I owned one for a short time. Too short a time to get any real experience with it. Any feedback would be welcome. I had a .25 and looking to buy one again but in .22. Thanks
Any Artemis P15 owners out there. Please chime in ...
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Just bought mine from Krale a couple weeks ago. Unbelievable delivery from the Netherlands to Michigan in 4 days. Tracking number the next day and I watched it the whole way.
It just keeps getting better. It is shooting 925 +/- 6fps w the cheap walmart premiers. Have not found where it falls off the reg yet. By the time I shoot all four mags of nine, I get brought back to reality by work or family. Top it off w about 60 strokes of the chinese pump (once I found that the microbore hose really matters!).
Not the most natural pointing of guns, but it sure is short and light. My luggage scale says 6.5 pounds w scope and a full mag.
Having a good time fiddling with the baffles in the shroud. With a Donny FL Tatsu it is very quiet. Plenty backyard friendly without, but not really stealthy.
Accurate from the windowsill in extra bedroom. Creek bank at 60 yards and no leaf or dirt clod is safe. Target at 30 with walmart premiers touching each other. Having enough fun, that I haven't broken out the JSB's.
Bill
Michigan
It just keeps getting better. It is shooting 925 +/- 6fps w the cheap walmart premiers. Have not found where it falls off the reg yet. By the time I shoot all four mags of nine, I get brought back to reality by work or family. Top it off w about 60 strokes of the chinese pump (once I found that the microbore hose really matters!).
Not the most natural pointing of guns, but it sure is short and light. My luggage scale says 6.5 pounds w scope and a full mag.
Having a good time fiddling with the baffles in the shroud. With a Donny FL Tatsu it is very quiet. Plenty backyard friendly without, but not really stealthy.
Accurate from the windowsill in extra bedroom. Creek bank at 60 yards and no leaf or dirt clod is safe. Target at 30 with walmart premiers touching each other. Having enough fun, that I haven't broken out the JSB's.
Bill
Michigan
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I have one in.22. Had to replace the barrel which was terrible beyond words and do a bit of work on the reg, but that being said, once those were sorted it's a fantastic and laser accurate little gun. Got a huma on the way just in case (sitting in postal hell for months now- SA post is useless). I wrote about the barrel etc on an earlier, similar thread.
One other thing that may be an issue is the very short length of pull, but you likely know all about that having had one for a bit before. Easily sorted out.
One other thing that may be an issue is the very short length of pull, but you likely know all about that having had one for a bit before. Easily sorted out.
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Stony,
I bought one in .177 and it turns out to be annoyingly accurate at 50yds with H&N Barracudas, the regulator is extremely consistent and it just feels good cycling. I couldn't resist, so I bought a second one in .22, but it showed up after I went to the range a few weeks ago, so it hasn't done anything to prove accuracy, but it also has a darned consistent regulator over the chronograph and cycles just fine. Other than the stocks being rather unformed, I can't grumble about any flaws. At some point, I'll take a Dremel to the stock to make it a bit more ergonomic and probably do some stippling for texture and contrast it with a dark stain. Not sure what drove you to part with the first one, but you can fix that problem easy enough
Mark
I bought one in .177 and it turns out to be annoyingly accurate at 50yds with H&N Barracudas, the regulator is extremely consistent and it just feels good cycling. I couldn't resist, so I bought a second one in .22, but it showed up after I went to the range a few weeks ago, so it hasn't done anything to prove accuracy, but it also has a darned consistent regulator over the chronograph and cycles just fine. Other than the stocks being rather unformed, I can't grumble about any flaws. At some point, I'll take a Dremel to the stock to make it a bit more ergonomic and probably do some stippling for texture and contrast it with a dark stain. Not sure what drove you to part with the first one, but you can fix that problem easy enough
Mark
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Macros, what did you do to remedy that short length of pull ? I never addressed it. Someone jumped on it when I listed it a few months back and never got around to play with it.
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Stony,
My 50yd, 9 shot group (first was a spotter and I pulled the 11th) ran about this big
Does that count as annoyingly accurate to you? That was on the range with a 10+ mph wind. I was shooting my .25 R5M, a .25 Theoben Rapid and an Evanix 3D in .177. Here is this little Hecho en Chine bullpup keeping up without a struggle, like I said, annoying...
Other than the cheap A$$ cotter pins in the trigger linkage, there is nothing second rate about these. The weight is a selling point alone. I really like the little buggers!
Mark
My 50yd, 9 shot group (first was a spotter and I pulled the 11th) ran about this big
Does that count as annoyingly accurate to you? That was on the range with a 10+ mph wind. I was shooting my .25 R5M, a .25 Theoben Rapid and an Evanix 3D in .177. Here is this little Hecho en Chine bullpup keeping up without a struggle, like I said, annoying...
Other than the cheap A$$ cotter pins in the trigger linkage, there is nothing second rate about these. The weight is a selling point alone. I really like the little buggers!
Mark
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Just bought one from Krale, 2 days 8 hours to my door! Started the mods already. I put a brass insert into the hammer face to lesson the noise from the hammer strike. I upped the regulator to about 140bar and opened the barrel port to .187" but most importantly I took it completely down because almost every other screw was loose. No joke. I was also missing a grub screw to hold the barrel and the tapered pin to stop the valve port from spinning (which was a pain for me to make). Once all back together and tight the accuracy is amazing! I have the .25 and I am getting 45FPE 775FPS with the 34 JSB; Benj 27, 827fps 42FPE. I am inquiring to get a plenum extension made and will see how that works along with porting to .25" I just put the .30 Sumo on it tonight, really nice! I had the Tanto .25 but it was clipping so it is on the Gauntlet now, -scary quiet. The design is really solid, the stock is very basic but what a fun sized piece. It is hard to shoot well off-hand though because of the size, but I still really like it.
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I have .25 and .22 tuning them and get:
.22 - Exact Jumbo Heavy 1.175 g - 3mags with 280m/s
.25 - Diabolo Exact King 1.645 g - 3mags with 275m/s
So this gun is light and powerfull on 50m group of 8 shots is about 12mm hole.
Very good for hunting.
.22 - Exact Jumbo Heavy 1.175 g - 3mags with 280m/s
.25 - Diabolo Exact King 1.645 g - 3mags with 275m/s
So this gun is light and powerfull on 50m group of 8 shots is about 12mm hole.
Very good for hunting.
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I also have one in 22cal, it's my go to gun, love the little guy, my shoots very well with JSB's 18's and for my surprise, shoots extremely well with the discovery (Benjamin) 14.3gr, I have these pellets for about 2 yrs now and never tried them, man this gun just love them, it blast them down range @ 960fps, the first 3 shots went on top of each other, I thought the pellets went off somewhere, I went and checked the paper it was one hole, all 3 shots on the same hole @ 30mts, big smile on my face. With no adjustments beside I ditched the stock baffles (they are crap, doesn't work) and made my own, now it's whisper quiet and no change on the overall length of the rifle, it gets better by the day, more you shoot better it gets.
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Didn't bother to fix it yet - it's the perfect sized gun to start teaching my daughter to shoot in a year or two. Have a friend who lengthened his by milling and installing an extendable buttpad. It adds about an inch retracted up to about 2.5 fully extended. Nice addition and also lets your (or at least my) cheek rest on the intended spot instead of the magazine. I'll definitely do that or even install some sort of aftermarket butt hook if my kid doesn't take to shooting
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Update on the .22 that I got. Had a chance to run by the range yesterday for a quick test. All together, ran about 200 pellets through it, was well over 55 shots between fills and didn't seem to fall off until I got closer to 100 bar. Loved JSB Exact Jumbo's and didn't like H&N Match. I stole the scope off of the other P15 and it was so easy to dope the wind and keep the groups every bit as small as the .177. The spare magazines seem to have a bit of flash on the rotor, so not all of the pellets dropped in smoothly and needed a push to get them in. I'll pull them apart for a quick tune up, but otherwise everything ran without a hitch. I got tired of loading, so I popped the loading tray in and just kept firing one after the other. I am extremely pleased with how well it ran. It has a little bit of roughness (no sticking, just gritty) cycling the lever, but it feels like it will keep smoothing up with use. I am guilty of not taking any pictures, but I also wasn't trying to shoot any picture worthy groups and I had a ton of pellet hits cluttering up my targets from the other guns I brought.
Mark
Mark
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Yes, apparently the German company took over, my does not have the Ärtemis"logo anymore, it has "stinger"printed on the action, the supplier said that it's improved production with a better trigger too, I wouldn't know as I didn't have the "Artemis" version of it, the trigger on my seems to be fine, a little bit hard on the pull but I am used to it already.
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