Got my Christmas gift early this year. I have to say it's a fun rifle, the semiautomatic feature adds to the fun appeal, but it wasn't a perfect journey as all the youtube reviews lead me to believe it would be, or perhaps I haven't made the correct offering to the PCP air rifle gods... Here is the good and not so good list:
The good :
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The good :
- Beautiful looks, the fit and finish is flawless but for nearly $3 large it better be.
- The trigger is excellent
- Very compact fits in my rifle backpack.
- Shoots Crossman 14gr pellets fairly accurately making rapid fire shots cheaper, but the JSB 18gr and 15gr pellets are the most accurate.
- Low 200bar fill with around 60 shots per fill. This is a great rifle for a hand pump.
- The initial 30ish shots out of the box were consistent within 10fps spread. Then the gun started to gradually get very inconsistent with spreads in the 20fps. After 10 shots from a fresh fill the velocity would increase like the rifle was wasn't regulated.
- Upon searching the internet I found that I am not the only owner experiencing this phenomenon, and before someone makes a comment regarding the pellet fitment in the magazine this happened consistently with 5 different high quality pellet brands.
- I thought after putting a tin of pellets through it the belville washers in the regulator would start cooperating but no... so I inspected the regulator o rings and they looked to be fine, I then polished the mating surfaces of the belvile washers and then reassembled the regulator, and now the regulator is working with extreme spreads around 10fps.
- The reported pop by the magazine/your ear is there. I read about this on many of the UK reviews and yep it was loud and uncomfortable .
- The pop is due to air escaping from gaps between the magazine and the barrel and the transfer port as there is no o-rings or bushing to close the gap, unlike the Leshiy 2's red transfer port bushing.
- You can adjust the barel clearance by adjusting the two rear set screws.The rear screw pulls the barrel towards the magazine and the forward one pulls the barrel forward. It's a balancing act to find the optimal clearance that won't cause the magazine to jam.
- After adjusting the clearance the pop was significantly reduced but it's still there, but not painfully loud as it's inherent to the design.
- Just know you will only experience the pop with a loaded magazine as the backpreasure of the pellet causes the air to escape.
- The magazine is under an incredible amount of spring tension. If you wind the magazine in the rifle !!!DO NOT!!! press the unwind lever with out holding the magazine to slow down the rotation, you will bend the pins that keep the spring tension, as I have done. I was able to straighten them out but what a pain.
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