That looks awesome.

Even the best have bad days.

I like mine so well I bought two of them to mount my bipod with. Area 419 makes good stuff.

i use H&N match green 5.25gr lead free wadcutters pesting in my barns in .177, so try H&N lead free stuff in your .22

AirStryk Industries said:

We had spotted owl…

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I remember the Spotted Owl bullpoop out here in Cali. back in the day. I know you'd eat one... Me Yay, meat good, mmm!
Love ya brotha!
Stoti

Emu said:

Adding a regulator to a non regulated rifle normally implies loose of power because there's no calculation of plenum needed.

Buy a FX DRS, an FX Panthera, a Vulcan 7 700 or a Uragan 3.

A big and expensive mistake is to spend to much money in trying making a rifle to give a performance a to which it was not designed for.

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I'm throwing my hat in the ring for the simple dreamline carbon bottle. It performs like I think we expected the mrod to.

They're slept on for performance and mine comes out 10x more than my high power impact and was a fair bit less expensive. I wouldn't put a dime into an mrod unless it holds sentimental value to you like mine does.

Wow! Simply holy smokes, that one squirrel that reacted like it was “launched”!? All the kills were simply devastating, well done Sir! First outing for your Maverick… Those 30 grainers simply wrecked those squirrels.

You get what you pay for. In the air gun world it is the best to save your money and buy once cry once. If you buy something that is relatively inexpensive and ends up not meeting your needs, you will cry several times before you reach air gun Nirvana.

we should get diagrams and specs like oring sizes , but even other dealers who sell guns do not have diagrams , i tried a few to get a diagram before I realized it is same gun as sk19 which has diagrams , it should not be a top secret , 99% of us do our own work and with shipping prices why send and pay shipping both ways for a 1 dollar oring

here is my accurator and a piece of lead which was stuck in mine causing it tpo jam the way I bought it

Thanks for the replies fellas. I was just seeing conflicting info and wanted to be sure I knew if the need ever arises.

On my .510 Texan there is only one screw that holds on the breech at the end of carrier tube..Remove carrier tube remove screw and it should come apart pretty easy.. Here to help

Oh man that sounds great! Lord willing I will be there for another great match in Tulsa.

The Sportsmatch mounts are only available from AOA I think. They are good mounts and won't slip.

I use them on my D34 and they work great. I have them on every pellet rifle I shoot with a scope. I've never had a mounting issue. I have had many issues using an array of other mounts, rails and rings.

If the scope slips in the rings it's usually due to uneven/improper ring torque or a poor interface between the scope and ring saddle. A drop of lacquer or some CA glue works great to get a slippery mount to hold. I've never needed it with Sportsmatch or Burris rings. But you can get creative and make almost anything work.

The Burris Signature rings with the inserts are dandy. You can't go wrong. They solve every mounting issue you may have. They are just a few bucks more than Sportsmatch and (IMHO) even better. You can get offset inserts to correct an alignment issue with the Burris. Thats a big deal with a springer. The Sportsmatch rings don't have that option.

c_m_shooter said:

You are thinking backwards as far a straining the powerplant. Light pellets will be closer to a dry fire. Heavier pellets should soften the impact for the piston.

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Jim Maccari of ARH mentioned to me; heavy pellets in .177 cal. will diminish spring life.
He said this regarding a R1 in .177 caliber using greater than 9 grain pellets .
Don’t go too heavy ….. as Ron said, listen to your shot cycle and look at FPE numbers.

I did attend and was able to talk with folks at Serpent Arms & Baker Airguns. The Lebanon Fair Grounds was hopping on the 12th, took me a little bit to locate where on the grounds the show was, when I spotted a Taco Truck parked outside one of the buildings, I deduced, I was Close.

Niksan Ozark < $400
Accurate, less than 1/2" groups at 45 yards. The TW version has a very nice wood stock and adjustable butt stock. Wood needs a bit of sanding and linseed oil.

Reximex Silent Force moderator for < $50 from Sharg.pl.

I am shootinf 34gr slugs from mine. Though not sure which barrel it has, as I had Martin build mine for me.

@zerochance Is FT Airguns still in business? Have you received your order from them?

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It’s in the Boone County Cooperative building. There will be a Airgun Show banner hung outside.

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Great, thanks.

Arrival rime at Oakdale Gun Club airgun course is 0900. This is the first match of the year so there will be some time required for cleanup and target placement. The match will start as soon as the work is done. Weather looks good. Hope to see you there. PM me with questions. Uj

While I do not leave my guns cocked while in storage I do often store magazines when full of pellets. Storing the magazines full does leave a spring stressed for the period of storage. So if I wanted to be consistent perhaps I should not do that either. But magazines are relatively inexpensive so if I were to soften the spring to the point that it not longer worked properly it would not be as big an issue as if my hammer spring softened and would not open the valve at higher regulator pressure. So risk is different. I also do not do anything in tuning my gun that changes the force on the spring in the magazine. Whatever stress it sees was addressed in the design of the magazine and it should be well within it's elastic limits. That does not totally eliminate possible creep in the spring but it eliminates the spring taking a set from exceeding it's elastic limit. But the hammer spring in my P35-25 is turned up to the maximum it can be and still be cocked including adding shims under the spring. That almost certainly was not addressed in the design of the hammer spring.

If the spring is well designed and not overstressed by modifications by the owner it should not exceed the elastic limit of the spring and take a permanent set. But it will still creep. That is a much smaller effect but it will occur and more stress on the spring will increase the rate of the creep. I don't see increasing creep as desirable but I can accept an opinion that is not significant as reasonable, at least in a well designed gun. I worry a little about the design and the materials of my inexpensive Chinese made guns. I think they work very well and I like them but I see more reason to be concerned and therefore not over stress them without a good reason.

But the biggest reason I do not store the guns cocked and especially not cocked and loaded is I do not think it is safe. I do not store any gun with a round in the chamber. I know others do, especially with PBs the owners want available for home defense. I have decided I'd rather take the risk that the few seconds to chamber a round is important than increase the risk a grandchild could find the gun and an accident could happen. I am much more concerned about safety than any potential damage to the hammer spring. My airguns are not what I would want to use in an emergency so there is just no reason to store them cocked or loaded. There is always plenty of time for that when I am preparing to shoot. All my grandkids have seen my airguns and the oldest has shot the Prod under close supervision. I lock them up (or at least I try to remember to lock them up) when they are around but I want to stay several steps removed from an accident.

OldVet said:

I tried to get him to reply. No dice

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He might be busy, honestly I don’t know Where he’s been. He was a regular fixture around here. Been much quieter as of late. he Builds and upgrades guns, one of the more popular is the Zelos customs he puts out.

on eBay ‘C88Machining’ offers the fx barrel conversion kit and you’d have to get the 500/600/700 mm liner you want for it. 1:24 twist superior, 1:18 superior heavy, or 1:16STX SLUG. are the most recent out. He sells a high Flow tp And valve, which is pointless unless your expanding your ports. You can obviously buy the bottle adapter and bottle, and an additional side mounted plenum. if you want to get a lot of power out of it. personally I think the 45 foot pounds it can easily put out stock with just reg adjustment is enough. I’m shooting 22gr hybrid and 21 gr javelin slugs at that Power, it’s plenty.

ShootingTargets7 said:

Hello Steve, it is not clear to me the intent of this post if it is an informative post about mild steel targets or questioning the
durability of ours.

To clear that up....

I have no doubt your statement is correct but to be clear our 1/8" targets being shown here are
not mild steel, they are AR400. There is a 3x difference in strength as seen in the table below.

They also ring much louder when hit due to the hardness difference.

Steel Type	Tensile Strength (psi)	Difference
A36	58,000 – 80,000 psi	–
AR400	180,000 – 200,000 psi	~3x stronger

I hope this helps clear up any potential confusion.

Mark
ST7

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Mark,
Perhaps stating that your targets will not be distorted over time by soft lead pellets, would clear up any doubt that may exist. Unfortunately, this is an issue with many makers of steel targets.

FWIW, the iris with adjustable rear optic gave me less clarity than what I could get with the iris alone. I use a standard iris drilled out to 1.3 mm for shooting 10m offhand. Seems less sensitive to eye position than the standard 1.1 mm.
Chuck

bigHUN said:

The signal update between the windmeter to Strelok on the tablet/android feels like instant or for sure shorter then 1 sec. Both the reticle view also the direction view.
This speed is acceptable but must slow down the spin on the wind blade - you can see I put lead shots in the head ball.
A huge difference how the air moves and changes direction much faster in my relatively closed space backyard where I was testing these projects only - or my shooting range where is wider open room a wind is more consistent direction.
If the blade "nose" is very light the motion is very sensitive. Need to balance the head weight also the tail-tape length.


For the gun range I use this Samsung 8" tablet for all my outdoors needs: both the FX radar and Labradar / Strelok Pro / WindMeter / Xreload / all my data logging....
The larger screen have different layout for these apps and I like it much better.
I have a second StrelokPro license for my cellphone, using it for printing NFC dope cards only. This how I know the GUI between the two.

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Love it. Have my 10 guns programmed into Strelok pro. Fantastic research on wind. Great work.