Ok, did some experimenting this evening.
According to my chronograph, and the muzzle report, my Lite was shooting way faster than the dealer acclaimed 815fps. I found it to be shooting 885fps.
First I put a normal muffler on it to quiet it. While that helped, it made it too long for my taste.
So I started adjusting the pellet speed. Down, down, down. Actually, much closer to the sellers acclaimed 805fps. Ha, like I figured, much quieter. I did mess with a couple of non-factory mufflers, but ended up putting the original baffles back on, plus one, in an effort to keep the overall length short, and the sound acceptable at that speed.
Trigger adjustment, power adjustment -
If you decide to adjust your guns trigger, use care in the adjustments, go slow.
The sleeve that dictates where the return spring is adjusted, has "two" set screws.
1 - ONLY loosen the front set screw if you want to tighten or lighten the first stage pull. This will allow a small movement of the spring stop. A little goes a long way.
2 - The second set screw adjusts the first stage "free play". Move the sleeve, forward or back, in VERY small increments. Moving it too far forward may render the trigger useless ! Moving it back again will fix any problems.
3 - Adjusting the hammer spring. As with the above adjustments, a little goes a long way here. 1/4 turn is worth about 50fps in my gun.
4 - If like me, you set your guns to shoot a bit slower than all you high power guys. So that adjustment moves the hammer adjusting screw out of the back of the receiver. This in turn makes it impossible to put the stock back in place, if you attempt to do it by just sliding it straight in place.
You have to "rock" the stock in place, by putting the back of the stock in place over the receiver, then lower the front into position.
The stock has a hole in it for the hammer screw to live in, but it's just a round hole, not a slot in the stock.
5 - And as always, a little oil on the pins with rotating parts, and sliding surfaces, goes a long way toward a really nice trigger.
My first few shots with the as received 885fps, used up a lot of air. As I recall, I only put 5 or 6 shots through it the first shooting I did. The gauge needle moved about 50 bar.
BUT, after lowering it to a hair over 800fps, I put a full magazine through the gun, the needle didnt hardly move. So it looks like you high powered guys may be out of luck for a high shot count with this little gun, unless you accept a slightly slower pellet speed, or take extra air with you.
Liking it so far...
Picture tomorrow.
Mike
