Remove 10J power limit Gamo big cat 1250

Just getting into air guns as the cost of buying ammo for regular shooting is getting out of hand recently, so I bought a Gamo big cat 1250 air rifle.

Now because this was sold in Sweden, it is limited to 10J, about 600fps, from factory but since I do have a firearms license I would like to know if anyone has any insight as to how I could remove this? Do you think there is just a different spring that I can replace or other changes done to it that can be reversed?

Thanks!
 
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As long as you have a permit and or are lega;l where you are perhaps a JM kit:

http://www.airrifleheadquarters.com/catalog/item/251488/7718385.htm



Never even heard of a "10J" magnum springer ( does seem to have a spring from reading) and no telling exactly which way Gamo went, bit personally I would like to know so please keep us updated.

I just cant see then adding a smaller transfer port but maybe. I'm not all that sold on the spring being that light tho, is it crazy smooth? Seems to have very light and LONG lock time?

Some chance they are using an extra hole in the cylinder/piston to vent off power ( I'm thinking maybe this idea?) .

We need pictures! Strip that puppy down, look for , everything. If there is no "vent" type thing grab a full power spring and maybe guide ( might as well get a seal & proper lube tho) and it should be a shoulder cannon.



John
 
So, little update... Got some time over so I had a better look at the gun and noticed 2 things: First of all, it is much harder to pump than most other air rifles I've used (as one would perhaps expect if it does in fact share the stiff/long spring of the north American model?) So I'm thinking the spring might be the same, which is great, because importing the spring would mean waiting for customs to clear a "weapons component" which would take ages, and I'd love it if I had this up&running a bit quicker than that :)

Secondly, Even the markings on the barrel are marked with "10J" even though there is no apparent reason why one would need a differend barrel for lower powered guns. This makes me wonder if the models are more different than I hoped. Will pick it apart as I have time, probably by the end of the week!
 
Noticed that the transfer port is tiny, I'd guess 1.5mm (1/17 inch), maybe a bit less without whipping out the calipers. Perhaps this is normal for these guns in every market?

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Made a trigger with adjustable travel for the gun (Had some time at work :) ) (Not really relevant to the topic but thought I'd post it anyway)

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Thanks for the information.

That would be a very small port ( conversion math i9s not my thing and I'm lazy so.) somewhere around .160 ( inch) seems to be a general size for most U.S. sold springers. Somewhere closer to 4mm.

If you think about opening it some and you go too far you can just sleave it with a pressed in brass section and start over.



I would think that is enough restriction the create a very feel-able ( word ?) firing condition. I've read of people slightly decreasing the TP size to create an " air bumber" for the piston to bounce off of so the face of the piston hit's softly. 

Never seen such a thing before.



John


 
Got to picking the thing apart today, there are no valves or holes that I can see, and the Piston stroke seems to be about as long as it could be in this gun. The spring is 26.5cm (10.5") when not compressed, and the total Piston stroke seems to be about 10.5cm (4.1"). If there is someone who would know if these measurements match up with the non-limited model I'd really appreciate it!

If I need to check anything else, please tell me!

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Well I don't have any pictures unfortunately, I could get some once I get home in about a week.



I can explain the procedure however. The absolute easiest, and in general the best way to do this would be to disassemble the rifle (You don't want any steel shavings inside of it). Remove the barrel, clamp the rest of the rifle vertically in a vice with some rags. Then drill from the front (preferably) with a drill press. This could be done in less than an hour easily.

I however had to resort to a much worse way of doing things. Basically the bolt that attaches the barrel to the rifle is of really REALLY bad quality, so I stripped the damn thing by barely looking at it, meaning I couldn't remove the barrel anymore. I solved this by welding a 3.5mm drill bit to a thin steel rod and using it as an extender to drill from the other side. I think the results are the same but it was a real hassle.



While I strongly recommend going for option one, I also have some general advice when doing this.

1: The distance between the end of the piston and the actual transfer port is really long, so be prepared to drill through something like 20mm of (admittedly very soft) metal. There really isn't anything on the other side you can damage as long as you disassembled the gun.

2: It's much better to drill a hole that is too small than too big. While it isn't really that hard to drill out the transfer port and thread it and put in some brass "adapters" to change the size, it's much easier to just not make it too big. 3.5mm works well for me, but I can't promise it is optimal, just that it is much better than stock in pretty much every way. A bigger or smaller one might be even better, I don't know but I'm happy with what I got so I'm not messing with it.



As for real world numbers, all I can say is that is is much more powerful and accurate. I assume since the gun is designed to work best at its high power. While I don't have an really accurate way of measuring the velocities, I have observed that they have gone up substantially. This is most noticeable when shooting at something like 60-100m. Before the rebuild the gun would be completely useless but now the drop is quite modest. Using just the slow motion camera in my phone and counting the frames for the projectile to travel 100m, it has gone from roughly 170-185m/s to about 280-290m/s. Accuracy for me is about an inch at 30 yards, so really quite good, but that's also after building a custom trigger and a tune.

Hope this helped!
 
Buddy that hs helped loads. My transfer port will be getting the same treatment soon. Ive tuned up the insides already and will get a charlie de tuna trigger. Thats my transfer port. I wasnt sure if the whole port can come out with the seal or not as in just pull it all out then push it back in. I will open it up to 3mm and go from there. When your back if you can take a few pics that would be great. 

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