Tuner for Beeman R9 in colorado?

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A new tuned R9 from flying dragon is $450 shipped.



figure shipping to/from your tuner of choice, you're almost halfway there.



perhaps buy a new one tuned ready to go, sell yours to pay the difference?



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As another Coloradan who has grappled with this question it is, as so many in life, a balance between how important the money is and your confidence in your ability to do the job well. Ask yourself if your mechanical skill and patience are sufficient. It is unlikely that you will badly damage the gun, but you may, if you are not up to the job, wind up with a gun that performs no better and has butchered screw heads.

I have decided that valuable guns and those with some emotional connection deserve the best expert care, but I will dive into some flea market finds. At the moment I am torn between professional and self repair of a Crosman 150 and 157.
 
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Wow what a good topic for us all!

Everyone contributes their thought and experience in this issue.

My idea first is send it to a place familiar with R9s and refurbishes them under the name Beeman or HW.

If specific touches are desired upon your R9 beyond the warranty sort then it IS time for a Professional.

Choosing them for air guns or air rifles can be a bit of a quandary.

I have never sent an air rifle to anybody to alter and try my best to use it as it is without messing with it. I confess I am usually a messer of trying to "fix things" on my own.

Who do you trust with an R9? If you do not know then you try to get feedback on R9 workers and to tell you the truth that to me is always a gamble in some way.

The other side is investing in the man that owns the rifle you have and has won competitions with it. Recorded targeted competitions where there is no liar around to show pictures and results without witnesses.

When you want to fix an air gun it is HARDER to do than fixing a firearm.

That is why your topic is very important for all air rifle lovers; our air rifles require more attention than the norm and when we want them to achieve our goal we make sure we start RIGHT with who is right to do the tune.

Let me go on. The only "airgunsmith" I personally trust is the one who used a .20 Lothar Walther barrel drilled a decade or more ago in the number 30. Thirty .20 barrels capable of taking the usual place of .177 and .22 in the Diana Air King 54 Recoilless. Only Hector J. Medina Gomez Airgunsmith Connecticut Custom Airguns could install them and did on my Diana D54 AirKing serial# 02170367 on March 18, 2020.

Would I send my R9 to Hector to work on? First if I could but he's too busy with Diana to deal with HW tuning although he has done that before.

Who would I send my R9 to in Colorado v any state in the union to work on?

First place would be any place warranting a Beeman fix free or with time and labor and parts. 

After that it is a crap shoot!
 
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