hello to everyone

getting there Paul as you know been long slow process mate,trouble is i think just too damned fussy bout getting everything exactly as i want it,been too many times could have been at this stage and fired the thing,then decided didnt like something and set bout changing it again,completly redesigned and rebuilt gun since you seen it,having decided was too heavy,so threw out the origional brass valve and made new valve from alli,and gained extra 11cc of hpa capacity in process by redesigning the valve,and took out 10 oz in weight just by getting rid the heavy brass valve,was worth while but getting bit anal as i then redesigned the guns frame and took out another 2 oz in weight,think got it all now,cant see anything else to get anal bout mate,it was getting bit rediculous,this constant changing things sort got out of hand and i am still thinking of adding another power setting on top the two it allready has as want shoot gun at club and evan on its current low power setting of 24fpe its bit too powerful i think,looking at adding lower setting in the 15/16 fpe range,if i can get that off regulater,which is set at 1800psi more mucking around eh,but this time will leave that til gun gun tuned and running right on the other power settings before start messing with it again eh!!think got to stage i just need stop messing with it and get to just shooting and enjoying it.

Graywulf, let me know what your heavy Enjin pellets are like through the gun. Ive just been sending H&N Barracuda 30.86gr through my gun. They drop 2 mildots lower over 50yrds than the hunter extreams and obviously alot slower but hit very hard. Im hopefully doing a rabbit hunt on Monday so will update you on any successes.

I got 1 rabbit yesterday at 40m and a pesky wild cat that ive been stalking on and off for the last 6 months. I finally got this from 30m this morning. Both taken with my Hatsan 125 sniper .25cal, using H&N Barracuda Hunter Extreme pellets. The cat managed another 10m before it expired.

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Hello Mike, Barracuda Hunter Extremes are my most popular pellets. My .177 rifles love them as well as my .25cal. They definitely do the job and hit like a hammer. The cat inshot yesturday was the first cat with this rifle and when it ran off after the shot, i reloaded ready for a follow up shot but never needed it. They are very accurate too. My advise to you is try them out and let me know how you find them, im guessing they will become one of your favorites very quickly too.

Finally, here are some pics of the rabbit and cat taken with Barracuda Hunter Extreme .25cal

thanx for pics,my next questions are,do they expand reliably,what velocity is your 25 cal rifle driving them at?the barracuda hollow points i have look like the same pellet,but without the cross hatching,dont really know if they expand as the 22 rifle i have used them in has enuf power to drive them right thru everything i have shot with them,into the ground behind the target so those i did recover were munted by impact with ground,but going on comparisions of damage caused by simialler weght pellets and thehollow point versions,the hollow point did more damage,so logical to assume the hollow points were opening up to some degree i guess,use 14,3gr crosman pellets at times in same rifle and have chronoed them at just over 1000fps and i know they definatly expand in fact they disintergrated as only ever find bitz of them but thats got lot to do with the high velocity i think ,have seen some good reports on the pellets you using and them expanding but one ones said at what velocity,velocity got lot to do with how well a hollow point projectile expands as far as lead bullets go and there been lot pulished data on lead bullet performance particually regarding handguns,as velocitys from handguns are very simialler to airguns the results should be very simialler i would think and pellets lot more fragile than lead bullets,would be very useful if pellet manufacturers published the data from their test results in more detail for us to read,maybe some us could get together and do some testing of our own as a project and put results up on here,easy enuf to make a balistic gell as test medium i as well as few others have a chrono and would be interested in doing such a project.

done lot gel tests over the years with both firearms and airguns,tho gell not exactly like the real thing it does give a very good indication of projectile performance in flesh,it will certainly prove or disprove if or how a hollow point will work,its allways amazed me just how much damage and the size of wound chanel can be evan with a domed pellet that dosnt expand can do,many domed pellets will deform significantly if hitting bone,particually if velocitys are still high at impact,most airgun pellets evan if impacting at 450fps will easily kill rabbits /possums with a brain shot and can penertrate more than one would think,old rule of thumb with airguns was that a domed pellet losses 50% its fpe by 50yds in 177bcal with 7.5/8 gr pellets and bout same with 14/16 gr 22 pellets,things change significantly if pellets weights get heavier as heavy pellets tho having lower velocity retain velocity better for longer so retain more energy for further its not really all about fpe with airguns but accurracy and putting pellets in exactly the right place,of course the more powerful the airgun and the bigger and heavier the pellets get the more effective they can become and the less critical perfect shot placement can become,the amount damage done with body shots with heavy 22/25 cal pellets leaving barrel at 1050fps has to be seen to be believed at times on rabbits etc,i have recently done some gel tests using my 177 cal 24fpe rifle with 16.4gr pellets at 100yds,dont know what velocity was at 100yds but pellet went right thru 200mm of gel and left massive wound chanel,couldnt believe what happened with such a tiny pellet,those 16.4 gr 177 pellets left barrel at only 830 fps according to my chrono,so you never really know what really happens until you look eh!!