Pick up your airgun and shoot? Or enjoy endless tuning options?

Some have good fun shooting a can at 55 yards, i really want to shoot a dice at +100 yards, and a golf ball at 200 yards.

I write yards i really mean meters as i am a EURO boy.

I dont think i will be a constant tuner, i think i am able to accept that at some point, this is as good as it is ever going to be. Also knowing myself if i stagnate in my performance then things tend to get boring fast, this have been the case in 3 cushion billiards - rifle shooting - darts - playing the drums - weight lifting - fly fishing. Even cost me a few jobs too along the way, as all tolerances was not within 8/1000 of a mm, and a few 100 of a mm get boring even on the all manual grinding machine i operated, even more so and faster with a CNC machine.

And i tried several times to get a job in aerospace / aviation with a well known company here, but they never hired me,,,,,, which was their loss not mine. but thats the standards i think i would enjoy working within.

And if i win a little money in the lottery, 14 years ago as i have been stunt driving my 660 CCM Yamaha raptor quad bike and got to be okay doing that, well then i will get a regular motorcycle modified for stunt and throw down on that, even if my next birthday is my 55 one,and my bones i am sure are not what they use to be.

Both!

My Boss & Royale 500 have NEVER been tinkered with, haven't ever even used the power wheel on either! Pick up & shoot with incredible accuracy EVERY time. Got enough problems in life to "tinker" with. Don't need or want either of my guns to fall into that category. They're perfect every time! 

Pick up and shoot, to me it’s just more fun.

For me it's pick it up and shoot. Some people tinker so they can shoot others shoot so they can tinker.

I understand sometimes you have to work on a gun to correct a problem but I don't mess with the internals unless I have to.

Point and shoot

I love to tinker. Always trying to squeeze out a little better efficiency and power. But after that , I can just grab and shoot.. best of both worlds

Tune til I find a nice setting then leave it alone and shoot 

Pick up and shoot. We need to let motorhead, Derrick Wall, John in Pa, David Slade, AZ and many others eat also.

Pick up and shoot. We need to let motorhead, Derrick Wall, John in Pa, David Slade, AZ , Ernest Rowe and many others eat also.

Pick up and shoot or me, as others have said we have choices these days, and that's awesome . I think that one of the biggest advancements with air guns ,is being able to change the caliber on the same gun. . 

Pick up and shoot for me. Just knowing that it’s going to be awesome makes this such a great sport. Although I understand why the tinkers like to dial things in, squeeze every bit of precision out of the gun!

I do both and enjoy the fruits of my labor. What fantastic (airgun) times we live in (excluding Covid) 

Pick up and shoot. 

I bought a tuned Cricket from Derrick last year. Learned not to fill it last 200 Bar for better "pickup and shoot". Over 200 Bar there is a tendency for reg creep.

All guns present endless tuning options if you have the skill. But once I decide what projectile I’m committed to, my end game is a gun that will spend the rest of its life as a pick up and shoot gun. When the itch for another caliber or projectile arises, I buy another gun for the collection and try not to mess with my guns that are dialed in. 

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I own some that get set and left alone, while others get fiddled with ad infinitum.

I started shooting airguns last year with a Prod. It shot well out of the box with Crosman domed and a little better with H&N FTT copper plated. It shoots some heavier pellets well too but not at high enough velocity to flatten out the trajectory. I enjoyed finding out which it shot best. I had a scope problem and when that was fixed I started hitting squirrels but I had a couple run off after a solid hit. So I tuned it for more power. Now they don't run. It was fun. But inn the process I thought I needed to drill out the transfer port when I had not really turned in the hammer spring all the way. So now I need to go back to a stock size transfer port and see what I can get with maximum hammer force on the valve. I also ordered a anti-bounce kit for it yesterday. I did not mess with it during squirrel season but now that is over, I want to see if I can improve it further. I also changed from the original butt stock to one of my own design.

I didn't mod it because it did not shoot well. i tuned and modified it to make ti more to my liking.

I bought an Avenger this year and it almost requires tuning. It comes with the regulator set at 2900 - too high in my opinion - and hammer spring in three turns - also too much I believe. I degassed it before shooting it and set the regulator initially at 1600 psi. It shot pretty well there but energy was 35-40 fpe so I decided to increase the regulator pressure. I tried increasing hammer force each step but it did not increase velocity until I got to about 2400 psi. I'm up to 45-50 fps and velocity went up only a little once I got to 2100 psi. I am at a hammer spring increase of 1.5 turns and it is shooting great! 1/4 inch groups at 33 yards are now normal. I am not anxious to change the tune.

I haven't gotten a slug to shoot even passably but I don't currently care. 

I improved the trigger pull by increasing the length of the screw that adjusts sear engagement from 10 mm to 12mm. There is still a tiny bit of creep bot I cannot make it slam fire so I think the trigger is now finished. There was too much creep for me before I replaced the screw. (it is a 5mm-.8)

Right now I am getting my compressor bottle working and messing with moderators. After that there will be something else to change. I like shooting but I also like messing with my guns (powder and air).

Both. I have guns that I reach for first if I need to quickly dispatch a pest or predator. Not related necessarily to power but because I KNOW it will hit the target if I do my part. I have others that are a little more "temperamental". I enjoy shooting both types at times, but I don't rely on both in the same way.

I bought an Avenger this year and it almost requires tuning. It comes with the regulator set at 2900 - too high in my opinion - and hammer spring in three turns - also too much I believe. I degassed it before shooting it and set the regulator initially at 1600 psi. It shot pretty well there but energy was 35-40 fpe so I decided to increase the regulator pressure. I tried increasing hammer force each step but it did not increase velocity until I got to about 2400 psi. I'm up to 45-50 fps and velocity went up only a little once I got to 2100 psi. I am at a hammer spring increase of 1.5 turns and it is shooting great! 1/4 inch groups at 33 yards are now normal. I am not anxious to change the tune.

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JimD - which caliber on the Avenger? I am getting the .25.