I'm making a list of rifles that can shoot 25+ grain .22 cal slugs at 950+ fps for "accurate" long range (over 100 yds) target shooting.. Most of the really accurate shooters I've tried just aren't designed for slugs and/or don't have the power for heavier slugs. So far my list includes:

FX Impact / Maverick / Dreamline (?) with the heavy liner (never shot one but plenty of others have)
AEA Challenger Pro (I had one and sold it)
Airforce Condor (what I'm currently shooting but it needs to be externally regulated for consistency)

Surely there are others that belong on this list?

Took the taipan out after doing a bolt check on the tripod because the head was loose yesterday causing a lot of unnecessary movement that, didn't feel right to me and now makes sense after I found the loose bolt holding the ARCA head on (lot of up and down movement yesterday).

What a difference. This tripod is awesome. Easy to setup, 2 levels, a pouch for snacks or ammo, and it's own matching carry bag.

Set the taipan up at 50 from the target, that's a full mag, 2 fliers are on me, the other 8 in that hole. All this from a compact right out of the damn box shooting nothing special ammo with a little barrel, see last pic so you can see where the actual barrel ends. It's not long.

Also had the @targetforge KRL setup at 40 , still got more practice to do. (After I took some sighters I forgot to change mags, so there is a mag change before the very last target)

Tomorrow it gets a body count

Hey, folks.
I own a .22 Marauder and it is pretty quiet with the factory shroud. With the power factor being equal, would a suppressed Dreamline or Crown be quieter? I do know that more power, higher calibers, and various moderators impinge on decibels. Thanks

Hey guys. This seems like a really nice compressor. This is the ToAuto A3 but they also sell an A2 (smaller). This is half the price of the NOMAD and it's probably a better compressor. This is a quick look and test of this feature rich compressor. Great affordable PCP pump. Thanks for watching! -Nate

Just getting back online to the Airgunning community and seeing this somewhat new manufacturer, AGT, producing what looks on paper to be some of the most versatile, feature packed, robust, accurate, reliable, and with a high degree of quality of craftsmanship, commercially available PCP’s on the market with the Vixen and Uragan in particular. Is this for real?
Short version, I am in the market to add to my collection and finding my self lusting over the Uragan 2 and Vixen vs the AA S510 TDR and FX Dreamline. What I am missing? Almost seems to good to be true, is AGT for real? Seems as though AGT is offering comparable or better level of quality, precision, construction and definitely bringing more innovative modern design to the table on so many levels for comparable price compared to FX, AirArms, etc.

Longer version. I’ve Been Airgunning for over 20 years now, had many springers from GAMO’s through custom Russ BEST Tuned Beeman R7 and Best Tuned R9, a handful of PCP’s over the years, (Logun Gladiator, custom Talon Tunes AF Talon P, various Marauders from unmolested to fully ported high powered Bullpups, couple of AirArms, etc). A stickler for overall quality, precision, accuracy, and usability I quickly culled the budget air guns from my collection retaining my favorites from back then, the Russ-Best Tuned R7, AA S510 FAC Xtra in .22, AA S200-B in .22 w/10 round magazine, (rebadged CZ 200T), and of course a few Daisy Red ryders for when family comes to visit for a session of long range balloon busting and soda can cutting in half competitions. The S200-B is my primary go-to, the S510 is a close 2nd, both are now over 15 years old with well over 10,000 plus rounds through each, still as accurate and fun as they were the day I received them, the S200-B recently started leaking air so while it is under the knife so to speak thought that I’d look into adding to the collection. For my missions primarily small pest control, informal target and plinking shooting some weeks almost daily, sometimes may go a week or 3 not. Any how I had settled on either the AA S510 TDR or an FX Dream Line, possibly a Dreampup or Wildcat. LOVE the concept of Bull pups but from my previous experience with them there is one attribute that was enough of annoyance that I’m a bit trigger shy to try another, and that is the height of the CG of the ones I have owned/handled have been top heavy, feels like they want to flop over to either side requiring a bit more focus and attention to the hold vs standard rifle designs. Though seeing this Uragan and how the trigger itself is directly below the barrel “behind” the air tank vs “under” the air tank like most other BullPups that seems it would lower the CG of the gun considerably all but eliminating that top heaviness I experienced leaving all the wonderful benefits of the Bull Pup design, shorter over all length with a full length barrel, neutral fore aft balance with lower polar monument while packing it about, etc.

Paul
Airgunning in Central Oregon

Mine is actually a surprise and it's a ataman shooting 18s....swear I can shoot a chipmunks eye out at 50 yards and at 100 yds dime size with no wind . These atman's dont leave the factory unless they are doing 1 moa so that says something.

Hello AEAC Fans!

This will be the first of several RMAC 2022 videos I'll be sharing.

On the way are lots more shooter interviews and lengthy RMAC Vendor Booth interviews, as well as an EPIC long interview with last year's RMAC winner Keith Gibson, where he spills all the juicy tech-secret & tune beans on his RMAC 2021 winning FX Impact!

Enjoy!!

Steve

Hello everyone,

Finally received all of the required items to do a “polish job” on the bore of my FX Crown .177 cal rifle barrel yesterday. This morning I removed the barrel and did a through cleaning of the bore until nothing but clean patches were coming out. I did make one small adjustment to the process, I divided the barrel into 3 sections rather than 4. This being a 600mm ( 24-inches ) long barrel I felt like 3 sections of 8-inches long would work the best. I’m not sure if it was my imagination, but the center 8-inches sure felt a bit tighter when running the bore mop through it. The bore mop itself was a darker color ( dirtier looking ) than the other two mops so I am guessing more material was removed. If there were any micro imperfections in that section, I’m hoping that the polish work did what it is supposed to do and remove them. Now I cannot wait to do some target shooting and see if there is a definite improvement in the accuracy of this rifle.

Have a great day,
ThomasT

After much reluctance I'm sending the alpha on its way.

Why? ... I did not buy it to shoot pellets and since daystate does not publish barrel specs for whatever reason, I could not know that it would not shoot slugs well at the distance I wanted, so it left me with no choice. The .25 and .30 cal options shoot slugs, why slow down the twist rate in the .22? The jsb knock outs did well at 50 , after 50 yards they started destabilizing and it was extremely clear. At 100 the groups were 6 inch groups with the occasional lucky strike of two slugs touching on target, wind was non-existent yesterday.

My taipan compact was shooting BETTER with 18.14 pellets than the alpha was with the jsb knock outs (best slug I could find for it) , bust out the pellets and the alpha wolf .22 is a winner... but I don't want to shoot pellets with it.

The rifle is SICK, it looks sick, it is sick to shoot, the fit , finish, and feel is top freaking notch but it won't do what I want. So bye bye.



On to the next part of class for me.

I took these 6 beautiful ladies out together to get a bit of comparison. Some members name their rifles. Here’s my thought, I used to go to The Hockey Show, it was for retailers, in the 90’s and it was in Montreal. I wasn’t a Bar Fly but we went to Chez Paris, the classiest strip bar on planet. They had at least 30-40 strippers. All gorgeous. I’m naming my Air arms after them.
Wow I didn’t mean t send so early, my mistake, not finished writing.
Here my harem. The only problem I had was my first choice, MK3 .22, the cocking lever was difficult to release, too tight. Is there a remedy for this?
These rifles constantly stack pellets, all of them.
The big downfall for me is on the 200’s loading. I sit when shooting and found the 200’s slid off my leg twice when the bear trap catches. The Pro Sport doesn’t have this nuisance.
I actually don’t mind cocking the PS, I find they put a little curve at the end of the lever, which fits like a ring, comfortable. .
These rifles are all stock, no modification yet.
My choice no doubt would be the Pro Sport.
What’s yours and why?(

I see tons of reviews on HW97K, and HW98 that brag about great accuracy, but the barrel is only 300mm long. (They do make a long version of the 97 with 440mm barrel)... If these reviews are true, why would one want something longer than 300? They have various models with 300, 370, 395, 410, 440, 470 and 500mm barrel length. Sorry for the old-school compare, but all are listed from Krale below..

I shot this target today in very slight breeze(almost calm). 10 shots at 100 yards:

AGN'ers!
While my airgun is fairly well tuned now, I am wondering about why the "Tuning Magic" starts with "Pick a speed/FPS." That seems rather arbitrary to me.
Why does it not start with getting good accuracy first? How does one know that a particular pellet will perform it's best at say 930 FPS without shooting it at various speeds in order to find that desired accuracy?
1.) Most advice is "880-920ish FPS is a good range." Good advice, at least that narrows it somewhat.
2.) Some pellets, such as the RD's seem to need a faster speed, at least that has been my experience and much of the advice here.
Between the items above there could be a large disparity between the two.
So, why not shoot for accuracy by making the same adjustments as one would use for a "95% Tune/Knee" after shooting an ample amount to determine accuracy/or not. Then check that speed/FPS. Then adjust the regulator up slightly and adjust it back to the FPS that is the best performance for the pellet? Is it because of the economy of air is best doing it by guessing the FPS first? It just seems to me that finding accuracy then adjusting per the 95% rule might make more sense.
I'm not stating that any method is wrong, just questioning the reasoning for most tunes.
What am I missing?
mike

PS: I understand that there are many sweet spot nodes within about 10-15 FPS or so it seems. Depending upon the barrel whip action/pellet/speed combo. So, it's entirely possible to have accuracy nodes within say 882-897, 897-912, 912-927, etc. Right? I'm guessing that you would need to find each of those nodes and settle on which is best?

This is my situation. I need a vacation.

I'm not affiliated with AoA or AAA but just wanted to post this. Just got an email notification that AoA is having their July 4th sale and are offering $350 off any AAA rifle. If you're on the fence on getting one of these fine rifles because of cost, this might be your chance. Still expensive but any discount is welcomed. I just placed my order and I'm super excited.

They are also having a sale on their Brocock Atomic XR Air Pistol/Rifle which is $350 off as well.

Happy 4th of July guys!

Hi all, brand new here, first post. I ordered a Wolf Airgun mod for my Crosman 2240 in late April this year. Shipped from Poland and went through International USPS arrival in Miami on May 21. Nothing since... My understanding is if customs seizes something they send you a letter explaining what they seizedand why.its contraband along with a form with options that you can persue with Customs. I got nothing to this date, been too quiet. Maybe my tinfoil hat is a bit tight but I'm half expecting the 3 letter boys to show up.

I emailed Wolf and they told me that they were aware of only one of their mods being seized by US Customs since they started about 7 years ago. They also told me the mount for the can I ordered was specific only to the Crosman 2240 and the baffles are 3D printed plastic that they indicated "could be crushed between finger and thumb" so I doubt it would stand up to powder burner use. Thank God I own NO powder burners with threaded muzzles so a sigh of relief there too.

Just asking if anyone has had similar experiences with importied air gun mods being seized during the last year or so and how your situation resolved. Not ashamed to admit I'm a little nervous. Thanks for any feedback.

Bad mounts? I’m using Hawke 1 piece mounts. 4-12x40 Bushnell scope. It hurts my soul to see this. So the question here is what are the best mounts for magnum springers?

Can I still do it?

Hey gunners!
I have 2 compressors 1-lightning and 1- Tuxing base model both are 2 stage. The Tuxing just needs the high pressure side rebuilt I believe. The lightning needs rewired as it burnt up.
These need work but if your mechanical I think you can make 1 good compressor and have spare parts.
I live in Yuba City Ca. I won't ship these you would have to come get them. I will hold these for 1 week, then off to the dump they go.

Thanx for looking

Dennis

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In cooperation with Nielsen Specialty Ammo, we're hosting a very special giveaway, actually 4 of them! To thank you for making NSA the most popular slugs in the USA, Nick would like to give back by offering 4 individual winners 30 boxes of any small caliber slugs. That's not a typo! It can be all one slug, or 30 different ones. That's $659 worth of slugs to each winner!



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A lot of people say it is just a gimmick to sell products while some say it isn't. please i will appreciate your real life experience on this, if so then how can one hide his scent while hunting?

... And I am going to the range with the Alpha and the new Taipan Shorty!!!!

What a great way to kick off a celebratory weekend!

Hey Guys,
Been playing with tuning my Crown mk2. .25 600mm barrel to shoot Neilson 26.8/ .249 HS-HP-DB slugs.
I'm finding a slightly crooked shot plot.
Any ideas on how to flatten it out?
Reg 144 , power wheel 19 , tfp H
I also found with the same reg pressure pw 16 tfp H I got the same results.
I'm puzzled, could this have to do with dwell or harmonics?
Your thoughts?

Purchased an unfinished (no stippling) Walnut stock for my RAW HM1000x LRT last November. Martin wasn't able to ship it until March '22 and I've been kinda working it off and on now for 3 months. For $595 (not including shipping), the stock didn't contain any fancy grain structure (soft wood) and had filled knot holes on the pistol grip.

I always wanted an original RAW stock made pre-Airforce, having wings around the manometer; however it seemed overpriced in its unfinished state.

Have finished sanding down to 1200 grit paper and she's starting to look nice. Was going to leave the pistol grip un-stippled until I noticed the end-grain on the grip just didn't look nice enough to leave uncovered. Watched some stippling videos and bought a $9.99 HF mini-moto took using diamond bits. Only wanted to stipple the hand grip area of the pistol grip, so left more un-stippled than on OEM RAW's.

Not sure if I want to hit it with a light coat of walnut stain or not to give it a dark complexion, but will go with numerous coats of tongue oil.
Should have it finished sanded later today - still have some tough end grain a minor dents to remove.

I'm hopeful she will turn out much better than I'm thinking ...........

i can wait to get my RTI Prophet II from Francisco. i just home i get it before July 4th Steve From AEAC you wanna review my IRT Prophet II ?