PELLET GUN ISSUES

[DAVEFISHING]

The last week I have gotten 8 squirrels and 4 rabbits. Wednesday evening I could not hit one at 20yds. Took a break yesterday, to hot and humid. Went out this morning 6" group at 30yds. could not even hit the 40yd target. Ended taking off the new suppressor,that i had to buy from AOA. had to rezero the gun, way the hell off. groups tightened back up. Got to finish setting zero. Had to come inside and cool off and calm down. Think I'm going out later and take the guts out of it and see what happens. Not even going back to Airguns of Arizona, they said I damaged the last one, I did not.

 

[JimNM]

Dave, while you have the gun on the work bench, heck your btw and screws . The vibration if the piston gun will wreck havock on threaded connections.



You are close to an Ah-ha! moment. Keep at, it is worth the work.

 

[hawkeye69]

Just curious, AOA said you damaged the last what? The gun or the suppressor?

 

[DAVEFISHING]

suppressor, it was cracked at the bottom of the threads, I wish I would of kept the old one.

 

[hawkeye69]

Is it a Huggett? Have you checked it for clipping?

 

[Chachoze]

I think he is referring to the dianna moderator that comes with version of gun that AOA offers.

Tominco put up a review of this rifle and in it at around the 10:35 mark he speaks of having poi issues with the stock moderator and he replaced it with a third party unit and those issues started to diminish. Also I don't believe he ever cocked the rifle using the moderator, only grabbing g the barrel, if you're using the moderator to cock your rifle perhaps you should try avoiding that for a while to see if it helps. 

Tom's AM03 Review

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

If a springer M/B breaks from use/cocking that is a very poor design, then again this is the only one I've read of, and again a thought, there are not too many of these rigs out there.

Dave, have you sought feed back on the diana forum? Esp. with a spring gun it can be very hard reading & deciding if it is the shooter ( it does happen) or the rifle/rig set up but your particular rifle just sounds like a sweet lemon. It is the latest greatest tho. Guarantee NO ONE has ever broken a 34 compact pro M/B.



John

 

[Chachoze]

Did they explain in what way they felt you damaged the last one??

It sound more and more like you have a pellet clipping problem, as you said earlier I would remove as much of the moderator as I could (you can leave the base block screwed onto the muzzle) and try shooting a while, you will likely have to re-zero after its removed.

Perhaps the wall of the moderator tube is to thin to handle the stress of cocking, although you would think this would have been tested....