ThomasT said:

Hello everyone,

A beautiful 71 degree blue sky day but just a tad bit too much wind for me to shoot the pistol/carbine at 10-meters so I sat up indoors. Shot several almost identical cards but this one I was able to keep the POI all in the black.

Range: Indoors at 15-feet
Pistol: .22Cal Custom PP-800 R Pistol/Carbine w/full Buck Rail AR Conversion
Scope: UTG Bug Buster 3-9x32
Pellets: AA Accuracy Plus 13.43gr
FPS: 429
FPE: 5.5
Position: Bench w/ TPR Front and rear Bag

ThomasT
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thomasair said:

If your scope was properly aligned to the barrel...it wouldn't do that.

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Vana2 said:

Don't know about the relevance of the red/maple stock to the model, always thought that the stock colors were an option.

My 603 has the "Christmas stock", with red/green/blue laminate. I tell you that as an old guy who strongly likes traditional stocks, preferably in walnut, the stock on the 603 was a real shock to the system! Took me a while to get used to the colors, happy to say that I've become way more tolerant of non-traditional guns and stocks... I even have a couple of tactical rifles!

Attached is a picture of my FWB 603. For reference, the LOP is 13 inches.

Cheers!

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RickH said:

What are your group sizes at 50 yards? How many different types of pellets have you tried? Different types, makes and weights? My suggestion is to get a good group size with just one type of pellet at 50 and zero for the X ring. Then put air pressure back where you started and without changing anything at all, 2 rounds at 50, 75 and 100 and see what group sizes are and point of impact. If it’s still all over the place clean the barrel and make sure all other maintenance is current. Repeat the process in the same wind, temp and humidity conditions, preferably the same time of day. Compare the results and if they are equally bad then something is wrong with the gun. Maybe a loose screw, scope mount, something is wrong. Last year I took my 2078A to a match and a gun that normally gives sub moa groups was all over the place. The barrel needed cleaning, problem solved. If this is a new gun it may just need to have a few hundred shots through it but I don’t think that’s the problem here. It’s either simple or you need to have it serviced.

Rick H.

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Bayward said:

The back story.

I am a newbie to PCP guns. My first one is a Ghost with a Hawke Airmax 30 WA SF scope I have had for a couple months. I am not a serious shooter, rather a backyard duffer/plinker.

My Ghost was grouping pellets like I was a pro shooter for about three tins of pellets. Then one day my groups moved about 1" left and 1" low. Consistently. So I zeroed the scope again and all was good for 50~60 pellets. I was still grouping good but would get a stray every five or six pellets. The stray would be 2" or so off the group. One day my first pellet was 6" low! Later I dry fired the Ghost not realizing my mag was empty. A large puff of vapor came out of the barrel. I am guessing vapor as it looked like thin smoke.

I fill the Ghost using a GX cs4i in my air conditioned shop. Thinking the drier air in the A/C would be good enough without a separate moisture filter. That thinking was apparently wrong.

When I bought into PCP I had planned on using nitrogen to feed the compressor. I modded the compressor so it would accept my nitrogen tank/regulator or use the compressor like it was designed. I did this for when I was filling the Ghost outside in my humid Florida environment. So I emptied the Ghost and refilled it using nitrogen yesterday evening. Went out this afternoon and shot about fifty pellets. Every five shot group was back to what it was when I first got the Ghost. The POI did not move back but tight groups and no strays.

So, for you experienced shooters, was moisture causing my bad groups?

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LW737 said:

I recently purchased an E5K1, which as far as I can tell has the same type water-cooled system as the K2 model. I used the compressor only to fill up my airguns (Umarex .30 Gauntlet and .50 Hammer) never used it to fill tanks. Unit setup was easy, and I thought I'd finally got a compressor that would last. I was impressed with the quick fill times, cool and quiet operation. That lasted a grand total of ONE hour operating time, according to the on-board hour-meter. The water pump stopped working, or would turn off after a few seconds. I could tell water was only circulating intermittently by watching the spinning/stopping of the flow indicator on the side of the compressor.

I'm really starting to question the quality / quality control of Chinese compressors at this point. I started with an Air Venturi Nomad, which lasted until the warranty ran out. This was followed by a Spiritech VE3, which quit working after several months. I was able to get a refund on that through Amazon. Next came a TUDIVING TXEDT032, a water-cooled beast with an engine about the size of a volkswagon beetle. Surely, I thought this would handle filling my guns with ease. Not so. Just after the Amazon 30 day return period expired, it gave up the ghost, refusing to produce more than 3000 psi. After monumental efforts, a refund was issued. Since I'm starting to get paranoid with all these failures, I decided to buy a little TUXING TXET063 4500 PSI digital compressor to use as a backup to the next compressor I set my sights on: the mighty GX-E5-K1... not the monster the K2 is but surely this one could handle my meager requests. By now, I'm starting to think conspiracy theories, that the Chinese are trying to destroy our great nation by sending us faulty air compressors. I'm in the process of returning ANOTHER air compressor. If I've learned one thing it's ALWAYS get the extended warranty!

If it was only me having these compressor problems, it would be one thing. I'm just a relative newcomer to airgunning, with only a couple of years experience and 23 dead coyotes under my belt; I don't know a ton of other airgunners. But I have a buddy whose a fellow airgunner, and he too has run through about 5 or 6 compressors. He has another buddy whose had similiar experiences.

Can anybody shed some light these compressor issues? What do you guys with lots of experience use for your guns? What compressors are the most reliable, having long service life? Thanks so much in advance!

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