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AirMaks Arms  Krait slow first shots after sitting a few days

MACTEN
dens228 said:
My Krait was doing great, consistent and accurate. Several weeks back I lowered the spring tension which actually added FPS and made the rifle much more quiet. Quiet was what I was looking for as the gun sounded like the hammer was striking harder than it needed, which turned out to be true. Now for the last week the gun shoots quite a bit slower for the first several shots and settles back in where it should be.
The thing I noticed as I keep an eye on it is that the reg is very consistent and returns to the same pressure after each shot, it's also on the correct pressure before that first shot.
This has me thinking,..........hammer spring tension.
Maybe I lowered it too much to overcome any setting in after sitting a few days??
Thoughts before I start messing with it.
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It's likely regulator creep. As the pressure rises in the plenum the hammer can't open it as far and the first shot or two will be slower. Common problem with regulators. Do you have the Huma regulated Krait? I haven't noticed creep in mine so far. Also if you are having to lower spring tension to get higher PSI shots, your spring was adjusted too far in to begin with. A good tune is to find the highest fps you can get with the spring and then back it off to 3-5% below that number to have good shot count and still be consistent. And if you don't have a digital gauge for the regulator pressure you don't really know if the reg increased or not. My airmaks gauge seemed accurate until I threw a huma 25mm on there.
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Krait low speed for first shots after sitting a few days

J
I have not seen that sort of regulator, my huma has a simple straight blade screwdriver head on it. It sounds like you need to decrease velocity significantly over 5% and if that is true I agree you need to decrease the regulator. I was thinking of it before I got good results at about 900 fps. My peak velocity was about 940 fps so I am at less than 5% under. I was still getting low first shot velocity when I was 5% under. I don't know anything about the Krait layout. To change the regulator on my Caiman you essentially have to take the regulator out of the gun. It is not terribly difficult, fortunately, but it is nothing like the external adjustment of my Avenger.
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N/A  Olympic Form

B
graycrait said:
Where are there ISSF related shooting clubs in the US? I was an ROTC university instructor in the late 80s for a short while in MN before I was pulled out to go to Desert Storm. I did ROTC as a prior service cadet in Iowa in the late 70s. I never heard of a rifle or pistol team at either place. Maybe the pool of prospective youth shooters exposed to the sport is pretty small compared to what the Euro and Asian countries have at hand.
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There are about 8000-10,000 kids that shoot competitive in HS each year. Most are a part of a JROTC program. Others thru a private club. The CMP is a big part of this and do a lot to support it. USA Shooting Sports supports it to some extent (Jr Olympics, etc). There really is a big underworld of ISSF shooting sports going on under the radar. If my daughter hadn’t been in the right school at the right time I wouldn’t have know it existed. It does exist but gets no publicity unless you belong to the CMP or USA Shooting and get emails of the latest news. CMP has done a terrific job of promoting and growing the sport. It’s mainly focused on HS and college kids. For example my daughter shoots NCAA rifle in college. There are a number of big name colleges that have a NCAA rifle team. Did you know that? Almost nobody knows that unless their kid is on the team. The TCU Women‘s Rifle Team won the NCAA Championship last year. Most shooters had no clue. No publicity. Sad because we have some amazing kids doing some amazing shooting and nobody knows about it.
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Any YouTube channels?

manabeknives
I am mainly a benchrest shooter, but lets face the truth..benchrest videos are boring!
Most videos just show people on benches..a glance at their targets and final results.
I look down the line to see what equipment people are using..but there is seldom any discussion.
for people just starting out, i would recommend "Air Ability" . He's informative and direct and loves to sport

more that i like;
I'd love to see Ted Biers do some more vids. I don't even care what he's reviewing..they are great vids
I like being entertained by Giles(Airgun Gear Show)..he makes me laugh while reviewing ...and he's has a great selction of videos on his Airguns 101 website
AEAC (airgun exploration & Advancement channel) has very good tuning videos on a variety of rifles
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Snowpeak  Artemis PP800R - How do I reduce to ~500 fps and tune for more shots?

Hateful McNasty
Maybe a lead to look up nubnles stuff or contact

Tuning the Snowpeak PP800R

Thanks Paul, I'll start with the new spring and go from there... I'll give @Nubble a shout and see if he can help on that score. I keep looking at the thing and growling. I know it's got plenty of potential but I didn't expect to be this inconsistent out of the box. :confused:
airgunforums.co.uk airgunforums.co.uk
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Daystate  Daystate Delta Wolf trigger problem, please help.

Emu
Solo1 said:
Well its either dirty or the micro switch is bad. Either send it back to where you got it or ask them for a new micro switch would be best to return for repair as you would be out of warranty working on it yourself
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Thanks a lot.

Apparently the last "negotiation" brought an "agreement".... Seem to be "adjusted" as I wanted.

If it becomes stiff again, then I will follow your advice.

Thanks a lot Solo1 !
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Air Tanks for Sale pressure guage

HogKiller
Brian10956 said:
It’s definitely not a 1/4 npt even a 1/8 npt is too large it pro a metric size. I’m still waiting for Joe’s team to reply to email I sent on Saturday maybe they are off on weekends but hopefully I hear from them soon.
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It could be a British size, I want to say BSP 1/8, they are slightly different. They are REALLY close to NPT but....not the same....obviously. I've had a great conversation with them at Airtanks, just call them up. They have a killer ground squirrel setup, literally and figuratively.
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HW/Weihrauch  HW 44 Laser?

daddypaddy
MRaccurate said:
The laser visualizes the amount of movement of the rifle on the target. The scope or reddot "sight radius" is too short to indicate visual instability detail. I shoot my rifles at short range with lasers while looking over the scope. I prefer pistols for <30 yards and I don't look down the barrel. There is no need to look down the barrel if you can see where your equipment is pointed. There is a lot more data about this, if you have an interest. If not, at least have a good day and keep shooting! Brad
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exactly why i put a laser on my notos. pinpoint accuracy up to 25 yards! i like seeing the pellet flash into the laser beam at night too. looks like a laser gun!
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Taipan  Well, I've gone and done it...

MushroomPsyche
I re-tuned the .22 Veteran a couple of nights ago. I've always wanted to tune the Hades 15.89gr below 900 FPS but when the .22 was my only gun, for some reason, I just wanted it to stay at least 30 FPE. Arbitrary, I know... but here we are. Also, not that I was having i accuracy issues shooting them at 915 FPS, but I also want to reduce the FPE since this is my backyard varmint rifle. Now that I have the .25 Veteran, I don't feel as compelled to keep the .22 at a certain FPE.

I pulled out the Huma reg to change it. The last time I changed it, I didn't have a reg tester yet and I set it according to the sticker indicator on the side. I know the sticker is not accurate but I had to go by something. Sure enough, what I thought was 95 bars according to the sticker is actually 105 bars. From my testings previously, I set the regulator to 88 bars to achieve the velocities I was after. At this regulator setting, the highest velocity possible was 900 FPS. I then adjusted the hammer spring tension to achieve 883 FPS average.
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