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Well I shot some groups today with my 400. The conditions are on the target. They were not favorable but the gun shot well with the wind. I really like shooting this air rifle. Squirrel season is coming and groundhogs are around the corner.
This post turned out kinda long, sorry.
Good to see you trying out the PCP airguns. They sure are fun, aren't they?
Anyone that would look down on the AA 400's doesn't know what their talking about. I have shot one of those myself and they are a very accurate air rifle from my limited experience with them, and I've only heard good things about them.
Lots of people out there that love their AirArms guns. It's one of, if not the most, highly recommended PCP's I know of.
One guy that was with me on the first AirgunAdvice hoghunt at the Shiloh Ranch in Oklahoma won the "smallest hog taken" contest using his .22Air Arms to take a hog a little larger than a football!
The AirgunAdvice crowd does have quite a few Rapid fans, and I have met the owner of the board and yes he does have 7 $Rapids$ of various caliber most with custom stock's I'm sure (those are some big frickin rifles). I have traveled and hunted with the administrator, and don't recall him talking down on any particular air rifle.
Many guys with Rapids consider them to be the best airguns, but that doesn't mean they necessarily "look down on" other airguns especially the AA400 which is so popular for a reason. Guys from A/A that hunted Shiloh last Oct and also just this month have also taken hogs with; a couple of .25 AirForce air rifles, .22 and .25 Rapids, a .22 Logun, a .50caliber DragonSlayer air rifle and a DragonSlayer with a custom .454 barrel. Not to mention the custom big-bores. I killed a corsican ram with my .45 air rifle, and am going back again (for an eater sow, I think) in May!
Stevecriner your AirArms is shrouded, right? The one in .22 I shot was, and it was mouse-fart quiet along with being very accurate. It also had some pretty impressive wood on it.
I have the powercurve for my souped-up .25 air rifle a lot closer to being dialed in for 40 or so shots at around 950fps using the lighter Logun Penetrator pellets. I still need to do a few more strings to get the adjustments dialed-in, which will get the shot curve flattened out. Might tune velocity down a little more to like 930fps with 31grainers if the groups don't hold together at that velocity.
I could likely get them to go 1150+ if I dialed it up, and around 1075 or so with 31grainers, but what for? Any trajectory gained wouldn't make up for the almost certain loss of accuracy at that velocity with pellets, especially light ones.
This following is the string I last shot with my .25 using the 25 grain pellets. It still needs the hammerspring preload to be turned down a bit with these .25caliber Logun Penetrators weighting 25 grains with a 2800psi fill. These pellets will be my pest bird pellets for now if they group tight enough.
I had shot a couple of shots with the powerwheel turned up higher and got 1040fps, so I turned it way down. The slower first shot is probably due to the adjustment's made. I will change it up to heavier pellets at about 930-980fps to make this my go-to nutria gun.
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