JPB70 said:

Yes, they billed at the time I placed the order.

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That just seems slimy. If it’s something you know you haven’t even made yet and will take months the bill shouldn’t hit the credit card until shipment time. I ordered work boots from Amazon recently. The delivery date wasn’t for like a month. Two weeks in I found them somewhere else and canceled from Amazon. They never billed me as it hadn’t shipped.

That sounds like alot of fun.

johnp said:

I'm having trouble seeing the reticle on my element scope I ordered the illuminated reticle because I was having trouble and I'm still having trouble. Even with or without my glasses on I still can't see it. Can anybody recommend a scope that may help. Thanks in advance

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Which model Element is it?

My second PCP was a Avenger 25 and I still have it. It is tuned for about 50 fpe shooting 34 grain JSB or FX pellets. It would be a great groundhog rifle IMHO. I don't shoot it much, however, because it is so long. But I made a stock for it that fits me recently and may shoot it more. If you like longer guns it would be a reasonable choice.

I like short guns. So I would get a Stoeger Scout or Bullshark. The Bullshark is more but shorter because it's a bullpup. I have one in 22. I do not have a Scout. The Scout or Bullshark should make around 45 fpe and be quite accurate. I've shot a 198 this year with my Bullshark and with my P35-25 on the 30 yard challenge. A bullshark in 25 should be about $450 and a 25 caliber Scout about $350. In my opinion, these are not cheap guns. They are accurate and a pleasure to use. I enjoy shooting them. There are cheaper PCPs but some do not come in 25 caliber and I worry they might not be as enjoyable to shoot. I like reasonably light crisp trigger pull, for instance. These guns will will have a crisp trigger with a little adjustment. Pull weight varies more than I like but they are safe with a pull weight that varies from about half a pound and a pound. They can be adjusted lower but tend to go off on their own if you try for 1/4 lb. Low end guns typically do not have very good triggers making them harder to shoot accurately. The trigger on my Caiman is better and it cocks with less effort and more smoothly too. But it costs 3 times as much. And it is not more accurate.

A handpump at least initially is very reasonable to keep cost down. I handpumped my Prod at first. But hand pumping my Avenger got me to looking at and buying first a compressor and then a bottle. But I shoot lots of targets. If I only pested I think I could be happy hand pumping. It shouldn't need to be done often after initial pellet testing and scope sight in.

I started using those after the little UTG clamps moved in recoil on springers.

Tiny update. received a few days ago. The reaper grip will fit around my RTI P1 tank no problem. The grip has a rubber cover so it’s soft and doesn’t scratch or mar anything. Stability seems ok not perfectly solid like using a bipod and rear bag or my rest. But it’s fine. The head has some play but I assume any thing clamped on end and pressured on the other is going to have some play. Over all not a pretty good for my use. The reaper grip saddles my sandbag perfectly so I’m able to lay my atomic on that.

ordered spares from airgunarcheryfun.
sadly the .30cal conversions were out by that time, would have been nice to get that as well, since i have been casing .30cal slugs for another gun already.

one thought on the reason for the strong wear-out of the lever, is that the .30 and .35 versions have a stronger hammerspring than the smaller calibers, and additionally i have increased the HS tension when experimenting with a max. power tune with the new HP valve. the cocking handle , besides anyway being made from crap material, is just not made for this. would be really nice to get a stable one, but when made from harder material it might grind away other parts of the rifle....

Any member with a .35 cal Karma Red Panda, plz show me your #1 regulator gauge?

Karma indicates that the .35 cal Red Panda has an "wide open" internal #1 regulator.
What does your #1 regulator read in PSI?

Thanks in advance

Rod in San Francisco

Motorhead said:

I think a lot of the eye strain comes from the lighting. As in your open shooting eye is subjected to the ambient light around you, yet your struggling visually at a sight that requires a different degree of eye dilation to view the sighted image naturally & clearly.
As you strain to get focused etc .... your brain is telling your eye/s to do something they naturally are not wanting to do correcting for this light imbalance & thus the fatigue.

Just my take on it

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A good take!

My AA S 410 and AA S200 both are “bolt” cocking. I just use my thumb on the opposite side from the handle and use my fingers as close to the body of the bolt and they both cock nicely.

In response to my question if they were going to cover the return shipping and what does “we will have a check” mean I received this reply:

“we need to check the reason of filling slow. shipping fee will be returned after we received and confirmed.you can pay first. choose the cheapest UPS sevrice.“

So, I have gone through a significant run around while asking many times for a warranty replacement. As of now they still aren’t saying I will receive a warranty replacement. Just willy nilly send unit to this address and apparently hope they reimburse me, with no commitment to what happens next, just they will “check the reason for filling slow”

I would need some answers before just shipping out my GX, and now wondering if I just get a refund. I sent Jason/GX the following reply last night (morning time in China) and as of this morning (night time in China) have not received a reply.

Hi Jason,

1. My shipping fee will definitely be returned after the unit is received, or depends? How is the fee refunded to me?

2. Will I be sent a replacement GX CS4 unit at no charge? Or, are they going to try and repair mine and send back at no charge? Or?

3. What is the turnaround time for receiving a replacement for my defective GX CS4?

4. When will I receive a refund on the burst disks that were not shipped to me?

5. If I decide to just get a refund, how would that work?

- Rick

Yes, .22 is the obvious choice since that caliber will likely make up the majority of sales.

Since this might be (one of) the first Slash videos reviewing the actual performance of the commercially available version, I'm mostly interested in how it is adjusted and how it reacts to adjustments. It's easy to get stuck on the basics of caliber and maximum power. But whether a new airgun is actually useful in different scenarios depends on so many other things.

A good performance review of any caliber, along with a table of max power values in the different calibers, a review of the trigger, comments on the magazines, whether it's easy to adjust power levels. That's the general info which most people want to know, the specific caliber being tested isn't as important if we have an idea of the power spread available in each caliber.

The Slash section at Talontunes indicates that both models of Slash should be in stock there by now. I'm resisting the temptation to call and find out if they have started preparing mine for shipment yet. If they are offering to loan a Slash for a review video I assume that some of them may start shipping soon. Balistas also mentioned in their initial video review of the Slash that they would be posting a performance review soon. So I expect that we'll be seeing some actual test results which should make purchase decision easier.

JP

Mycapt65 said:

That's really good for cheap pellets. Is that measured and is that average or best? I've tried them years ago when they first came out and I was lucky if any gun got 0.4" at 10 yards in the basement at a table. Maybe they've improved?

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I’ve shot multiple groups that are under .5” at 25 yards with the Econ II pellets and my HW30s. It’s also the same for my HW50s. It also loves the Econ II. At ten meters my Walther LG400 also shoots them very well. From a bag rest the Walther will place five shots into one pellet hole at ten meters. It is so much fun to shoot that LG400 from a rest. Now the Finale Match pellets will do better in all my rifles but they cost so much more.

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They must have meant per month or is that per week?

Wow, that’s a very nice collection

Bramezy said:

You have a mighty large task on your hands and I applaud you for taking it on.
Your path sounds like a great one. Hope it works out for you!!

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I’m not in this alone.

ChickenDumpling said:

Well look what showed up ... oh, what have I done to myself. Don't go shopping for bipods ...

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Love how compact and light those krait standards are. Let me know how you like it!

The course is laid out and the strings are run. Everything is ready for you to join us tomorrow morning for the match. Come on out and sling some lead.
Jeff Cloud
ASC FT Match Director

I have found a way that's very effective and very comfortable while still being tethered to a 6.8 cf tank. This is a mockup. The tank bag is mounted under the table; this will allow me to swivel (the seat and table swivel 360 degrees) to each of the windows.

The first semi-automatic I have been interested in. Can't wait to see how it performs.

Rudye said:

Good to know about FX guns. I am pretty good mechanically. My budget is around $2500.

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I only say don't because they're complex and overwhelming to new pcp users. They're great and I love mine but there's a big learning curve. They work out of the box, but they're not tuned up for exactly what you want and you have to wrap your head around the cause and effect of each adjustment and how they all interplay.

I don't want to scare you odd of them, but i dont suggest it as a first jump into the world. The dreamline guns aren't too bad tho.

As the others have said the 20 or 35moa mount will be helpful. If its going to stay on there you can shim it the goal is to get the front lens pointed down to start so you get that elevation back.

Even worse would be to have the cops show up and find me drunk and surrounded by guns and ammo.. especially those cops that consider airguns to be firearms.

Franklink said:

Interesting thing to note here is the very real placebo effect seen by competitive shooters in their preparation.

Personally, Ive found better luck sorting barrels than I have found sorting pellets.

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Real world successes sorta trump Placebo & Dumb luck thinking .... As EVERY major match I've ever won or been on the podium HAVE 100% happened while also addressing skirt roundness by prepping them with tooling shown, which does reinforce the continuing in doing so.

Barrel sorting or test & choose one felt best is ABSOLUTELY a thing !!!

Normkel said:

Can anyone explain why this is amusing? What am I overlooking?

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For me pointed pellets - high fps - over 30y - accuracy = just oxymoronic