Sausagedog 7,381 Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) Talking of 22 ammo I got two more to try in my newish 457. CCI quiets with their segmented bullet(!). And some of my all time favourites, Fiocchi subbies. The good news is the unfussy 457 shoots these two very well indeed. The cci quiets are fun. As quiet as an air rifle ( until it connects) at 700fps plus. The down side is they don't seem to stop squirrels very quickly with a center shot and as far as the segmented bullet bursting into three parts.....err no. They may do with some normal velocity but not at these speeds. Here is an exit wound on a squirrel, you decide! Edited December 5, 2020 by Sausagedog 1 Quote Link to post
Dervburner 2,548 Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 13 hours ago, Sausagedog said: Talking of 22 ammo I got two more to try in my newish 457. CCI quiets with their segmented bullet(!). And some of my all time favourites, Fiocchi subbies. The good news is the unfussy 457 shoots these two very well indeed. The cci quiets are fun. As quiet as an air rifle ( until it connects) at 700fps plus. The down side is they don't seem to stop squirrels very quickly with a center shot and as far as the segmented bullet bursting into three parts.....err no. They may do with some normal velocity but not at these speeds. Here is an exit wound on a squirrel, you decide! I had the same experience with them SD. I think they need more speed to work as they’re designed to. The standard subsonic ones work but I didn’t find them to be very accurate in my anschutz. There’s a hyper velocity version as well, basically segmented stingers. I bet they’d be interesting, but I haven’t seen any for sale. 1 Quote Link to post
Sausagedog 7,381 Posted December 6, 2020 Report Share Posted December 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, Dervburner said: I had the same experience with them SD. I think they need more speed to work as they’re designed to. The standard subsonic ones work but I didn’t find them to be very accurate in my anschutz. There’s a hyper velocity version as well, basically segmented stingers. I bet they’d be interesting, but I haven’t seen any for sale. They'd be better with their lead hp up front! 1 Quote Link to post
Wolfdog91 6,251 Posted December 11, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2020 So little update, finally got out again, went to shoot and a pin came undone, no gunsmith within 2hours of me so google up a schematic and a how to and tore the little fella apart, and I gotta say, I've broken down and relax assembled actual machine guns (M2 .50cal ,240 bravo, and the 249 SAW for those curious)with less frustration than this little guy but finally got it back together but now the firing pin won't fully engage soooo back to the gun vice Takes to some folks and it might be the firing anvil needs a new pin altogether but nothing too serious. On the bright side shouldn't take 1/4if the time now I know how it goes together Quote Link to post
Wolfdog91 6,251 Posted January 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 (edited) So finally got the little mutant back up and runnnig ! Got to the point with a little bit of grease a slave pin, two punches and a small ballpeen hammer I can have this thing taken apart and put back together in about 10min. Anyhow ended up snapping another firing pin anvil and ened up using on made for a shotgun of a tip from a fella on another forum,works great ! Also ended up the hammer can't problem I was having was due to my firing pin having a chip in it. Some work with the Dremel fixed that. Also had to take some 1000 grit sand paper and a sharping stone and polish all the pivot and sear points to get the trigger down from 8 to 3lbs. Haven't been able to do a video but just messing around at 25yd got some good groups. Best so far was Remington 40gran thunderbolts on the left with winchester wildcat super speeds in the middle and winchester wildcat standards being the worst on the right. Again this was kinda just messing around but think I'll stick with the thunderbolts or super speeds. Need to break out the chronograph and see which as the best SD Might give it a new paint job might not, not sure yet Edited January 19, 2021 by Wolfdog91 2 Quote Link to post
KimE 487 Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 Great to have the gun working again. You dont need to repaint it, some people pay extra for the battle worn finish. 1 Quote Link to post
Wolfdog91 6,251 Posted January 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 1 hour ago, KimE said: Great to have the gun working again. You dont need to repaint it, some people pay extra for the battle worn finish. You have a point ! It does have a certain charm to it Quote Link to post
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