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crowski · Friday at 6:20 AM

Just did an order with Chambers on Sunday.
Just yesterday, I used to admire and be envious of your prices in the US. Wow what a flip.
I wanted one more rifle from AoA. Not sure if it would be tariffed. Already pricey, but with tariff, just not worth it.
This is disastrous. You have a battle on your hands. I hope it works out for you. Crow

cavedweller · Friday at 6:07 AM

cavedweller said:
Science matters:

Effects of lead from ammunition on birds and other wildlife: A review and update - PMC

Poisoning of wild birds following ingestion of lead from ammunition has long been recognised and considerable recent research has focused on terrestrial birds, including raptors and scavengers. This paper builds upon previous reviews and finds that ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Effects of lead on wildlife and wildfowl - Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

www.gwct.org.uk

Mapping the spatio-temporal risk of lead exposure in apex species for more effective mitigation - PMC

Effective mitigation of the risks posed by environmental contaminants for ecosystem integrity and human health requires knowing their sources and spatio-temporal distribution. We analysed the exposure to lead (Pb) in griffon vulture Gyps fulvus—an ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Katzner_lead%20poisoning%20of%20wildlife%20-%20short.pdf

the last link is the most interesting to me.

cavedweller · Friday at 6:02 AM

Bigragu said:
Hey all, I recently tidied up my work bench to make it a dedicated pcp/gun work station and would like some ideas on a flap open window opening on the screen. Over the years here on AGN I’ve seen some genius designs but never saved any pics. If you don’t mind sharing some designs I’d like to benefit from you all’s ideas that have made trick flap or slide open window openings preferably on the screen side
Thanks a bunch, as always

Pics of my work bench:
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outside and inside... dont shoot the window! notice the hole lower right corner of the window = from a trainee :{

Vana2 · Friday at 6:01 AM

Normkel said:
I leave my probes in the guns, and use plastic or rubber line caps. FWIWView attachment 584533 View attachment 584534

Does anyone else hate the tiny DRS probe?

Nah, the DRS probe is ok for me. It's similar to the Weihrauch HW100/HW110/HW44 probe that I'm used to.

If you want to see a really bulky, awkward and bizarre fill system, check out the one for the Air Arms S510...

cavedweller · Friday at 5:59 AM

Leatherman said:
I’m surprised that no one brought up Californias lead bullet ban mostly based on their state bird ( Condor) supposedly being poisoned from injesting lead bullets from game animals shot with lead bullets. This no doubt caused many to believe humans could also be poisoned by eating a game animal that had been shot with lead bullets. They must have forgot how our forefathers fed their familys with game shot with lead bullets. Law makers must have believed these ridiculous accusations. Now I question the results of testing done on the Condors found dead whether it was indeed lead poisoning or by eating pest animals that had been poisoned . A problem that has always been a Factor and is in the news today in California with high levels of these poisons found in carnivores and wild pigs lately despite bans on these poisons in most cases. I hunted in South Africa a few years ago and noticed a complete absence of vultures as seen on TV shows cleaning up after lion kills. I was told they had mostly been wiped out by the farmers / sheep ranchers illegaly poisoning the Jackels and Carakal cats which the vultures then fed on and also died.
Illegal Wide spread use of poisons in California and other states on pest animals is the problem yet the anti gun and anti hunting crowd had made lead to be this super toxic poison that if injested will kill you. I too grew up carying pellets in my mouth and spitting bird shot in my plate at dinner . I had no Ill effects that I know of but who knows maybe if I hadn’t put those pellets in my mouth I could have been a better student in school and gone on to be an engineer or doctor. Nawww.

Science matters:

Effects of lead from ammunition on birds and other wildlife: A review and update - PMC

Poisoning of wild birds following ingestion of lead from ammunition has long been recognised and considerable recent research has focused on terrestrial birds, including raptors and scavengers. This paper builds upon previous reviews and finds that ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Effects of lead on wildlife and wildfowl - Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

www.gwct.org.uk

Mapping the spatio-temporal risk of lead exposure in apex species for more effective mitigation - PMC

Effective mitigation of the risks posed by environmental contaminants for ecosystem integrity and human health requires knowing their sources and spatio-temporal distribution. We analysed the exposure to lead (Pb) in griffon vulture Gyps fulvus—an ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Katzner_lead%20poisoning%20of%20wildlife%20-%20short.pdf

MrP · Friday at 5:54 AM

airgunmike56 said:
How about a POS to load, How about the only 25 caliber pellet I found that would not jam is the GTO pellet,

Kraz cool has had these out for a pretty long time just a FYI ( Large safety trigger)
Mike

You might have a defective gun because I have not had any jams with my .25 that weren't my own fault. I'm throwing all kinds of things in there including my own cast 40 and 50 grain slugs. Not sure what's going on with your gun but something is up. Have you sent it into Kelly?

TurboQ · Friday at 5:54 AM

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cavedweller · Friday at 5:53 AM

blam62 said:
Soren. Are you seeing any variations in your zero due to temperature? I find my zero changes from day to day. Lately we have had some significant temp swings. It’s not my scope. The Ghost is doing it with several different scopes.

@blam62 - did you ever sort out "why" on the zero changes?

Patrick1 · Friday at 5:34 AM

This listing has been renewed

BriarpatchMtn · Friday at 5:25 AM

OMG. Sorry to hear this. That's a beautiful gun, really hope it gets found. I'd be sick over it and would probably have serious difficulty keeping a civil tongue with the call center run around.
Have a lost barrel floating around somewhere where. Disappeared immediately after USPS picked it up a month ago. Totally stonewalled on the tracking, even local post office couldn't find out anything. Thankfully was a warranty replacement and company is going to get another one, but first one took months.
Have a dropbox at end of my 1/2 mile mountain driveway because it's narrow, a little rough, not much turnaround room at the house, and I have dogs. Box is clearly labeled UPS/Fedex Dropbox, with my address. Yet every Fedex driver comes to the house, several have complained about difficulty reaching it, and had to pull one young idiot out of a ditch with my tractor after he back into it.
Call centers act like lost packages aren't a big deal, follow their scripts, blah, blah, blah. No consideration of how they themselves would feeling if it were their package with a valuable, or irreplaceable item that was lost.

Bear-of-Grayling · Friday at 5:16 AM

Are we all aboard the Titanic and complaining that the lifeboats don’t have cup holders?

stovepipe · Friday at 5:13 AM

grzech2005 said:
do you have some pictures?

Here is a pic of my Maverick using the carbon fiber tube and scope ring idea.

stovepipe

Bigragu · Friday at 4:52 AM

Mike, well, I know you can draw like a winner, so sketch me your thoughts. I’m a visual guy, you know

Tricky-Dicky · Friday at 4:36 AM

Interesting, can't really comment either ways as to my thinking at the sorts of pressures used I am not sure how much flow comes into it, but it must for some of the aperture modifications made to have an observable effect, I too opened out the poppet aperture to 1mm, and I have noticed a decrease in shot to shot air use but nothing else, and will be getting another poppet so I can experiment further with a larger aperture, which also says that the size of the hole does matter, and while I used to know my airflow characteristics when tuning cars I am, not sure about the high pressure stuff, but its people like us who are prepared to take the risk and try this stuff that make gun tuning interesting, so well done for being adventurous.

Shooter22 · Friday at 4:22 AM

North Eastern England here

Hi everyone.

airgunfans · Friday at 4:06 AM

In my attempt to remove the other cap, I made a wooden fixture to hold the cylinder body as shown in the photo. The cylinder is glued to the fixture with 5-minute epoxy . It did take quite a bit of torque to break the cap loose but once that is done, the cap can be screwed out by hand smoothly. The threads are in perfect shape. To remove the fixture from the cylinder , a locking plier was used to tear away the wood bit by bit. The epoxy can stand very high shear stress which makes it ideal for this application but the glue is not very strong when it comes to tensile stress so this part is easy. I am glad that I have used a cheap particle board to make the fixture or tearing it down would not have been as easy as it was. Now it's just a matter of replacing the O rings to get back to business

steve-l · Friday at 4:05 AM

Carbon fiber wrapped tanks are actually aluminum and wrapped in CF. Fatigue is what kills HPA tanks regardless of material. Every time a tank is filled, it expands then it contracts on discharge. There is always a fatigue limit before failure occurs, hence, a use time limit. Aluminum has a lower fatigue limit than steel. Adding a CF wraps reduces the expansion and along with that strength and effective life, especially with aluminum. Another cause of failure is water. Water causes corrosion. This can be detected with the use of a borescope. a periodic proof test overpressures the wank with water and the rate of swelling is then measured against a safety standard, but this test is NOT a definitive test with CF wrapped aluminum tanks.. Enforcement of these use rules fall on the shoulders of the guy filling the tank. If that is is you, you need to pay attention and inspect your own tanks. HPA is dangerous, please pay attention and take appropriate precautions.

tommyb · Friday at 4:00 AM

manabeknives said:
I had a package shipped to me via Fed-Ex.
The package went into the hub at City of Industry but never left.
Filing a claim is nearly worthless since calling them gets you to a call center where they read off scripted responses to get you off the line. Most of what they told me was false information…like the package is on the way or the trailer that the package is on hasn’t been unloaded.
No help from them whatsoever
here is a picture of the rifle that was ”Lost”…It is a RAW HM1000X serial number 500. Has a heavy bull barrel made of stainless steel. Does not have a scope on it.
If anyone by chance sees it, please respond to the thread and I will get in touch with you
Thanks All…I hope we can get it back
Mike Manabe
Edit .I have contacted the stores in the area- Top Gun - Edgun West and Airguns of Arizona to be on the lookout
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Mike

Given you have a tracking number, you need to find someone in Fed-Ex Management to ‘escalate’ this lost expensive RAW package. Easier said than done, I know.

Any chance you can contact the Fed-ex Hub location directly where it was presumably lost? Alternatively, is there anyone in your local Fed-Ex area that you can talk with directly to try and have ‘them’ investigate on your behalf? I have a local UPS store and ship stuff out all the time, as well as I often receive AG and accessories. The Manager knows the inside and out of internal UPS shipping. You really need a Fed-ex advocate ( Manager) to try and assist.

I doubt it was stolen. It’s lost somewhere hopefully. The Call Centers are terrible and will hardly ever escalate to their Supervisors. Won’t even get started here.

Keep us posted.

EPG · Friday at 3:47 AM

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tommyb · Friday at 3:09 AM

It would be interesting to see what ammo was used by each participant heading into the final round? I’m guessing not many ( if any?) were shooting pellets given the stellar reputation and performance of .40g slugs In .22 airguns.

Just a side observation…

I don’t own a slug capable .22 air rifle ( pellets only ), but I shoot a fair amount of N50 yard practice cards with good quality .22 caliber JTS and AEA pellets, and the heavier .40g slugs are just too good at 50y or 50M Vs. pellets. For that matter, this is also true at 100Y and beyond.

It’s nice to be participating in a hobby that has a great slug ammo solution for 50, 100Y ( and beyond) shooting disciplines, other than just using pellets.

Just fo illustrate an example of slugs vs. Pellets. Zoom in to the top of the 40Y Masters Leaderboard.

Mike’s Slug gun shooting .38g slugs, 200-19X, shooting 40 Yards outside at a .125” minuscule 10 ring. First ever 40Y Masters 200 score since the thread started in Feb 2022.

I know it’s not 50Y/50M, but it does factually illustrate the slug advantage, to me anyway.

Also, check out the 55Y 198-13X score with .38g slugs.

mamuka222 · Friday at 3:07 AM

Hey everyone,

I recently picked up the new **Nautilus Gen 2 1x30 red dot optic (https://vector2007.com/products/scrd-26ii-nautilus-1x30-red-dot-sight-1?_pos=2&_sid=2b9b7f327&_ss=r) and wanted to share my first impressions after some initial range time.

**What I like so far:**
- **Smooth zoom and reticle response:** The magnification ring is firm but fluid, and the reticle stays crisp even under recoil.
- **Excellent daylight clarity:** The image is bright and high-contrast, making it easy to pick up targets quickly.

**Things I’ve noticed:**
- There’s a brief moment after recoil before the image fully settles at high magnification — could just be a quirk of the optic’s design.
- At max power, there’s a hint of edge distortion, nothing major but worth noting for precision shooters.

**Testing so far:**
- Tried it in bright midday sun and during low light — both performed well, with the illumination making a real difference at dusk.
- Planning to run it through some longer sessions and maybe a competition setup to see how it holds up under extended use. also i have noticed that during adjustment (up an low) you should be more carful not to damage contacts which are mounted on iternal tube.

**Overall:**
It’s shaping up to be a solid performer — versatile, clear, and user-friendly. I’m curious to hear from anyone else who’s running the Gen 2 1–30, especially if you’ve compared it to the Gen 1 or other high-magnification LPVOs.

Feel free to ask questions or share your own experiences!

Max115 · Friday at 3:03 AM

@gojoe. Have fun with your new toy.

Alrizzo · Friday at 3:00 AM

If you call TopGun Airguns, I’d recommend talking to anyone except Ricky. In my experience, he just wasn’t helpful, had an attitude, and even refused to honor the price listed on their own website for the Panthera Hunter Compact — instead saying it would be approximately $150 more. Really disappointing. In the end, my $2,900 purchase of rifle and accessories went to Utah Airguns instead.

JaketheMeatGOD · Friday at 2:29 AM

Racing said:
I´ve got limited experience with the 100 and 110 but the little i´ve seen and shot them, there´snone the less a rather vast difference in hang tag vs the Steyr - and for better for worse for a reason.

But as you bring it up let´s dwell on it a bit.
I´ve been through my fair share of pcp´s by now and from what i´ve seen and experienced... i mean the imperative part here is power and accuracy really. Power sans accuracy in turn is rather pointless in my opinion.
But.
Does that elevated hang tag bring that much more performance by default?
For better for worse i´ll have to say no and especially so if you´re not all thumbs.

For instance. As much as i come down on Hatsan, and have done over the years - certainly no fan boy, truth of the matter is that one of the most accurate pcp´s i´ve ever owned and worked was a Hatsan Nova in 22cal. Still got a pic of a 10m intl target shot at.. was it 33 meters? A full mag, 10 shots, ripping the center out at the note of a max opening of 6.8mm i believe it was.
In other words a semi cheap pcp really, which in my book goes to show that.. well.. albeit many more expensive pcp is for a reason but hand on heart... is there really THAT much difference at the end of the day when we´re talking downright performance (read - power n accuracy).? (That Nova btw was souped up to the level of approx 90J and main fudder was JSB slugs.)
I guess most would reply yes to that one and be that as it may i TO A POINT beg to differ.

Now.
This Steyr is no doubt off of the "plush" tier and i guess it shows just looking at it, handling both the design and the parts. Yes. It is of very high quality. Does it shoot as well?
In a word yes. Yes it does, but then again i´d say that´s to be expected for a pcp this price range. The HW-100 and 110.. i mean.. the Steyr is almost three times as much.
Would i have bought this Steyr hadn´t i run into it by chance? No. No i would not. Having owned Impacts, Crowns, Daystates, AA and what have you not over the years.... i´d wager to say there´s pros n cons to basically all brands.
Does this Steyr trumph say my old M3? Nah. Not really. Craftsmanship, for instance on the stock, on the Steyr is however no doubt a couple of climbs up the ladder vs the FX units. Pure performance though.. that´s to be debated as you´ll be aware from this thread.

I guess what i´m saying is that I for one am about value for money. I honestly don´t care what it says on the box (or stock for that matter) a good quality pcp is a good quality pcp no matter where it´s been produced.

To be honest I find that sorts of the name of the game, and here the various forums is of both value and importance as i see it as we get to compare notes, which we ALL benefit from.

I would say a fair price for this airgun would be around 1700$ new, the quality is superb, it looks great like a proper dependable rifle and I'm a Big fan, but it's hard to pay Bugatti prices to an ultra high quality Volkswagen.

stovepipe · Friday at 2:03 AM

etothen said:
Something I don't understand, if my plenum is open to the bottle why does it not degas when take the bottle off? And the remaining gas does not come out when I dry fire the gun, it remains under pressure and shoots extremely slowly even though the plenum is showing 170 bar reg pressure? Like the hammer cant bang the plenum open enough to get the gas out and it will keep doing that for about five shots that then follow a speed curve with the fastest shot at shout four and then it finally degasses like it should. The high pressure making it so the hammer cant open the valve enough seems to fit with the multiple degas shots but with the plenum open to the bottle why does the plenum start loosing pressure when I remove the bottle. I let it sit like that for an hour and it did not move, stayed rock solid at 150 at the time.

I just really wish I knew what I was looking for before I pull the whole reg so I have a better idea of what I am looking for. I prefer to do the research once so I only have to take everything apart the once but I have not been able to figure out a logical point of failure that would give this set of, for lack of a better word, symptoms.

Hi etothen. I have questions for you. There are pieces of information missing from what you've described that I need to help diagnose the problem.
First of all, are you sure you have an FX AMP regulator in that impact? If it's a HUMA regulator, then I can't help.

Assuming that it's an FX AMP regulator:

There are places where you mention what the plenum pressure was, but you do not mention what the tank pressure was.
For example, you said you increased the regulator pressure and the plenum pressure jumped up to 150 bar, but you didn't say what the tank pressure was at that time. If the tank pressure was also 150 bar at that time, then you may have actually set the regulator to some unknown amount above 150, but that's all the tank had in it at the time. If that was the case, then the regulator was doing exactly what it should do.
Another example is where you say the plenum pressure was 170 bar, but you didn't say what the tank pressure was at the time. If the tank pressure was, for example, at 200 bar, then that would indicate that the regulator is set to 170 bar and the regulator is doing what it's supposed to do.

Your observation that a high plenum pressure and a weak hammer setting is normal in that it would take several dry fires to finally drop the plenum pressure enough below the regulator set pressure to allow the piston to back away from the tiny hole in the end of the set screw and let air from the plenum to escape out to where the bottle connects to. This is normal behavior for an AMP regulator.

Your observation that when you removed the bottle tank, the plenum pressure didn't bleed out right away -- it required dry firing to drop the plenum pressure below the pressure that the regulator was set for. This is normal behavior for an FX AMP regulator.

Initially you said that you thought you were having a similar problem to that of the original poster, but this doesn't sound like the same symptoms. So far it sounds like your regulator is working as it should.

I did say that, IF the only problem with an FX AMP regulator was bad set screw O-rings, then you could bleed the air from the rifle and remove the set screw and replace just those two O-rings and re-install the set screw to fix the problem without needing to remove the entire regulator housing -- and that is STILL true. But I'm not saying there is anything wrong with your set screw O-rings -- so far, I just don't have proof that the O-rings are bad.

If you have more info that would help with a diagnosis, let us know. Cheers.

stovepipe

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