Air Arms TX 200 Mk III Arrived Today

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I like BKL mounts. they are machined out of one piece of metal and don't add cant error. But I do have a drawer full of scope mounts. Just about every type but still like BKL. Good luck on the one piece mount. There is one other thing I do on a springer when trying to get a consistent hold spot on the forearm. I will put a piece of grip tape on the forearm to make sure I have a starting point for the hold. Then ill move from that starting point until I "think" the rifle is doing what I want it too.
 
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"Goodtogo"I like BKL mounts. they are machined out of one piece of metal and don't add cant error. But I do have a drawer full of scope mounts. Just about every type but still like BKL. Good luck on the one piece mount. There is one other thing I do on a springer when trying to get a consistent hold spot on the forearm. I will put a piece of grip tape on the forearm to make sure I have a starting point for the hold. Then ill move from that starting point until I "think" the rifle is doing what I want it too.
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I was experimenting a bit tonight with the front bag position. No definite determination was achieved. %^ | In Mat's advertisement for the HC he elected to shoot offhand and touted the 'Artillery Hold'. IDK. These guns have won a lot of competitions. So there must be a path to consistency. Or precision.
 
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The gun appears to be a very reliable consistent 1/2 inch gun at 25 yards ... if I do my part. I'm sure a better shooter could do much better. It is hold sensitive. It likes being balanced ( just in front of the trigger guard ) on a small sand bag. It dos not like to be allowed to slide backwards given a loose hold. If I don't keep it tucked with a good cheek weld the pellet will go an inch off. It wants to be held the exact same way every time. It will stack ten pellets within half an inch just about every time if I do this. It is probably not even half way broken in and perhaps I may see improvement.
 
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NuecesMinor Update:

The gun appears to be a very reliable consistent 1/2 inch gun at 25 yards ... if I do my part. I'm sure a better shooter could do much better. It is hold sensitive. It likes being balanced ( just in front of the trigger guard ) on a small sand bag. It dos not like to be allowed to slide backwards given a loose hold. If I don't keep it tucked with a good cheek weld the pellet will go an inch off. It wants to be held the exact same way every time. It will stack ten pellets within half an inch just about every time if I do this. It is probably not even half way broken in and perhaps I may see improvement.
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Glad she is shooting good for you. Curious which mounts you went with. I tried the bkl mounts on a TX200mk3......the ones with 4 dovetail screws and 3 straps per mount. 8 screws total on the dovetail groove between the two mounts. Mounts were still moving backwards in the dovetail. It wasnt noticeable tho.....I ended up taping off the reciever and surely enough, after 500 pellets you could tell it was still moving. I actually kept tightening down those 8 screws.....getting tighter and tighter. Still moving. Tightened them until they started to strip I kid you not. BKL mounts do not work well for springers due to no stop pin. They might work on a 6ft lb springer. I do like bkl mounts on my pcp guns tho. The design does not lend itself to a stop pin in the mount.
 
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No man I didn't mean to imply that at all ! But some spring rifles do . Including fixed barrel guns . But I can say this . You only have to look at ONE AirArms gun to see their quality control Is top notch !!! I seriously doubt that could ever be an issue with an AirArms gun. They don't jump on every band wagon that comes along . They do what they do , and do it right !
 
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Glad she is shooting good for you. Curious which mounts you went with. I tried the bkl mounts on a TX200mk3......the ones with 4 dovetail screws and 3 straps per mount. 8 screws total on the dovetail groove between the two mounts. Mounts were still moving backwards in the dovetail. It wasnt noticeable tho.....I ended up taping off the reciever and surely enough, after 500 pellets you could tell it was still moving. I actually kept tightening down those 8 screws.....getting tighter and tighter. Still moving. Tightened them until they started to strip I kid you not. BKL mounts do not work well for springers due to no stop pin. They might work on a 6ft lb springer. I do like bkl mounts on my pcp guns tho. The design does not lend itself to a stop pin in the mount.


Mark I have drilled a number of BKL mounts for a stop pin. the one with the 4 screws are the easiest but the single strap mounts still give you enough room. On my tx200 I have not put a pin in it and it hasn't moved.(I pencil mark around all of my mounts) On some I have just made the pin the exact to fit between the scope and the receiver and others I have drilled and tapped for a set screw. Since I have only one hard hitting springer left I don't do that as much now. Unless working on a friends scope movement problem. 
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Glad she is shooting good for you. Curious which mounts you went with. I tried the bkl mounts on a TX200mk3......the ones with 4 dovetail screws and 3 straps per mount. 8 screws total on the dovetail groove between the two mounts. Mounts were still moving backwards in the dovetail. It wasnt noticeable tho.....I ended up taping off the reciever and surely enough, after 500 pellets you could tell it was still moving. I actually kept tightening down those 8 screws.....getting tighter and tighter. Still moving. Tightened them until they started to strip I kid you not. BKL mounts do not work well for springers due to no stop pin. They might work on a 6ft lb springer. I do like bkl mounts on my pcp guns tho. The design does not lend itself to a stop pin in the mount.


Mark I have drilled a number of BKL mounts for a stop pin. the one with the 4 screws are the easiest but the single strap mounts still give you enough room. On my tx200 I have not put a pin in it and it hasn't moved.(I pencil mark around all of my mounts) On some I have just made the pin the exact to fit between the scope and the receiver and others I have drilled and tapped for a set screw. Since I have only one hard hitting springer left I don't do that as much now. Unless working on a friends scope movement problem. 
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Not trying to buck what you said. Just listing my personal experience with the bkl mounts on my TX200mk3 in .22 caliber at 14ft lbs. I used the mounts as they came. I didnt drill them to make a stop pin. I was using a 30oz hawke scope and Im sure the weight of the scope didnt help with the movement. What can I say? That was my experience with those mounts. It wasnt easily noticeable. If someone only shot here and there they might not even notice. I was going thru almost a thousand pellets every 7 to 10 days. I too believe in bkl mounts...the design is unique and centers everything up very very well. I was disappointed I couldnt get em to hold on my TX. Never thought about drilling em for a stop pin.....maybe I should have tried it.
 
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"Marksman3006"
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Glad she is shooting good for you. Curious which mounts you went with. I tried the bkl mounts on a TX200mk3......the ones with 4 dovetail screws and 3 straps per mount. 8 screws total on the dovetail groove between the two mounts. Mounts were still moving backwards in the dovetail. It wasnt noticeable tho.....I ended up taping off the reciever and surely enough, after 500 pellets you could tell it was still moving. I actually kept tightening down those 8 screws.....getting tighter and tighter. Still moving. Tightened them until they started to strip I kid you not. BKL mounts do not work well for springers due to no stop pin. They might work on a 6ft lb springer. I do like bkl mounts on my pcp guns tho. The design does not lend itself to a stop pin in the mount.
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Marksman, This is the mount I put on it. PA carries them. I suspect they are not the most solid accurate choice but I'm just after minute of squirrel. They have a stop pin. It hasn't moved. This one has some droop compensation. I'm not 100% sure this gun has any droop now. I may have been mistaken in my original report. Somebody remind me how exactly to determine if a gun has droop please.

 
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Nueces
"Marksman3006"
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Glad she is shooting good for you. Curious which mounts you went with. I tried the bkl mounts on a TX200mk3......the ones with 4 dovetail screws and 3 straps per mount. 8 screws total on the dovetail groove between the two mounts. Mounts were still moving backwards in the dovetail. It wasnt noticeable tho.....I ended up taping off the reciever and surely enough, after 500 pellets you could tell it was still moving. I actually kept tightening down those 8 screws.....getting tighter and tighter. Still moving. Tightened them until they started to strip I kid you not. BKL mounts do not work well for springers due to no stop pin. They might work on a 6ft lb springer. I do like bkl mounts on my pcp guns tho. The design does not lend itself to a stop pin in the mount.
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Marksman, This is the mount I put on it. PA carries them. I suspect they are not the most solid accurate choice but I'm just after minute of squirrel. They have a stop pin. It hasn't moved. This one has some droop compensation. I'm not 100% sure this gun has any droop now. I may have been mistaken in my original report. Somebody remind me how exactly to determine if a gun has droop please.

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I have to admit that is a pretty sweet mount. Especially for a springer. Ive never tried one but it makes sense having that recoil dampening on a springer. Let us know how she holds zero from day to day....from tin to tin. Im sure the base will stay put with a stop pin....especially considering its absorbing the recoil. Should be alot more gentle on scopes internals.
 
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I have to admit that is a pretty sweet mount. Especially for a springer. Ive never tried one but it makes sense having that recoil dampening on a springer. Let us know how she holds zero from day to day....from tin to tin. Im sure the base will stay put with a stop pin....especially considering its absorbing the recoil. Should be alot more gentle on scopes internals.
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That was my hope. Seems ok so far.
 
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Barrell droop is mostly identified when your scope runs out of adjustment and your still not on target......like hitting low despite running out of elevation on your scope. It would be highly unusual for a tx200 to need droop compensation due to their build quality, attention ro detail, and its fixed barrell. Barrell droop is more common in cheap break barrells.....not the good ones tho.
The droop compensation is still good tho for the tx because it will give you more elevation adjustment for longer shots.
 
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NuecesI guess I can determine droop or no droop if I take off my scope, use the box method to get it dead centered, put it back on the rifle and put the rifle in a gun vise, mark on a target where the scope is pointing, fire a pellet and measure any drop minus the scope height measurement ? I spose I need to do this. I'm very lazy though. %^)
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Exactly! That would be a very, very scientific way to measure the droop precisely. Taking into account pellet drop too with something like strelok or chairgun. Ive never done that tho. Never felt the need to. If I had a nice gun tho that I suspected had droop......I would do that for sure.
 
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With a Vortek spring kit in mine, I can pull off one hole groups at 40 yards on a clam day. Not all of them are one hole and I do hold the gun with my rested hand on the forestock. That adds another movement factor but to me it is more like "real" shooting instead of just aiming and pulling the trigger. It also gives me a better feel for the gun in general.

Let it wear in a bit and even if you don't want a spring kit, you can put a plastic shim, from a soft drink bottle, in the compression tube to keep the spring in check even more. It will enhance the accuracy. I added one on top of the vortek spring cover (there still was room to do that).
 
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It looks like I need to retract my statement that my TX has barrel droop. I took off the scope today and carefully centered the reticle. Put it back on with the droop compensating and recoil absorbing mount. Zeroing the scope took most of my Hawke Airmax's clicks to put the pellet on target. With the crosshairs on target the pellets hit nearly 8 inches high at 25 yards. Or am I thinking backwards? This subject has always confused my little brain.
 
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"JoeWayneRhea"Yep the droop mount points the scope down . So if it's hitting that high it may not need the droop mount .
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Thanks Joe. Man I thought I had it in my mind that was the case. Then I started to doubt myself. Someday before I croak I will get it set in my head which way moving sights affects poi. Or what poi tells me about how I should move my sights. I've seen it, read it, proved it to myself and then It's like driving away from the house knowing for sure you turned off the stove ... but going back anyway cause you don't trust yourself.
 
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