Your videos are helpful for hunters getting scoped no fun would you know if the Tex Rex is coming in a .457 carbine

Its like the endless quest to get more power out of your cars turbo for faster acceleration & more fun.

I'm so glad that got addressed. It looked too far off to be right, and moreover, SAFE! Hope everything functions as it should without the cost of physical harm. I just had a gut feeling it needed to be addressed, like yesterday! Arigato gozaimasu

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Funny story....we used to, as protocol, slide the breathing air cylinders in a 8-10" piece of PVC pipe as a blast shield!!!! It was actually written in the procedure. Like that would make ANY difference in a failure. That dint last long when a couple of us brought it up and we bought a fill station with a true blast drawer.

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“Uh, yes, I would like some PVC shrapnel with my tank failure, please.”

Bear-of-Grayling said:

Most gunsmiths will want to replace all internals. Not being certain of past use or abuse, they have their reputation to protect. If you learn to do it yourself then you can maintain it as you go. With the help and encouragement from other AGN members and videos out there, I found the task of replacing the seals quite straight forward.

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Agree, but I've found a few times on really older airguns (Walther LG55, Anschutz 250 specifically) that the new springs are longer than the older! I just wondered if a spring that had almost never been used, as on this FWB would need replace? Maybe the metal gets less "springy" with time?

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like.2.fly said:

I've been shooting and hunting all my life, but never with airguns. Do you advise starting with a simple break barrel rifle, or jumping right into PCP with all the related paraphernalia?

Main use would be for general plinking and target shooting, marksmanship training, perhaps some small pest control and light hunting. I'm not a competitive shooter, but accuracy is important and would like to be able to consistently achieve 1" groups at 30 - 50 yards with practice. I prefer classic looking rifles over the modern chassis/bullpup/AR styles. I also need back yard friendly noise levels, and this might be the most important thing. It needs to be as QUIET as possible. Cost isn't the biggest concern, but is a factor. I know break barrels are simpler and cheaper. But what is the quietest and most accurate without making a huge commitment?

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Spring guns are especialy harsh and noisy. The pellet is propelled from the gun by a huge spring and cup that slams into the breech port. That makes noise. Of course, most PCP rifles have a much smaller spring that propels a hammer into the knock off valve which also makes noise. A Maruader with the power turned down, the most noise is the hammer. There is very little recoil.

Spring/Nitro guns also have a reverse recoil that will ruin even air gun rated scopes over time. The barrel breaks open to cock the heavy spring, there is wear and tear on the pivot and lock and over time they do not return to the same place. This is a problem when the scope is mounted on the spring tube and the barrel does not maintain rigid alignment.

The little .177 springers that run about 12 fpe can be fun to shoot, but once you get to a .25 and a power level sufficient for hunting small game they become unpleasant to shoot.

There's a common misconception that slow pumping will cause less moisture.
Look at it this way. There's a finite amount of moisture in your air. It's the pressure that causes the water to precipitate out of the air stream. Think the old analogy of squeezing a sponge. Fast or slow makes no difference, just pressure.

Besides even if pumping slowly actually did reduce the precipitation of moisture...guess where that finite amount of moisture in the air would go? Your gun!

You want the moisture to precip out before it goes into the gun.

The only real concern with heat is what it does to the compressor.

Like said above, I have purchased used from AoA and had to replace one and it was a seamless transition with them, a stand up company for sure.

I have a .22 HMX and would opt for a .30 if mainly for 100yds and further like said above . You could also add an external plenum to your .22 and sling heavy slugs for 100yds....

I get water out of mine after a fill. I've opened the filter after a fill and seen...I dunno maybe a 1/4 of a thimble full of water in the bottom.
When I vent the filter a half decent mist comes out.

I've been trying out the new GX filter and it's pretty impressive. It's the real deal. We've had horrible humidity to test it in lately.

I've had one pop off the fitting, totally my fault. It just jumped off without much fanfare at around 200 bar. Microbore don't have much air volume I guess

I bought back in one the mid 60's probably 10 years old it accounted for many birds, frogs and rabbits I still had when in 2009 I had some stuff stored in a old house my brother-in-law owned and we assumed a couple of kids broke in and stole it and some other stuff made me heart sick.

glr59 said:

I've become a big fan of shooting a gun within the parameters of it's design. I've spent way too much over the yrs experimenting with "upgrades." Which leads me to a caliber question. I have a .22 cal HM1000X and would like to toy with a larger caliber. This is for punching paper and accuracy out to 100yards, no hunting. Within the design of a stock HM1000x is it pushing the gun too far with a .30cal? Is the gun going to be happier running with .25cal ammo?

Thanks for the info
Jerry L.

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Go with a 30cal, 25 is very close to what you already have.

Hey thats a nice stock!!! I wonder if that was made by Cocuran ? I like that it covers the hinged block area I too have a second Hw30s in the R7 flavor. Its a .177cal and its scoped. Ver y deadly accurate.Again a Vortek PG4 kit plus it had a full Custom tune by Paul Watts using the sunnen hone to true up the compression chamber. Its shooting 7.3gr jsb pellets at jst over 700fps. &.83gr express at 685fps. 8 ft lb . The 22cal using those no lead GTO Predator domes make 9ft/ lbs .

At one time I was the guy during industrial emergencies who filled tanks and kept the firefighters supplied with air. Never once had a failure. We did a lot of training classes back then and only had witness account videos of, IIRC, two failures. One let go in the cab of a fire truck and one was spray painted and the chemicals in the paint damaged the epoxy and it failed. Don't recall all the details now. But, I've seen some pretty ratty looking tanks still holding air.

Funny story....we used to, as protocol, slide the breathing air cylinders in a 8-10" piece of PVC pipe as a blast shield!!!! It was actually written in the procedure. Like that would make ANY difference in a failure. That dint last long when a couple of us brought it up and we bought a fill station with a true blast drawer.

Fun pistols. All the older Crosman Co2 rifles and pistols are great.

That’s how the GX cs4i operates

Here's mine. It took about 12 weeks to get here. Special order, left hand walnut in .22 from AOA. Incredibly accurate. This is my 2nd 30 in .22. My other is is in a standard stock. Coincidently, last weeks video focussed on the standard HW30 in .22. Let's just say, it performed extremely well. I love my 30s. I currently have 5 of them. That oughta' be enough until something "special" comes along.

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Sorry to poach off your thread... I do not know the settings. However I would be interested in what others setting are at for Leopard 600mm shooting 44gr FX hybrids or Impulse 44gr.

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Well right now I've got FX hybrids 44.5 grain moving 982 fps and that's with the factory tune of regulator being set to 140 and the
micro set to 3.5
macro set to 14 and that's giving me 95 to 96 ft lb of energy with the factory tune I haven't touched the regulator yet or the macro or micro adjustments That's the way it came but enclosed in the pictures is a 78 grain Griffin ammo boat tail hollow point and as you can see at 50 yd into a steel plate this is what it did to it

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If you can get to an airgun show, it is by far the best place to buy used or new. The Hickory NC show is coming up in October.