New blood here

Welcome aboard! The search bar here is your friend. SOOO much helpful information to be had here from the most basic to very highly technical stuff (that's way over my "pay grade"). Mostly good, helpful folks are found here. Enjoy the ride.

Welcome. As you probably know, you will need more "stuff". A source of high pressure air (a hand pump, compressor, and/or tank (with a way to fill it), a Scope and mounts, targets, pellets and a chronograph. Many skip the chronograph initially but I think it is vital. You will want to understand your velocity and tune the gun and you need a chronograph for that. An inexpensive ($20-30) chinese made one will be very useful.

Is your gun regulated? Either way will work well but the tuning process is different for regulated guns versus unregulated.

Plan to shoot a shot string from the full maximum fill pressure to as low as you find the velocity useful. I like to shoot targets while I do this so I am gaining some accuracy information at the same time. You will learn from the shot curve the maximum velocity you can get and the pressure that gives it to you (by looking at the gauge occasionally and recording that too). The curve also tells you the maximum velocity variation and how much it varies over more limited pressure ranges (like your 180 to 200 bars). Nothing says you have to do it in one setting. You could start with 180 to 200 and possibly do other pressure ranges later. If you shoot targets you can get an idea of the effect of the velocity variation on the point of impact. I used to do this at 25 yards but I do it at 30 yards now. That is just for convenience.

As you probably know, there are lots of 177 pellets but I don't know what you have in India. JSB and to a lesser degree H&N are popular. Crossmans are favored by some mainly because they are inexpensive here. JTS is an up and coming brand. CYS seem to be popular in England, I have not see them in the U. S.. Accuracy is often mainly determined by finding a pellet your gun likes to shoot.

Law191 said:

Thanks! And yes, already using search bar.





I bought a bundle deal, learned my lesson from archery, when starting out buying a bundle is the better deal.

Here are full contents.
1. One PX120 Minotaur -X3 Air Rifle (with INTEGRATED SUPPRESSOR)
2. One Discovery VTR 4-16×42 AOAC with mounts
3. One Stage 4 PCP Hand Pump 4500 PSI 310 Bar
4. Pack of 500 Pellets


Good point about chrono, will look into it. The gun is not regulated, but it fires most consistently between 180 and 200 bars.

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Congrats and welcome

Welcome, cool looking first pcp congrats.