very curious to see what it does with heavier slugs.

Harry

[PakProtector]

Great groupings.  Thanks for posting. 

The .308 sounds very interesting.  I am very curious to see what it does with heavier slugs.

Harry

A hundred grains at 950 would be sweet... 93 gr BBT and a 14" twist barrel ought to be just the ticket.
cheers,
Douglas

[WHITEFANG]

You all are killing me with all this info!  I am sure Wicked air will have much more to come. As we have already seen and heard.
Research and development is an on going thing for these guys . I guess the .257 is gone in the wind.
Who knows what these mad men will come up with next.
For now I am very satisfied with the first line of the start.

FANG
JUNKYARD AIRGUN'S

[scorpio]

You all are killing me with all this info!  I am sure Wicked air will have much more to come. As we have already seen and heard.
Research and development is an on going thing for these guys . I guess the .257 is gone in the wind.
Who knows what these mad men will come up with next.
For now I am very satisfied with the first line of the start.

FANG
JUNKYARD AIRGUN'S

I agree!! Couple of mad scientists at wicked air rifles.  Crazy to think about what the future holds seeing how the first production gun was a homerun

[WHITEFANG]

😨💀👻

[scottyhazzard]

Wait, don't kill the .257 just yet...

[Tofazfou]

Wait, don't kill the .257 just yet...

You can't.......lol!

Thats some amazing accuracy from such a compact gun.  Way to go W.A.R.

[oldpro]

I'm not going to kill the .257 don't worry. It's on the to do list.

[Tofazfou]

I'm not going to kill the .257 don't worry. It's on the to do list.

Niiiiiice!  Can't wait to hear about that one...........WOOHOO!

[scottyhazzard]

Nice!

[rkr]

I'm not going to kill the .257 don't worry. It's on the to do list.

Niiiiiice!  Can't wait to hear about that one...........WOOHOO!

I'll be following this up with great interest. Factory made .257 bullet shooters have potential of lifting this hobby to whole new level and to allow us to reach whole new ranges with airguns. Keep up the good work.

[scottyhazzard]

I don't recall the thread, but somewhere here on GTA there was talk of great accuracy from a .257 TJ barrel while shooting .25 pellets. Remembering this gave me an idea, this could be an ideal gun if the magazine and probe could chamber and seat both bullets and pellets then this could span the spectrum from plinker to, er... plunker
I don't know if doing that with the same magazine is possible or if you would need another magazine for pellets. I had a Ruger single action revolver that could fire .22 LR or .22mag by swapping the cylinder. Maybe that concept could work with the Flex. The .25 Super Flex, plink or hunt in 100 yards with ease using pellet or crank it up and load a magazine of .257 to comfortably take on targets beyond 500 yards.

Oldpro, is that even possible or am I off my rocker? If I'm not of my rocker then I want one.

[scottyhazzard]

Just in case, I signed up for more overtime less than 5 minutes ago.

[Extreme]

   NP, please give some feed back on the 55gr JSB pellets. Accuracy and did you have to tune her from factory settings?
Thank You Brother Man.

[WHITEFANG]

JFI, The JSB is 50.15 geain.
I have tried them and yes I did increase the hammer. No shot any long shots but at 28 - 30 yards just as accurate out of my gun. Right now that is what I am shooting. Best I remember I am set up at 940 fps. That many be a little hot.
JSB 44.75 GRAIN was set up at 920fps at 2100 Recommended setting for that pellet was 910 fps.
Not sure what NP did.


FANG

[scottyhazzard]

Whitefang and Extreme, your conversation about the JSB heavies and what velocity to aim for reminded me of a thread I bookmarked for all of its great data. Rsterne was telling RKR about the accuracy and spin drift of the round- research is still pending but...

Possibly even 900 fps or close for 100 yard work.... Only once the entire drag curve is determined will we have the exact answer to that question.... Like anything else that goes through a minimum, some distance either side of that carries little penalty, so even if the optimum is 880 fps, 900 or even 920 may be so close that the flatter trajectory is worth it.... eg. on the above graph, 850 and 900 have the same drift, so may as well choose 900.... and 950 is only 1/8" more.... At 1000 fps, the drift is 3/8" more, however....

Bob

So maybe 940 fps is the sweet spot.

With regard to the Flex being comfortable with the 50+gr rounds, has anyone seen any long distance reviews of the .25 Bob's Boattail in 51 gr from Spain? I'm really curious to see how that round is performing. http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=93411.0

[WHITEFANG]

Great point. There is a rule of thumb. But I find the rule is not FOR all guns. But I do have to agree that a pellet being stable is important and the spin drift and most tuners use the lower fps for accurate and shot count. I am sure there is some =- IN ALL OF THE RULE. JMO

FANG

[scottyhazzard]

Right, what's the saying, "Individual mileage may vary".