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What'cha doing air gun related today?
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Well, the AirForce .177 Talon came, and I will clean the barrel and mount a scope tonight. I have already filled and leak checked the tank. All good.
While I was waiting for it, I took these pictures of the crown on my Vectis. I have never seen such a bad crown in all my life. I will have to message them to see if I can get another barrel for it. Looks like it was chattering when they cut it.
While I was waiting for it, I took these pictures of the crown on my Vectis. I have never seen such a bad crown in all my life. I will have to message them to see if I can get another barrel for it. Looks like it was chattering when they cut it.
Wow, that looks terrible. I hope you get it worked out Chief
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horrific!
MileHighAirGunner
HAM Sharp Shooter
I sent a request to Hatsan for a new barrel. In that I removed the shroud they will say I voided the warranty so we will see what happens. I do not mind paying for it if it is only about $60. The gun was sold twice in this condition. Regardless of what anyone thinks of their construction, their guns have a good reputation for accuracy so I was very surprised that I could not get it to group.
If I can't get a new barrel, I guess I could chuck a brass screw in a drill with some rubbing compound and try to clean it up. Really can't hurt anything in this condition.
If I can't get a new barrel, I guess I could chuck a brass screw in a drill with some rubbing compound and try to clean it up. Really can't hurt anything in this condition.
Geez looks like they took a hand drill to it. Hopefully they see this is not acceptable. So much for quality control.
So, I got back in my lane this morning and pulled the barrel from the new .177 Talon and cleaned it. I also disabled the auto safety and mounted a 4x16x scope. This is my first Talon, all of my other Airforce guns are the higher power models. So, the main differences I could see is that this has the standard valve rather than the high flow valve in the tank and it does not have the hammer weight. 
It's holding air press, cocks and fires and the manual safety works good. So, if it is a bit cooler tomorrow morning, I will take it out and shoot it some. Someday I might get a regulator and a CF tank for one of the other guns, but this is my last PCP.
It's holding air press, cocks and fires and the manual safety works good. So, if it is a bit cooler tomorrow morning, I will take it out and shoot it some. Someday I might get a regulator and a CF tank for one of the other guns, but this is my last PCP.
Murfdurf82
HAM Sniper
Umarex can not provide the dimensions of the hammer spring on a Zelos, WOW. I know generally what it is, size wise but a person would think that Information would be available by umarex to pass along. Now I'm close to the correct spring except the one I found at Menards is a bit too weak. So I ordered off ali express from a link a person put on here for springs they use. At some point I'll find what I'm looking for.
Backstory is I bought a zelos that was an unfinished product. Short of a still hammer spring I should be to shoot it. With the lighter menards spring I was getting 820-800fps, with a heavy spring that's cut too short I was getting closer to 960 with the same reg pressure. So close yet so far away.
Backstory is I bought a zelos that was an unfinished product. Short of a still hammer spring I should be to shoot it. With the lighter menards spring I was getting 820-800fps, with a heavy spring that's cut too short I was getting closer to 960 with the same reg pressure. So close yet so far away.
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I shot the .177 TalonSS this morning and it did very well with the KO 10gr slugs. I need to get some different pellets to try. Crossman was just OK and Hades were pretty bad at the speeds I tried.
I got this gun because I wanted the 12-inch .177 barrel and another small SS frame. I will end up pulling the hammer weight and tank with the high flow valve off of the Escape too put this Talon tank onto the Escape which will work better with the 24-inch .22 barrel shooting pellets. I will then put the hammer weight and high flow tank onto the TalonSS turning it into another EscapeSS with the extra power for heavier slugs. So, with the help of the Top Hat kit, I will be able to try out the heavier 13 and 15 grain .177 slugs up to 1100+fps.
You can only buy an EscapeSS in .22 or .25, so the only way I could do this and not have an extra unneeded barrel was to get the TallonSS in .177 and swap some parts around which can be swapped back in about 10 minutes at any time if I choose too.
I got this gun because I wanted the 12-inch .177 barrel and another small SS frame. I will end up pulling the hammer weight and tank with the high flow valve off of the Escape too put this Talon tank onto the Escape which will work better with the 24-inch .22 barrel shooting pellets. I will then put the hammer weight and high flow tank onto the TalonSS turning it into another EscapeSS with the extra power for heavier slugs. So, with the help of the Top Hat kit, I will be able to try out the heavier 13 and 15 grain .177 slugs up to 1100+fps.
You can only buy an EscapeSS in .22 or .25, so the only way I could do this and not have an extra unneeded barrel was to get the TallonSS in .177 and swap some parts around which can be swapped back in about 10 minutes at any time if I choose too.
Today I mounted the scope back on my Uragan2.
Sometime back I sent my Riton 3 primal 3-15x44 LW (Light Weight) in for warranty. I didn't feel like the optical quality of the scope was up to par. Riton quickly agreed and returned a new scope to me under warranty.
This optic is on my U2 .25 700 Carbon that I use for my coyote calling rifle. Coyote calling season is close so it was time to get the scope back on the rifle and get some trigger time with the U2!
I'm not a bullpup fan, but I bought the U2 because the overall design and feel of the 700 is much closer to the feel of a traditional rifle than a bullpup.
Sometime back I sent my Riton 3 primal 3-15x44 LW (Light Weight) in for warranty. I didn't feel like the optical quality of the scope was up to par. Riton quickly agreed and returned a new scope to me under warranty.
This optic is on my U2 .25 700 Carbon that I use for my coyote calling rifle. Coyote calling season is close so it was time to get the scope back on the rifle and get some trigger time with the U2!
I'm not a bullpup fan, but I bought the U2 because the overall design and feel of the 700 is much closer to the feel of a traditional rifle than a bullpup.
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Took my first shots with the Barra Sportsman 900. 7.5 lb trigger, but first shot at 10 meters was a kill shot (on steel feral hog silhouette) with the iron sights using Barra's Bowie pellets. Did some shooting at targets for a bit, then put up a HAM Bell Challenge in the fading light and tried my hand. Maybe the trigger and I, but shots were to the right of center. Tried another 10 shot group seated and it opened up more. So probably definitely influenced by my drenched in sweat jerkiness. Remember kids, breathe and don't be a jerk.
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Shot the avenge x today .22 with jts 22.07 and barracuda match 21.14. turning down the regulator again tomorrow because at 25 yards neither pellet would group tight at 25 yards. I ran 45 and 40 pellets. After refilling the air tank there was a spike both times where the regulator crept up.
Right now the regulator is at 1800 psi and my hammer spring doesn't adjust, may need to find my lighter spring. I get a lot of shots. At that power level it would have 52-55 shots. Although the regulator creep is pretty noticeable as well with this gun.
Right now the regulator is at 1800 psi and my hammer spring doesn't adjust, may need to find my lighter spring. I get a lot of shots. At that power level it would have 52-55 shots. Although the regulator creep is pretty noticeable as well with this gun.
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I put springs inside of springs all of the time for problems like yours. You might have to cut the internal spring a few times to get it at the power you want, so buy at least two. Don't bother to find perfect, make it, it's faster.
LostInMO
HAM Shooter
Shot a few rounds thru my Daystate huntsman Revere. Shot so good it was boring! LOL. Rest of the day was trying to figure out a leak on my AEA HPSS Plus.....I hate that thing. I found the O-ring it blew out, but can't figure out where to replace it. I gave up.
Those strings don't look right. Avenger and Avenge X regs are usually very good performers. Personally, I'd take some 1000-2000 grit sandpaper to the bellville washers and replace the orings. Worry about your settings after you get rid of that creeping.
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