Called UA today and went ahead to get bigger planum and digital gauge, also required to set reg @850fps…
let’s see how it goes.

If you’re active military they do 15% off btw.

I too have long fingers, so my cure is to simply wrap my trigger finger past the handle and press the trigger by using only the middle knuckle to trip it.
Works for me anyway.

mike

Just a note, I may have posted here, too lazy to look back, but I've done it elsewhere, not one more molecule of air than is necessary to get the thing out of the barrel. Anyway I thought I had my Raptor pretty much there but it wasn't quite right. You can adjust the regs, the amount the valve opens and the tension on the hammer spring, a bit of a pain but I figured out a way to make it way easier. Ok I started backing off the valve opening until speeds dropped, then went back up right to the bare edge, then I did the same to the hammer spring and, whole-E-poop, the thing just worked, pellets, slugs, it was like magic. I'm welding the darn thing shut now. It's AEA 33.9 pellets and AEA 30.2 slugs.

imtrigerhapy said:

We have a bunch of chickens and are getting 2 to 3 dozen eggs a day its fun to use a hot glue gun and glue them to all my target stands and pling away. With a .30 62.5 gr slug at 970fps they make a huge POP sound

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We just started raising chickens...13 of them. Will be a bit before they start laying though

A 600mm RPB barrel shoots them quite well. Tested up to 940fps. Settled right around 900fps. Was able to spin my 1.5” spinner at 115 yards continuously with them sorted .

I have a Element Max in 58 I bought from a fellow member here and when I received it-it was holding air but when I tried filling it I couldn't get the probe out and had to release all the air called the guy he said it had been in his closet for a year so the oring had stuck I cleaned the residue off the seat area and called Bin and he sent me the parts to repair it with a couple extra orings, Bins a great guy. It's holding air and a Beast shooting 440gr HPs around 784fps.

I still want to have the option to make the voice be Samuel L. Jackson...or Darth Vader. My old GPS unit had that option.

coastal drifter said:

or better yet shoot a modern gun...Regulated lol

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@Bear-of-Grayling , I loved learning how you compensate for pressure with change of pellet weight/type

addison said:

View attachment 564144 what speeds are you guys shooting these at minimum and max speeds please.

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880-930 just what I've heard

just be sure to get out there and shoot in the wind as much as possible. I have been shooting in the winds of Iowa for five months. Now it’s a challenge. Not a terror. Still need more practice.

I don't know if I'm going crazy or not, but the ONLY complaint I have with the 3-12x is the slightly thick mildot reticle.
Sooo, Amazon had a sale on returned OP3 versions of the compact with moa turrets/reticle and I bought a 3-12x and a 4-16x. These have fine reticles and even at 16x clear as all get out, really impressive. I constantly surprised how bright and clear they are. I have a Hawke Frontier 3-15x and it's a super scope, but I really prefer the UTG, better eye box, easier to see markings on reticle, ie 10, 20 moa etc.
These scopes upped the game on mid line scopes. They're as good or better than Vector Veyron.

Thanks for the prompt replies. JohnL57 thanks for the link. I will look into those washers, too jccams and marflow 777. Really appreciate the input.

Mike

I have a 6-24x44 and it is the wored scope, if I find someone I don’t like I will give it to them.

alcuerna said:

FX Wildcat MK3 power adjustment wheel moves a lot. Does anyone know how to prevent accidental movement?

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This Youtube channel episode (Shooting with Phil) shows his micrometer replacement for the crappy FX power wheel:

There is a link in the description that is an ebay link for international orders. That link will take you to an ebay page that is selling both the micrometer and a replacement for the 2nd regulator screw, but you don't need the regulator replacement screw, so here is the ebay link to just the micrometer for the wildcat mk3.

I hope the ebay link works. I know it's expensive, but it's the best replacement for the power wheel if it's within your budget.

stovepipe

Well, tell you the truth I didn’t fill it up all the way I only filled it up to 4000 psi and I believe I got about 62 maybe 63 I was shooting pallets and then slugs so I kinda lost count, but it was quite a bit Unfortunately when I was trying to fill it up, my compressor broke, and I’m waiting for a part from vevor

I'd second that BuckRail unit. I have a modular one and it is as good as my DFL Tanto in terms of noise reduction. They're 3D printed and very light. You can adjust the length by removing baffles (and thus weight) at the expense of suppression (it will get louder as you remove baffles). They're also pretty inexpensive.

Ok thanks LR_Plinker. Yep I drilled the plenum out , and tapped it to install guage there it never would stop leaking , so I decided to have a mig welder guy weld the hole shut which messed up the temper of the aluminum , and that was it ruined it.
Little pin hole air leaks kept popping up all over. Too dangerous to fill did not want to send a fragment through my eye. I just wish There were nice aftermarket receivers to buy in stainless lol.

22 cal 500mm maverick with hades 15gr pellet. My buddy knocked a vertebrae out of this Tom's neck like a jenga block at approx 30 yards. So quiet the other turkeys hung around for a while after the shot.

Nearly a 1000 pellets through mine and love it, single hole groups with JSB Diabolo 8.44 4.52‘s out to 35yards, more testing next week on our 55yard range

Quoting the followup thread:

As per @Airgun Nation

"The person who shared the 3rd party incident is unwilling to divulge any further information."

Well, it has been a lovely long weekend with a good blend of family and shop time.

I'll open by saying I did not follow my original plan of trying a plain MDS nylon hammer. But I'll get back to that in a moment. First I'd like to touch on the barrel porting. The factory porting consists of a groove with 2 drilled holes:


Since the barrel threads into the receiver, this arrangement is good for manufacturability because the factory does not have to be concerned with where the ports end up in relation to the valve's exhaust. In my particular case, the two ports unfortunately ended up at 3 and 9 o'clock, maximizing the distance and sharp turns the air must take to reach the pellet. So I drilled a 3rd hole in line with the valve and tried running it like that for a few days, but I knew the better approach would be to fill the groove with epoxy and mill a single large-ish port in line with the valve's exhaust:


Without touching the hammer spring tension, this change yielded a 6% increase (110fpe -> 117fpe), in spite of the fact the new single port is smaller than the combined area of the 3 round ports.

Now back to the lightweight hammer and PEEK poppet. So why did I decide against trying a 100% plastic hammer? Well, I removed the OEM hammer and put it on the scale:

Yikes. No way going from a Delrin poppet to PEEK is going to make it that easy to knock open. So I decided to just go ahead and make a 2-piece hammer with a steel core and MDS nylon body, and target a weight somewhere in the ballpark of a third of the original.

And, oh look, an offcut from a .177 Crosman barrel weighs about 24 grams:


Drilling and turning the nylon body:


The finished 2-piece hammer weighs 33.6 grams, or about 31% of the OEM hammer:


Then I turned a new poppet and selected a weaker valve spring (bottom) to replace the originals (top):


Then I reassembled and tried test firing it with no changes to the hammer spring preload. The new velocity?

0 fps. Haha, it barely blipped the valve, the pellet didn't move, and I could hear just a tiny psssssssshhh of air bleed out of the breech over the course of a few seconds. Okay I'm going to need some more hammer spring so I rummaged through my Cool Whip container of springs. Every spring even remotely close to the right gauge and diameter was too short, but I'm too impatient to wait to get some springs in so I picked out a couple and turned a little plastic coupler to join them end to end:


Reassembled into the SSG:


Ah, there we go:

258mps (846fps) with an 82.2gr pellet for 130.6fpe. That's up on the velocity plateau so I need to back it off a little, but even with it wasting air, the muzzle report is already noticeably less boomy so I'm happy with how it's going.

Just started using the Hunt Ground feature in the HIKMICRO Sight app and I’m actually pretty impressed.

Dropped a few pins over the weekend to mark tracks, trails, and a fresh wallow—now I’ve got my own little hunting map building up. So much easier coming back to a spot when you’ve got everything logged.

If you haven’t played with it yet, definitely give it a crack. Handy tool for anyone who’s keen to track patterns and get more out of your time out bush.

Let me know if you’re using it too—keen to see how others are setting theirs up.

Yes, I have shot the monster hades and several other pellets as well and they shot ok but the JSB 25.39gr redesigned shallows shot the best out of my Ghost.
I have shot them at different velocities and get the best accuracy at 930 fps.

For me the frustrating two things with pcp's is screws coming loose over time and a scope that had shifting problems which also got progressively worse as time went by. Apparently pcp's have more vibrations than I ever thought they would.

The other frustrations were silly ways some aspects of a gun which were designed funky to begin with. I can't really judge because I'm not a engineer but at the same time I always think to my self that a problem will arise from that design and sure enough it happens sooner than later.