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Top hat question. Will adjusting this help anything?

Below is from a previous post I made with my curve for reference. Now on to what I want to ask help with.

Using the below shots, I am shooting my .22 cal SS w/12″ barrel and Kodiak heavies with the power wheel set on 10. I just bought a set of feeler guages and checked the top hat setting which is at 0.082

I am wandering if someone can tell me if adjusting the top hat any will allow me to dial the power wheel down to say the 4 or 5 range and still give me the rough 750 fps velocity but hopefully quieten the gun down some?

Right now with all settings where they are, if I power wheel down to 4-5 range, the sound is greatly quieter, but my fps falls to the 500’ish range.

1. 760.8……….11. 771.6……….21. 748.3……….31. 751.1
2. 766.5……….12. 769.4……….22. 759.0……….32. 750.7
3. 784.5……….13. 760.6……….23. 752.6……….33. 748.2
4. 777.5……….14. 753.4……….24. 755.9……….34. 744.7
5. 783.2……….15. 751.0……….25. err-2………..35. 738.2
6. 775.8……….16. 750.4……….26. 754.8……….36. 737.3
7. 774.9……….17. 757.7……….27. 755.6……….37. 736.5
8. 770.2……….18. 769.8……….28. 755.0……….38. 735.3
9. 777.2……….19. 766.4……….29. 753.4……….39. 734.9
10.771.2………20. err-2 ……….30. 745.6……….40. 734.1

Talon/Talon SS

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quote Triggerman:

Spent the afternoon messing around with the tophat. After buying the feeler guages I found it has been set the whole time I have had the gun at .082 Went through different settings all the way from .067 to .090 and looks like I am going to leave it at .072

Shot more pellets than I expected over the chrony at the different settings and when I felt I was happy with what I was seeing with the .072 setting, I was down to only 18 Kodiaks. The avg for those 18 shots on a tank pressurized @ 2800 psi fps was 767.8 and looked like I had a good curve going. Power wheel was set to 8 for all this.

For a SS that is good for kodiaks in .22

Spent the afternoon messing around with the tophat. After buying the feeler guages I found it has been set the whole time I have had the gun at .082 Went through different settings all the way from .067 to .090 and looks like I am going to leave it at .072

Shot more pellets than I expected over the chrony at the different settings and when I felt I was happy with what I was seeing with the .072 setting, I was down to only 18 Kodiaks. The avg for those 18 shots on a tank pressurized @ 2800 psi fps was 767.8 and looked like I had a good curve going. Power wheel was set to 8 for all this.

quote Triggerman:

And here is yet another question as I play with this tophat. If say I am set on .070, will this setting use less air than say set on .090 or the other way around ?

Possibly, yes… But you can only find this out by shooting until you notice your POI change and then refill the tank and try at a different tophat setting and shoot while counting again to see how many shots until the POI changes…

And here is yet another question as I play with this tophat. If say I am set on .070, will this setting use less air than say set on .090 or the other way around ?

At about .070 I have about your velocities at a 5 wheel. You just have to keep trying, they are all different.

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