The stock is some thing I really don't understand. I never handled a gun with an assault stock and know nothing about these stocks. But this stock is the stupidest stock I had ever seen on a sporting air rifle. Why this kind of stock was selected by the manufacturers is something I don't understand really. May be people of Punjab like this kind of stock. But an assault stock belongs to an assault rifle and not a sporting rifle. This kind of stock is for semi auto and full auto assault firearms and you can deliver high volume fire with a single hand with it. But I feel it definitely had no place on a sporting gun.
The stock on this Hurricane AR is not only manufactured poorly but the design is also wrong is what I feel. The pistol grip is very thin and not palm filling as on my ORION. The butt too is very thin. The center of gravity of the gun is much too forward. The balance is awkward for me. The trigger is set much too backward. The grooves on the pistol grip make it worse. The center pull is too short and trigger reach is all wrong. For me stock is simply a nightmare.
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To find my centre pull distance of a standard stocked sporting Rifle I follow this principle.
" To roughly judge your own ideal centre pull measurement, Place the butt of the rifle in the crook of your elbow and extend your trigger finger up the side of the trigger guard. The top joint of your trigger finger should be alongside the trigger if the centre pull is correct. The arm should be bent at around 90 degrees to determine the centre pull length."
Also the centre of gravity of this rifle is much forward, increasing the apparent weight of the gun when mounted. It in turn increasing the actual weight being supported by my leading arm. This is really becoming a problem for me.
I took the gun to my farm and did some plinking. The target is an empty GSmith pellet tin and the range is about 18 yards. I used JSB EXACT JUMBO pellets first and also shot Precipells. I used the gun with out making any adjustments to the rear sight. Once I found the correct POA to hit the target with JSBs, I shot 10 JSBs and 10 precipells. All 20 pellets hit the target squarely. That is all the accuracy tests I did for now. The gun seems to an accurate one even though I feel it is shooting a bit high. I shall see when I do some real accuracy tests once I get my scope mounts.
This gun seems to be much powerful than the ORION. I shot at an one lt COKE bottle filled with water at about 30 yards and was able to hit it and the JSB went through the bottle.
I left my farm much earlier than I usually do and able to find fps of five different pellets using my shooting chrony. The results are pretty interesting.
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I was able to shoot five shot strings of five different pellets before light faded. The results are as below.
DYNA SHOT Round Head: 11.3 grains.
Lowest fps : 641.6 - 10.33 ft-lbs.
Highest fps : 676.5 - 11.48 ft-lbs.
Average fps : 660.3 - 10.94 ft-lbs.
ES : 34.93
SD : 13.63.
Master Shot HUNTER Pointed : 12.25 grains.
Lowest fps : 636.7 - 11.02 ft-lbs.
Highest fps : 667 - 12.1 ft-lbs.
Average fps: 654.2 - 11.64 ft-lbs.
ES : 30.29
SD : 13.67.
JSB JUMBO EXPRESS: 14.35 grains.
Lowest fps : 592 - 11.17 ft-lbs.
Highest fps: 600 - 11.47 ft-lbs.
Avg fps : 596 - 11.32 ft-lbs.
ES : 8.01
SD : 3.6
PRECIPELL Round Heads: 15 grains.
Lowest fps : 550.5 - 10.09 ft-lbs.
Highest fps: 565.6 - 10.65 ft-lbs.
Avg Fps : 555.1 - 10.26 ft-lbs.
ES : 15.05
SD : 6.
JSB EXACT JUMBO Round Head : 15.89 grains.
Lowest fps : 544.8 - 10.47 ft-lbs.
Highest fps: 574.6 - 11.65 ft-lbs.
Averag fps : 565.9 - 11.3 ft-lbs.
ES: 29.75
SD: 12.16.
The gun is raw and less than 100 pellets shot through it.
The results of my broken in Nitro Piston ORION with JSB 15.89 grain pellets with 10 shot string:
Lowest fps: 514.1 - 9.33 ft-lbs.
Highest fps: 521.5 - 9.6 ft-lbs.
Average fps: 516.5 - 9.41 ft-lbs.
ES: 7.4
SD: 3.
It is apparent that HURRICANE is more powerful than PH NP ORION.
The gun needs proper tuning. After tuning and breaking in the HURRICANE would easily touch the 15 ft-lbs mark.
I also think that the HURRICANE would be atleast as accurate as any PH Nitro Piston powered Air Rifle.
I don't know what to say about my shooting experience. The guns weight makes it steadier while taking aim. But the forward C.G is not for me. After firing about 25 pellets at a stretch nerves ( not muscles ) in my left shoulder and neck started to ache. My scuff shoulder is acting up. I never had any problem with my ORION and often fire 50 pellets at a stretch without any problems.
This gun is not suitable for me to shoot offhand for long periods with the present stock. Any long range plinking for long periods with this stock would be from a bench rest only I guess.
I intend to strip the gun in a couple of days and have a look at the internals and see if the gun could be improved and properly lubricate it. I'll post my report after doing that as usual with photos of the process.
When I get my scope mounts I'll do a proper accuracy test from a bench rest to find the best pellet and find the trajectory of that pellet.
Thats all for now.
Good Night.
GNV.