Earlier last year I was trying to decide if I "needed" a Compatto. I had put one in the shopping cart on various occasions at a few different sites, but could never push the "buy" button. I had settled on buying an FX Streamline in .177 but it was out of stock. I had one on backorder for about a month and then the Brocock Bantam was relased and for a breif time the Compatto went on sale. At the same time, I traded into a .22 Streamline so I canceled my order for the .177 and bought a Compatto in .177 when it was on sale.
This little gun has been amazing. It has the slingshot hammer system and was very accurate. After having it for a few months they came out with a HUMA regulator for it. I was wanting to know what a regulator would do with this already efficient slingshot system. I ordered one and was excited to put it in.
That was when the struggle started. The guns must get some sort of corrosion or a white flaky locktite put in them and tightened by a silverback gorilla. It took several hours and an insane amount of force to get the air cylinder removed from the action. After that it took even more force to remove the adapter from the airtube to be able to insert the HUMA. We're talking hitting vice grips with a hammer to try and break free the adapter. After finally getting it apart and installing the regulator, set at 110 bar, I put in a shorter hammer spring as well. I have it set to shoot the 10.3 JSB's around 810 fps. I don't have a full shot string yet but here are some groups I did with some washed and lubed 8.4 grain JSBs.
Box 13 is a 10 shot group at 20 yards, indoors, shooting off sandbags and a plastic picnic table. They were shot numbers 20 thru 30 on the fill. The square is 1 inch by 1 inch. The next two targets are 5 shot groups at 20 yards. #25 is shots 40-45 and #24 is shots 46-50. The low one is the last shot, probably off the reg.
I figured this was good enough for now and headed out at lunch break to the shed filled with corn to combat hundreds of collared doves that have taken up residence and brought all their relatives. This next picture represents all the birds that I could recover. A few were up in the rafters that didn't come down.
All these were taken between 20-50 yrds. I am really happy with how this is turning out. I have a little work to do on the trigger, right now there is a little creep in the second stage. All in all, I think that if you want a regulated Compatto, buy the Target version and avoid the huge headache but it's a shooter for sure.
This little gun has been amazing. It has the slingshot hammer system and was very accurate. After having it for a few months they came out with a HUMA regulator for it. I was wanting to know what a regulator would do with this already efficient slingshot system. I ordered one and was excited to put it in.
That was when the struggle started. The guns must get some sort of corrosion or a white flaky locktite put in them and tightened by a silverback gorilla. It took several hours and an insane amount of force to get the air cylinder removed from the action. After that it took even more force to remove the adapter from the airtube to be able to insert the HUMA. We're talking hitting vice grips with a hammer to try and break free the adapter. After finally getting it apart and installing the regulator, set at 110 bar, I put in a shorter hammer spring as well. I have it set to shoot the 10.3 JSB's around 810 fps. I don't have a full shot string yet but here are some groups I did with some washed and lubed 8.4 grain JSBs.
Box 13 is a 10 shot group at 20 yards, indoors, shooting off sandbags and a plastic picnic table. They were shot numbers 20 thru 30 on the fill. The square is 1 inch by 1 inch. The next two targets are 5 shot groups at 20 yards. #25 is shots 40-45 and #24 is shots 46-50. The low one is the last shot, probably off the reg.
I figured this was good enough for now and headed out at lunch break to the shed filled with corn to combat hundreds of collared doves that have taken up residence and brought all their relatives. This next picture represents all the birds that I could recover. A few were up in the rafters that didn't come down.
All these were taken between 20-50 yrds. I am really happy with how this is turning out. I have a little work to do on the trigger, right now there is a little creep in the second stage. All in all, I think that if you want a regulated Compatto, buy the Target version and avoid the huge headache but it's a shooter for sure.