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On again, off again US importers. They disappeared for a few years other than a couple out the way retailers selling on Amazon. Now with the release of their new Norica Omnia, PA carries a small line of them. Don't play on GTA anymore, but more than a few posts on them over there if you do a search
I have a Norica Deadeye GRS in .22 I got a few years ago. Was never released in the US, I wanted one, so I ordered it from Aceros de Hispania. Not a bad rifle and as mentioned, pretty much on par with most other mid level brands. Problem for awhile anyway will likely be availability of parts until PA catches up with getting anything over here. Might also consider how they may handle any warranty issues.
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I bought the Norica Omni ZRS (Zero recoil system). The zero recoil works great. I balance 3 .177 pellets on top of each other and placed them on the flat top of my elevation knob. I took a shot and the pellets were undisturbed.
830 f.p.s. with 8.4 JSB 12.8 ft/lbs. Trigger gauge says 4 lbs. Tom Gaylord's registers 2lb 8 oz posted on his blog. I bench rested in basement at 50 feet. All shots were in 7/16 inch, 80 per cent were into 3/8 inch. I would compare it to a untuned Diana 34 with a creepy trigger. The trigger is adjustable but I was not able to adjust it to my liking. I need a airgun smith's help I guess.
The action can slide about 1 1/4". It uses about 3/4 inch of sliding travel when fired.
The first thing I did after unboxing was to shoulder the rifle and try to aquire the fiber optic open sights. Unbelievably, you can not aquire the sights unless you remove the cheekpiece. They don't even sell the cheekpiece in Spain. It is required for scoping. Very unusual/strange way to market open sights. I will eventually remove my scope and put on a rear peep. I assume I will be able to use the cheekpiece.
With all this said I kinda like the rifle and will keep it because the recoil system works very well. I will eventually get the creepy trigger fixed and a nice rear German peep sight.
 
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You can't take them apart easily without one of these. I made one. The fingers reach past the trigger assy. and pins to depress the spring. The finish on the piston was so coarse it looks like very fine threads. The seal had degraded to wax/bubblegum. Hard to clean out like a fwb124. Had to get parts from Custom Air Seals. Wasn't really worth the work but I did it for one of my brothers. I keep telling him to get a Weihrauch. He doesn't shoot airgun that much
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DonC said:
I bought the Norica Omni ZRS (Zero recoil system). The zero recoil works great. I balance 3 .177 pellets on top of each other and placed them on the flat top of my elevation knob. I took a shot and the pellets were undisturbed.
830 f.p.s. with 8.4 JSB 12.8 ft/lbs. Trigger gauge says 4 lbs. Tom Gaylord's registers 2lb 8 oz posted on his blog. I bench rested in basement at 50 feet. All shots were in 7/16 inch, 80 per cent were into 3/8 inch. I would compare it to a untuned Diana 34 with a creepy trigger. The trigger is adjustable but I was not able to adjust it to my liking. I need a airgun smith's help I guess.
The action can slide about 1 1/4". It uses about 3/4 inch of sliding travel when fired.
The first thing I did after unboxing was to shoulder the rifle and try to aquire the fiber optic open sights. Unbelievably, you can not aquire the sights unless you remove the cheekpiece. They don't even sell the cheekpiece in Spain. It is required for scoping. Very unusual/strange way to market open sights. I will eventually remove my scope and put on a rear peep. I assume I will be able to use the cheekpiece.
With all this said I kinda like the rifle and will keep it because the recoil system works very well. I will eventually get the creepy trigger fixed and a nice rear German peep sight.
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Tom Gaylord just posted part 5 of his Norica Omnia review. So far the best group at 25 yards was 0.657 inches. Not very impressive. He seems to think it's a cheek weld and he also identified a sub-par trigger as possibly impacting accuracy (maybe it's the barrel)

DonC...what kind of accuracy are you getting with your Omnia? Any issues?

The only remaining option is to see if the action of the Omnia can be replaced with a more accurate action...like a TX 200, HW 97, Beeman R9, HW 50 etc. How are the mounting holes in the Omnia....does it match up with any of these more accurate air rifles? (DonC?)
 
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For those of us who aren't Olympic level shooters, would the Noricas be OK, might be a better question.
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Depends on what you mean by OK.

It's a $400 gun with potential to be (more?) accurate, according to Tom Gaylord. For that kind of accuracy, 0.657 inches at 25 yards (best grouping btw). Not Field Target accurate (0.33 inches at 25 yards for the TX) and definitely not Olympic level accurate.
There are cheaper alternatives around the $100-200 range that will shoot 0.657 inches at 25 yards all day long. If all you want to do is plink at cans around 25 yards, I wouldn't spend that kind of money.

Currently, the only advantage to spending that amount of money on an Omnia is that you can put "non springer" rated scopes on it and it may offer greater protection for your "expensive" scopes without resorting to recoilless scope mounts.

The only potential I see is if that recoilless stock can be retro fitted with a more accurate action. Hopefully, there's enough flexibility in the design for someone to test that potential.

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Part 6 of Tom Gaylord's review for the Omnia just came out. His 10 shots group has shrunk to 0.377 inch at 25 yards.
 
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Decades ago -- like the 1980s -- Crosman had a break barrel in its lineup that was a modestly powered .177 -- maybe 550-600 fps? The rifle had a globe front sight that would take inserts, kind of like a Lyman 17. I bought one and shot it a lot, mostly killing starlings in our plum tree. That rifle was so smooth to cock and so quiet, that it reminds me now in its handling and firing behavior of the later Czech Slavia 631 I owned. Just a delight to shoot. I may be wrong but I thought it was a Norica. It was my first break-barrel. Then I started receiving the Beeman catalog. And then, early on in the Internet era, I discovered the late Mr. James Kitching and "Fun Supply" ... :cool:
 
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