Multi calibre Condor’s
Hey guys anyone running .177 cal barrels in there condor? I had an old beat up Gamo in .177 with an 18″ barrel, the piston seal and trigger have been stuffed for years now. I had been thinking about it for a while and finally pulled the barrel off and machined it and some bushings to fit into the condor. Preliminary chrony results for an 18″ barrell are inpressive. A PW setting of 0 gives 800fps and PW of 4 gives 950fps. even got to 1250 fps on PW12! 8 gr RWS superpoints for first 2 and RWS Musterclugen match for 1250fps. I then tried Gamo PBA and got 2 shots of 1404 and 1409 FPS !
Now if my guestamation of an extra 50FPS per 2″ of barrel re correct we could see 1500 to 1600 FPS in a condor .177 !
Not that youd wanna shoot it at that speed, the pellets would be all over the place !
The question i have is will a 26″ or longer barrel generate higher velocity’s in any given calibre compared to a 24″? If so has anyone done it? Lother only produce 24″ barrel’s. Would a .22 rimfire Barrel work with pellets? I am toying with the idea of getting a 26″ or longer rimfire barrel to see what kinda velocity’s i can get. Also it would give me the opertunity to shoot jacketed .22 bullets. There is a huge range from 30gr to 55gr.
Any thoughts?
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I think it depends on the amount of air you want to use per shot. Say you had a 26″ .22 cal. barrel. If you didn’t put enough air behind it, it may actually start to drag/coast before it ever leaves the bore. On the .177 it’s not such a concern unless you get to really long lengths because the bore diameter is so small. On your .177 did you try the 10.5 C.P.’s?
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I tried 10.5 gr extra heavy H&N Barracuda’s on PW 4 they are spiiting out at around 850FPS.. Need to do more testing with different weights, but i can get over 1000FPS with PW8 i think it was, same pellet. The gun will easily push the 10.5 gr pellet over 1100 FPS on max setting. But the air blast is very high.
Even with the standard 24″ barrel on PW 12 it has a very noticble air blast. It is wasting air in my opinion. I would imagine 26″ would be fine even 28″. I read in one of the posts that Air hog had a 100+ FP condor coming soon, aparently with a 26″ barrel.