Thank you, 700mm is a loooong barrel on crown I was hoping I can getaway with 500

Thanks for the heads up !

Zebra13 said:

6gun,

What kind of shot count are you getting out of your slugger?

Justin

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1 mag at full power, at low power 2 mags. It's another one of my hangups that the gun get 2 mags on a fill usually. I have all the air bottles so I stopped being worried about shot count and focused on noise. They go hand in hand tho.

My crown mkll has a 700mm standard superior liner. Stock hammer and spring. Reg set at 125, power wheel max, transfer port high. I only shoot .217, 25.39 knockouts and it shoots them at 915 fps. I've never had the opportunity to shoot this gun at 100 yards but my farthest wood pile is 67 yd and it will shoot 3/8" groups most days. I don't really shoot groups very often I have a problem with timber tigers here and I can tell you at 67 it's a between the ear and eye kind of gun. I sold a wildcat Mark 3 when I bought this crown and I kept the liner from the wildcat to put i the crown. It's got juju. I hope you can get that lucky

With 5 baffles.

It’s really light.

Chuck-in-Ohio said:

They crammed it full so that it cocked like butter and would address the twang.
A quick fix at best as you found out.

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The crazy thing is they must have spent a fair amount of time on this “super tune”. The piston was honed and nickel plated and is probably the best looking HW piston I have seen. Additionally they ground/polished the spring guide, and re-contoured the piston seal. And added screw cups to the hex head screws I was using in the fore end. So they definitely put some work into it. For some reason Beeman was never able to figure out that a correct fitting spring guide is the way to reduce twang (as evidenced by their Lazer kit).

In any event it still cocks like hot knife thru warm butter and has zero twang thanks to a correctly fitted guide which I subsequently installed

Just found the test results from Beeman after the tune. Doesn’t look too bad.

I may redo the first picture that’s the eyepiece lens cap because it’s a little hard to tell exactly what it is

So I just had a little fun this morning and made myself some custom lasered metal lens caps for my scope.
Since my scope is made in Japan, I figured I would stick with a Japanese samurai design. I thought it turned out pretty good.

I found the listing. Those prices are crazy. Scalping should be against forum policy.

Right on my magic spot with the .177 was 160-120 they’d pack right in.

It's neither a cocking indicator or a SSG of any kind.

I've called it a SSA for the last couple years. Soft Spring Absorber. It simply damps hammer oscillations without adding a pulse of its own prior to the pellet moving.

Mike

Blueduck said:

Hi,

This is for my 9mm Edgun Behemoth. It is 49mm diameter or 1-15/16". The overall length with 5 baffles is 11-1/2". The overall length with 3 baffles is 8-1/8". NOTE: just over an inch of the length fits inside the hand guard. I don't have a scale to weigh it. Hope this helps.

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Thanks! This is a behemoth indeed! It probably weighs corresponding to its size. Appreciate it.

I started with a Gamo Maxxim Gen 2 in .177, back when covid was making us stay home. My experience, and advice FWIW:

- Spend a few bucks on a new scope. The one that came with it isn't very good. Make sure it's springer-capable. Also make sure it actually fits; there's not a lot of clearance between the front of the scope and the top of the gun. Get one that's too long, and it runs into that multishot loader.

- My experience with the multishot loader was mixed at best. Some brands of pellets won't work in the loader; get pinched or fall out. Frustrating. I eventually just took it off and reverted to a single shot.

- This is for all pellet guns; take some time and try different ammo in it. Mine liked the Gamo Red Fire, but they're kind of expensive. It also liked the H&N Field Target Trophy; a brand so well-known that FTT is a semi-well-known abbreviation for it.

- For me personally, I had a heck of a time getting a good cheek weld between me, that gun, and that scope. I had to practically climb on top of the stock. YMMV.

- Search on youtube for adjusting the trigger. It's pretty stiff right out of the box. Adjusting it is pretty simple, the hardest part is finding the screw. Word on the streets is that it's a M2.5-45x10. Get that or a little longer in a grub screw. Make sure to test the gun by whacking it with a mallet or banging it on the ground to make sure you didn't make it too much of a hair trigger.

- Find the absolute lightest pellet you can find. That gun can shoot it past the sound barrier (1100 fps). At least it could shoot a .177 that fast. I know (well, found out) that pellets flying that fast are inaccurate because it's close to the speed of sound (transsonic). But that crack sounds way cool!

I don't shoot it much anymore, because I fell down the rabbit hole and bought a PCP. But when I first got it I shot it so much my shoulder hurt for a couple of weeks from cocking it.

Have fun with it!

I think Motorhead is correct.
Congrats on a sweet rig and I love your passion of Field Target. I feel the same and only wish I knew about it sooner. I ordered a FT Thomas a bit ago and can hardly stand the wait. In the mean time, I'm punishing myself shooting WFTF with a TX200 this season.
Without suffering, there is no joy!

I ruined the first rifle scope I ever bought -- not this century -- 19xx. For some damn reason I wanted to set the crosshair to optical center. I figured if I crank the turrets all the way in one direction and count the clicks to go to all the way in the other direction and back off half the number of clicks, then I'd be there. Finding the edge of internal adjustment didn't just come to a complete and instant stop like I thought it would. It just got harder and harder to rotate the turret. I could never get good groups with that scope. Hmmm... I wonder why?

stovepipe

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Welp... I had to cancel the order that I placed for one of these way back on May 9th. I got a good price from Optics Planet ($349) but over a month later and it still hasn't shipped. They said the manufacturer is backordered. I wonder if Athlon is making changes before sending out a new batch?

Anyway, back to the drawing board for my chronograph. I wish I would have done this sooner, I would have been using a different one already.

Silver Ace said:

Beeman used to sell “Spring Gel” which was a red, somewhat tacky grease. Probably very similar to this. I still have a container of it somewhere. When I sent my R10 to Beeman for a Supertune, they loaded it to the hilt with this stuff. It was very smooth and cocked like butter. Unfortunately after a little while it started dieseling. When i took the gun apart, the grease had migrated all over the place. Not sure why they used so much grease.

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They crammed it full so that it cocked like butter and would address the twang.
A quick fix at best as you found out.