I don't think there are issues with the .22 barrel kits. I have one and did not experience these issues, it worked great right out of the box! I did have an issue with a .30 cal barrel, but that was because someone at the factory used a .25 or .22 cal threaded end adapter! Talk about sizing pellets! But, that was quickly remedied with a new threaded adapter in the correct caliber! I get it, things happen...

My only issue with UA was the fact I specifically asked if they were having any specials for Mother's Day and was told no. The very next day I received an e-mail offering free shipping all weekend for Mother's Day! Had they told me about that special, I'd have waited a day to order! Maybe the guy I spoke with didn't know, I have no idea, but you'd think the staff would know if they were offering any specials that were starting the next day!

Pfddi said:

I did update my rig. I put the laminated stock on it and the PARD Landsat C multispectral scope on it. Now it does both truck work at day and night!

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Siiiick! I thought about it, UA has the stocks for $300 instead of $560

A video I watched said range the target and then use 90% of said distance.
such as a 30 yard target x 90% = 27yards that’s what you would range the
target at.

Update..

I'm 3 or 4 months shy of 3 years with the Ghost.

It's primary role now is 34fpe with the .20/18.9grain NSA slug for prairie dogs and Ultimate Field Target, and general long range precision. I also dial the power down via the wheel and shoot the .20/15.89grain JSB pellets at 29fpe in areas with more down-range fpe concern.

As far as small bore airguns and long range precision go, the Ghost with the .20/18.9grain NSAs is the measuring stick for me. And nothing else that has come through my hands can do what it's capable of.

I haven't counted empties in a bit, but I'd estimate I'm getting close to 20,000 total shots fired out of the Ghost.

As for the negative....
A few months ago I had another valve fail. I'm not sure if that's 4 or 5 total, I've lost count. This one I was able to spin the poppet against the valve seat and make it hold air, but it only lasted for another few weeks and then failed again, irreparably. So, new valve from AOA and the Ghost is back in business. The failure point is that interface between the valve stem and the seat of the valve, as it has been for the previous valve failures.

I'm not sure what's causing the failed valves. I am told that this isn't a common occurrence. First thought is dirty air may be introducing particles....but the same air source is filling 6-7 other PCPs, none of which have had any sort of recurrent leak issues. At 35fpe, I'm also not running a high reg pressure, nor smacking the hell out of the valve. I dunno, but them's the facts.

Despite the frustrating recurrent valve failures, I'm still am impressed with the Ghost, and still plan on using the snot out of it for prairie dogs here in a few months, and for the odd Ultimate Field Target match, when the opportunity arises.

kayaker said:

I talked to him a little bit ago about it, not sure but possible please keep us updated, my state also has a sale tax . If you guys get untouched I may change my mind. I've read your post on Krale btw what cal. did you order ? Good luck

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I ordered a Snowpeak P35X .25 from Krale.

At this point, I've declined the UPS $860 import fee, and gun is on it's way back to Krale. I will update my 'Krale UPS Tariff' thread with the status.

BTW.... Call me crazy , but today I ordered the P35X .25 from Wes with a cheaper price than Krale when shipping is included. He only had two left, so I acted now even before resolution on my Krale P35X issue.

Wes is shipping these from Texas, so no tariff applied.

Troy Bakel said:

I have a 0.30 caliber, 700 mm barrel M3 tuned to shoot 44.8 grain domed FX diabolo pellets out to 60 yards.

At 60 yards outdoors I can put 20 consecutive shots inside a 2" tip to tip diamond target under normal wind conditions.

Indoors at 20 yards my 5 round group sizes are consistently between 0.036" and 0.40" edge to edge.

I tuned the rifle to "group size" Indoors at 20 yards.

Because I was testing 6 different brands/weights of pellets I set my plenum pressure to 120 bar for my heaviest pellet.

I began testing with the following settings: Air valve at 4, Macro at 8, Micro at 3.

I shot two 5 round groups for each pellet then increased the Macro 1 click and repeated.

I continued this process until the Macro was at 16.

I was fortunate that just 1 brand and weight of pellet outperformed the others. I then returned the Macro to the setting that produced the smallest group for that pellet.

I then advanced the Micro 1 click and shot two 5 round groups and continued this process until the Micro was maxed out. I then set the Micro to the setting that produced the best groups.

With the Macro and Micro set, I used a chrono to set the Air Valve. I turned the valve clockwise 1/4 turn, shot a 5 round group and continued this process until velocity just dropped. The rifle will also quiet down a fare amount.

Then I indexed the liner 1/8 turn clockwise, shot a 5 round group and repeated this process until the liner had been rotated 180 degrees. The POI shifts were ridiculous and the group size did NOT change and I was using a Targetshooting.com one piece rest and maintaining the same POA.

Once sighted back in at 20 yards, I took the rifle outdoors and shot groups at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, and 70 yards. Past 60 yards the diabolos would spiral and the groups would open up a fare amount.

This is not the quickest way to tune an Impact but I enjoyed the process very much and learned a lot about my Impact and diabolo pellets.

Hope this helps.

Troy

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Have an m4 never tryed pellets wanted slugs only only piramid sold me a bone stalk pellet platform along with 30slug barrel I’m pissed they say it’s my fault for not getting a fav tune for slugs butt sent me 200 rnds of slugs and tureens and said it’s my fault for not ordering fav tune so now I have pellet rifel that will half to bee tuned pellet shooter will need help there !!! Regards jerry

JungleShooter said:

Ultralight,

what you describe is correct —
and definitely extra, unnecessary work.

If Bngen3 somehow can
▪ click the mag with one hand,
▪ load with the other, and
▪ hold the gun with his third hand —
then I can see that an aftermarket loading gate is not an improvement.

But I shoot out in the field, and I don't have a third hand, nor some kind of tray to hold the gun while my other two hands are busy clicking and loading....

Matthias

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In fact with the stock loading gate, you can load two at a time... I rest the gun in my left hand advancing the cylinder with my thumb... if I *really* didn't like having to advance the wheel once 17 times but instead want to advance it twice eight times, it's possible. If you roll it into position halfway between two chambers and hold it there with your thumb you can pop in two pellets, advance until the next two chambers are exposed etc. But in the end you still have to pick up a pellet and put it in there and I still can only do that one at a time ha ha. I don't like the looks of those aftermarket gates, I would not put one of those on but that's just me.

FLgunner said:

Last Thursday I purchased a 600mm .177 Barrel Kit for my Impact. I purchased from UA because they were the one vendor that showed it in stock. I called to see if they were running any specials for Mother's Day. I was told no. I asked about free shipping because I have read that others have gotten free shipping if they called in their order. Nope, that's usually only for orders over $1000! Well, FX barrel Kits are over priced and down't even come with a magazine, but thankfully, they aren't $1000! So, I hang up and place my order through their website so I can use PayPal 6 months 0 interest. Then Friday morning, I get an e-mail saying they have free shipping all weekend for Mother's Day! What the... Really, their staff didn't know they were offering free shipping the next day and could have told me? I could have easily waited a day if I had known.... Shipping was $19, so I tucked that away and will use another vendor next time.

I received the Barrel Kit on Monday. I installed it and tested it today. Nothing would group and pellets felt as if they were snagging as they were loading into the barrel. At this price point, you'd think you'd get a quality product! Not knowing what was causing this I pulled the barrel and checked the loading end. There was no bevel at all and the angle looked quite sharp. I took a cone shaped grinding wheel and gently grinder a small bevel by hand then polished it and the inside of the bore. I put it back together and cleaned it really well and now it's stacking pellets and they are loading like butter! You know, like they should have to begin with!

A couple weeks ago, I purchased a refurbished Hatsan Flash-R in .177. Yea, I had to fight to get the fill port off the air cylinder because the fill valve was leaking. And, I had to recrown and polish the barrel to get decent groups, but it's shooting small clover leafs at 50 yards now! I had to put some work into it, but it was a $195 refurb, not a brand new $325 FX barrel kit!

Fortunately, the .177 Impact barrel is working fine now, but I still feel at that price, I shouldn't have to rework the bore to get pellets to load smoothly! I feel fortunate to have been hanging around here long enough to actually know what to look for and how to fix it! Thanks Airgun Nation!

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Interesting. I was thinking of buying a .22 500mm barrel kit for my Impact M4 from Utah Airgun... (Bought my M4 from them)

Rod,
Good to know. I got the 1st version gen Red Panda. I have the conversion kit comming in the mail. When I get it I will do more testing with slugs. I just figured with the slower twist rate these barrels have it wouldn't like most slugs.

This listing has been renewed

Copy that. thank you

Also, in my netParcel/Purolator email with tracking, there is no mention of tariff fee that Purolator would need to collect. Of course, this doesn't mean for sure there won't be any,

But in my UPS email with tracking on another item from Krale, Netherlands, there WAS a tariff fee stated.

zerochance said:

If you ever decide to sell your Impact M4, let me know...

But jumping in head first is a dangerous act. I think it's best to have Utah Airgun tune it to whatever you're shooting.
I just bought a Impact M4 Compact in .25. I had Utah Airgun tune it, but I didn't like the tune so I ended up re-tuning it to shoot NSA .29gr slugs at 933 fps. It shoots very well but take it with a grain of salt... I am shooting at 12 yards because that's what I got. 2 inch targets

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Bought the gun at piramid air — they sa it’s my scope hedged on when I ordered it 30 cal BeReal then sold me 200 rounds of 44.5 slugs then tell me I should had it tuned for slugs! My fault go figure if you were a sales man would you think and realize hay this guy 30 peels 30 cal berrall needs a fax tune!!!!!!! Noooo sent me bone stalk rifel anow say it’s my fault for not getting a tune price was no prob——— so went to Utah air an bought fox king 30 cal scope rings,scope tuned to 44.5 slugs wala priamid lost a sale and happy went ther Mary way. They did not handle the customer right salesman dropped the cabbages I’m through with pm air been a customer over 10 plus so that’s my rant spread the word— regards Jerry old blister

kayaker said:

Did you ask Wes on tariff fees ?

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Wes said in an email to us last month that since the order was under $800, no tariff should be applied. But, honestly, I do not know for sure.

Maybe someone else in this thread can comment on this too.

I’m really enjoying my Black Wolf in .22
I just got done building a new magazine for it. The magazine is shooting like a dream, I just need a few thousand shoots to be sure it’s rock solid.

drumie said:

I tried a bunch of different weights and couldn't find any that grouped well enough for me. I turned up the power and got better results but still not what I wanted. PJ at DonnyFL said they had the best results with the 52gr AEA slugs.

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Drumie,
Just my opinion..................
I don't shoot competition. Just club range shooting at 200 yards

Again, just my option....................

One would think that since the RP has won several bench rest competitions, there would be tons of videos and valuable information here on AGN and the internet. However, besides all my AGN RP post and the 2 Youtube videos I made, there is NADA, Nilch, Crickets........

Again, just my opinion............

There has to be a Karma Red Panda "Secret Society" mainly made of pro shooters who are not willing to give up or share there secret tunes. This forces normal shooters like you and me to figure it out on our own.

I just shot my 2000th round today while testing 10 different slugs weights and shapes, 3 different hammer weights and 2 different hammer spring combinations.

I don't want to be a member of the "RP Secret Society" and will gladly tell ALL the AGN members the best .30 cal slug tune I came up with. However, at the moment, I don't want to lead anybody down the wrong path. I still have a few different slug/hammer/spring tunes to play around with.

Yes, I can split playing cards at 200 yards. but I don't its the best tune so far. I hope to post my findings in the very near future. In the mean time, my airgun dealer, "Sunny" at airgundirect.com was instrumental in sourcing these relatively and vaguely mentioned parts from the Karma.. Go ask "Sunny" if you need any RP parts.


Rod in San Francisco "just a guy with an airgun"

Shot my USFT last weekend at its second match as a .20/Hunter class. This was at one of Garrett's monthly matches at Rio Salado. Been quite a while since I've been able to make it to a match at Rio and I was pleasantly surprised at how much character the course had. Lots of overlapping lanes, lots of shooting through passageways through the desert foliage, and generally a challenging course. And of course the wind was screaming, only upping the difficulty factor.

It subjectively felt like quite a few targets out past 45 yards. I do remember a 3/8" kill zone at 22-23 yards that was on the tough side. I was squadded with Garrett and @Camber314 was in the next squad. Sounded like those two were responsible for setting the course and they were chuckling to each other about how close to legal/illegal that 3/8" @ 22-23 yards was. I don't know exact distance, just that I ranged it somewhere in that ballpark. There was also an offhand lane and a kneeling lane.

I missed one of my shots on my very first lane, and realized right there I was going to need to hold off more for the wind than I'm accustomed to needing to do. I had to hold upwind as much as 3-4inches on some, and that's A LOT for a high BC .20 going 805fps. The WFTF guys at 12fpe were telling me they were holding waaayyyy upwind, off the faceplate even. I scored 5/8 on the forced position shots. I think that was 3/4 on kneelers and 2/4 on offhand. And that went towards my final score of 39/48. A couple of my misses were early on, figuring out the wind. Another couple were the forced position lanes, but the last 3 or so missed were from the wind pushing my body around, versus the pellet. One extremely frustrating miss was when I was braced against the wind with my body, only to have the wind die right at the trigger break and the shot of course went the direction I was pushing into the wind. I assumed that total score would put me way down the scorecard for the match but it ended up being the overall match high score. surprisingly. But I suppose we were all shooting the same course in the same wind so "it's all relative."

So that's two matches now where I've shot the USFT as a .20 in Hunter, and have come away with match high score in both of them. I understand that trend won't likely last forever, but, as usual, I can't find any fault with the USFT, and it continues to be my go-to when I'd like to be competitive.

I was able to shoot the 48 shot match on one fill. As a reminder, my USFT is unregulated. I suspect it was the only unregulated gun at the match.

I've found I need some riser height for the offhand shots, to be able to lock the elbow of my non-trigger hand/arm into my hip. So I used the MAC1 riser for this match, as shown in the photo below. At its max, it's right at 5.75" below the center of bore, when fully collapsed, as shown, so I'm legal for Hunter. But it's heavy, considering all that adjustment potential simply isn't needed for Hunter class. So I'm planning on rigging something lighter up for a riser, specifically for the offhand shots. Other than optimizing the riser situation, the only plans I have for any changes for the USFT are to try to find more time to practice.

Sweet gun.

the Zoraki HP-01-02 is the only air pistol that has a pump system like it does
the pistol could be pumped 3 with the short barrel and 4 for the ultra or long barrel but most would stop at 2 pumps because the 3 and 4 pumps are a SOB to do
i looked at Max and they do not show them now but they have been the last state side seller for the last few year

I smile 2X i have twins , Lefty's . one of those to good to pass up deals

Mine is expected Monday, 05/19/2025...