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The wood stock gives this rifle a feel the synthetic can’t deliver,even pumping feels smoother with the wood. All the brass accents are real brass including the screw inlays on the fore end.
I already have a steel breech installed on my syn362 and a brass trigger from a 2260 trigger kit. So this should be a decent comparison.
Speaking of the steel breech,the one I installed has that exposed mounting screw cavity.
The wood362 has the hidden screw breech,just like the 2240XL.(I really like this upgrade)
Some Numbers: using JSB 14.35gr exact jumbo express

Wood 362- 1- 664 2- 665.6 3- 667.8 4- 664.3 5-662.2 6- 664.1 7- 669.4 8- 671.6 9- 666.7
10- 669.4 Avg. 666.91 Ft/sec SD 7.6 ERG 14.18 Ft/Lbs

Syn 362- 1- 668.7 2- 640.0 3- 636.0 4- 662.3 5-656.7 6- 655.5 7- 636.2 8- 650.5 9- 655.9
10- 659.9 Avg. 652.9 Ft/sec. SD 32.7 ERG 13.59 Ft/Lbs

The bolt in the wood362 has a longer nose than the one on the syn362,I wonder if that is causing the big difference in standard deviation?
Some nice numbers on the wood362!

Accuracy next post

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The syn362 has a romeo5 red dot, the wood362 has the Williams peep. I’ve never used a Williams peep sight before,all I can say is wow, I really like this sight. It was simple to zero and works great with the fibre optic foresight.
The targets were at 15m or 50Ft. One was at 40Ft(zoom in on picture to see info)
Looks like the barrel upgrade is doing what it’s suppose to do.But I have to ask is the high SD affecting the accuracy on the syn362. I may have to get the same bolt as the wood 362 to see.
I think this rifle is worth the extra money, if you break it down….. a steel breech is $60, brass trigger kit was $69,brass safety button $15,brass bolt handle $25, Williams peep $100, barrel muzzle with fibre optic at least $50, that comes to $319 in upgrades. But wait,what about that great looking walnut stock $?
So the stock rifle goes for around $140 plus the $319 in upgrades equals $459. That leaves about $75 for the stock. That stock is worth much more than $75. So if you look at it that way alone, it’s a good deal.
Don’t forget the collectibility, mine is 195 of 2023.

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I agree the longer nose on the bolt helps seating the pellet deeper which helps improving the muzzle speed consistency.

There's a lot of this kind of upgrade which for the 2240 should fit into the 362 (actually fit for the steel breech)I think...

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Yes! I think the same... You say it again? That's a walnut stock, not just normal beech or other hard wood? If so... Usual a walnut stock worth at least150 up... Some could be very expensive. And the one on your 195-of-2023 is very sweet!

Yeah, That's a good deal, at least to me I think the same... I been there of the 2240 money pit and understand some times, when things adding up, the final amount actually some kind of scary and you might regret and think I should spend my money wisely... Anyway... There's no195-9f-2023 type of 2240 and ppl usually not going to sell their modded 2240... Because they will never get the same money back~ [emoji38]

And your362 is different~ that's a good investment~ and you have a great rifle!

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Well,after realizing that the bolts were different in the synthetic 362,I investigated. I dug up the original plastic breech that came with the synthetic 362 and lo and behold there was the same bolt as the 100yr wood 362. Seems that when I swapped out to the steel breech I installed the bolt that came with the kit.
Which is the shorter bolt. I thought it would be easy to change to the longer bolt…….snafu……
I tried unscrewing the bolt handle but it wouldn’t budge, it ended up snapping off the bolt handle, #@?!.
So I set it up in my mill and drilled it out. It was then I realized that the bolt handle was pressed into the bolt not threaded in. When the rest of the handle was removed out of the bolt, the hole size was small enough to Use a #29 tap drill then tapped it to 8-32.
I was happy that I was able to salvage the bolt because that was the only long nose bolt I had. So if anyone is going to change the breech on the synthetic 362 be sure to keep that in mind. Don’t use the short bolt.Changing this bolt to the long nose really made a difference.
Short nose bolt: Avg ft/sec- 652.9 ——S.D.- 32.4 ——ERG- 13.59.
Longnose bolt. : Avg ft/sec- 663.92 ——S.D.- 8.4 ——ERG- 14.05.
These results based on 10 shot strings each,using JSB exact jumbo express 14.35
Looks like the wood 362 and the synthetic 362 are very close as far as performance goes.

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That's what I expected--all limited edition is nicer looking, better stock but not much internal changes. However if you don't have a good multi-pump it is worth to get it. And note I'm not sure if it is same level of accuracy with Seneca Dragonfly but the price already gets more expensive.

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