Susie was a stay home mother before she started out in her career. Married in 89 and had our first son in 97. Our 3rd son came as a surprise blessing when she was 47! We have catching up to do with our retirement so we can retire comfortably. We made a lot of sacrifice for our family and absolutely no regrets.
If you don't want to raise them don't have them.
Nash is in red in my avatar above. He is 19 now and a mechanical engineering student. We're going to my family farm with a group of his friends tomorrow to swim and fish in the 4 acre pond. Cook out by campfire and run around. Maybe go down to the creek and goof around. Some of the kids will want to shoot an R7 I'm bringing along. They always like that. Probably shoot a Crosman 150. Most kids can hit a soda can or water bottle with it.
Great kids and it's a privilege to hang out with them. They say I don't act like I'm in my 60's. I don't feel like it either.
I enjoy sharing marriage and fatherhood and family tradition with young people as much as anything. If we don't pass along these traditions we won't have gun sports. This is the foundation for what we do. Or there won't be anybody to hand our Theobens off to some day. They won't need any seals anymore

How heavy of a firearm and what scope?

Generally yes the recoil of a firearm is fine with airgun scopes. But I wouldn't put a precious scope on a 338LM or a 300 Win Mag hunting rifle without doing a little more specific homework.

Hunter25 said:

He is probably right. Maybe they just got a truck load of guns and Newman buck got the used guns. I think the parts did go back.

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What a shame!

Welcome. I'm 50 with 22 years' experience. When you get older the age of OLD gets higher. 80 looks old to me now but in four or five years 85 or 90 will look old. Be Well, Bandito.

MongooseV8 said:

Since that is a pretty standard weight in 25Cal, I would start at about ~150Bar on your first reg, and about ~110Bar on your second reg. That should get you into the 900s-fps, and then tune up from there. Main idea is to keep your hammer system strikes in range of your reg settings. You want about a 40Bar spread between your regs if you can to help with quicker plenum fills. Most people hit a differential ceiling though when using slugs so that number shrinks down closer to 20Bar. Something to consider is you may not need the extra twist rate of the slug liner with those 26g slugs. Most of the standard STX liners do well with light for caliber slugs.

My FXs in 500mm 25Cal seem to shoot Hades pellets at about 100Bar in the 860fps range, for a point of reference. Your barrel length will really help you, as I get like another 100-200fps in my 700mm 25Cal same reg settings. You shouldnt need to go very high with the light slugs. My 700mm Impact does 1000fps at ~150Bar with Nielsen 34.9g. My hammer weight and spring are a little heavier than stock but not by very much.

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Thank you for you replay
Your setting set after report FPS
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I was in your same shoes about two months back. I have a Beeman AR2078B. I took it apart to do a B Staley mod on the hammer And a trigger tune. I thought I took it apart so carefully and even took a few photos. When it came time to put the side lever back on I was stuck. For a while at least. With some fiddling and playing around I eventually got it back together.
Keep trying for a while and if you are absolutely stuck then reach back out to me and I’ll pull mine back apart slowly and take some really good photos of the process.
Kenny

No thanks, I'll stick to bs here in CA...

Actually the breech plug stamp is the only real way to date Crosmans of the era, but the format is: first one or two digits are month, final digit is year;
Examples I've seen>>
107 late style gun, thus October '67
69 early style gun, thus June '59

Don R.

My brother is a fabricator, he has already ordered 2 or 3 different slug molds. I think you are talking about hollow skirt slugs? If not I’ll ask my brother what bootlets are. Scope is exactly what you said. I have read the little book that came with it. I suppose you meant you hoped it would stayed zeroed once I set it. It has a warranty, so I will test it throughly. I have a Burris Fast Fire 4 I will replace it with if it turns out to be junk.

If you meant will it set at a certain distance zero, it does that as well. Locks and unlocks on that setting , easy to adjust for holdover and return to original zero. I just have always bought parallax free scopes , don’t figure I’ll ever need 24x magnification for anything unless I use it to sky watch or something.
The rifle is supposed to be accurate , more so than most big bore air rifles typically are, there are several YouTube videos of people demonstrating it. Even at 50 cal people are getting 930 to 940 fps and that translates to over 400 ft lbs at the muzzle. 50 cent piece sized groups at 75 yards, all holes from slugs touching. It has a threaded barrel to accept a moderator without any adapters. I elected to put a muzzle brake on mine as moderators are outrageous in price and I just think the brake looks cool on it. The Megalodon is AEA’s latest release that’s not a handgun type of airgun. I researched a good while before I bought anything. It seems AEA used lessons learned from previous rifles when designing the Megalodon. My only dislike at this time is the magazines(it comes with 2) are just cheap plastic or polymer, I doubt they hold up in my world. I guess many of the semi auto air rifles will start jamming for several different reasons. I guess they have the pump action working pretty good. All and all, it seems like a well put together rifle, time will tell how well it holds up. It has tanks that will stand up to 4500 psi and shoots unregulated full power. 2 mags or 16 consistent shots if using both tanks, rear tank can be removed and replaced with a folding stock. With the single front tank it gets about 8 consistent shots. The folding stock makes it really compact , especially the 15 inch barrel version. I have the 22 inch barrel. I have slugs on the way the guy at the air rifle shop sent me because I wasn’t suppose to get a 50 cal, I ordered 457 , someone got confused and sent the 50, so when I decided not to return it and get the 457 , the guy sent me 50 dollars worth of slugs from Mr Hollowpoint. I really originally had 357 in mind, but those have not been produced yet, I think they are still I month away or longer.

Thanks to the members that posted the other available products. I was using Chemlube and I usually change the oil when it starts getting dark which normally occurs after about every 2-3 hours run time. The Chemlube was getting hard to find and it was $29 shipped per quart if Amazon had it. I stumbled onto the Recip-XL for $102 per gallon shipped which should last me a while and was $4 less per quart. The Nuvair price is still a few dollars more at $109 per gallon shipped to my house.

Betohunter said:

Ey buddy !!
Looks like that isn’t working hehehe

great job man

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Hahaha it works like a dream!

You need a 8mm hammer. I am able to get the 13g Zans around 950fps at 160 bar

Hello everyone,

The winner of the Snowpeak PP800R .177 cal PCP Pistol is @ChickenDumpling / Norm

I am very comfortable in stating that every person that sent in an entry was surely deserving to receive the free pistol and accessories. What a wonderful feeling to know that so many Forum Members were ready to pay it forward.

ThomasT

some were sold with this scope, but my poor eyes need help so I put my HW 44 in a carbine stock and use a rifle scope
I have the HW scope on my shelf, not in use
Weihrauch Air Pistol Scope 2x20

The two questions...

1) Given the weight of the Zan BR100 pellet (56 gr), has anyone tested or seen a difference between the stock free-floating FX barrel setup with a CF sleeve, and shooting them with the barrel tensioning kit installed?

2) In either of the above configurations, is there enough data in yet that the BR100 has a particular velocity that is surfacing as a known good starting point for accuracy tuning for 100 yard BR?

I've searched but haven't seen a lot of chatter on BR100 testing data.

Thanks,

Chuck

$p00kygH0ST said:

This probably sounds idiotic. But, last night I fell asleep very early from staying up to watch the election...I wake up at 1am... Got 6 hours to kill before leaving for work.. so, Im screwing around with the notos. And I'm sick of the only the last ½ rotation of the hammer screw being able to make ANY change at all. I already heavied the hammer, first with lead, second by getting a friend to turn up a copy out of tungsten. And it helped, I'm getting the 17gr slugs out of the barrel between 818 and 841 (obviously a hammer spring issue). Lowering the pressure did stabilize the spread, but lower velocity at 800-810. So I pop the stock off and I get the stupid simple idea of putting the thickest delrin gasket I have inside of the hammer spring cavity in the hammer.. close the gun up, chronod ... Cock pop. 852, 847, 852, 848, 846, 850... This is fully backed out to stock position at 2200± psi with a 17gr slug. I went from 25fpe to over 30 playing with pressures and spring. At 2200 with the delrin gasket inside flush stock setting to only 1.25 turns I hit limit and lost speed. So up to 2400... 871FPS. 850 with 18.3s 893 with 16s. Feels good man. Actually taking advantage of the full port.

Edit' I don't know why, but I get higher velocities from JSB/FX/HN 15.89s than AEA Or JTS. 909 was the highest from baracuda 15s.

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Because there's less friction and contact when the pellet rides the groves.

Olle Grieze said:

Mine is an conventional grooved 67cm 1/38 Alfa. It shoots the 16 gr very good. I cannot get the power out of my Crown to shoot the 20 gr fast enough. The 16 goes 950 fps the 20 around 890.
My Epic 2 shoots very well with the .22 redesign with the 700 CZub barrel. Have an 550 LW poly in .22 for slugs. Have to shoot that one, no time and oppertunity.

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My crown shoots the 20 grain at 870fps and shoots 1.5moa at 200yards

I think as long as you install the power block at the same time as the plenum you can get full power out of it. I hope you have the license to own a full power air rifle but that's your choice and risk.

Common problem. A  drop of silicone in fill foster & fill with a tank might be all you need.

Also got a young male at the feeder.

sonnysan said:

Now I remember. The .25 Ram Jet worked well in my tuned Kodiak. Sold that gun 15 years ago:

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My 2260 pcp with a Prod barrel is shooting these 22 heavies good at 6 fpe all the way up to 18 fpe. Tried them last night in my basement 10 yard range, but they were one holers. I will continue to feed that the rws super H points though. It's a 9 fpe tuned pester for backyard work.

I need to try these in my revere when it shows up.

Airgunmann said:

I wonder about making a peak poppet to slide on I don't know why it opens pretty easy now

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Less resistance due to the o-rings beat up maybe.

Wonderful mods there!

Hard to beat these scopes for the money. Looking forward to trying the 7-35 they just released.

Another Crown mk2 owner here. No upgrades. I only painted mine. No mods needed just a lot of pellets. It can go head to head with my Delta Wolf. Same hole at 50m so I wouldn't change it.