Recent content by SteveInMN

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    Q&A with the Air Venturi Avenger Product Manager, Tyler Patner

    If you search on it, you will find regulator creep is a pervasive Avenger issue and one that I've asked Tyler and Steve to specifically address. However, an accuracy issue as extreme as what you are describing will not res\ult from reg creep. You have a flawed barrel, or your pellets are...
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    Tuning Got the Gen I .22 Marauder Finished

    Ex-cellent! : )
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    Tuning Got the Gen I .22 Marauder Finished

    Looks good! If it shoots as good you've built a keeper.
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    Q&A with the Air Venturi Avenger Product Manager, Tyler Patner

    As others have said, the bullpup with forward (and ideally, reversible) cocking in a wood stock is what we're waiting on. Also - many report reg creep and various leaks. It would be nice to have some assurance these Design/QC issues have been acknowledged (important) and tended to...
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    Are Marauder barrels universal through time?

    Thank you all for the great input. I had in fact put a fresh crown on the old one, and the barrel felt pretty uniform till the last inch and the obvious choke. No visual problems with the leade, and it passed the Q Tip test. Called Crosman and a new production barrel is on the way. Spoke with...
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    Are Marauder barrels universal through time?

    I own a 2010 Gen 1 .22 Marauder. Shot poorly out of the box. Got a new barrel in the very early 2010s from Crosman. Better, but certainly no laser. Passable with CPs and Barracudas, HORRIBLE with my go-to JSB 15.9s and with JSB 14.3s. I understand the modern Crosman barrels shoot better than...