Anyone Ever Heard of

[SpindleB]

Using a Shin Sung Career II .22 as a low power barn gun under 400fps?

Guy claims that is what he uses.

Seems nuts, a heavy, extremely powerful, rifle tuned down to 1/4 power.

 

[Franklink]

I have not. Those Korean air guns from that time frame were all about big power.
I would imagine castrating one down to sub400fps would have taken some modifications, transfer port, valve port, hammer spring, etc.
The Careers DID have very good barrels (owned a couple for a while) so it would probably be a good shooter, even as a barn gun.

 

[SpindleB]

I have not. Those Korean air guns from that time frame were all about big power.
I would imagine castrating one down to sub400fps would have taken some modifications, transfer port, valve port, hammer spring, etc.
The Careers DID have very good barrels (owned a couple for a while) so it would probably be a good shooter, even as a barn gun.

Yeah, he claims he does it with the Power Wheel which I doubt very much.
But a barn gun? With Notos, P35, Ozark and a whole bunch more that are lighter, smaller and just as accurate why would you use a Career? Multiple Career no less.

And brain kicks in, I bet he has a british non-FAC with the 1mm transfer port

 

[Madhatter]

I've done it with my Sumatra .25. The power wheel limits how far the poppet opens. The Sumatra is the careers way younger brother.

 

[Jaabaa]

Would maybe search TbT video archive on YouTube, he does cover Alot of different tunes? Or maybe call Dragon Airguns.

 

[SpindleB]

I've done it with my Sumatra .25. The power wheel limits how far the poppet opens. The Sumatra is the careers way younger brother.

Thanks, it just seemed so weird to use a heavy high power rifle like the Career low power like that.

 

[SpindleB]

Thanks, it just seemed so weird to use a heavy high power rifle like the Career low power like that.

Checked with Davis Schwesinger, the Korean Gun expert, and he said yes it could shoot at those velocities. He, like me, didn't understand why you would use a career like that

 

[Madhatter]

Maybe it was all he had?

 

[SpindleB]

Maybe it was all he had?

Nope, said they "buy all the Careers they can"
Detune them and use them as barn guns.
It just is so bizarre, I've done barns up around my brother's place in Oregon.
My nephew was using an Niksan Elf .22 and I had my Niksan Ozark.
Basically the same gun, Elf is the bullpup.
We swapped for a while and I was much more effective with the lighter and easier to swing bullpup