Good friend (Unidentified) made this. Huge thank you!
This is how they should have been made. Gigantic improvement!
Don't have to concurrently adjust the front adjusters for vertical.



For Perry...

I was out in the shooting shed today trying out different pellets and nothing shot really well. I was shooting with the hammer spring 3 turns in from flush. I thought the 18.13 JSBs did okay so I tried those on a few different hammer spring settings.

Target 1 is 3 turns in, target 2 is 4 turns in, target 3 is 5 turns in, and target 4 is 6 turns in. The last target (5) I zeroed and the hammer spring is 5.5 turns in from flush. All are 5 shot groups @ 50 yards. 6 turns in showed the best group, but I might have got a little target panic after I zeroed it for the last group. 6.25 turns is the max adjustment.

I didn‘t show most of the other pellets because I don’t think they got a fair trial. They were probably moving too slow. I did however attach a photo of the CPHPs. I think they show potential. This was also 5 shots @ 50 yards with the hammer spring 3 turns in. Dime for reference.I think it will turn out to be a sweet little squirrel gun.

Orion the Iguana Hunter is making another Great Magazine, this one is for the BRK Ghost

Hello. I am looking at purchasing a fx wildcat sniper to squirrel hunting with but it seem the magazine will be in the way? , any input greatly appreciated. What other recommendations? Thank you

Looking to trade this BRK sniper .22. Previous owner shot only a few times and I have only ran two mags through it. .177 .22 preferably (scope not included)

End-of-Year Balance: ​

How much $$ did you spend in 2024 ​

Seriously.
How • much • money • did • you • spend • on • airgunning • in • 2024?


I know the excuse : Some people can't do the calculation — because they don't keep track.

So they are never in danger to experience the shock I am just trying to recover from....



This afternoon — for fun I thought — I added up the balance.

Without gasoline for trips to hunt and target shoot.
Just projectiles, scope mounts, lights and batteries, silencers, accessories, 1 gun and 2 scopes (used).

➠ And all I could do was GASP!!



⭓ I don't know how it could add up that quickly to that much.
⭓ I went through the list twice.
⭓ Still don't understand.....



2025 will have to be different.

Matthias

R10 .177 early model,bluing has patinade, large stock,sights very accurate. new maccari spring,seal. $375 shipped
HW95 .22 new maccari kit, macccari seal, tunned , very accuarate. $450 shipped
RWS 34 pro .177 custom kit, delrine hand grip.very accuarate t6 trigger. $375 shipped
BSA meteor evo .22 very accuarate, beautiful wood. $175 shipped
all have been tunned,triggers and springs lubbed, etc. ...'CALL ONLY,,ALL OTHERS IGNORED!!!! joseph any questions..
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This is a very special custom rifle from my personal collection that will make someone very happy. It was a labor of love that I spent a lot of time on to perfect. My goal with this build was to make the rifle reliable, bulletproof, and as accurate as I possibly could with both pellets and heavier high BC slugs for field hunting, NRL22 / PRS, and benchrest. The results on paper speak for itself. Example 13 shot group at 50m through a scope cam:


Every part that I machined and fabricated from scratch use the highest quality materials that I could source, all of which contribute to the performance of this rifle. The build history was captured in several different posts on AGN and Instagram, but I'll try and recap some of the functional upgrades that I made for it.

FX Maverick .30cal

- Kraford & Lypt KL-MAV chassis - Comes with both the Compact Arca Swiss rail and a longer modified Sniper Arca Swiss rail. I also have multiple long and short K&L Picatinny T-slot rail inserts for them to run Picatinny/Weaver bipods and hardware.

- KLS-2 stock with titanium posts - Much lighter with the 6AL-4V titanium rods. This is the best stock IME for the Maverick as it allows for the shouldering point to raise up higher and it's solid. I modified / rounded the tips of two high grade cap screws for clamping the Y adjustment axis without marring up the rods like the factory set screws tend to do




- Carbon Fiber + Titanium Barrel Shrouds & Titanium Thread Protectors - Made from very high-quality (very pricey) high modulus carbon fiber from Rockwest Composites and certified 6AL-4V titanium. I made one for 500mm and the other for 600mm barrels with a revolver style titanium end cap for each of them. The end caps were designed to work with the barrel system, but they can be run on other riles using a polymer stopper that I made and they are both VERY effective at dampening barrel harmonics!









- Custom Barrel Tensioning System - Titanium locking ring integrated with the factory barrel supports. The titanium ring seats into the forward barrel support and the titanium end caps on the shroud slides over it to seat the shroud and provide the tensioning point. Works amazingly well. You can pick up the rifle by the shroud and use it as a baseball bat and not damage the barrel (not that I recommend this, but it's that SOLID!











- Titanium shorter action lever system - I milled the lever from 1.25" 6AL-4V titanium rod stock and the handle with 3/8" 6AL-4V rod stock from the same material source. It took me two tries to machine the lever perfectly (screwed up the first one one of the last machining operations), but it was well worth it! Nailed the tolerances and the cocking action feels so perfect with a high-end firearm like smoothness.









Also made a precision spring that seats against the cocking rod guide on the opposite side of the lever. Combined with the leverage "over travel" snaps the lever down snugly for field use. It took a lot of trial with different sized springs to get it JUST right, but I was able to find the perfect balance of resistance for keeping the lever closed snugly and being able to cycle ammo for rapid fire.


- Pellet & Slug Probes - I have the factory FX pellet probe in .30, a titanium pellet probe and slug probe in .30, and titanium slug probe in .22.




- Modified Magpul MIAD AR Grip - I milled and polished this grip to fit the rile. It feels AWESOME, and has interchangeable fore grip inserts that can change it from having the finger rests or a straight profile. Definitely a 1 of 1 grip for this rifle.


- Titanium cocking rod guide (threaded) with Delrin 150 (slippery grade, press fit inserts - there's (4) total components that I made from scratch for this piece. I broke the factory aluminum rod guide shooting from a bench, so I decided to make an indestructible replacement along with upgrading the cocking rod to eliminate slop (see below)

The first one I made was stainless. Eventually got the itch to make another one in titanium.


- 5/32" Music wire cocking rod - I bent the factory rod like pretty much everyone else with a Maverick / Wildcat. Went with a 5/32" music wire (C61 hardness). It's just a tiny bit larger in O.D. than the 4mm factory rod, which had way too much slop. This music wire rod was a nightmare to thread, however it has been flawless and as straight as an arrow for the duration that I have ran it. It also greatly improved the sloppy cocking action in conjunction with the titanium cocking system that I custom fabricated for this rifle.




- Modified cocking rod connector - Drilled, milled, and threaded a beefy M4 cap screw to prevent the rod / probe assembly from dislodging the (2) M3 factory set screws at high power fixing a total factory design flaw! This allows the rod connector to clamp against the rod from both sides.
- Modified AMP regulators - Using upgraded spring washers and the awesome brass + polmyer tipped adjustment screws. Shots are extremely consistent at all power levels.
- Magpul Paraclip - works great as an attachment point for a single point sling (I have more Magpul hardware to run a second one forward for dual point slings)

- Kraford & Lypt Modified Gigarail & Full Gigarail - Duracoated Pictanny.



- Kraford & Lypt Dovetail Rails - One in raw aluminum and another in black anodized. Looks like this:




- Modified cheek rest - Made it low profile as it should have been for optimal flexibility for the scope height.



- PEEK valve - More efficient with extra travel and heavier valve return spring
- Hammer weights - I have a 26gr FX Tungsten and a variety of 485 marine brass, and the factory steel.
- Hammer Springs - Standard and custom heavy spring
- Stainless hardware - 316L for the most part, all from McMaster-Carr (not the cheap overseas stainless)
- Orion Iguana Hunter deep cavity FX magazine covers - Orion designed these durable factory replacement magazine covers for me so I could shoot the old style 62 grain Varmint Knockers slugs, and they work perfectly!
- Custom made Delrin 150 bottle gauge shroud - Made a black shroud for the FX branded Wika gauge.
- Blued (male) stainless steel fill port - Looks cool
- Spare Parts - I have a bunch of spare FX factory parts for this rifle. All of the o-rings are brand spankin' new and very high quality.
- Magazines - I have (5) of the 13-shot factory .30 mags with several low profile lids from Orion, (1) grey Orion .22 mag (18-shot), (1) FX .22 mag (18-shot), and (1) high capacity .22 mag from Midwest Airguns and (1) .30 high cap mag from Midwest Airguns.

- Barrel / Rail Support Stainless Helical Thread Overhaul (18-8 stainless M3 steel Helicoil thread inserts) - The factory aluminum thread can strip out, so these completely mitigate that problem and allow for the rails to be properly torqued.







- FX Carbon Fiber Air Cylinders - I have 350cc, 480cc, 580cc. All of which have been wrapped out of the box with thick rubberized insulation.


Barrels
I have several different barrels / liners and shrouds for this rifle that shoot with sub-MOA precision: I have vetted and tuned all of them.

Match Grade 600mm TJ's .30cal (1:26) - Hammer forged CrMoly. I bought and machined several TJ blanks for this Maverick before I finally got one with a perfect bore to work with. Used a custom live piloted chamber reamer that I had Dave Kiff from Pacific Tool & Gauge make for me to machine the lead in specifically for the TJ's with a 2 degree lead and optimize it for heavy slugs and pellets. I was specifically setting it up for the original style 62 grain Varmint Knockers (sub-MOA with both the swaged slug in the hard 8.5 BHN alloy and regular soft Corbin lead), but it does well with a variety of 55-70 grain slugs. I have a bunch of 62 grain ammo that I can include with this barrel.

Meticulously lapped the bore with a micro-taper and it's a frigging laser beam. Also shoots 50.15 grain JSBs with supreme precision and it doesn't lead up nearly as fast as other barrels. I always use a good rod to clean it with a Kroil soaked cotton patch, followed by a Ballistol patch and a dry patch. The carbon fiber / titanium shroud that I made for it is the icing on the cake.

Threaded 1/2-20 UNF on the muzle end with a custom high flow 485 marine brass inlet on the breech end.

330mm TJ's .30cal (1:26 twist) - I machined this barrel from a blank to build an ultra compact configuration. Originally ran it with a DonnyFL Ronin + extension using the factory chassis and an FX cylinder from a Dreamline, but I have since dedicated DonnyFL Koi to it as part of the complete barrel system. Shoots very well with pellets and slugs.

Threaded 1/2-20 UNF on the muzzle end with a Ernet Rowe high flow brass inlet on the breech end.





- 500mm FX Superior Liner .30cal (1:37" twist) - This is a real gem of a liner. I have a high quality precision carbon fiber sleeve bonded to it with 638 Loctite. I have only shot pellets with this barrel so I don't mess up the bore with unecessary wear and tear from leading. It's been very carefully polished and I've only used a good cleaning rod with appropriate sized patches to clean it when it needs it (it shoots lights out for a long time without needing patches run through it).


500mm Shrouds - I have a carbon fiber + titanium tensioned shroud and the original FX factory aluminum 500mm shroud. I also have a custom made black Delrin shroud extension with a 7075 aluminum threaded insert (1/2-20 UNF) that I made for the factory shroud to extend it out just far enough to run a 480cc bottle. This is what it looks like in action during an NRL22 match:


- 700mm FX Superior Heavy Slug Liner (1:18" twist) - Shoots superb with the newer style 62 grain Varmint Knockers in standard soft lead.
- 700mm FX Slow Twist Pellet Liner (1:44" twist) - This liner is also very special. It was in an MK2 Impact that I bought when they came out.
- 700mm FX Slug Liner (22cal, 1:16" twist) - Excellent with pretty much every .217" slug that I've tried.
- 600mm FX Slug Liner (22cal, 1:16" twist) - ^^^^^^^
- 600mm TJ's .22 (.218/.222 1:14" twist) - Shoots rimfire size projectiles. 1/2-20 UNF threaded muzzle and the FX thread with a factor brass inlet on the breech. This one may be spoken for already, but feel free to inquire about it.


Terms:

This is a tough one to price out. I'm going to include the KLS-2 stock and titanium lever, rod guide, rod and KL-MAV chassis and a couple of magazines as part of the basic configuration for 1400 and split the shipping. Shoot me a message with the barrel(s) that you're interested in or give me your number and I can reach out to you to discuss. Can include all the above if the price is right (make me an offer).

Serious inquiries only please. Not interested in trades.

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Like new katran compact 22.. will come with a Element Helix and a suppressor one mag.. great little gun... Let me know what you got

I have 2 left a big and a small thet are number 2 and 6 from previouse post. These are handmade and no 2 are alike. They are $30 for small $40 for large pluss aprox $10 for insured shipping. Paypal preferred thank you

The big on sold

Have been playing around with ideas on how to wrap guns and accessories. Have seen the adhesive camo wraps on Amazon and wanted to see the community’s ideas on how to wrap/paint/camouflage stuff.

I had some cheap leftover carbon fiber wrap I threw on the Notos cylinder and I think it came out pretty good. Want to see some of your work!

Hello, I just purchased a Bullpup .22 Stoeger pcp and the guy who sold it to me told me that it's about 50 shots before air refill.
Strangely, I'm able to shot more than a 100 shots and the pressure gauge is still at 130 bars.
How can that be? Do I need to higher the spring hammer? I live in a country where it's hard to get good answers...
I noticed that the gun is shooting below the target at 60-70 yards far. At short distances I have no problem but the longer the distance the lower the target.
Please advise.
Thank you

Just getting into the air. Little help navigating this site. How do you find member map?

Hello, I'm a newbie. I am retired and have a RAW HM-1000 that I use to keep starlings and English sparrows out of my martin houses. I bought it in 2015 and it has never failed me. I remember speaking with Martin when I had it built and he said I would never regret it and I sure haven't. It is an awesome rifle that just shocks me with how accurate it is, Starlings don't stand a chance here. Thanks for allowing me to join!

Ok ok, been piddling around with different scopes on different HFT platforms for a long while now; I need a reality check from the wisdom gallery.
To date my five favorite scopes are:
in order of “my“ happiness:

#1) Sightron S3 10-50x60FT, SFP, MOA-H reticle, HFT x2, HFT specific

#2) Athlon Helos BTR Gen 2, 6-24x56 FFP
APRS6 reticle MRAD 1/10 mil EFT specific .25 rig

#3) Athlon Helos BTR Gen 2, 4-20x50 FFP
APRS6 reticle MRAD 1/10 mil

#4) Element Titan 3-18x50 FFP
APR2D reticle FFP MRAD 1/10 mil

#5) Sightron S-tac 4-20x50 FFP, MRAD, MH4 reticle 1/10 mil (Hft pistols specific)

I’m torn by choosing #1 and #3 as my primary and permanent HFT scopes because #1 ranges the best but the reticle requires i guesstimate some holdovers because it lacks sufficient numbering markers Between zero and 1. This affects my 21-29 yards and 31-39 yard Shots.
I really like the Element Titan too because it spreads the numbers out 270 degrees on my wheel. #5, the s-tacs are fairly compact but also lack some useful holdover markings.
Athlons like the Element have Christmas tree reticles thus more holdover details.

See photo.

Thoughts ?

Looking for a good .177 compact PCP. Can be bullpup or carbine. Let me know what you got. No need for a powerhouse either. Likely will tune it to 12-15fpe.

Much more philosophical than precision, I always feel a spiritual uplift when the days become noticeably longer, even just a bit. Just getting out of that Dec21-Feb 21 stretch , "the dark time" just begins to give me a general uplift. I know I'm 6 weeks and a wake up from exiting another butt crack time of the year. Does a body and mind good!

I was just curious how many members are here.

Picked up a gently used Epic Two on trade a few weeks ago and thought I’d post a quick review. It’s a 550mm .25 with a bottle.

I had some initial trouble with it that turned out to be not really a big deal. When the seller shipped it to me he degassed the gun completely. When I got it and tried to fill it, it was leaking from the valve (through the barrel). I took everything apart, checked the o-rings, lubed, put it back together and same problem.

So I reached out to Epic and David (who I think is the owner) was incredibly helpful and after a couple emails he said he was just going to send me a new valve. When the valve arrived I replaced it and……….same issue.

David was stumped and I was considering sending it to Edgun West to have them look at it. So I called Edgun and learned that because the gun has a balanced valve, it sometimes needs a little help seating the valve if the gun was completely degassed. They told me to hit it with a decent burst of air from a SCBA and mortar the buttstock on the ground. I did, and it sealed up perfectly.

Although there was an issue, I have to say that David at Epic was excellent helping me get things figured out.

Once I got it filled up, I took it out to shoot and I was impressed. The consistency, efficiency, and accuracy are fantastic. Getting 10 shot standard deviations of less than 1 and just over 1 for a 30 shot string. I haven’t tested shot count yet, but I started at 275 bar this morning, shot about 100 pellets and finished at about 150 bar.

With the reg set at 103 bar, it’s shooting 25 gr AEA pellets at 950 and 33 gr. AEA pellets at 850 fps. Some pictures of groups below.

All in all I’m super happy with the gun. The trigger is really nice and very adjustable; I just haven’t found the sweet spot for my liking yet. I need to play with it some more. My only gripe so far is the weight (she’s a pig).

I don’t post many reviews like this, but wanted to post in case someone else is dealing with the valve issue I did.

Today I had a chance to setup and shoot a new to me 10 meter FWB 300 S. Tyrolene.
I installed an inexpensive Discovery 3-12 scope on it.
I was shooting JSB 8.44’s. @ approx 560 FPS.
Although a 10 meter gun, I zeroed it at 25 yards.
What surprised me was when I returned my target to 10 meters it was still hitting my bullseye or zero???
normally when I zero a gun at 25 yards and then shoot at a 10 meter target it will be aprox 2” low depending on my scope height.
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any thoughts on why the two intersecting points had the same zero @ 10-25 yards??

From Airgun Revisions , both 22s both look new.

the Akela didn’t shoot too good in a brief test .

But just put a Arken on Kratos filled to 3k put some

H&N field target trophies 14.66 in ( which are my throwaways now)

quick sight in and wow I like it . Surprisingly quiet without any

moderator. Small one hole groups ( only 13 yards), light weight

Today my Delta wolf .177 fac performance bought in december 2024 started to leak trough the transfer port.
I have been shooting around 200 shots with it.

I have changed the o-rings on the valve pin and re-lubed the valve. But it didnt solve the leaking.

Can anyone tell me what to look for? I suspect a bad valve but everything looks good when I inspect it.

These o-rings are changed



I suspect the valve sealing might be the problem, but it looks good. The seating also looks good



Any ideas?

I'm looking to find some airgun reviewers on YouTube that don't always paint every product in a good light. Someone that gives you the cons as well as the pros, warts and all. That's a person I can trust, as opposed to someone who just has a business promoting products.

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!

I am new to Airgun Nation. I have shot a Sheridan for years but a friend told me about this forum. Glad to be here and reading the post of interest.