So I had to perform a complete teardown of my M3 because I got water in it from a bad water separator. Anyways, there is a socket head screw right under the lip of the reg #1 pressure gauge. It's in the 10:30 position under the lip if the gauge and is a M3 x 6mm socket head. According to the parts diagram there is a o-ring and a 1mm plastic washer. I swear I never saw a 1mm washer when I pulled the screw but it's likely I lost it. So I have some questions:

1) Is that washer just a spacer to keep the o-ring spaced off of the air hole at the bottom of the slot? I know that hole cannot be blocked because I screwed the M3 screw down somewhat tight, without the plastic washer, and the o-ring sealed the hole and my reg #1 gauge wouldn't read a pressure.
2) I noticed on my other M3 that the screw top sits flush with the surface. In that position is the plastic washer bottomed out and the screw head and washer squeezing the oring to create a seal?

So I'm hoping somebody had some experience with this area before I pull the screw on my other gun, tear the o-ring, and put that gun out of commission too.

In line regulator in box. I never used it. Asking 125.00 shipped to conus. Call/text Ron 714-296-7489

I have for sale Walther 1250 Dominator .177 Pellet Pneumatic Air Rifle. It is in excellent condition.

$100

FX Impact M3 here. I bought the 22 version, but I think now I want the bigger cal 25 version. I thought I read somewhere that I will only need to buy the 25 cal barrel. No need to buy a brand 25 cal gun.

Is that correct?

I bought a GK1 and have been impressed. So I thought why not a K1? I’ve read a lot of good things about it. NE’s website info totally turned me off. Here’s an excerpt;
Huben Repairs, We have been doing all repairs inhouse. We have one certified repair technician who is also the owner of the business so repairs are made during "free time" like days off (open 7 days a week, there are no days off). You will be billed for time and materials at a reasonable rate. (reasonable for the repair shop)

We do not provide estimates but will contact you if we feel the repair is extensive and requires your authorization. Time for repair may be unreasonable, we are sorry but that is the current reality. Parts are coming from overseas so we have to combine part orders with product orders. Life Happens to us too.

if you wish to pay an expediting fee to meet your short time demands, please let us know and we will bill you in advance adding plenty of cushion to cover any and all unexpected costs. (you might be paying for a new gun... (reality hurts). If we have to make custom parts the cost might be more than a new gun.

They ask;
How fast do you need it. *
i'm poor or frugal, I have lots of PatiencesI will pay some fee but don't need to be first in line.I need it as fast as possible - I will pay anything.

Hueben, my god set up more distributors with repair. I like all 3 I know of, how about adding 3 more and work on the parts supply chain. NE website scared me

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Have plenty of air tanks and several high end air compressors filled, just in case my compressor breaks down. It's sort of like our strategic oil. Oh yea,,my wife's biggest cabbage.

I have a nice HW44 .22cal. for sale. Extremely accurate. I made a post on here about this pistol. Not pellet picky. Included 2 magazines, fill and protect probes. Asking $625 shipped. Accept PayPal friends and family or Venmo. No trades. Price is FIRM.
Note - Scope and rings are not included.

I’m crazy surprised how many times I meet a fellow airgunner who has no idea what field target is.

I recently acquired my uncles Diana model 72. I’ve heard these are very rare. Does anyone have any information on these air rifles? I typically do not collect air guns so I’m open to letting it go but don’t really know what it’s worth.

Well I found a gen 1 criccket for sale on the classifieds with a scope for a good price and pulled the trigger.

Having it sent to Charlie for a full look over and tune, though it was already tuned so it might not need much.

Still a bit expensive for me, but it looks like a great gun and with the tune/going over by charlie ill feel confident its at its maximum potential.

Sadly I'll have to wait until my deployment is done early next year before im back stateside to play with it.
Probably will see about getting a donny fl add on for it to make it extra quiet.

I bought a Beeman 250 in .20 caliber in 1982 at the Beeman San Rafael, CA location for $162.42. It had been discontinued and sitting for sale in their showroom/office. I had recently bought a FWB 124D, loved it, and was trying to follow the hype that Beeman was making over new guns in .20 caliber. So I bought it.

Now , after 41 years, I've learned that this .20 cal rifle was from the first and only lot of Beeman 250 .20 cal ever produced--and the first production .20 rifles ever made. Apparently, this .20 caliber Beeman 250 even predated Beeman's foray into the experimental Beeman R5 (.20 cal). From what I can read, this .20 caliber was in a lot of only 40 (some confusing references say 60) ever produced!

When Dr. Beeman wrote his artical on "For the Record: Rare Beeman Guns" he called this rilfe "extremely rare"; and in another article, "The Most Collectible Airguns of the Twentieth Century, he listed it as "highly desirable". And finally, in his article about the Beeman R5, he says “They are now among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns.”

I was blown away by all this hype. But was it only hype? When I looked it up in the 2020 Blue Book of Airguns 13th Ed., it was valued, at most, at $440.

I am now very confused about this rifle: do I have a very valuable vintage airgun? Are there actually any collectors interested in the very first .20 production air rifle? Or, do I have a 40 year-old nice, nostalgic, historic rifle...worth maybe $400.

I think all of us have guns that we love to think are "really worth something", but are actually just a treasure for our own enjoyment and imagination. And its external value is only what some other person, if any, is willing to pay....as always.

Traded.

Selling a nice Artemis PP750 .22cal multi shot side lever. Adjustable cheek piece and butt. Over tube bipod adapter, one magazine, ldc adapter. Holds air forever and is very efficient on air.
Asking $300 shipped. Accept PayPal friends and family.

Just wanted to pose a question to the tuners and DIY guys who do their own repairs. A common failure I see is with the O-ring on the small end (high side) of a regulator spool. What usually happens is the regulator will begin leaking out of its atmospheric vent. Upon disassembly, this particular O-ring is found to have lost all elasticity and just crumbles to bits. Meanwhile the larger O-ring on the opposite end looks and feels fine.

My best guess is it has to do with the repeated adiabatic heating of the plenum refilling, causing the elastomer to rapidly age and harden. Granted, both O-rings are exposed to the plenum air and therefore experience a temperature rise as the pressure recovers. But perhaps the reason the large O-ring doesn't degrade to the same extent is because the big end of the spool is a larger thermal mass that helps absorb away the heat.

Anyway it occurred to me I've seen this failure again and again on Huma regulators and others sharing a similar design but I don't remember ever running into it on a Ninja paintball regulator. Why? Well, the fundamental operation is the same and in some cases the regulators even have similar dimensions so that doesn't seem to be the reason why. But Ninja uses polyurethane O-rings whereas the brittle O-rings always seem to be the more common Buna-N. If indeed that's the relevant difference, it runs counter to the industry data on O-rings, for which polyurethane has the lowest temperature rating of all common elastomers.

Do any of you guys have experience or knowledge that either substantiates or challenges this theory?

Well if your name was Tony, it was a clean podium sweep at the 50 yard springer event at EBR!!
Tony Starr was 3rd, Tony Pellegrino was 2nd, and Tony Turchetta was 1st.
The springer field more than doubled from last years EBR. We had 12 shooters and it was a blast.
Nothing like watching your pellet dance all over your card. I am glad I didn't have to score the cards.
Here are some pics of the field and the winning TX200 in a Lukas FT stock.

Utah Airguns is now the official US distributor and service center for FX Airguns. Please contact us at 385-685-5951 or [email protected] for any needs. Thank you.

Looking to sell my evol 30 I purchased used from a member here a few months ago. It’s in near flawless condition, sports a luthAR buttstock, and hogue grip. It’s currently set pretty close to stock, shooting 44.75 jsb at 912fps for about 3 mags.
I’ve done nothing to this gun other than mount a scope and zero it. It’s been quite a safe queen for me as I mostly shoot 22cal and my evol mini gets used for that task.

Gun is very light, and powerful, and really fun to shoot. Would be ideal for competition shooting, or just hunting with how rugged it is built. No leaks at all, and reg is rock steady!

Asking $1800 shipped conus in the same case I recieved it in. Will also include 1 factory mag, 1 carm mag, and donnyFL 1/2 20 adapter.

Any questions or more pictures, message me.

Buy with confidence confidence knowing I’m an established member here, and have 100% positive feedback in the classifieds.

Will trade for evol 30 magnon, or evol 22cal 15”.

Thanks for looking.



Scope and rings, barrel wrench not included. Will include full package of hybrid slugs with it.

Just recently a AGN member posted a video (not of himself) of a simple repair being made on barrel cocker. Not to throw anyone under the bus, but many new members need to understand some basic springer safety, especially when working on one.
I want to start by explaining the function and engagement of a trigger. Here are two different adjustable triggers commonly used. The Turkish made Quattro and the German made Rekord. Both four lever adjustable triggers. In the pictures the actual metal to metal engagements are within the yellow circles. The Quattro is the first picture and fully engaged. The Rekord is the second picture and adjusted to a “very light” engagement. Barely any metal to metal contact at all. This is how a trigger is made lighter and with less/no creep. The Rekord is a finer and more precise trigger unit than the Turkish made Quattro. But with lengthened screws added to the Quattro (which I do) it can be made just as light as the Rekord. With literally a fraction of metal to metal engagement.
With this in mind, it is easy to understand that how a cocked gun, left open with no hands on the barrel, could easily let loose. Hence many a bent upwards, barrels.
Now watch the video. Hard for me to watch. If a repair needs to be made like this, the spring/barrel should be removed or the barrel should be constrained with a make-shift strap. Don’t trust your ability to hold the barrel with one hand and stick your fingers/thumb in the guillotine.
I would also encourage good safety by holding the barrel back with one hand while loading with the other. Other good safety measures are welcome on this post. Thank you.

I had stated on a post here that, I thought, Hawke Vantage scopes were not rated for spring piston guns. A couple member responded that they are rated for 12 foot pound and under springers. I reached out to Hawke on Saturday and got a reply this morning. They stated that all of their scopes are rated for spring piston guns. No mention of any restrictions. I apologize for assuming something before checking. Don

EBR 2023 was the best run, most fun event that we’ve competed in. All events were full and things went off smoothly all weekend. Great job AoA!!
The Team had seven shooters competing Pro and two in Sportsman, plus two additional in Sportsman that were staying with the Team, so eleven total.
Five of us made the Pro finals (100Y) and Derrick Wall @zx10wall finished 4th overall. Auggie Sotelo @Bigragu was staying with the Team and finished 2nd (100Y) in Sportsman class.


Left to right, Derrick, Mike, Dave, Scott, Caleb, Tony, Barbara, and Peykan.

The Team standout was Caleb Dickenson @okieairgunner, who won the Pro Speed Silo, defeating Tom Adams who had won in 2019, 2021, and 2022. Caleb also won the Extreme Field Target event shooting 39/40, and finished 2nd in the EFT GP National Championship one point behind John Bagakis. Great shooting Caleb!!



Team Centercut is proudly sponsored by Airguns of Arizona.

Hello everyone,

I just finished shooting a full tin (250 pieces) of JSB Jumbo 15.89gr pellets and found them to shoot fairly consistent at 10-meter and 25–yards. I opened a new tin (500 pieces), loaded 10 in the magazine and had to push with a good bit of force to load the first pellet into the rifle. Made the shot and the POI was almost 1-inch high left of the Bull. Second pellet also hard to load and the POI was 3/4-inch low right. Shot a third and the POI was 1-inch right. Removed the magazine and pushed out the remaining pellets. What the heck ?

Got my Pellet Sizing Tool and inserted the first pellet. Normally a 5.5'ish pellet will drop about 1/3 the way into the Tool and require very little pressure to push it through. With this first pellet and the next four the pellet only dropped in to the point that the Skirt was flush with the opening. It required quite a bit of pressure to push them through and even the Head of the pellet shows where it contacted the inner wall ( see photo - yellow arrow ). I loaded and shot these 5 re-sized pellets and not one was within ½ inch of the Bull? So now I have 500 pellets that not usable. Note the wording on the Tin’s lid that I circled in yellow ~ Carefully Selected ~ really ???

ThomasT

Has anyone ever bought from Top Air Guns? If so, how was your experience?

Sandbags vs bipods, Which Is Your general use choice?

FX Wildcat MK3 VP with a 300 bar bottle been having issues with consistency where it was varying almost 200 fps within a few shots. I got it to be consistent but now while trying to tune, the velocity changes depending how full the tank is. If the tank is at 300 bar down to about 220 bar it shoots at about 860fps on power wheel 3 but once it drops under 220 bar, the velocity goes up to 930. First reg is set to 160 and second reg is set to 120... I can only think that the velocity is going up as the tank pressure goes down because the valve is opening more due to not having to fight as much pressure from the reg and this only happens on the lower settings of the power wheel. Power wheel 5-7 stays the same velocity no matter what. Overall it is just weird because the regs should be preventing any of these changes coming from the bottle anyways. If it is the regs, which one would you suspect or maybe both?