![]() ( Yes they can ship to your local dealer) $25 over dealer cost on Pews & $50 on Cans Pro Deals off Retail Purchases Special Deals from The Guys Tampa, LLC I would like to lighten the trigger pull a bit just to smooth it out which is going to be interesting to figure out since the first operation of the trigger is advancing the rotary magazine.1. ![]() Again when I was rebuilding the regulator to increase the output pressure I was very aware of how important it is to work in small measurable steps.įuture plans for further tuning will be dialing in the best pellet weight and diameter combination, all of the fun ballistics math and then working from there. My goal with this project was to hopefully provide some more real world information about the Virtus of which there isn't a lot available aside from a bunch of reviews, to find out how to improve the performance of the rifle, and what is possible within the realm of safe and sane. I also have experience with high pressure air systems as well as high pressure nitrogen systems (I work in a brewery and do maintenance and repair on all of the systems many of which are high pressure industrial systems). Thankfully I have a background in building guns, everything from simple tuning and modification to scratch built custom pistols and precision rifle platforms. But you can bet as soon as I get my chrono back from a friend that has been borrowing it I will get out and do some more accuracy tuning and report back with a more detailed update on its performance if there is any interest in it.Īppreciate the concerns, if I didn't think that I could safely make any alterations to this platform I certainly would not attempt to do so. For now I am pretty happy that it will hold 1moa out to 50 yards, I haven't set up a known distance range farther than that yet for better testing. That said it has a ton of potential for improvement and in my experience benefits from a little increase in power. This rifle was never designed to be a long range tack driver, more of a fun plinking gun. For me it is a marked improvement over factory, it is much harder hitting and I have had zero issues with "flyers" or inconsistencies with accuracy which had been my main concern with increasing the output. After trying a few different configurations of disc and shims and testing the psi output of each I settled on adding one disc and one shim to the factory stack and ended up at 1480psi. It was an improvement, but I still felt it could use a bit more. I started by adding a single twenty thousandths shim to the base of the stack which bumped it up about 40 psi at the output. After inspecting the internals and tolerances I felt like it would handle a few more psi from the regulator and slowly started to increase the output by rebuilding the Bellville disc spring. I decided to open the rifle up and inspect the action and operation to decide if it could handle a bit more power. I would not suggest what follows if you are not experienced with pneumatics, regulators, and gunsmithing. The only thing I felt was really an issue was the power, or lack of. After having fired close to a thousand pellets through it I was impressed with how smoothly it shot and it is surprisingly consistent with most pellets that I have run through it ranging from 14.3 up to 18.21gr H&N Barracudas, some cheap Crossman premiere and some Nelson slugs. Easy fix, just needed to seat the pellet back into the belt with a range rod. I have had only one issue with it where I had an out of round pellet that worked its way forward in the magazine belt and bound up at the chamber. ![]() I recently purchased one of the Sig Virtus Pcp rifles and have been very pleased with it.
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