He’s usually pretty active on the forums especially at night, but it’s been a while since I’ve noticed any activity. @biohazardman has been away from the AGN forums for a while and I’m concerned about him. Has anyone heard from him off of the forums? If so, is he ok?

One of the biggest challenges of getting into a PCP airgun is a reliable air source. Bill from Target has taken a bit different approach. He's using an Amazon affiliate link to promote the most reliable, versatile, and serviceable unit he could find https://amzn.to/3gUBC0Q



From there he offers miscellaneous parts on his website where fanatics can customize their compressor to what calls the "CS2 Hybrid" https://targetforge.net/shop/ols/categories/gx-compressor-parts

Check out his CS2 video
and his CS2 Hybrid mods

I've seen the latest ad for the FX Crown, and it says "The King of RMAC 2022".
I'm wondering if FX will offer the 20 pound drop weight that was used an option, since it was used on the King's gun?

But really, how many use additional weights on their BR guns, how much, and where are they placed? I've tried a 4 pound weight low and forward on my .22 RW HP at RMAC 2021, and at the time it seemed to work well, but later on when I tried it afterwards it seemed to negatively affect the harmonics of my gun, perhaps because I wasn't shooting from a concrete bench?

Good morning AGN! I have a couple of really nice scopes for sale,

First up is a Sightron S-Tac 3-16X42. SOLD.
I recently picked this up at Cameraland, this was a $499 scope that they had marked to 239. This is a catch and release for me, I like it quite a bit but the reticle is a little too light for my aging eyes. I will sell this for sold, shipping on me. I don’t think you can find better glass at this price. Clarity and color are very good.

The second scope is a Leopold VX freedom, 4-12X40 CDS TRI-MOA, side focus. Great glass and color! Retail $499, my price is $395, with shipping on me.

Both scopes have been on PCP air rifle‘s, and they have been babied.

I accept PayPal friends and family, checks or money orders. If you’re interested, p.m. me and then from that point, for your peace of mind and my peace of mind we will communicate via our phones. No Trades

Few hundred rounds through it has taipan mag holder which is 100 extra plus cheek parts. Selling for health reasons. Guns got speed dialer rest is all OEM. Shooting 16gr right at 900 fps for plus 50!shots. Guns 100 percent. 1200 shipped no silencer has papi Yoshi cheek parts on the gun just wasn’t pictured at time HUMA MOD 40 IS EXTRA 130 IF YOU WANT THAT, CENTER SECTION I NEVER USED VEY NICE QUIET ONLY SELING NO TRADES PLEASE

This is the lefty I picked up about a week ago. I cited it in turned the power down to a little over 20 foot pounds and went for a walk. I had two opportunities. Both were DRT. Two shots two kills.

7 tins..one has 125 pellets.. $115 shipped 3 day priority PayPal ff or add the fees... trade only for JSB. 30 knockouts if is a trade I trade my 7 tins for 6 tins of .30 jsb knockouts..thanks

dBs are a unit of measurement which measures power.
They are named after Alexander Graham Bell. deci means "tenth" thus a Decibel is a tenth of a "Bell".
What does that mean?

Well from a ground truth perspective you don't care. What you want to know are what it measures and how to interpret those units in the real world. I am going to give you some simple rules you can use to figure out pretty much any problem involving dBs.

Rule 1: A 3 dB increase in power is the same as doubling power.
Rule 2: A 3 dB decrease in power is the same as halving power.
Rule 3: A 6 dB increase in power is the same as doubling range.
Rule 4: A 6 dB decrease in power is the same as halving range.

These rules apply at a standard temperature and pressure but you don't really need to worry about that in this instance.

What can you figure out using these rules and a microphone?

Suppose you use your cell phone and a sound meter app to read the noise level at your bench. Suppose it tells you that over a five minute period the average noise level is 58 dB. You want to know how far away someone can hear your rifle so you shoot a few shots over the phone and you find the average of those shots measures 81 dB. When you placed the phone out in front of the rifle you put it at 10 yards. You now have all the information you need to solve that problem.

But lets talk about "noise floor" for just a second. The noise floor is the level of "ambient" noise. The noise floor is the static on your radio. The noise floor is the "interference" which is always present when a signal propagates through space or down range. You generally can't hear things which are below the noise floor. To be honest, you generally can't hear things which are less than about 10 dBs above the noise floor but that is a different discussion. EDIT: see @nervoustrig 's post below

Now lets work that problem. The rifle is sounding of at 23 dB louder than the average noise floor at 10 yards from the muzzle. You know from rules 3&4 that doubling the range means halving reducing the power by 6 dB. So at 20 yards the "signal" from your rifle should be 23-6 (or 17) dB. We doubled the range and so could expect a 6 dB reduction in signal (noise volume). Well lets do that again then. At 40 yards (no not at 30 yards) the noise volume should be 17-6 (or 11) dB above the noise floor (58 remember?). We have the idea now so lets do that again a couple of times. 11-6 = 5dB @ 80 yards and 5-6=-1 at 160 yards. The sound of the rifle falls below the noise floor at about 160 yards.

That is the most common problem you are going to want to solve when working with moderators. And that solution is the best way to compare the performance of two different moderators because it converts dB into a number which means something to you on the ground.


EDIT: Spelling

I was looking at my Crown the other day and noticed that the center screw ( see photo #2) was not tight. It was very easy to turn clockwise a half or three quarter turn but turned it back to where it was. Today I was looking at it again and on the opposite side of the receiver there is a screw exactly inline with the screw in the knob on the other side in the Power Knob (see photo #1)). It appeared loose too. I don’t know if they’re supposed to be tight or not.
I emailed FX but have not gotten a reply yet. Anyone know about the workings of that assembly ?
Randy

Hi, I purchased a Gamo Cleaning Cotton Pellets.

I normally use a Patch Worm pull through with cut up, left-over surgical masks to clean the barrel. But I thought these Cotton Pellets looked interesting.
How do I use these pellets to clean the gun? Do I just soak it with ballistol and shoot it out?

Who has tried both. Which did you like better?

Will soon be ordering one in .22 cal.and currently leaning more towards the synthetic.

Looking for a cheap compressor. Mine is on its last life. Have discovery vt2 4x16x50 to throw in the pot as well. Let me know what u have. Am located in Maryland

So last week I tried shooting the 30yd Challenge with my scoped HW35E. I did pretty good on my second attempt. I shot a 175 3X. Not to shabby I thought for a new springer shooter.

I didn't submit the target for scoring because I had a misfire in between targets 1 and2. (duh, keep your dang finger off the trigger until your ready to shoot and adjust the pull, it's to bloody light).

Today I was shooting my HW77 with Iron Sights and was doing pretty good at 25yds. I made up my own challenge target and gave it a try. 12 targets, 1" outer ring, 1/2" inner ring and 1/4" diamond bull. 1 point for outer, 2 for inner ring and 3 for diamond. You throw out the worst two targets and have a maximum of 30 points. Not my best shooting of the day, but this is hard to see at 25 yards with my poor eyes!


I thought I'd call it the Zut Iron Sights Challenge.

Rules made up as we go:
25 yards
Front Rest Only
Iron sights, open, peep, diopter, etc. No scopes
.22 or .177 Score with .22 caliber pellet or plug

I have attached two .pdf of the targets, one dark and one light so if you're interested fire away. Thanks to Fixedflinger for the new targets!!

Print on 8.5 x 11 paper.





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I had a AGN member Mubhaur make a 35cc. external plenum for my RAW. He changed the design so it was the same size O.D. as the blanking plug in the action. I had to drill a 1" hole thru the stock and cut the rail on the bottom, both were easily done. He also made a high efficiency valve and a hammer debounce device. I installed all the parts, had the hammer screw turned all the way out against the stock and it was shooting 994fps. Before I installed the new parts I had it set 935fps screwed in several turns. That increase was just because of the parts...I had not adjusted the regulator, it was set from the factory.I ended up cutting 1 1/2 coils off the factory spring to be at 900fps. with the hammer screw all the way out...turning it in aless than 1 revolution increased to 975, shooting 25.39 .22 pellets.Here are a few pics and the you tube link he made showing the parts. The quality of his parts was outstanding. It took 5 days for his parts to get to me from Pakistan...You can't get stuff delivered a few states away in 5 days here. He also video called me and walked me thru the installation of the parts in case I had a problem or question about them.

Hi folks, just got my M3 25cal 700mm, it came pretty well set up for 25grain JSBS and shoots them well at 900fps. My question is, what would be a good starting setting or this gun to shoot 34grain JSBs at about 870 fps? I'm not new to airguns by any means, in fact I own several PCPs already, including a Impact Mk2 in 25 cal. I'm just looking for a good starting setting for the M3 for 34 grain JSBs. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Went out about a week ago with a buddy of mine to one of the dairy farms we have permission to pest on. Was greeted by the owner and asked if we can shoot some pest birds for him and of course ground squirrels and rabbits. Did our morning routine, checking zeros and off we went. Lost track of how many birds we shot, including starlings, pigeons and collard doves. The squirrels are less and less each year, I guess we've been doing a good job on them and the farmer is happy with us being there from time to time. Here are some photos of two different days we went. Until next time.

Great little scope second focal plane scope, $90 shipped CONUS PP F&F or buyer pays fee.

FX No-Limit Scope Mounts 11mm Dovetail. Ring Size is 30mm. Price is $65 Will ship CONUS. Payment via Zelle, Venmo or Cash (NO PayPal). Local pickup in Massachusetts available. Please PM with any questions you may have.

Since there seems to be some hidden pact to not discuss Daysttate AW settings I will violate that. I am just the average Jo in my back yard range shooting off a bench. This morning before the wind I took the AW, Hades pellets, experimented, and logged accuracy. I zeroed at 50 and went from there. At 50, 60, and 70 it was alomost hole in hole. However once I went to 80 and 90 bad things happened. There was absolutely no consistency from shot to shot. I wanted to see if it was good at 80 and 100. Well it's not! Not with the settings I had. I have seen on the tube shots well over 200 yards with this rifle so I wish I knew their succesful settings. So...back to changing some things. I will share my settings and these are what I used because except for FPS they are what the factory settings were. No particular reason for this. IT's just where i started as repeated pleas from distributors and other DW or AW owners were not responded to.
.25 Hades
Reg - 150 bar
950 FPS
2250 (some symbol) s
Volt 770
On my pesting permissions I would comfortably rely on this gun the way it is currently set for shots up to 70 yards. I do have some FX hybrid slugs I will try later on. Hope this helped some other newbie AW folks.

About to try the 177 caliber for the first time, besides when I was a kid with the bb guns. What's the biggest animal I can take out? All things considered of course

Below is scope that I have for sale.

Falcon Menace 4-14x44 FFP $210 shipped

Paypal FF preferred, or add fee for good.

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I've decided to put my RTI Prophet Performance .22 LR (received brand new from AoA in May of this year) up for sale. This gun scores the absolute highest on the power-to-weight curve of any gun I own - slinging 25.4's at an average muzzle velocity of 974 fps (unmodified from the tune as received from AoA). As a walk-and-stalk hunter shot off-hand it really can't be beat with the power it provides in such a lightweight package. But unfortunately I don't use the gun in this manner, but instead off the benchtop. And as compared to my other .22 cal heavy lead slingers (Cricket 2 Tactical 600, Maverick Sniper, Uragan standard), I can't get the Prophet as stable on the benchtop due to the configuration of its stock. So it ends up being my least accurate 50-100 yard benchtop shooter, in my hands.

And anyway, after having had a heart attack a couple of weeks back, I'm starting to put some guns on the block which I don't shoot too much. Need to generate some cash for the upcoming co-pays!

I am the first owner of this gun and it has no abnormal functional or cosmetic blemishes or issues. It does have the 'standard' characteristic of all Prophets, where the cocking lever tends to wear the anodizing off the bottom of the cocking slot. Could touch it up with a Sharpie or use aluma-blue, but the design of the gun will cause it to wear again, and it is only cosmetic.

I have never worked with this gun to tune it for MRD optimal velocity - I've so far just shot it as it came tuned from AoA. Haven't tried shooting slugs as I'm a pellet shooter.

This gun comes with all it came with new - 1 magazine, paperwork, and hard case. Plus it also comes with a CARM magazine plus a CARM single shot loader, as shown in the pics.

Scope and rings shown in the pictures do NOT come with the gun for the listed price.

Payment to be via PP 'Friends', and shipping is included in the listed price for shipment within CONUS.

Thanks for looking, and let me know via AGN PM if you have any questions. Only listed for sale on the AGN Member Classifieds.

Tom

Just bought my first PCP rifle. Well versed with traditional weapon systems, as I am a Marine Veteran (0311 infantry baby). Pretty stoked about not cleaning carbon and slinging $$$ down range.

Picked up the Brocock Commander Xr .25 from AoA. PCP compressor from edgunswest, Atn x-sight 4k pro from ATN direct.

Opinions on the brocock brand? (I understand it’s under the same ownership as daystate and others within that umbrella group)

I plink, I small game hunt, and pesting around the property (roughly 3acres)

Should be here tomorrow or Thursday btw, will post pics once it’s in. Thanks guys!

I have a PCP rifle and a hand pump. Obviously velocity starts to change over many shots, so I'm wondering, what is your routine to keep it as consistent as possible? I was thinking of pumping the gun up to it's limit, then use the chronograph to document 50 shots to see where the sweet spot is.

I've not been keeping track and I get sucked in and shoot a bunch then have to take a break to pump back up again...

I have a .22, but I'd like to have more power, shoot further. What's the tradeoff of .30+ aside from cost of pellets?

I know it's obvious, but more ftlbs, more consistent velocity for each shot, higher precision, and being able to shoot further out appeal to me.

Thoughts?