What'cha doing air gun related today?

[Chief55]

Waiting for the .177 AirForce Talon to arrive this afternoon so took the time this morning to replace the 3-way shutoff valve on my Polaris 700 Sportsman.

 

[Chief55]

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.

 

[FL22]

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. Looks like someone did it with a Philips screwdriver. I have never seen such a bad crown in all my life. I guess this is why I am not having any luck getting stuff to group well in it. I will have to message them to see if I can get another barrel for it. They don't answer the phone. I think they had a dull cutting bit on their lathe and no cutting oil, so it was chattering when they cut it. If they won't make things right, guess I could do a better job with a brass screw and some rubbing compound in a drill.

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Wow, that looks terrible. I hope you get it worked out Chief .

 

[pan60]

horrific!

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.

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[MileHighAirGunner]

Today was plinking day with my new .177 “Mini-Rod”.
12 ft lbs of sweet awesomeness this little carbine is. I think this might b my newest favorite.



The 2260 stock wasn’t meant for the taller PRod breech so I’m sitting here contemplating between these two cheek risers.

 

[Hylander]

Nice.
I like the Tourbon risers

 

[Chief55]

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.

 

[Fred Bear]

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.

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Geez looks like they took a hand drill to it. Hopefully they see this is not acceptable. So much for quality control.

 

[Chief55]

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.

 

[BBGunn]

Been sick with a cold since Friday. Hope to get back to something airgun related tomorrow.

Looks like most you folks been chugging right along with your airgun passion!