A Pictorial Guide to Magnum Springers

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JoeWayneRhea

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OK so you finally get your hands on a " magnum springer " This is going to be great !!!! PCP power in a spring rifle !! Incredible poop to be sure ...This day is gonna KickAss for sure . . Well first thing you notice is the length . Hmm. This baby's pretty long . No worries , its just for leverage when you cock it ...Dont give it another thought .
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No worries you think . Just a slight tap on the barrel and I'll open her up and pop in a pellet you think 
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No sorry Babe , this is a Magnum Springer ... Make a hard flat palm and hit it like you hate its guts .Picture palm punching a cinder block ...Youll get the idea
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Ok so you are half way there !!! Damn thing was probably just not broke in yet ...It'll ease up for sure in a few shots .... Or at least you hope so ... Regardless now the fun part ...You need to double check to make sure the family jewels are nice and secure , and then inhale deeply and cock this beast .
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Holy Crap !! Something for sure wrong with this gun . Maybe a squirt of 3in1 oil on the hinge will get it right . So she's cocked , loaded , and now a moment of quiet reflection . 
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 You feel yourself stalling , You have basically used almost all your upper body strength to cock this thing . Now the moment of truth ....You have GOT to fire it and unleash the spring . Hell what could the the worse to happen . Maybe it'll have a slight kick , but the memories of your childhood BBguns are once again about to Screw you over !!!! 
Nothing left to do now but pull the trigger .
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This will be a blast ...You've psyched yourself up over nothing . Now take careful aim and enjoy the shot ...Don't forget to follow thru . 
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The next few moments are a little fuzzy ... Your trigger finger appears to be scraped , Something has happened ......The gun must have blown up .... There was a noise , and it wasn't like recoil at all , it was like being electrocuted or something .... This ain't right , guns don't do this , this thing jumped 5 different directions at once . Why are my eyes watering , and your not sure but it feels like a little Pee slipped out . At least you hope its just Pee. Why would anyone do this to themselves ...These guns should like come with warnings or something . After a few moments the smell hits you ....it wasn't just Pee.
Yep welcome to magnum springers . Give yourself a few months and a few thousand shots and you should be able to hit an oil can at 20 yards . 
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I gave a almost new one to my nephew a few months ago. A NP XL 1100 and he is a big boy and at only 47 lbs of cocking effort he better be. I did a little polishing on the insides of that beast and added a tuna trigger and it was ok(usually hit close to where I was shooting). But not really fun to shoot. I would rate it up there with pumping up my Mrod the one time with my Hill pump. If I had kept it I was going to add a bayonet and wear running shoes to see how that would work on slow running bunnies. ;)

Nothing wrong with a shooter liking their magnum springer but I prefer the easy way out.

 
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Joe, I propose you write a script for Hollywood TV to make a movie about Magnum Springers. There'd be D-list actors and "Reality TV" starlets cavorting around trying to save themselves from zombies who, due to a ultra-top-secret-you-talk-and-I-KEEL-YOU experiment out of a break-away Province in the far north of the Korean Peninsula, are all carrying Chinese-made Magnum Springers with fine Turkish Walnut stocks. Every time a zombie fires one of the horrid twangers another body part would fly off, sometimes splattering the camera for a real "first-person" effect. 90210 would never have another complete cast reunion, Saved by the Bell would become Graves by the Bell, no more vampires being slayed by telegenic blond cheerleaders with angst as deep as the hellmouth upon which their high school was built... and Survivor? Ha! What survivors?!

I even have a working title for you: "SHARTNADO", the centerpiece of "Shart Week" on USA Network.
 
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My first break barrel was a Remington Vantage 1200. 1,000+fps. It was harsh, but after a thousand or so shots I got used to shooting it. After 5,00 rounds the spring took an odd bent set and wouldn't shoot reliably. It has shot at around 750fps with 8.4gr pellets since a bit of repair/fiddling. Now I can hit the full size kill zone on a crosman zombie target 50% of the time offhand, 30yd.

Anyways that's funny as hell Joe. I was laughing so much I think a bit of pee may have come out.
 
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Haha thats great Joe! I am on the look for something that scares me and excite me like this: you recieve a message from a blind date app that a person realy likes you and want a date, you find out that it's one of the cardashians, realy excited you go to the bar for the date and get blindfolded and thrown in the back of a van, the exitement is on top and a little scared also! Then you get tied up and get a gagball in your mouth,wow! The blindfold takes of your face and you realise it's the wrong cardashian.... So what gun is that? A little scary, excited and a kick in the manbag at the same time?
 
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Funny stuff Joe. My first springer was a 48 in .22, I was advised to buy something more tame and easier to learn to shoot. But no, I couldn't do that! I walked right up to the deep end of the pool and jumped in even though I couldn't swim. Hell, real men shoot big powerful guns don't we? Besides, it's just an air rifle, how hard can it be to shoot? Needless to say the learning curve was pretty steep and very frustrating. I've shot PB's all my life and never had one kill a scope, the 48 did and in short order I might add, so that was a new experience. Honestly I think it did it just to show me it could. After a summer of doing battle the 48 and I finally reached equilibrium, it's learned to tolerate me and I've learned to give it some respect. Kinda like a woman, you can't be it's master, you just learn their little quirks and figure out how to make the best of them.

I've since bought a 34 in .177 and shoot it most of the time, but I take my hat off and avoid looking directly at the 48 when I walk by it..

 
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Back in 1979 I discovered the world of precision air rifles via a Feinwerkbau 124D . Wow ! Easy to cock , hard hitting (what could I compare it with ?) and super accurate. Then my buddy bought a Beeman R1. That took me down a notch. Years later I bought an Air Arms TX200 in .177. Faster , a bit more accurate , and certainly a better trigger. Then I went off the deep end with a Umarex Octane in .177. It was like a workout to cock. Very powerful , but who needs to bust your butt to shoot ? Now , I just picked up a vintage Anschutz 380 and a pcp Walther Rotek RM8. The Anschutz is perfection , and the Walther is a squirrel killing machine. And 8 easy shoots without the drama. I will keep all of them , but hard to not still love the FWB 124D. The Octane ? It went bye bye in a trade , and no , I won't miss it.
 
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