Are there any companies that regularly sell scratch and dent style air guns? Stuff with scrapes on stocks etc., maybe dinged or damage superficially in shipping. I don't mind an ugly gun for hunting, especially on worse weather days. If there were a discount on this type of merch but still mechanically sound and quality performance I would interested.

Remember the good ol days? A direct phone number and a relatively short wait and you were talking to a tech about your issue. They were always and I mean always patient and helpful. I remember being told to not worry about bugging them. They liked shooters who tinkered and fixed their on guns and would always help.
Try that now. I am wondering if the “best service in the industry” defense we FX shooters use will remain valid.
I am not definitely done buying FX or dealing with UA, but my consideration of other guns is getting more serious. Maybe not such a bad thing

This is a good question being that FX has so many adjustments is it better to have a pellet being pushed by more air or less air ? The FPS will be the same since you can adjust the regulator and the hammer. More on reg less on hammer and vise versa will give you the same speed .

I've got a gun that can handle a 300 bar fill. I don't have a reg tester for the reg that it ships with -- I'm tuning it but . . . guessing with minor incremental changes -- you know - kind of a pia not to mention going through air bleeding it off between changes. I could slap a huma in it that at least has a little piece of paper on it that gives you a reasonable "guess" at what the reg is set to. <-- yeah internal reg in the tube, not externally adjustable.

The subject is the question - can the huma's handle / deal with greater than 250 bar? ( I also own other 300 bar capable guns ... and I rarely fill them to 300 - usually 280-290'ish . . . )

I sent huma an email a couple of days ago but no reply - don't know if language (translation) is an issue or if they just haven't checked their messages

Curious -- thanks guys

-=- jd -=-

I live in Florida and each spring/summer there is a lubber invasion. These are large grasshoppers that eat our garden and when full grown they are poisonous. And poison doesn't kill them when full grown. Nothing eats them except one species of birds that kill them, hang them up to dry in the sun which must extract the poison and then eat the Lubber. I have an airgun range in my yard but shooting lubbers with a pellet isn't practical or safe. I was wondering if an airsoft CO2 pistol/revolver shooting a plastic 20gr bb with a 300-350 fps muzzle velocity from 2-6 feet would terminally "whack" these critters. They are large and tough. I have to beat them with a brick or stomp on them if they are on something hard. Most of the time they take a severe beating before giving it up. Obviously a pellet would do the job but holes in the fence, outdoor furniture, clay plant pots or my neighbor's dogs and I will look like one of the deceased lubbers! Wondering if anyone had experience with using an airsoft gun for something like this.

Look very nice .

Comparing the FX DREAMLINE -TACTICAL vs Crown MKII

I want an easy-to-shoot gun with minimal adjustments.
Looking for the possibility of tuning down the power when shooting in sensitive areas, and going full speed the rest of the time.

I have long arms, so the configuring possibilities with the FX Dreamline tactical is better for me.

But the Crown MKII can also be extended and work for me.

What gun would you choose and why?

My Vevor branded Tuxing CX-1 let go ( low pressure side of piston). Vevor will not sell parts or support this compressor outside of warrantee. All mynot be lost as I found this https://www.amazon.com/TUXING-Compressor-Spare-Connecting-Pistons/dp/B0912MV9B4 (First picture). There is a differance the new one has a black tip on the rod and the low side has two o-rings. Makes me question why I can't add two o-rings and call it a day> Here are pictures of the new piston and old> Odd one was new 1122.
tim

just received this scope to try out. bought from westhunteroptics on ebay for $128 shipped !!
30mm tube
sunshade
parallax side wheel
throw pin and rings.
very impressed with clarity from 6 to 24 power and quality of build
tracks just as good as my MTC cobra F1
very smooth side focus and power adjustments.
i believe it will be a nice hunter.
i like it and it didnt break the bank....time will tell

I bought this rifle probably 15-20 years ago. Shot it quite a bit, and as I acquired more air guns it began to sit. I would take it out now and then but the weight with the large scope was a turn off. this is it in the original configuration. After some time owning it, I swapped in a grt-III trigger which makes a heck of difference, but not enough to get it regular shooting time.I eventually swapped it to a red dot, which I much prefer weight wise. Since then, I have upgraded from the $30 bsa to a nice Hawke red dot thanks to member here that had just what I needed in the classifieds. Still looking to reduce weight I decided to finish a stock swap I started 10 years ago. I had purchased a stock, stripped the finish. And begun giving it a new look. Unfortunately the factory stamped in checkering had uneven depth, leaving 1 panel almost nonexistent. That kind of detail which can not only be seen, but also felt while holding the rifle drove me nuts....and so the stock sat waiting for me to get back to it. I have now gone over all 4 panels,and traded checkering for stippling. 3 coats of stain, 5 thin coats of poly, and a bunch of cursing later I am calling it done. There are still a couple things I may go back in and work on in another 10 years, but not today. For the first time in a while I see this getting some regular time on target, and a walk in the woods this year. This is the boring side of the rifle....definitely feels better in hand and offhand for me now. Not pellet picky getting hunter grade accuracy a half dozen pellets in 22 of various weights and shapes.
The non-boring side of the rifle shows off some of my art work. Hand painted in acrylic in 2014 while I was still making my living as an artist. Initials and year hidden under the recoil pad.

i leave in two days , excitement is building !!! Quite a few AGN people will be there , hope to meet and talk to everyone .

Hello, thank you for letting in this group! I am a rathunter (almost 60 years old) in the Netherlands living in the northern parts called Friesland. My main proffesion is a hooftrimmer with the cows. There are a lot agriculture farms were i doing pestcontrol such as rathunting and pigeons. I am shooting yearly about 800 rats with my 2 pcp rifles namely a fx impact mk2 .22 with a Pard ds 35 -50 nightvision scope and one fx impact m3 .25 with a thermal scope from hikmicro a panther pq 35 2.0. Also i am getting a Urugan two .22 for schooting slugs! I hope to learn here (shootings slugs) on this forum!

Greetings Rathunter

I have noticed that average pellet speeds have dropped slightly over a shooting session, with each successive magazine. Average speed dropped from 887fps to 872 fps.
Also, an occasional very slow(20-25fps from average)pellet speed has sometimes occurred but this is not a “regular” occurrence! The gun is a .22 Maverick compact shooting unlubed 15.9 FX pellets.

Any thoughts on what might cause this phenomenon? For context, I recently replaced the second(latest iteration)AMP reg and the breech seal, both lubed well.

Any thoughts from the group could help my tuning/maintenance would be appreciated!

OKCGC AirHeads had their April 20th ”X” Field Target match, and we had a blast. Shooting out to 100 yards is really cool!!! The weather guys said it would rain for sure on that day. But we the AirHeads said, nope we are having the match. Guess what, no rain and it was really a good day. We did have winds at 15mph with gusts up to 30mph! We also built more targets with some different shaped KZ’s, hehehe! We heard words like WHAT and OH GREAT from the shooters! I love it! It made for a fun match and they liked it! We set out 15 targets, shooting at them 4 times each for a 60-round match.

Caleb Dickerson came in 1st with a 53 with his hyped up Daystate. Rick Cuccio was 2nd shooting a score of 50 with his FX Royale and 3rd as Mr. Thom Davies with a 49 also using a FX Royale. Congratulations to you guys.

We had 14 shooters come out even with the prediction of rain, things just seem to work out at times for the good…

We are looking forward to the next “X” Field Target match…

Great seeing everyone!!!

…The OKCGC AirHead Group…

Hey Friends,

Now that the 362 anniversary editions are coming down to reasonable prices I'm tempted, but had a question.

Is the muzzle break/device removable? My 362, and 3622 have quite a bark and need to be moderated. I think the donny fl disco adapter would work but I'm unclear how the original device attaches. Is it removable? If so grub screw or the usual crosman glue/lock tite?

Thanks!

Have noticed this with both my 460 and my 430L the rifles are Great, but.....the cocking cycle is what i would describe as very metal on metal grindy. What is the exact cause and solution for this? Am I just spoiled by my weihrauch underlevers?

I would have wanted this as a kid. Probably still do.

I was talking to Derrick @zx10wall about a 25 cal rifle for pesting. I have 177's, 22's, a 30, but no 25 cal rifles....Derrick said he had a Vulcan 3 in 25 cal with a 500mm barrel and he could set it up for the 25 grain pellets as I requested. So while the wife and I were on our road trip, we met Derrick and got the Vulcan from him.

I got home and went through all my extra things and found a red UTG 1 piece mount and an Athlon Midas Tac. Put everything together and went outside to sight it in.

So after getting the Vulcan on paper at 20 yards I went out to 50 yards. The left target is 7 shots and the right target is 10. The shot string is something to behold for sure. 40 shots with an ES of 9 FPS and SD of 2.2 FPS. I was shooting the JSB 25.39.

Man Derrick knows his way around a trigger. Just liked we talked about, a short first stage and a very light second stage with no creep. Super smooth and nice.




Still need more time behind the trigger, but I am impressed so far.

Tony P.

Been running the idea of selling my omega 100cubic foot tank and buying a small compressor to fill guns. Does anyone have pros and cons to this. All shooting done close to electrical source and looking at the 12/120V compressor.

so my 22 bottle gun I made needed a stock since it was sharing the bighorn stock with my 357 np03 bottle gun.

I ended using one of the mauser stocks I picked up a month ago. I was in a hurry and honestly didn't care, so I just cut the stock and inletted for the action block.

Came up with this for now. I will add some wood back around the drop block and give it a darker stain, kind of like a BSA R10 or something. That's right where I want to grip it, so I gotta cover that block.




I got home and wanted to try the H&N slug samplers I got for the 60 fpe rifle I built that's now in limbo. This rig was currently shooting 21 grain baracuda 5.52s at 850ish, so I matched that up with the 21 grain .218 which is 5.53mm

Go outside and the neighbor is out. He's totally chill about shooting, but had company so I abstained. Lucky I got a chance right at sundown. I was surprised to see the 21s were one hole at 15 yards, so I pushed out to 25 yards and it stayed to pretty much one ragged hole, even with the crappy scope and low light.

I tossed in some 23 gr to see how they'd do, and they shot just a half mildot lower but still center left to right. These kral barrel usually fight me with slugs.

I tested over the chrony, and the 21s are still holding 850 fps which I found interesting, since usually when I try slugs they are slower than their same weight pellet counterpart.

I ordered a 4-12x40 BSA Sweet 22 scope to replace the CVLife 3-9x40 that's on there. It's the same size and the sunshade should fit too. I've had positive luck with the Sweet 2-7x32, very good scope for the money, so I hope it's bigger brother doesn't disappoint.

Oh yeah, this guy is exactly 36" long, weighs maybe 6.5lbs but front heavy(300 bar thick aluminum bottle), and has a pretty quiet report. Thankfully the bottle doesn't ping really bad like my 25 and 357.

Further testing, pics, and groups to come!

What’s is the most effective yet simple thing you can do to iMotive the grouping of your gun? I’m interested in generalities instead of specific air guns. Replacing lower quality seals with higher quality ones, aftermarket add ons ETC

Like I said a while ago, I inherited like 15 airguns - which I'm told is a pretty decent collection.
Curious how most of you got your start. Did you buy or was it a gift? What was your first Airgun and what did you like / not like about it?

Hi
I am trying to find out how much I can turn a full-speed FX Crown down.

I will be hunting small birds outside and inside buildings, so I need to be able to turn the power down when shooting inside.
I do not want to damage the inside of the building if I miss a shot

Any youtube videos or other info on the topic you can recommend?

I was cleaning up my gunroom and came across the notes from the little mock ft match me and my boys had on a Saturday in late January a couple months ago.

Just at my house so no cool destination. And we've only got a handful of the Air Venturi Rat on the Run targets, so that's what we used. We set up 5 of them, in the following manner.

Lane 1- 1.5" kz @ 31 yards for a 20.7 Troyer
Lane 2- 1.5" kz @ 53 yards for a 39.8 Troyer
Lane 3- 0.5" kz @ 12 yards for a 24 Troyer
Lane 4- 1.5" kz @ 44 yards for a 29.3 Troyer ("shoot the gaps")
Lane 5- 1" kz @ 30 yards for a 30 Troyer ("firewood alley)

If the math on my 4 month old notes is correct, that's an overall Troyer of 28.76, and I applied the 1.25 factor for "windy" b/c it certainly was that day, and I'm getting a Troyer of 36.

We shot each target twice, and were freezing our butts off so had a halftime that consisted of going inside for some hot chocolate. After thawing out a bit we went through again so a total of 20 possible points. Cabe's biggest challenges so far have been set up and target acquisition , so getting set up a total of 10 times was good practice for him.

"course" photos....



And 2/3rds of the competitors....



And the equipment list and scorecard....



Cabe turned 6 a few months ago and Colben is 10. Colben has been shooting ft since about Cabe's age, and is gonna catch me here pretty quick. Cabe is doing better than Colben did at this age.

Fun way to spend a couple hours on a Saturday. Kept em busy and off electronic devices for awhile.

Hello Airgunners,

I am not the best marksman in the world but like to do a trick shot every now and then.

This is still one of my shots I like the most.

Shot with Daystate Red Wolf .22 and a MTC ffp scope. Just backyard stuff.

Enjoy!

If you like to post your trickshot feel free to inspire me and others.

Looking forward to see your shots.


Stay Safe and Shoot Straight
Eric