I have all of the Airgun Letters. I would never sell them. I learned so much from them and still enjoy reading Tom's blog at Pyramid Air.

RabbitofCaerbannog said:

Similar experience with a kill. They KNEW immediately what happened to their buddy. Then another.. they haven't come within 300yards for any reason since. I can wipe out sparrow after sparrow, pigeon after pigeon, starling after starling. They come back to the feed, crows have a bit more sense.. that being said. I'll shoot if they step in the "no fly zones"

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My dog, Riley keeps them on point… The other day i see him barking at the deck doors looking up at the sky. There are six big crows in the black walnut tree. I’m like, dude they’re way up there, “he” is let me out now, I got this… Simply funny, he won’t tolerate them even when he can’t get at them…

Mark.in.AZ said:

2025 Arizona State PCP Field Target Championships & AAFTA Grand Prix
August 15, 16, & 17, 2025 – Mormon Lake, AZ

Location: At milepost 324.5 on Lake Mary Rd – 20 miles south of Flagstaff, or 9/10 mile north of the upper access road to Mormon Lake. The range is on the east side of the road on leased National Forest property. Access through the closed gate (It will be marked), and follow the gravel lane approximately 50 yards, and then bear right to the site. Primitive camping is available for motor home, travel trailer or tent. No electric hookups or water are available on site. A portable-restroom will be available.​

Lodging is available at various motels in Flagstaff, approximately 20 miles north of the shooting venue, or at Mormon Lake Lodge, located about 8 miles south of the shooting venue (www.mormonlakelodge.com). Check Google Maps for area specifics and location.

Match fees are $20.00 for the pistol match and $80.00 for the rifle match for shooters who preregister. Preregistration is requested. Registration can be made online at www.airgunnersofarizona.org/match-registration Pre-registration is open until August 4, 2025. Late registration, or the day of the match will be $30.00 for pistol and $90.00 for rifle per shooter.

Pistol Match will consist of 40 shots on Friday starting 2:00 pm. Sight in range will open at 12:00 pm

Rifle Match will consist of at least 50 shots on Saturday and at least 50 shots on Sunday. Sight in 8:00 am both days. Shooter’s meeting will be 9:15 am and match start time will be 9:30 am, both days. AAFTA rules will govern for all matches.

Lunch will be provided on Saturday after the rifle match is complete. If you require special dietary considerations, please let us know in advance.

Match Awards will be presented on Sunday as soon after the match as possible.

Medals will be awarded 1st through 3rd, per AAFTA PCP class. Arizona state champion medal (AZ resident) will be awarded for each class. Class awards will not be combined.

For more information email or call Match Director, Larry Piercy, at 480.287.1525 or [email protected] with specific questions or concerns.

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NOTE: The correct .pdf link should read; https://www.airgunnersofarizona.org/match-registration-1
Sorry about any confusion - MK

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sure hope i can attend this event!

XSUltimate said:

You just never know what the big guy has in store for us Mark, so I will just say.....maybe
Thx
Dan

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Sounds good to me. Heck, I plan on shooting a FT match when I turn 100. that is, if I can still cock a springer. If not, off to the dark side and drag out one of my PCP's.
Mark

RCope said:

My thinking is that fpe is a proxy for efficiency and correlates directly with accuracy.

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I believe efficiency goes a long way to help accuracy. However good chronograph numbers (including ES &SD) and accuracy aren't directly linked. Barrel fit and believe it or not harmonics also has alot to do with accuracy. I've had pellets with bad chronograph numbers print better than pellets with good ones. 177 H&N FTTs and the old brown box 177 CPLs come to mind.

There are certain pellets that some rifle models usually prefer but every barrel is different and testing is aways required. In general I try to find a pellet that's efficient and accurate. Sometimes the most efficient isnt the most accurate. Then once you figure it all out, you open another tin of the same pellet that printed great and this tin doesn't. The cheaper the pellet the more often that happens.

Edit. Also distance has a great deal to do with pellet selection too. Sometimes your best pellet at 25 yards wont be at 50 yards. Mathematically the groups should only double. In practice they will at least double. Some pellets lose stability at longer ranges. Some pellets have better ballistic coefficients and move less from wind. There's so much to figure out. It's never ending. Frankly I find shooting groups at 50 yards frustrating. Especially with my lower powered 177s. I much prefer plinking at 50-100 yards. That still requires checking your poi on paper at 50 yards.

Field Supply has always packed my pellets and slugs well and have low shipping costs. Their choices are limited, but prices and shipping are good.

EPG said:

Hi PumaCarl,

I was not bleeding off moisture. I did bleed off at 38 minutes (100 bar) - no water came out - perhaps a bit of mist. This was a "full bleed" of the line and I let the compressor sit for 30 minutes. Then I resumed and filled all the way to 320bar without stopping. When I bled the line, water about the size of a silver dollar (smaller than .177 pellet lid) hit the floor. (38 to 177 minutes)

I am familiar with your YH. They throw a massive amount of heat (and noise) compared to this GX-E-5K1 compressor. Also, the 5K1 has an internal filter that removes moisture. My house is air conditioned year round and humidity level is low - especially now in the winter.

Seeking your expertise and adding more info to this thread:

Setup of my Tuxing:

I set up my Tuxing gold as shown in the picture - with the end with the two internal o-rings on the top. I did this because it seemed the other screw on cap end was more "empty" and would serve as a "moisture collector" - if any accumulated.

So, my male disconnect is on the top and my female disconnect is on the bottom.

I can swap it around if you are sure that the end with the o-rings should be on the bottom - please let me know your thoughts...

Additional Info for those interested:

In the pictures below, I show everything that comes with the filter. As I pointed out previously in this thread, I did not use the included hose, I put on a female quick disconnect (10mm - all the Chinese compressor stuff seems to use 10mm threads) and dowty seal (bonded washer).

The little gold filter does NOT come with the big Filter's kit, I just include it for a size comparison - as it was the size filter I used with my GX CS2's when filling air gun cylinders.

I show a close-up of the bonded washer installed (an extra was included with the Tuxing Gold filter). Tuxing pre-installed the male quick disconnect with a bonded washer (I eventually swapped it to the other end for reason mentioned above).

Note that the two screw on ends have a hole in them. You use these to stick in an allen key (or punch) for leverage to tighten/loosen the caps.

Desiccant (silica gel) vs. Molecular Sieve:

The Tuxing Gold filter can be ordered with: (1) Desiccant, (2) Molecular Sieve or (3) both plus carbon.

I chose Molecular Sieve based on the research I did - it seems that it was the media most appropriate for the Use Case that we are trying to achieve - see the red boxes I highlighted regarding effectiveness as temperature increases.


Let me know your thoughts on the filter orientation PumaCarl, and I hope that this information helps AGN members who are contemplating filters for their compressors.

-EPG

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If that's all the moisture you got, and it didn't actually go into your your Molecular Sieve Media (MSM), that's great. With my YH, and it's speed and heat and only 40% humidity, my purges are productive, and I do them every 5 minutes or 500psi gain.

That system to hold your MSM is very nice. I made my own with pvc and orings and use the same stuff your using. For all the reasons your chart shows most people do go the MSM route. Carbon is just for breathing air, or smell. Seeing how you are not using different medias in layers, I would think there is no wrong direction to set yours up. Now that I said that, someone will jump in and correct me if I am wrong. Honestly, I see a lot of leverage on that little fitting coming off the compressor and I believe that's an accident waiting to happen. This is just my opinion and it certainly doesn't mean you are wrong, just that I think that you are taking a chance. I would definitely run your short hose to that small filter (on the right in your picture) first and hook that to the big filter. If you mount this stuff vertically, and do a short purge every 10 minutes, your big filter should never see a drop of water. Mine hasn't. I run all my fill lines vertically, even when, especially when, I am using a hand pump, and I have never had water in my guns. Like I said above, I change the little cotton filter, in the little filter every fill, just to play it safe. Sometimes they might have a little oil or be slightly damp, but that's rare, and either way nothing has made it in to my MSM yet. Check your hoses and fittings with your hands as you are filling. If they are cold, they're leaking. You can never see it, and I know with a YH you can never hear it, but the feeling method always works.

There is a lot of ways to skin this cat. Nice compressor!

Thanks for the advice!

That's why cages have to be rattled. Just spoken to one of the more established "technicians" at SGC, and he knew what the problem was straight away. Exactly as somebody commented earlier.....bent valve pin. I'll keep you updated. Thanks once again everyone.

cmatera said:

You could also place a WTB ad in the Classifieds forum.

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That was my initial endpoint but somehow that's not where it winded up. I'm still figuring out the posting thing.

JohnL57 said:

I'm getting good at taking it apart and putting it back together,lol.......

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LMAO Following closely behind. Probably how everyone started.

A.G.R said:

Yup ,it’s a Timahawk and has baffles in there. .. Tim Mc Murray wasn’t he importer of those guns. they Shoot around 775 to 800 with Ftt

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This was Tim’s last one in .177. I was in his shop getting a R7 and saw it hanging on the wall. Needless to say, i walked out of his shop with two rifles with scopes installed.

Ok thanks

Painless

piframbo said:

trouvée sur ebay.l'idée est bonne.en France je trouve rien.

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Dont worry its world wide shipping

rj.psenica said:

I purchased from them a month ago. No issues and fast shipping!

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I just purchased from them this week and got it in a few days.. They are def good to go IMO.

Steve Milbocker said:

As much as I enjoy shooting iron sights I recently put a scope on my FWB 300 S. Originally I thought I’d just try it for a little while then put the original diopter sight back on. But I’ve learned that it’s a lot more fun to be able to hit tiny targets that I couldn’t even see before with the stock sights. I even moved back to 46 feet, the max I have in my basement. Where I live it’s the only place I have to shoot without going to the club. Makes this wonderfully accurate rifle much more versatile to me. View attachment 542030

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I had the same experience with an HW75 SSP pistol. The scope has been on it to this day, over fifteen years. I guess I'll need another one if I want to shoot open sights.

scottblair said:

… I've missed the relaxing simplicity of SSP's. I've owned several over the years …

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Well said. I‘ve had the 717 and 747, both could out shoot me and I only have one currently, a nice boxed 777 that I don’t shoot much. I have a V10 and like it a lot but drool every time I see a FAS. Maybe one day.

Have had this Walther LP3 for a bit and finally got around to resealing it. 355-360fps with JSB 7.87. Time to go relax for a bit.

Flpanhandler said:

Yes, it shoots fine with it, but you lose air when filling and with the .30 every cu in counts especially when you can’t completely fill the bottle

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Agreed, even more critical losing air with a .35. The $37 I paid Wes for the updated collar was well worth it. Even if not ideal, I'm glad you have a functioning airgun to enjoy until Wes gets everything figured out. Found a second life for those parts, too. Win-Win. WM

scubajeeper said:

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Thanks. OldVet appreciated that. I have it on the way scubajeeper.

Balance of weight should be the factor definition.

With 5 baffles.

mcp said:

Hi, please send us a message with your order # and we'll take care of you. We discovered that we got a batch of stem that's 0.04mm too big on one end. Unfortunately a few valves with the bad stem got out...

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Actually just did! Just ordered a single shot tray for my WFTF rifle.

Interesting, i had never heard about any others doing that. It is the only one that I run at 4,000psi, All of them get filled to 4500psi except the t9. I wish i could shoot in my yard, I would have Karen's calling the po po over gun shots.

Acecaretech said:

That would be a 9L cylinder.

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I will forget that I only use metric for fasteners and questionable activities.