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    What's the velocity of the 177 jw80?
 If it's under transonic then you'll only be dealing with windage.
 For accuracy a 177 is a much easier gun as the curve of pellet on flight is less.
 I'm personally in two minds about windage, I've found the ftt preform excellent in wind. I've shot some windy days.  That's a low weight 22 pellet but short. The sig was sweet to fire in the wind too. It was 177
 As for the Chrono graph great if your doing pellet testing, getting the power of your gun, nice to play with
 The reality for me is once you know all that and of your sticking to a couple of guns and ammo they really don't get used a lot. I've never replace mine after I killed it. Don't really have any use for it, possibly to check guns for air leaks. Wouldn' get anything that attaches to the rifle barrel.
 Wind meter might be more useful.
 It's also something tou can use in the field

 

Edited by kruzaroad - 02 Dec 2024 at 7:13am

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kruzaroad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 03 Jul 2022 Location: Hastings 4 now Status: Offline Posts: 3023	Post Options Post Reply Quote kruzaroad Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 2024 at 7:11am
	What's the velocity of the 177 jw80? If it's under transonic then you'll only be dealing with windage. For accuracy a 177 is a much easier gun as the curve of pellet on flight is less. I'm personally in two minds about windage, I've found the ftt preform excellent in wind. I've shot some windy days. That's a low weight 22 pellet but short. The sig was sweet to fire in the wind too. It was 177 As for the Chrono graph great if your doing pellet testing, getting the power of your gun, nice to play with The reality for me is once you know all that and of your sticking to a couple of guns and ammo they really don't get used a lot. I've never replace mine after I killed it. Don't really have any use for it, possibly to check guns for air leaks. Wouldn' get anything that attaches to the rifle barrel. Wind meter might be more useful. It's also something tou can use in the field Edited by kruzaroad - 02 Dec 2024 at 7:13am

JasonEdward Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 22 Sep 2024 Location: Waihi Status: Offline Posts: 196	Post Options Post Reply Quote JasonEdward Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Dec 2024 at 6:46am
	You good bastards have me entering a new phase in shooting, basically wanting to improve my springer shooting. I guess there is nothing simple or YES/NO about these questions but they may be of interest to a few of us bunnies: 1. Is a tuning kit likely to SIGNIFICANTLY improve my springer shooting? If so which would you recommend for my HW80/Diana52? I'm capable and have tools to carefully fit a kit but no workshop to engineer serious mods apart from gentle smoothing of metal parts...and I'm familiar with and not at all disturbed by the sound and can feel no grating/cycling issues with my twangy springers. 2. I have both 177 and 22 barrels for the HW80 - again purely for accurate shooting would using the 22 barrel make sense for this reasonably high powered springer - i.e. to keep muzzle velocity down for pellet stability during travel? For this reason alone I'm kind of thinking of focusing on the Weirhauch rather than the 177 Diana. A few chrono results tell me the HW80 at .22 gives 730 ft per sec/17.4 ft/lbs, the D52 839 fps/16.7 ft/lbs. Chinese chrono with cardboard roof to shade sensors is very hit miss refusing to measure with no error msg at times and works reasonably reliably at other times. But in any case I'm not 100% confident in those measures and I'm considering an FX chrono for easy use attached to rifle and actually getting results every time I use it... These are quick bunny questions with likely many many varied and detailed answers possible -so don't shoot me down as a pesky pesty bunny unless you really need to please but do tell me in no uncertain terms if my thinking or questions are stoopid. I'm here to leech off ... oops I mean learn from those who know from experience.