Recent content by Toxylon

Highly debatable. The mainsprings I've fitted have been a total crapshoot as to how they fit a certain rear guide. Name brand aftermarket springs sold as drop-in replacements can drop onto an OEM guide without any contact. And they definitely buzz. A high-dollar aftermarket spring can be either...

The HW95L .22 I had never got any better from the twangy, buzzy, jumpy, noisy, loud, restless state it was straight off the factory. Most of my spring guns have gotten drastically better-behaving from a 1 000+ pellet break-in, without a drop in performance. So much so that the difference between...

Pretty hard, actually, from a mass production point of view. Mainsprings made to be the same aren't anywhere near, when it comes to guide fit. The mass-produced guides themselves aren't identical, so, spring / guide fit is a mess to begin with, and hand-fitting is REALLY expensive. So, they...

Whoah! The piston looks like it had been dropped into a fire pit. I've cracked many a old springer open but never seen quite something like that.

A H135 mainspring cut that much may drop the ME down to the teens. A chrono would / will tell.

Pellet fit and weight are two different things. Or, let's ask first what do you mean by fit? It usually denotes how well the pellets chamber, ie. are they easy to load or need a heavy push or two, or do they drop in without any resistance or go snugly and smoothly? A light pellet can be hard to...

Some ways into my springer fixin' journey I learned piston seal fit can give or take 100 fps just like that, and that springer bore figures such as "26mm", or "28mm", are little more than approximations, as incredible as that sounds. Your gun can actually have a 25.8 or a 28.9mm bore, which...

The anatomically horrid cocking stroke inherent in gasram guns is the biggest reason for me to not have one. It messes up my shoulders, even though I have zero trouble cocking the heaviest coilspring guns around. Just yesterday I took 35 quick chrono shots with my 30 fpe Hatsan 135, no problem...

Is that right? Exact .20 cals (13.73gr.) produce 19.5 fpe at 800 fps. To get down to 15 fpe, the Exacts should do only 700 fps. At 800 fps the pellets would need to weigh only 10.6gr. to keep at 15 fpe. So, do you recommend taking the HW80 .20 cal all the way down to 700 fps, to a HW95 level?

A whole bunch of big questions! I'll take a stab at it. Fixed barrel vs. break barrel has been discussed to the ground several times, in many places. There is no truth. Field Target competition is the most accuracy-demanding spring gun arena. Break barrels are almost non-existent on the podium...

Good to hear about those accurate Kral barrels. Years ago I bought a N-07 .25 cal in walnut. It was the roughest new gun I've ever handled, with tooling marks, incredibly noisy cocking, flimsy feel, a breech seal that looked like it was smashed to leakage already etc. I wasn't keen on the...

Sidelever Dianas are hard on scopes and mounts. The most surefire way to scope 'em is to get an accurized Diana ZR mount from Hector Medina. This spring-loaded mount enables you to use most any scope, but isn't repeatable enough as is, hence the accurization (which can be done at home, as well)...

If we wan't to go the route of naming single guns that are "considered the best", let's consider this: TX200's are very heavy guns, clocking in at around 4.1kg / 9lbs., unscoped. That is unacceptable to many airgunners. TX200's utilize an underlever cocking system that many people find...

There is no spring gun that is considered the best, let alone is the best. That's because every springer in production, now or in the past, has advantages and disadvantages that different people feel about differently, due to size, proportions, age, strength, preferences, experiences, use...

The D54 is pretty singular in being a high power platform while also among the most accurate springers ever produced. That's the reason I had to get one, and I'm really happy I did. The D54 is also appreciably more complex than most other springers. More potential for mess ups, more things to...