Recent content by FPoole

Totally 100% wrong. Why don't the seals in my TX200 ever crumble. Had some in guns for many years and, as I said, 50,000 shots. They far outlast the spring in many cases. Original Air Arms seals from the early 2000's would also crumble from age only. I've had packaged seals, from the older...

Perfect and accurate statement. I would only tune a gun that was accurate to start with. There are exceptions, but a gun that's not accurate out of the box turns into a smooth shooting inaccurate gun, after a tune.

I can only assume you pulled the trigger with your thumb in the loading port. Never heard of this happening in a quality underlever.

The old factory seal in the 124 was junk. They turned to a crumbled mess due to the fact they were not the same quality we have today. Chamber oil wouldn't have helped it either. I use Maccari piston seals in my TX200's and they will last for a very long time. I've had them go for 50,000 pellets...

An ambi stock is a poor excuse for a true lefty or right handed stock. I can't believe what I'm reading here, you buy guns based on what other folks that may occasionally shoot it prefer? I applaud the makers that offer true lefty stocks. For what it's worth, the TX200 is often the gun called...

The last Mark change was 20 years ago, so you have a MarkIII without doubt. The MarkIII came in around 1999 and remained the same until about 2006 when the stock checkering changed to the fishscale type and the safety button was lengthened to show a small red tip out the right side, when not...

You should be able to get it down to 6 oz. Any lower and it will start to have a dangling first stage, meaning, the trigger flops and won't pop back to the first stage once it is taken up. I have a couple that function fine down to 3 to 4 oz. , but it depends on the trigger and if the gun is...

I know my guns very well and when I seem to see a bit of accuracy drop off, I pull a boresnake through about 3 times. i keep a drop of oil or two on the first part of the snake and it has no bronze brushes inside. I only add a drop of oil every year or so. I think this doesn't really clean the...

I think it may have been marketing hype from Dr. Beeman. Folks that like the .20 say it flies flatter than a .22 and has more retained energy than a .177. I say it doesn't fly as flat as a .177 and it doesn't have the retained energy of a .22. so it's a compromise between the two.

I use BKL mounts and sit them on a known level surface. I then put the scope in the mounts and place a small 1" level on the turret. I checked my small level on the known level surface and it was only level on one of 4 sides, so I marked that side. I tighten everything up and mount the unit on...

The front stock screws are the part that hits the lever. The bracket is wide enough to have the cocking arm pass through. If this is the problem, back off the 2 screws a turn or two and try cocking. If it cocks, just Dremel off a little of the screw tips. A Dremel on the cocking arm itself may...

Pretty sure the pell seat was just another Beeman gimmick. I just used the ball end to push in a pellet until the rifling snaps through the rear of the skirt and I lost 70-80 fps with a 900 fps .177. When you push a pellet deeper than just thumb flush, you are introducing dead air space...

Remove the trigger guard and turn the grub screw, just ahead of the rear trigger guard screw hole, clockwise a half a turn. It's the weight of pull adjustment and it also lifts the bottom sear so it catches the middle sear. If this screw is set too light it won't engage the sears.

Sent a nice 1970 Blue Streak off for the basic steroid tune, no extended fore arm. It came back with a different end plug, a newer style that's stronger, but my old original didn't come back with it. I used 14.3 Crosman Premiers and it shot 700 fps with the full 14 pumps. I was expecting much...

I thought I had just gotten to be a crappy shot over the years. I hadn't checked the ocular adjustment in 10 years ,but I knew my eyes were way different than 10 years ago, so I started playing around with the adjustment. I suddenly became a much better shooter. I would've never dreamed this...