A 2-question poll for PCPers

[Parrotculler]

We all know that PCPs are complex, and relatively expensive, guns. For raw power, look elsewhere. They are fickle as well, and lend themselves to tuning. Frustration comes with the territory. So does satisfaction from great improvement achieved, often turning cheapo guns into smooth shooters. Who inhabits this world ?



1. What is your (former) profession:

o engineer or other technical profession 

o doctor or other medical profession 

o lawyer

o professional hunter

o environmentalist

o other



2. Break down your time tuning vs. Shooting:

o 80/20

o 50/50

o 20/80



The feral invasive parrots are shrieking with curiosity ...

 

[L.Leon]

1. Other

2. Shooting 99% / Tuning 1%. Other than adjusting the trigger, I shoot them as they come out the box. Barely have time to shoot, so tuning is not something I pursue. I run a string through the chrono to establish a baseline. Then I just shoot and keep shooting. When accuracy falls off clean barrel and go back to just shooting. It's been working for me so far.

 

[Guest]

Answers.

1: computer scientist, linguist

2: 95% paper, 4%, tuning, 1% fur

 

[nervoustrig]

Engineer.

I flip between stretches of 20/80 and 80/20.

 

[Dairyboy]

Farmer 

I'd say closer to 95% shooting and 5% tuning. Used to tune a lot more when I got into the sport but not much time anymore.

 

[smackdn775]

X technical services 

X I just shoot. I barely can squeeze the wife out of money for the stuff I do have much less for a chtono and other tools to tune!



Steve

 

[Stefanjan]

Other and 95% shooting and 5% tuning. I have dreams of tearing a gun apart and adding this and that and making absolute magic but other than a few turns of a hammer spring, or adding a regulator I pretty much leave them alone. Now adding more crap than a air rifle has the right to have, yes that's me. My poor Hatsan has a 6x24x50 scope, open sights, bipod, green laser pointer, TKO silencer, and a sling. I can barely lift it up anymore. My family laughs when I drag it out to shoot. My wife always asks if I'm off to war again?

 

[Ripper]

 Machinist I spend 98% of the time shooting 2% of the time tuning. I don’t work on my guns unless they really need it. 

 

[Long_Gun_Dallas]

Technical

Sometimes all I do is tune. Sometimes all I do is shoot. Some times a mix. Just depends on the season.

 

[intenseaty22]

Medical profession.

Shoot 90, Tune 10. Except for the FX Wildcat that was Tune 95, Shoot 5. But that’s no longer an issue.

I prefer mid to mid-high end guns that require minimum tuning or fixing, but that still can offer some degree of power flexibility. 

 

[dayjd]

 

1. Shooting 90% Tuning 10%

2. Management/ Engineering / Retired 2010

 

[biohazardman]

1- Mechanic

2-Llike nervoustrig it varies as I mod, change barrels and projectiles often. So, I flip between stretches of 20/80 and 80/20.

 

[ctshooter]

1. What is your (former) profession:

o engineer or other technical profession k

2. Break down your time tuning vs. Shooting:

o 50/50

 

[JadedC]

1. County worker 

2. Shooting 90% and tuning 10%. I only tune when I notice something is wrong with accuracy. I am a set and forget type of guy.

 

[MikeVV]

#1 -

Retired Aerospace, Sr. Mechanical Test Engineer. At least that's what it says on my former companies business card.

#2 -

90% shooting, 10% tuning/altering. Although, as time goes by, that may change a little.



Mike

 

[gendoc]

farmer that has a primary job, so time is not a factor here.

set up, 1 big hole and move on.

then distance, set up, 1 big hole and move on.

if the trigger is pulled, something is going in the pot !

being for human consumption or scavengers in the wild.

( i feed alot of critters)......

 

[bandg]

Retired medical. Shoot 70%, tune 10%, tinker 10%, and mess up 10%. Actually, those percentages may be backwards.

 

[GeneT]

Engineer, probably less than 5% tuning. I think you have a faulty premise. *Some* PCPs are finicky, fidgety, individual, what have you, but there are some that are out-of-the-box, just shoot, reliable, and accurate. You can improve any of them, a little, with tuning, but they're so good already you may never want to. It's really more about what *you* want to do.

GsT

 

[Lewis]

1) Security

2) Summer 25-75 Winter 75-25

 

[Raden1942]

Hydrochemical engineering and lately it's been 90 percent working and 10 percent shooting but over all 30% working and 70%shooting