rdpjr6504 said:

Received this from a member here Gongetit. Nice fit on my 500cc carbon bottle.

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That is a proper barrel band.

He also makes one half as wide

Received this from a member here Gongetit. Nice fit on my 500cc carbon bottle.

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I have two 12 round and two 18 round QD Fox magazines for my Panthera. They all get used a lot and they are all well made and reliable. There may be better mag's available but these are priced right and work just fine for me.

JackHughs

The one thing I like about Diana's is the to6 trigger ...to me and don't beat me up but I think it's breaks the best out of all springer triggers. I have had them all aa, beeman , weihrauch etc

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Jake at jb3dpd.com is my goto guy for barrel bands. British so it takes a couple days shipping.
Measure the shroud.
Measure the bottle
Measure the gap
Tell him you want Picatinny (go 3 sides)
Send him all three measurements and your requirements and he will print thE Barrel Bands.

Have not looked on his site but it would not surprise me to find he already has the available.

I had a 350 compact in .22 that was hard to group. Brought it home and said “well, let’s see what this thing can do”. Pointed it at a crow 50 or so yards off and to my amazement it fell without even spreading its wings…and it was constant frustration from then on!
Threw in the towel after a year or so and the disappointment continued as it went for almost half what I’d expected. Sometimes I look for another hoping to fix the inconsistencies and find validation.

bigHUN said:

I have tried couple oils in the past. This Mobil one is a twin turbo rated = high RPM high Temp.
I am using it second year.
The oil - any oil, shall lube the 1st stage piston cast iron rings, but shall never reach to second stage high pressure piston composite rings. If does, there will be carbon build up on that piston and eventually degrade the composite ring life.

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Detergent motor oil is inappropriate for any air compressor system. That's why you keep having to replace pistons. You need to run an ISO 46 approved compressor oil, that's not me saying that, that's every air compressor manufacturer in the world saying that, including Yong Heng.

I got some Benjamin .22 hollow points, they're $10 per 500 down from $15. I'd good luck before with their single die diablos.

Matt7467 said:

I see where my comment before might be confusing. The bottle to barrel clearance, meant more so about the band clearing and not touching and interfering with the barrel.

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As far as I know the carbon fiber bottles are Skinner than the aluminum one like I have. My tube came with a barrel band on the 2 ND Zelos I put both types on one tube to see. The short is the normal the talk one went over barrel.

I’ve not had to deal with anyone suffering from ptsd although I do know quite a few combat veterans. I think your idea is good but I would suggest working with veterans groups to bring in participants and help them through it.

Rick H.

I have tried couple oils in the past. This Mobil one is a twin turbo rated = high RPM high Temp.
I am using it second year.
The oil - any oil, shall lube the 1st stage piston cast iron rings, but shall never reach to second stage high pressure piston composite rings. If does, there will be carbon build up on that piston and eventually degrade the composite ring life.

Ultralight said:

I've always thought that an ideal PCP is one where one can tune power precisely at the drop of a hat without having to turn this or turn that and then chrono over a string. Repeat. Until one gets to the power one wants. This allows one to practice indoors at 10 meters with lightweight target pellets, go to 30 meters outdoors, and then pest control at 100 yards with JSB heavy pellets. With a digital scope like the DNT Zulus, where one can preprogram up to five pellet and speed configurations, one can just use one gun in all scenarios and make adjustments in a couple of minutes.

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This is a bit off topic, but since @Ultralight brought it up and it was his thread to start with . . .

Honestly, if you want that feature, you might find the Huben K1 to be your best shot at it. It is purely mechanical, but the power wheel does an amazingly repeatable switch in power, and again - it is very repeatable. My .22 K1 regulator is set at about 110 bar, and I have in "nominally" to shoot 18.1 grain pellets ~910 fps, and I position the power wheel with a sharpie mark at 12:00 when looking at it with the muzzle pointed up (the wheel can be positioned however you want it, and then tighten the screw locks it down to the wheel with the detents in it). From there a few clicks counter clockwise (to about 9:00) will raise it to about 970 fps. If I go counter clockwise around to 9:00 again (so 3/4 of a turn from the "nominal"position) it will shoot at about 490 FPS, and it can go lower than that if wanted. The amazing thing is that the speed is very repeatable at any given wheel setting, regardless of where it was set before then.

I was so amazed by this that I ran a unique test a few years back - I loaded up an alternating stack of three different pellets - JSB 25.4s, 18.1s, and 15.9 Hades that all shoot well in the gun. I shot the Monsters at ~42 FPE, the 19.1s at ~32 FPE and the Hedes at ~22 FPE, alternating between three targets in that order, adjusting the power wheel for each shot, verifying speed over the chrony, with each pellet weight going to its own target. The result? Three very good tight groups of five, admittedly at different POIs, and all shot in an acceptable velocity spread for each pellet weight.

I don't have the scope you refer to, but I am familiar with them and they would work great with this gun. As it is for mine, I only load up 18.1s now but I do vary the power as needed and have learned the hold over adjustments needed for the lower power situations I shoot in.

I'm not taking anything away from the Daystates here on this, but for this one "trick" I think the Huben just possibly can't be beat - the ability to shift power by a full order of magnitude with no "normalizing shots" in between is incredible. OF course one has to put the work in before hand to know what the results will be, but once known they are repeatable.

I also have a Sidewinder but I find the power wheel in it is a lot more vague than the Huben, which has solid repeatable clicks . . .

Emu said:

See These two shots at 132 yards:

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what caliber were you shooting?

RickH said:

This would have been yesterday but I got a refurbed Crosman 2240 pistol. Put a 12mg co2 cartridge in before I paid for it to make sure it was working but this afternoon the gas had leaked out. I put in another one and fired about 20 rounds. I’ll see if it leaks down tomorrow. Shoots nicely though.

Rick H.

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Turns out it had a leaky valve, replaced in 15 minutes, problem solved.

BriannaHuffx said:

I find it calms my mind and keeps me grounded—loading pellets, steadying the rifle, breathing, focusing. It's a quiet rhythm that helps me reset without too much pressure.

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Hi BriannaHuffx. What air rifle are you using? How far are your targets? I'm just curious since this is your first post here on AGN. You could just start your own thread under "General Discussion" and call it "Another New Member -- Howdy" or whatever you want to call it and put a first post just to say "Hi". Welcome aboard.

stovepipe

Edit: Looks like BriannaHuffx deleted the post I replied to -- either that or it's hidden from me. I don't know.

Hateful McNasty said:

Dont that gamo come with a gamo package scope on it out of the box ?

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It does but no AO or magnification. After reading and learning more, I realized that back in the day when my best bud and I would plink with his old Gamo, the reason we probably couldn’t get it zeroed at all was the scope probably came broken. So I budgeted a scope when I purchased my rifle. If the utg is broken, hopefully I can send it to back to utg for their lifetime warranty and use the Gamo scope as a backup.

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Matt7467 said:

Do you know the OD diameter of your bottle? I have a Huben bottle reg on order for mine. Has been for a couple weeks. Putting one of my .5L CF Tuxing on mine and am planning on getting one that matches the OD bottle diameter, mine is 61.5mm if my memory serves correctly. Waiting to get it mounted to see how much clearance I have, but also been itching to buy one before in hopes it clears the barrel

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I think it was 63 mm ? Are you talking about a bottle band , or a bottle barrel band.?

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