Are your a barrel/caliber changer or I’ll just buy a new gun type?

[PasadenaMike]

I’ll tell you exactly what I am. I am the guy thatll buy a new gun in another desired caliber instead of swapping barrels and re tuning. I feel like once a gun is set it should be left alone. Almost all my guns are modular. The only gun that I actually sometimes swap barrels is the leishy Classic and that’s it because it’s 3 minutes and I don’t even adjust power. How about you?

 

[pan60]

i thought about having one gun and just getting seperate barrels but i am so so so glad i decided against it.
if i want to going pesting i will grab that gun. i dont want to mess with it when i need to rain lead down apon some poor squirrels life.

 

[TerryE1]

I might put a .22 barrel on my Avenge X sometime down the road. Only because my budget won't allow a Western Airguns Rattler .30

 

[PasadenaMike]

I might put a .22 barrel on my Avenge X sometime down the road. Only because my budget won't allow a Western Airguns Rattler .30

For $70 it’s worth it

 

[Solo1]

Well i have 2 ghosts and an extra barrel and find it ok. The 177 is my ft gun and stays that way. My other was originally 25 cal but i now have a 22 cal barrel for it and its not bad changing. Air pressure stays the same just adjust power wheel for velocity and your on your way. Now just to get some new mrds to try!

 

[PasadenaMike]

Well i have 2 ghosts and an extra barrel and find it ok. The 177 is my ft gun and stays that way. My other was originally 25 cal but i now have a 22 cal barrel for it and its not bad changing. Air pressure stays the same just adjust power wheel for velocity and your on your way. Now just to get some new mrds to try!

Yeah that’s easy enough I’d probably do that

 

[Solo1]

Yeah that’s easy enough I’d probably do that

Makes it nice having 2 the same should ever a problem arise i have the other gun!

 

[pan60]

Well i have 2 ghosts and an extra barrel and find it ok. The 177 is my ft gun and stays that way. My other was originally 25 cal but i now have a 22 cal barrel for it and its not bad changing. Air pressure stays the same just adjust power wheel for velocity and your on your way. Now just to get some new mrds to try!

from what i have read when the times come for me o acquire a ghost i could see have a possable differant cal set up.

 

[Farmplinker2]

This is one of those "whatever I decide, it's going to be wrong" questions. I generally lean towards another gun, but I'm not buying at that quality/price level.

 

[ScottG]

I was ( still am ) pretty new at airguns. I'm hooked big time now but I've only been in the sport for <10yrs. When I bought my first used FX Maverick I was all about the extra barrels, both length and caliber. I thought it would be cost efficient and maybe more financially responsible of me ...blah blah blah. I've come to realize that I'm not the best tuner so swapping barrels and calibers isn't in my best interest. So, for me, it has to be a different gun.

 

[PasadenaMike]

I was ( still am ) pretty new at airguns. I'm hooked big time now but I've only been in the sport for <10yrs. When I bought my first used FX Maverick I was all about the extra barrels, both length and caliber. I thought it would be cost efficient and maybe more financially responsible of me ...blah blah blah. I've come to realize that I'm not the best tuner so swapping barrels and calibers isn't in my best interest. So, for me, it has to be a different gun.

Couldn’t have said it better

 

[MountainSportAirguns]

I think for the most part people think it might be something they do all the time, for me I like to setup a gun once. Some guns are easier than others to swap out but it's still involved process. It's an extra selling point many people think they need until they actually do it. I think some of the more budget friendly guns are more suited to caliber change options.

 

[Danman]

Enters the Brk Ghost (As Solo1 said). Sadly barrel kits aren't cheap though! I think the higher end guns actually make more sense than the cheaper guns. I can buy 3 avengers in whatever calibers for about $1800 Canadian. Set em once and shoot. The Ghost will cost me $3000, that's some serious coin for one lead slinger. But another barrel kit is roughly $800 and requires almost no adjustment (again Brk nailed it) Yes to optimize it you should swap the hammer spring too but you definitely don't need to. 5/10 minutes on the bench after your 5 min barrel swap and you are ready to shoot. In actual practice though yeah I think it's easier with one gun for one caliber I told my wife it's my last Pcp....but....I never said anything about barrel kits

 

[Solo1]

Enters the Brk Ghost (As Solo1 said). Sadly barrel kits aren't cheap though! I think the higher end guns actually make more sense than the cheaper guns. I can buy 3 avengers in whatever calibers for about $1800 Canadian. Set em once and shoot. The Ghost will cost me $3000, that's some serious coin for one lead slinger. But another barrel kit is roughly $800 and requires almost no adjustment (again Brk nailed it) Yes to optimize it you should swap the hammer spring too but you definitely don't need to. 5/10 minutes on the bench after your 5 min barrel swap and you are ready to shoot. In actual practice though yeah I think it's easier with one gun for one caliber I told my wife it's my last Pcp....but....I never said anything about barrel kits

Definitely! My ghost goes from 25 cal to 22 cal with only a hammer wheel change and scope adjustment. Can’t ask for much easier. Now that might not suit everyone but it seems to be a whole lot easier than a fx although even my m3 isn’t too bad but it is more involved

 

[ctshooter]

I'm definitely moving towards set it and forget it.

I've had several barrel changing airguns over the past few years. Leshiy Classic, Leshiy 2, Alpha Wolf. What I've found is that it's pretty quick and easy to do the caliber swaps but the airgun is usually in the wrong configuration when I go to pick it up to shoot. Example - may have the .30 barrel installed when I just want to do some .22 plinking.

I've since sold all those airguns and have moved to airgun in caliber I want in power range I want.

The only downside to multiple airguns, sort of in response to @Danman and the 3 Avengers, is multiple scopes. You need to triple your budget there.

 

[Luis Leon]

Makes it nice having 2 the same should ever a problem arise i have the other gun!

The “two is one, one is none” philosophy at play… For my uses the .22 does it all so I don’t consider caliber swapping on the same gun a plus for me. It is a selling point, and some may find it useful… But for me it falls into the.. “in theory, practice and theory are the same”, “in practice they are not”.

 

[Florida_Man]

I set up rifles for specific purposes also. The only airgun I have changed calibers is my PP700SA, I have a 177 and 22 barrel for it. When it was my primary pesting gun it stayed 22 cal. It has been replaced and is now just a fun gun for me. It is currently in 177 form and set at low power for the occasional agama that tries to make my shed roof its home.

 

[Solo1]

That’s why I said it may not suit everyone but it does work for some situations. For example my mix it up ghost will soon have 22-25 and 25 slug barrel. This allows me to target shoot with 34 gr or 25 gr pellets which ever is shooting better and a slug barrel for long range steel or critter shooting. If the slug barrel likes javelin slugs ( boy I hope so) the 40 gr at even 900 fps gives 70 fpe and 22 like trajectory at longer ranges!

 

[Danman]

Wow alotta good points here! Very true about the extra scopes needed for the extra guns, that is definitely an additional cost$$. I would say if you have one pcp then swapping barrels is not the best. It's down for say a leak and u got nothing (Luis's point!) My .22 S510 is my hunter and has minimal adjustments and is ready to go at moments notice. Got two springers as well both in .177 for similar reasons. The ghost will be the wild card/power house, also in .22, and if one goes down I will have the other. Oh and I love to tinker/modify

 

[Franklink]

The easiest multiple "tune" guns I've personally experienced are the Ghost and the Red Wolf.

For the Ghost it's the easy barrel/probe swap + the externally adjustable reg + the stepped hammer spring tension (wheel). Scope stays in place for a barrel swap on a Ghost, grub screw is in the side of the receiver.

For the Red Wolf it's the electronics....push a couple buttons to completely change the parameters. The Red Wolf scope has to come off to swap barrels, a downside to me. The grub screws holding the barrel is on the top of the receiver on a Red Wolf

Ive been around a couple friend's Delta Wolves, and would have to say that it's the combination of a Ghost and Red Wolf, in that it combines all the pros of both, at least when it comes to one gun/multiple "tunes." For many (myself included) the electronics are a turn-off, but man o man do they make tuning and repeatability an absolute breeze.

I love the Veteran platform, and have a couple, and a BUNCH of barrels for them. But the barrel swapping process is rather extensive, especially when compared to a Ghost or Delta. And the reg is internally adjustable only-requiring a degas. So I can't say the Vet platform is great for one gun-multi use.

I had a JSAR Raptor, with a couple barrels, and while the barrel itself is easy to swap, the tuning to get to a happy place was not. There was no repeatability with the balanced valve and available adjustments.

Multi-use guns are tough. It's much more appealing on paper than in reality. It works with some platforms, but with other platforms, can turn into a lot more time spent fiddling than shooting.