I’m on my second Patchworm string and like the first this one has developed barbs. I’m worried about these cutting up the O-ring in the breach. I haven’t seen any velocity or other issues so far or had to change an O-ring. Anyone else have problems with this or concerned about it?

I've been looking through this forum trying to find some information specific to the Impact M3 and I'm coming up short. I want to know some basic information that any beginner might benefit from knowing.

1.) Is there a website that offers a good deal on one?
2.) What is the best ammo to start with?
3.) What are the best upgrades and is it worth upgrading off the bat or is it good as is?
4.) Every vendor seems to have some feature or add on that just adds confusion. On Utah Air Guns, what is a Power Block and why aren't they talking about it if it's something that is different from every other vendor?
https://www.thepelletshop.com/products/fx-impact-m3-sniper?variant=40735453282493 - These guys also mention power block but also offer something called DonnyFL upgrade...what is that and why can't they be more specific. I am aware of several moderators from DonnyFL...so what are they selling?
5.) Are there any vendors to stay away from?

Anything other advise you guys/gals can add would be greatly appreciated. I'd also like to buy used to save a few bucks...but that isn't going to happen for a newbie like myself.

I feel like I am transitioning into a second stage of PCP shooting. As a relative new PCP shooter, it has taken me about six months to experience the performance and feeling of several different guns. My First rifle was an FX Crown Continuum in .25 and I discovered this is a very easy rifle to shoot accurately. The rifle feels very comfortable in my shoulder, and I am able to fine tune my eye alignment with scope with the adjustable comb. What I have discovered shooting this rifle on paper is that I expect it to hit the exact spot where my crosshairs are located every time I properly squeeze off a shot. The trigger is very predictable and the pneumatic and mechanical sounds and are very quiet and subdued. This makes for a mental expectation that the round is going to hit the desired POI every time, consistently, with no surprises. I think this mental expectation plays a critical role in shooting accurately . . . consistently.

Over the months following I went down the rabbit hole quite quickly and expanded my collection of PCP rifles with a .177/.22 Benjamin Akela, .22 Daystate Air Wolf MCT, .22 Benjamin P-ROD, .177 BSA R10, .25 AirMaks Caiden X, .22 Air Arms S510 Carbine FAC, .30 Evol Paradigm, .20 Daystate Huntsman Regal, .22 BSA Scorpion Multishot, .22 Zbroia Hartitsia, and am awaiting shipment of a .22 BSA Defiant. Yes, I find it difficult to shoot them all regularly, and that is where "expectations" and "accuracy" come into play. I find that the easiest rifles to shoot accurately (the Paradigm, Crown, both Daystates, the Air Arms and the BSA R10) require less range time and practice than the others, yet I have developed an expectation of perfect accuracy when I do break them out and shoot them. All of my rifles are accurate, but I have not had enough range time with the rest of them to develop the same consistent accuracy expectation as the former rifles.

Each rifle has a different feeling trigger, so I have to learn each one, and that comes with practice. (I think if I took the time to learn how to adjust each trigger that would aid my expectations.) Just this evening I switched scopes on my Akela and dialed it in at 25 yds to where it was shooting one hole, easily covered with a dime. I expected it to shoot accurately, and it did. When I switched from punching paper to shooting sparrows at 25 yds distance in a tree top 24 feet high, I could not miss. Each "thwack" as the .22 caliber pellet hit its mark brought a satisfying smile to my face. I now "expect this rifle to shoot where I want it to shoot, shot after shot. That brings on confidence.
Does anyone else have the confident, expectation of accuracy with your rifle(s)? . . . to what do you attribute it?

I recently bought a used, Cricket II Tactical, 45, in .22 .
I'll start by saying...SOME people should NOT pickup and use tools on delicate mechanisms.

Initially I gave the barrel a check for spiders or other blockages. The gun had about 200bar of pressure in it. Visually the gun looks..ok. Lotsa small marks on the black coating. Not a major problem, as I understand used items.
I filled one magazine with 15.9gr. FX pellets. On one hand, I was somewhat impressed with both myself and the gun. My second group of five shots went into a slightly larger than one pellet hole (in my somewhat short range). Wow...offhand shooting. Yeah...much luck !!! I also noticed that the gun seemed very loud at the receiver. Almost needed an ear-plug.

I got my chronograph and put a few shots through it. The pellet speed seemed to be a little wild, shot to shot, despite the sellers notes to the contrary.
I went to do some hammer spring adjusting...nothing, the adjusting nut was solid, unmovable ! I removed the stock, the rear stock fastener was loose. (!?) I noticed that in the adjusting nut, lock hole, not only was the lock, set screw missing, but I could see that the threads on the adjusting nut were "badly" damaged. I finally got the adjusting nut out of the receiver block, and yeah, badly damaged in "two" locations. I got the threads cleaned up. The plastic tail connected to the hammer is also damaged. The hammer adjusting nut is cleaned up and usable again.

I also wanted to adjust the trigger, as there was "no" first stage movement. A fairly nice let-off, but no real first stage. So I adjusted that. I didn't mess with the spring or the sear engagement adjustment. Leave that for later.

I put the stock back on. I never "tighten" stock screws, wood and carbon fiber can break, but just past snug is what I do. I did my normal light tightening. I went to cock the gun to put the magazine in, and the cocking lever would not go past about half way. A hard lock ! I removed the top plastic cover, everything looked fine. I removed the stock, and removed the side cover. While one spring is slightly damaged (bent), it still works as designed, no obvious problem. At this point, the gun cocks fine ! I haven't made any changes. Top cover back on, the side cover back on, the stock back on...the gun will not cock !!
I removed the stock again. The gun WILL...cock ! Finally getting somewhere. BUT, why will it not cock with the stock in place ? I looked at the counterbored hole where attachment fastener goes in the stock. The washer in the hole looks damaged, heavy scars, and tapered. Hmm. Looking into the threaded hole in the receiver where this fastener goes, it terminates in the hammer spring bore.
Did a little quick measuring, the fastener is about .19+" too long ! How can that be ? The stock fastening screw digs INTO the hammer spring! The damage in the hole didn't look THAT bad. I don't have any small, o.d. flat washers, so I went out and removed that .19"+ of material from the end of the fastener, debured, and back in the house. I put the fastener into the stock and snugged it into position.

NOW...I not only have a full smooth cocking action, I also...have consistent pellet speed, and was able to lower the fps to 800/812, (where most all of my guns are adjusted to), which I could not do prior to shortening the stock fastener shortening, and is now fairly consistent, shot to shot.
I lucked out, nothing is permanently damaged, other than some visual scars.

So...sorry this is so long, but it's a cautionary note...DO NOT over tighten airgun fasteners, doing so, can and WILL damage-ruin your gun.

Mike

So I have a Stromrider that was super accurte. It would suprize me when I shot it. First shot or the last shot would be where the cross hairs where pointing. Out of the blue it stopped shooting well. It was now shooting 3 and 4inch groups at 35 yards. After trying everything I knew or could learn it would not shoot.
I bought some other rifles and got them shootin well so I thought I would try again with the Stormrider. After 2 to 3 hunderd pellets I decided to put it backup and shoot some thing else. I had two mags loaded and just wanted to blow thwm out. I did not tuck in to the bags and kept my hand on forearm like shooting a springer. The little rifle placed 6 shots in well less than a half inch. I nearly fell off my chair. It did the next 6 shots the same way. It never mattered how it was held in the past.
Any how I am counting this as a victory as I ave no use for a gun that won't shoot.
If you have a rifle that stops shooting well might look at haw you holding it
Sorry for the long post
Bulletbob

I picked this up in trade at the Midwest airgun show yesterday. I had one years ago, and let it go. I've been wanting one again for awhile and finally came across this one. I forgot how marvelous they are! It's running just shy of 10 ft. lbs. with 13.43 gr. JSB Jumbo RS pellets. Still;ll working on the accuracy department. The scope and rings aren't working out too well for me. I'm shooting about 10" high at 10 yards, even after placing a shim under the scope in the front ring. Anyone have recommendations for scope/ring combo for a "taco" hold?

So for fun i shot 50' 2 shoys eack of h&n ftt .50 and .52 with cphp .177

In the end each pellet at any range does equally as well depending on the time of day and how im feeling . Cphp wins out being cheap, walk in everyday to buy as needed.

I'm going to go about this match report a bit differently than I typically do....

Usually, within the first 24hrs after a match is done, photos and texts from the participants start filtering in. Everybody is very helpful in that regard, generally understanding that I can put up a better report if I get impressions of the match from everyone. So I sort through all that information, mixing in my own opinion of what I thought of the match, and arriving at somewhat of a general consensus, and that's what becomes the match report. The whole process is actually really enjoyable, b/c it's mostly just texting with all my field target buddies. And it's fun to see shared impressions, and compare how each shooter felt about the conditions/course/their performance and/or their rig.

This month, I think I'll just share the snippets of info that I received. There were only 6 shooters so it's reasonable to do it this way this time around, and I wasn't one of them so don't have my own take on this months match.

First off, here are the top 3 scores, as well as 5 of the 6 shooters. (Ben must be the one taking this photo).
Left to right: Dan, Barry, Mike, Scott, Rick


The overall Troyer for this month was a 33.74, so basically a 34. Not an easy match, just going by that. Data for the hardest two targets are included in the two right-most columns.


Dan:
"Conditions were really pretty nice. About the best I have seen at PRGC. I was barely able to see my wind thread on my barrel. I'd guess maybe 10 shots where I was holding outside the kill zone over a half inch."

Mike:
"The hearts and star reducers were tricky and caught shooters off guard. The evening was really great cooling down to 87 degrees. There was a slight breeze in the valley of about 7 mph. Even though we didn't have many shooters it was still a great night. Good shooting Dan L. And new shooter Rick."

Rick:
"I haven’t shot a Field Target match since around 2016 and wanted to start shooting again. When I saw that PRGC was going to have a night shoot that got me interested. I contacted Ben and decided to come out and watch and see what it was all about. My gun was not setup at all with a new scope on it and I had no dope worked out so I left it at home and decided to just observe and learn. I arrived at PRGC around 5:30pm and met with Ben. Everyone began to sight in and Ben generously offered to share his gun with me. At first I was reluctant to “borrow” his gun but decided to accept his offer. It was pretty warm during sight in with the temp around 107. Soon the sun went down and it cooled off nicely as we moved over to the FT course. I had never shot at night before and it was a unique and fun experience. I had a great time. We finished the course around 10pm and the temp was a cool 87 degrees. It was nice to meet everyone and everyone was very friendly and welcoming. Thanks again to Ben for sharing his gun and scope dope. I’ll definitely come out and shoot again. Now I just need to get my equipment prepped.
Thanks to everyone.

Ben:
"I believe the temperature was around 104 when I got there at 5 o'clock at 7:45. It was 94° I believe 95° and when we finished it was 87° there was a slight breeze that picked up about 2/3 way through the match, Rick Eaton shared my gun he wasn't gonna shoot. I talked him into shooting or we all talked him in the shooting and of course he beat me with my own gun. Weather was perfect light breeze. We had a few that if you look at the pictures of the targets, you can see there is considerable right to left, but you couldn't feel it where we were sitting. Everybody had a good time."


And some of the photos I was sent....
I'm thinking that day time photo must have been from when they set the course up on Friday evening. That photo has a green fish, and if you look closely enough, you can just make out the star shaped kill zone.




These dang oddball shaped kill zones are tricky. One of my misses at American Field Target at last years EBR was a pellet that hit one of the points of the star sticking down into the kill zone. The effective size of those star kzs is smaller than one would think.


You can see some of that right to left drift Ben mentioned on this rabbit target-lots of hits just to the left of the kill zone.




And finally, the moon. Amazingly enough, Dan took this with just his phone, no additional magnification (I initially assumed it was through his scope).



All in all sounds like a good time was had by all. Thanks Ben and crew, as well as Phoenix Rod and Gun Club.
Until next time.
Cole

Brand new never been used donnyfl shogun 25/30 12/20 150tyd

Well guys, after probably 2,500 pellets slamming into this Crosman Squirrel Resetting Target, it finally snapped the welds!!!!

It's been set out at 73 yards and shot at with mainly my Crosman Fire, Crosman Diamondback and 30+ FPE Avenger its couple years I've had it, but it's still nuts to see how concave this thing became. Probably from the Avenger lol You can see the ~4 spot welds on the right. Or where they used to be!

(Here it's laid on a flat cinder block for reference of the curve.)


I have spray painted the two target areas multiple times over time and I technically can still use the target, it just won't be shooting through the squirrel "vitals" hole for the top one.

I think it's the best target for the money. Like $17, don't have to walk down range to reset it, can play "how fast can you smack the target" with a friend (one shoots top, other shoots reset target on bottom, keep going til mags run out), and it also is very obvious when you get a hit or miss. Just all around good target to have for you guys looking for something awesome for cheap.

Got mine from Walmart but I know they're on Amazon too.

I have a dreamline .177 by Ernest this gun has been shot very little. It just doesn’t get any attention with all my other guns. Really looking to trade for anything Kalibrgun. Or $750.

@bigHUN Want to say you were right about using a resin printer. I really like the one I just got. Still learning but I can put three of these on the bed at one time and print them in 3hrs. Just blisteing fast compared to FDM. Very little post processing. I could push six or eight of these out the door in an 8 hour shift, no problem. If I went for a one piece model I could do significantly more per day.







Now that I am getting some reliability with the resin printer, I am going to increase the resolution of the models. That will improve laminar flow over the tesla baffles. I'm getting six tesla baffles in 128mm with an air stripper as the first "baffle". This specific model is quite nice and the testers are pleased with both the accuracy and the suppression.

I was sitting on the deck drinking coffee with the uragan watching for squirrels. Saw a few, but so briefly never any shot. Then I caught some sort of movement in the shade under a cedar about 125 yards away that got my attention. Pulled up the uragan, set the parallax close enough and put scope on 16 power to take a look. It was an extremely small fawn, I'm 5'11" and when it stood as tall as it could, the top of its head would not reach my knee. Went inside and got my Swarovski bino's, got comfortable in chair and watched it. Over the course of nearly half an hour, it wandered all over my yard slowly getting closer to the deck/house. That is not normal behavior for a fawn no more than a week old, they sit tight wherever mom leaves them to browse until she comes back to nurse them, they do not walk around with mom that young unless mom is moving them somewhere. It got within 40 yards before I heard it. It would take a few steps, look around, briefly look nervous and quietly bawl trying to call mom. It ended up 10 feet from me, and we had a quiet conversation, me talking to it and it quietly bawling looking at me like it wanted me to find its mom. Finally it walked around the corner of the house, still travelling directly away from where it came from, so young it is not completely steady walking. The odds of it travelling that far, bawling for mom and eventually getting re-united are slim, but there is a chance. I'm guessing mom bedded it down under the cedars and crossed the road to go browse something in the cattle field or one of it's draws. I heard a few vehicles over there which probably were blocking mom from getting back in time to nurse the fawn. Fawns that young have no scent, it keeps them safe. The only way for mom to find it again is by calling, and it is a long way from where she left it, and getting further every step. The slim is why I let it walk around the corner of the house and disappear. Way over 90% chance it is a meal in the next hour travelling around bawling like that, foxes/coyote/bobcat/etc.. will eat it soon, especially where it was heading.

Would have been a good meal or two, I've actually eaten two that young in my life. Back around 2006 I was deer hunting and watched a doe late september browsing on berries for over half an hour, it was about to get too dark to use the open sights on my lever action I was using, and was the only deer I saw all day so I took her. BTW, legal hunting times here are one hour before sunrise and an hour after sunset. I had someone hunting a couple hundred yards above me on the power line, so just sat there until it was completely dark before getting down and dragging her out of the briars. Then a tiny little thing stepped out 40 or so feet away balling loud. Yep, late Sept. and a almost new born fawn. That is actually not uncommon in SC, I've seen them every month of the year in this state, very rare Dec-Feb, but have seen them even then. I knew it would be torn up in short order if I left it, so I walked up to it and took it out from inches with my handgun. One minute later it's brother steps out bawling, same thing. I'd killed their mom and they were dead already, only difference is they died instantly with a bullet to the brain instead of being torn to pieces overnight.

Kalibrgun Cricket. Selling one of my guns - $950 plus shipping - but will consider best offer (will consider trade let me know what you have - doesn't have to be gun - could be good optics, hunting equepment other related equepment air charging equipment.. etc ).
The gun is the slugs shooter - set to shoot 44 grain slugs around 900 fps.
Comes with 3 magazines. This gun was power tuned by GA airguns and Derrick Wall. Absolutely nothing wrong with the gun. Holding air etc.
This gun has custom moderator (which was made for me by special order in Russia). The rifle is supper quiet - generate very good power basically silent.
Let me know if you have any question.

Time to thin the herd a bit. Pictures are below and all are in very good condition unless described otherwise. Paypal and Venmo Accepted. For shipping purposes, air pressure will be removed prior to shipping. All have been holding air for months at this point so I see no cause for concern with leaks in any of the three airguns. All are sold as is, but are in good working and shooting condition and if I mounted a scope, they could be taken to the range right now.

SOLD SOLD SOLD 1. Brocock Commander .22 caliber with folding stock. The fill adapter was upgraded so no worries about blowing the o-ring on a quick fill. There is a small nick on cocking handle as noted in the picture. Comes with original box, breech seals, and one magazine. Shipped only where legal in the USA. $800 + shipping

2. KaliberGun Cricket II in .22 caliber. Great little gun but find myself shooting the Argus 60 a little more these days. Comes with one magazine and original box. No scratches other than maybe some lite handling marks (said this just to be extra cautions, I did notice anything). Used for a Review two years ago and time to let it go. $1200 + Shipping

SOLD SOLD SOLD 3. Crosman 1720t in .177 caliber with upgraded wood grips, trigger shoe and HUMA regulator. You will notice no fill gauge as it is required to be removed when you add the HUMA regulator. Also the port was opened slightly to get up to max speed for Pistol Field Target. Comes in original box. If you are looking for one, you will know that these are no longer made and slightly in demand because of this. $500 + Shipping

I recently moved back to where I grew up. I got my first pump air gun at a flea market in this town about 43 years ago. That same fleamarket still happens every Sunday so I went by to check it out. Not as many vendors as there used to be, but there’s been something interesting there every time I’ve checked it out.

I saw this wrench and realized it was probably just the right size for the pressure gauges on pcps. I’m a bit of a klutz and I managed to scrape up the finish on a few of my pressure gauges trying to get them off with tools that weren’t really right for the job. I’ve been meaning to get a socket that fits it, but this should do the job and the price was right - $1.

I’m trying to decide how much energy to put into cleaning up the finish on it and how to go about it. In the photo I’ve already given it a once over and cleaned off the soft powdery stuff and covered it with ballistol. I have wire brushes and a rotary tool with some buffing and sanding tips that would probably make short work of the rust layer. There’s always steel wool. It’s got somebody’s initials chiseled into it as well.

Some of the vendors at that market have interesting collections of old tools so I will be back. I have not seen anything vaguely like an airgun there.

I know the rifle isnt anything special but the box is kinda cool. From what I read Air Rifle Hq. were importing HW before Beeman came onto the stage. Tom Gaylord has a nice article about the companies beginning. I figure why not for $200.00 hope you enjoy the photos.

I honestly have no idea, thus I'm asking the question. How often do you folks depressurize your PCPs? Reasoning??

I was shooting at cans placed 33’ away. After I heard a pellet TING the steel can, something then flew back towards my right, hit a chair or other object there, and fell. I found a pellet head on the porch floor.

Didn’t think a lead pellet could zing all the way back that far, even when hitting steel. The only reason I could think why it might have happened is that the pellet smacked the lip of the can obliquely (I put cans so that their circular end faces me), so that it bounced back at an angle. I never thought it could come back all the way. I was using 6 pumps for the steel cans, but for one shot I inadvertently pumped 9 times. It still seems odd.

Any ideas why this happened?

Im looking to make room and raise funds for new Field Target Rig so ive decided to move on my BR rig as it doesn't see much use these days. It is an FX Maverick multiple calibers with both .25 and .30 barrels (both have carbon fire sleeves fitted) plus magazines and probes (.25 cal also has an extra eagle vision magazine,) accutac FC-4 bipod, element optics helix scope, scope paralax wheel, 700cc alsafe carbon cylinder, (original aluminum 400cc cylinder will be included) Sabre tactical bag rider, Donny FL moderator, and a Plano hard case.

Some slight burring on the .25 barrel where it slipped in the vise as i was installing the carbon barrel sleeve (see last pic), purely cosmetic, does not affect performance.

Looking to get $2200 for the lot

Extremely good value package deal

Buyer pays shipping

Paypal F&F, Venmo, or Zelle accepted

BSA Goldstar SE .177 for sale or trade

Rowan Engineering Single shot loader included

$750

Buyer Pays Shipping

Out of the box my Uragan 2 in 22 cal was supersonic with 14 to 18 grain pellets, so despite the superb integral moderator it was VERY loud. I tuned it down to about 700 fps last fall for indoor shooting and for a high shot count with exceptional accuracy from several pellet choices, but the warmer weather is here so I upped the pressure with exactly a half turn on the regulator to give 1013 fps with the JSB 18.x grains Accuracy was not as good as the lower velocity, but still pretty decent. I am anxious to try it at 50 and 100 yards this week.

I wouldn't mind slightly higher velocity, but it is such a pain to change the reg, plus I am getting close to the sound barrier. Changing the hammer spring doesn't do much on this gun so I haven't played with it yet. I tend to keep messing with stuff when sometimes I should stop. I don't shoot the JSB pellets very much so I am not familiar with how fast they can be pushed. Is 1036 fps getting close to max for best accuracy from what you guys have seen? I definitely don't want to go supersonic but would be OK with slightly higher or lower velocity. Should I just call it good and be lazy? The first group is 20 shots JSB 18.x gr from a rest, Sightron 50x scope at 15 yards, indoors at 715 fps avg. The best shooting airgun I own so far. The next group is the same pellet, 10 shots at 15 yards at 1013 fps avg, also indoors.

Friday, I had three guests that are avid powder burners over for a day of airgun experiences. Everything was set-up for them to each rotate through twelve different precision tuned rifles, starting with a Weihrauch 97 and 98, a Beeman R9 in .20, progressing to a Scott Schneider tuned .22 AA S410 (which they each shot an autographed souvenir target with), a Charlie Frear power tuned .22 Kalibrgun Cricket long, a .22 Daystate Wolverine, a .22 Brocock Commander XR, a .22 RAW HM1000X Chassis, a .25 Daystate Wolverine Forester, a .25 RAW HM1000X-LRT (pre Air Force), and a .25 SKOUT. Then they get to the Panthera 700 MM shooting the ZEN 33 grain slugs - and the response is "WOW." While huge and heavy proportionally, it is quite simply in a different performance class.

I love them all, but if I am bench shooting and the wind comes up, there is simply no other logical choice......

BTW- I think I made a at least one, if not two converts, over to the good side!

The nut shell version, if you own Apple products there is a VERY important update for your Macs, kernel level flaws are fixed, also flaws in the iOS of iPads, iPhones and iWatches. More here.. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ted-security-bugs/?comments=1&comments-page=1

My source was a very high level security guy that use to work for Apple, I guess is his friends still left there warned him about it.

At least they haven' broken Strelok Pro...yet.

I'm wondering if the fixes will protect against the FX Borg, I tend to doubt it.

I inadvertently posted a thread that may have been interpreted as a political statement. MEA CULPA.
Completely a non thinking post. However true it might be.