Fortitude .177

[K.O.]

My Fort was delivered last week...It has a somewhat eclectic/picky taste in pellets... have not looked at the leade but do not need to... can feel it when loading CPUM and some other pellets... it is sharp edged rifling with no leade..

 a good leade is just a small little detail that can turn a good little 13 fpe rifle into a really good much less pellet picky 14 fpe rifle...

below is a cpum that shows the head and skirt are being cut instead of being swaged into the rifling...loaded and pushed a few more back out and got worse finning on the skirt...

Cpum, AA 10.3 and a few other pellets act like they would stop throwing fliers and ruining tight groups; with a little leade work...

As is it has a few 30 yard moa ish pellets  and some good.5" ish pellets... More later...

[toddbrat]

I bought a .22 Fort a couple of years ago but could never find a pellet it shot beyond "decent" past 30 yards. I ordered a .177 barrel and bolt to try that. I broke the barrel Oring I ordered so ended up using one that was a bit thicker and then trimmed it once in place.

CPUM just shoot OK, H&N FTT 8.64's shoot pretty good, but are very tight when loading. AA 8.44, FX 8.44 and JSB 10.34's glide in and are great, generally 1/2" or under at 50 yards. I did swap the trigger group that I had on my Maximus as it has a trigger from Baker Airguns and I have it set pretty light. I also like it is more set-back than the OEM trigger. I need to chrony it as I can't remember what it is shooting at but it is right around that 13-14ft-lb mark. Those may give you a starting point on what to look for pellet-wise. I think they're all 4.52 labeled head size.