Gamo Hunter 890 and springer vs gas piston?

[Artie]

Hi all. I've recently reacquired my old Gamo Hunter 890 from a friend, and in doing some research, I'm not sure if this is a "springer" or gas piston rifle. It's definitely a break-barrel. This also confuses me. I've noticed the same rifles, (at Airgun Depot), listed under break-barrel and gas piston. Is gas-piston just a subset of the break-barrel category?

Thanks all. Just trying to better understand this nice old airgun.

Artie

 

[crittahitta]

Break barrels can either be metal spring or gas piston powered. Some guns give you the option to pick which one you prefer.

 

[Artie]

Thanks. From watching some videos of tuning these Gamo's, I'm pretty sure my 890 is a springer.

 

[outdoorman]

The Gamo 890 is a spring piston gun. Both spring and gas piston guns are called "springers", in fact, some people refer to gas piston guns as gas spring versus coil spring. Break barrel is a method of cocking a spring or gas piston gun. Some of these guns have a fixed barrel and a lever is used to cock the gun. There are side lever and under lever models.

 

[Artie]

Thanks outdoorman. That means I probably made a mistake in ordering the ARH "tune kit". (Which has the E3650 spring.) I got the impression that it was applicable to all Gamo "Hunters". 

 

[ranedouglas]

believe it or not , that's a really good gun.....ive always wanted one in .22 .i'd go with a good spring , tho - they are very easy to cock that way ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVT5JQv2y4g

 

[outdoorman]

Thanks outdoorman. That means I probably made a mistake in ordering the ARH "tune kit". (Which has the E3650 spring.) I got the impression that it was applicable to all Gamo "Hunters". 

That spring should fit your gun. What did I say that would make you think otherwise?

 

[ChuckHunter]

Sounds like your kinda new to the springer airgun world...you will need to either build or buy a spring compressor to rebuild that gun!

Those old gamo's are good solid guns compared to the crap they sell these days and that spring is under quite a bit of preload so you can't just start taking it apart without some kind of compressor to back it off slowly. 

James from Michigan,