Issue with Taipan Veteran Long

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CurlyWoods

CurlyWoods

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I purchased this Taipan Veteran Long recently, but had not had time to shoot it until last evening. The cylinder was charged to 250 bar I loaded up a magazine was about to give a go at 10 yards to begin scope dial in. I attempted to retract cocking lever to insert magazine and the cocking lever would not fully retract. It felt as if there was a big spring holding it back from full reward travel. The magazine center pin retracted as it should, but the pellet insertion pin was not coming back far enough to insert the magazine. What could cause this to bind like this?
 
It is a 25. Nothing real solid, just high resistance. I guess I was worried that if I pull to hard I might damage something. I did get it back enough to get magazine to go in, but it did not cock as no trigger past 1st stage pull. Would not fire. I will try a little more force, but I have been accused of over doing things so I am a bit leary of using too much force on the cocking lever.
 
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Did you check your hammer spring adjuster?
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I have never owned a PCP before this so I am unsure about what/where it is set. I figured that the guy I bought it from had set it. I know where it is, but again this was going to be my initial firing of the rifle so just looking for proper operation to start with before I got serious about optimization steps.
 
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Having never owned a PCP I guarantee you will be very impressed with that one.

A .25 veteran long has a ton of power for an "airgun".

Wish I could be there to see your face when you shoot it for the first time 👀

Good luck and keep us posted 👍



BTW if you do decide to adjust the hammer spring tension be sure that the gun is UN cocked when turning the adjuster.
 
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While you are playing around trying to get used to the operation of the cocking lever and magazine insertion and pellet probe loading ... be careful or you may accidentally double load the gun with 2 pellets in the barrel.

If you are not familiar with pcp rifles ... take your time ... patience is your friend.
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One of the Veteran features I really like is its anti-double load, especially good if hunting or walking with it. Just de-cock on a live chamber, and then cock when ready to shoot. Then you have a totally safe gun until cocked again. If you don't take the shot, just de-cock again. This is not a real two-stage trigger, and like most of that nature, I would never trust the safety for any field scenario. When cocked, the sear is on its knife edge of releasing the hammer, and if you have the trigger adjusted with all noticeable creep removed (which most do), a healthy bump could accidentally discharge it. 
 
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Don’t worry about double loading with your Taipan Veteran, the magazine will not cycle (index) until the gun is fired. Sonny and Likkitysplyt are applying their knowledge of other air guns. The Taipan veterans have an anti-double load technology that most other PCP do not have, making this platform VERY safe as compared to other PCP. Follow what ehl0102’s advice regarding field use.

Cocking...its that last little bit of travel that cocks the hammer.


 
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OOPS ... Sorry 'bout that ... MY BAD

All my eastern European guns (Uragan, Vulcan Tactic, Edgun, Cricket ... as well as my not so eastern European guns like the Wildcat, Impact ((gen 1)) etc. will double load in a heartbeat. Don't ask me how I know 😵 I'm probably the only one in the world that could double load on a single shot tray 💩

Have been thinking about getting a TV for a long time, but other toys keep jumping up at me just about the time I'm about to pull the trigger on the Vet. The trouble is ... every time I get to the point where I think I have found a gun that I just can't live without ... I'll wait about a month and something else will convince me that I'll die unless I get this other one ... until the next month 😁

Life DOES get complicated 😎

Shalom

John
 
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Like others have said, it sounds like the hammer spring adjuster is turned too far in. Adjust out counter clockwise quarter turns till the gun will cock. Then give it another quarter to half turn counter clockwise. Make sure to loosen the adjuster set screw before adjusting then make sure to tighten the set screw after adjusting
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Renz
 
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If you decock it with a pellet still in the barrel you HAVE TO REMOVE THE MAGAZINE OTHERWISE YOU WILL DOUBLE LOAD IT next time you cock it.

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I haven't decocked with a live round in the chamber and tried to cock it again with a loaded magazine because this goes against all I experienced however the Taipan Vet may be unique. How does the gun know it's decocked and not fired the shot? As to not index the next round in the magazine?

I have always just removed the magazine when miss that shot opportunity.


 
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If you decock it with a pellet still in the barrel you HAVE TO REMOVE THE MAGAZINE OTHERWISE YOU WILL DOUBLE LOAD IT next time you cock it.

Edit!

I haven't decocked with a live round in the chamber and tried to cock it again with a loaded magazine because this goes against all I experienced however the Taipan Vet may be unique. How does the gun know it's decocked and not fired the shot? As to not index the next round in the magazine?

I have always just removed the magazine when miss that shot opportunity.

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Not sure how it knows but it knows. On my .25 Vet. I can decock and recock without removing the magazine with no double loading. Magazine won't index until actually fired. Maybe air pressure from the shot cycle resets the indexing mechanism?
 
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