Gerry52 said:

What gun, caliber, projectile, speed & yardage please. Lovin' the vids. What editing program do you use?

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Edgun Leshiy 2...600mm barrel...22 cal...980ish FPS. This shot was about 40-50 yds give or take...and THANK YOU! I have more comin...stay tuned!!!

Thanks for the info.

Wow, that is some bad luck. My Yong Heng started filling my one tank much slower so I bought a piston/rod assembly and it just arrived. I will have all my kids and grandkids around for the next several days so I won't get a chance to see if it fixes things for awhile. But I have a GX CS2 to use while the YH is out of commission. It only charges guns and takes roughly 5 minutes to do it but it gives me air. It is portable too, I can run it off a Milwaukee 18V battery or my vehicle. It's a nice back up. It's about $250 delivered from GX.

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Cantona256 said:

Never had either tbh hahaha… don’t mind a bit of cottontail though. Never heard much about the taste of antelope though. The rare comment I’ve heard has not been positive.

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Growing up I ate a lot of antelope that was nasty. Had a buddy suggest I wear gloves and swap every time I touch fur before touching the meat. May have been a coincident but that antelope was finer fare than whitetail deer. My guess is the transfer of sage oil and/or scent glands imparts a nasty taste. Hoping to test my theories on a second speed goat this fall ; )

Star7 said:

Many years ago, my powder burners were just fine and then, I got a chronograph.

The powder burners suddenly became very ill. Not a one gave velocities anywhere close to published numbers.....beware the chrono

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If she is grouping good I'm not gonna fool with it. I'm just using the chrono to see if their is a huge swing in velocities everything seemed to be fairly consistent around 675 fps which is good enough for squirrels. I can see how its easy to go down the rabbit hole lol

Did you grab the one on Utah’s used page ? I would just mess with it in out of the box form and see what results you get. For example I’ve run across a few mavericks where people have jumped right into sticking the slug power kits in but are running a standard superior liner. The slugs that run well in the standard liner very well may have been driven fast enough by the gun in stock form.

Thanks Guys I was wondering if it was just me. I don't do facebook. Mark

Ultralight said:

Ahh....yes. This makes sense. I find that the V1 and V2 lever direction is less prone to this. I don't know why Huben changed the lever direction in V3 onwards. I like the V1 and V2 more.

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@Ultralight Without knowing for sure why the literature suggests loading after filling the reservoir, I am left to conclude that it boils down to safety of avoiding accidental discharge versus convenience and limiting the probability that one will damage their GK1 by slamming the lever down under high pressure.

I replaced my Impact FX Mk2 PP cocking block with a new one after the pin for the lever broke now i find that the cocking rod has come off the brand new cocking block there is also a piece of metal that has come off that looks like its from the thread in the block.

The rod sits loose in the new block after i have fitted it back (after making adjustments for the probe distance).

Is there a way i can fit the rod back so that it does not come off again or do i have to buy a new rod & block?

JEFFPPC said:

Come on man, what red blooded male reads the directions, lol.

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directions are unneeded / rules are . In my state the center line on back roads is thought of as merely a suggestion .

I’ve just got this fat one with half a tail

Got it with the Pathfinder

Mm.
Recently got its big brother...



...and it´s been one WILD ride getting all the quirks out of it. Actually took a decent amount of machining and downright fabrication to get there, but now it´s at least running well.
Shoots well enough (it´s been claimed that these sport LW barrels stock?) but i´ve still got an issue to handle with the regulator no doubt.
First two to three shots always being several hundred fps low.. which of course shows on target.

Great suggestion on the Amazon insurance on the compressor I did end up purchasing. Apparently 100+ have been sold and Amazon was down to 6 when I purchased mine. I also purchased a Professional Grade GX filter.

I had a buddy who shot lead 9mm slugs all the time. I believe he killed a deer with one a gew years back. Unfortunately he has since passed.

Mine is black but yes I did notice that the settings needed to be attended to after the gun sat for a period of time

Having been a Govt. Hunter/trapper for over 25+ yrs, and live trapped several hundred skunks,
the ONLY safe method of removing them with no odor is to live trap or shoot them with nothing larger that a 20/22 cal pellet rifle, thru the LUNGS ONLY, 1 shot ONLY.

If you shoot them in the head they will spray, you hit the backbone they will spray,
I will repeat this warning, 1 shot only, THRU THE LUNGS ONLY.
Leave them alone and they will waddle off a short distance and take a dirt nap,
with no spraying, then you can dispose of them. I leave them over night to stiffen up.

If live trapping them, wrap the live trap with black plastic, leave the wrapping long over the in door, to cover the exit door, cut a small slot to stick the live trap handle thru for easy carrying, after closing up the in door, with the plastic ends.
Transport to a moving ditch, tie a rope ti the handle and slowly lower the live trap under water, till ALL bubbles stop showing, wait a couple minutes, then remove the trap, dig a hole and bury the dead skunk.

If you don't use a moving water, you will soon learn why you use MOVING water,
remember oil and water DON'T mix, oil floats on water...YES they will spray under water
ymmv.

Just pointing out that once somebody post and offers their opinion, you seem to go on and on questioning and quoting what they say in order to keep pushing your opinion forth, almost as if to discount their knowledge and experience... My opinion, I applaud Tim for staking his life in making the USFT better. I like it when people have the balls to quit gushing over a rudimentary implement and iterate to make it better.

JackHughs said:

I have a CS4-i compressor that I use to "top off" 9 liter tanks.

I recently purchased a Tuxing 3 liter tank and used to the CS4-i to fill the tank from empty to 4500 psi in three steps allowing the compressor to cool down between steps. For all practical purposes, this was no harder on the compressor than topping off a 9 liter tank from say 3000 psi to 4500 psi.

The 3 liter Tuxing tank and valve was an excellent purchase at $206.00. It's small, light and easy to handle. I'm getting up in years and carrying a 9 liter tank to the range is getting to be a real challenge.

A three liter tank at 4500 psi is good enough for lower power rifles but is not sufficient for higher fpe rifles. That said, I'd rather carry two 3 liter tanks than one 6.8 or 9 liter tank.

JackHughs

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thank you!

.075 actually sounds high to me. The type of barrel, with or against the wind, barometric pressure , and velocity all affect the bc calcs.
I don't have numbers for you but can measure them here at 3000 ft elevation if needed. In the 20.2 shooting I've done, they were more wind sensitive and had more drop, than the Jumbo Monster Redesign 25.4s , and those compute for me at the 0.051 area pretty consistently.
I'm currently set up only with an LW poly in 22 though. Possibly could drop a 3 groove TJ in for a quick test. Don't have a 6 or 12 groove handy right now...
Bob

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PARD_Tech said:

Color 60 Black and White 30

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yes 60 fps

tommyb said:

Good memory.

I am looking at a few, and plan to buy something before or by end of the year.

GX CS4-I, E5K1 or a Legerro. I have all the pros and cons pretty well analyzed, just need to decide. Not in a huge hurry as long as my Dive Shop stays alive.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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This site is a great resource for choosing a compressor -
I've got several and stories to go with most of them - price isn't a good indicator -

I purchased a set of five compressors that didn't work from a manufacturer - got all five for $150 and a half hour drive - playing with broken toys has always been a hobby and these were $1,700 units new -
Two problems - same for all five compressors - and with a shop, I designed a replacement piece out of aluminum and only one unit had actual piston damage and became the doner for other parts - one broken LCD display, one bad piston, one broken circulating pump, broken wheels - but essentially its a nice little compressor that will fill a 500cc bottle from zero to 300 bar in about three minutes. It will easily run up to 5,000 PSI.

The original design had a plastic part that would crack and leak all the coolant - would be horribly frustrating if I had bought one new - They stopped making this one and hadn't actually done any failure analysis - they were very supprised I got four of them running with some shop time and $30 worth of aluminum.... its a great compressor now - but there were no parts available, no schematic of the assembly and probably every single unit produced eventually had the same failure -

Units that have consistently good reviews after 2-3 years probably have their bugs worked out - as would compressors from any of the major dive compressor manufacturers - but many of the diving compressors are too big to fill a gun directly - a top off would be a few seconds total.

One really odd problem with guns that fill to 300 bar (4300 PSI) and have a larger bottle (mine is 400cc) is that if you shoot down to about 190 bar, even a 45 minute tank at 4,500 PSI will only give you one full fill back to 300 bar - so I really did want an intermediate sized compressor - able to fill larger bottles for other folks or direct fill my rifle (a top off is a little over a minute). I'm settled on just doing direct fills for now.

Do make sure that you have a good moisture trap/filter - many small compressors will have a "filter" on the fill hose - this is just a little rayon filter that collects some of the moisture but is not sufficient to protect your gear. Better compressors include a filter that has a pressure building regulator so the air actually stays in the filter long enough to be filtered properly.

If the compressor doesn't have one, budget $200 to purchase one as an add on - I use the same filter on both the shop and field compressors - just move it as needed - connects via foster fittings.

Tanks make perfect sense if you are doing 200 or even 250 bar fills.

Gx cs2 that is over 1.5 years old and going great. Parts are available and they are super easy to work on. I recently replaced the low pressure piston ring on mine even though it really didn’t seem to need it. I’ve run it many times through a larger sized tuxing filter for 15 min fills on a 500cc 300 bar tank. Takes it in stride.

The only other thing I’ve had to do was replace the fill hose. It ended up getting a small hole in it.