Another flatline thread

Ok, I did much research before I purchased my gear.  I'm Retired Army and a former custom gunsmith and competitive shooter.  I chose the A5 due to it's looks, it's reliability and it's feed system.  I knew once I installed the responce it would work great with the cyclone feed.  I chose the flatline for the additional range as I plan to only play field ball with this marker.

Testing and setup.  I have 5 acres of land to train on.  I have an old tailgate off a full sized Ford pickup truck.  I leaned the tailgate up against a post long ways to act as a target.  I got out my trusty 250 foot tape measure and marked off every 50 feet out to 250 feet from the tailgate.  I then went out and bought several 100 ball samples of several brands of paint from different local sources.

On a muggy, calm evening with the temp. around 90 deg. here in South Carolina two weeks ago I did my first testing.  Shooting off of a table with the barrel supported, I adjusted the velocity until the balls could just be seen to drop a slight amount and then climb back up to a straight line of flight due to the back spin.  Any lower and they would fall short, higher and they were eratic.  I slow fired 20 shot strings for group.  At 50 feet its a splat the size of a pie plate with any paint.  100 feet it opens up a small bit.  150 feet the cheap mart paint starts to get wild.  There are more "flyers" but its still usable.  200 feet and only the PMI paint is hitting the target consistantly.  At 250 feet, I still get more hits than misses with the PMI.  After I tuned up the responce, I can now get bursts to do the same.  This is a very cool set up.

I have already been able to easily mark the other guys with multiple hits at 150 - 175 feet while they were dropping balls at my feet trying to adjust their loft.  I still have more testing to do and will post results here.

cool