Charlie for sure being your on the east coast

Sounds like a new valve is needed. Probably best to change all o rings at the same time.
Fortunately it's a RTI not a fx or some complicated mega bucks repair pit.
Good luck

a FWB 65 should shoot in the high 4's to a little over 500 FPS
the internal buffer will not hurt FPS but the breech seal could so what is the color of the cone breech seal
and the piston seal is metal like a car piston for sealing now if the pistol was rebuilt by someone that over lubed the cylinder that could not help

I've seen some people talk about a power plenum and an upgraded reservoir? I'm just curious what those upgrades bring to the table? I'm not looking to upgrade mine. I'm happier than a puppy with 2 peters with the way my Avenge-X. 25 performs. I've just been doing some reading and was just curious. Once again thanks for all the feed back. Greatly appreciated.

Close to 60 years ago I occasionally got to go "coon hunting" with my uncle near the town of Burlington Kansas. The mothers hated it, the kids (including me) loved it. My uncle tried to be sure everybody had a flashlight but only he or another uncle had a firearm (and nobody had a pellet gun). I don't think we ever got a raccoon when I was there but we got a few possums. My uncle did not always kill them but sometime he did, he said it kept the dogs interested. We would go running through the woods when the dogs barked "treed" trying to get to that tree before the raccoon jumped out of the tree and started running again. We fell in creeks, got tangled up in fences, and fell in creeks. Fun stuff.

Congratulations on a big one!

@rockfish4175 I hate it when sites aren’t consistently thorough with the info they publish. I’m pretty sure it’s tedious and different folks work on contributing to pinkish product information. In your case you’d likely have a better chance sending Hawke an email via their contact form or calling. When you obtain the info you’re seeking, please come back to this thread and update us with the details.

https://us.hawkeoptics.com/contact.html

j4s0n said:

I ordered some gauges for it.
Do I need to depressurize the system to attach something like that? I didn't see anything about that in the manual.

Lastly, are these things safe to dry fire? If so, should I dry fire it with gas or without? I plan to use mine for competitive shooting, so I'd like to practice with props and small targets, using my DFAT scope adapter.

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Yes, slowly loosen the small set on the side of plenum to degas your rifle. You need to leave it out when you install the angled manometer bracket.
It is ok to dryfire BUT never without air !
I wouldn't dry fire a lot though.

Sleestak said:

So you guys using the Trigger Stick just plunk down into your firing position and release the legs on it to set it?

I could see that as something to put in a pack

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As I mentioned above, I made some from garden sticks and like them for walking for ground squirrels on mine and neighbors property. I also have a set of 3 leg trigger sticks and use those when I sit and wait for the critters to poke their heads up!

The L2 is a unique and honorable addition to the airgun family legacy. Really nothing else quite like it and the people who passionately enabled its creation are to be commended. These admirable acknowledgements also result in complications to owning an L2 not to mention the judgement emotions related to its creators. All I know is my L2 is a squirrel murdering machine…

Ries said:

Remove the hammer spring from Huma. That is too much.


I tried it aswell, lightest Huma hammer and Huma spring and I was not able to adjust my hammer properly.


Just use the lightest hammer from Huma, that is enough for 130 bar

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I recommend a 15 gram hammer, stock spring 150 bar. I'm. Currently running the super heavy tungsten hammer weight and stock spring with 150 bar and it's just at the bottom of its tuning window on my 700mm 22 m3. The differences between models are minimal.

The backyard is cool, Otis even more so. I wonder if in SC, the floating 'gator head would keep predators away? Beneficial? Be Well, Brothers, B.

This tangential discussion is funny. Using some of your ”rationale” I guess the bulk of the UK airgun community is functioning off of flawed physics and ethics. Ratting is pretty big in their community with sub-12 fpe restrictions.

@slugdug The member advising you to follow the regulator manufacturer’s recommended operating range provided sound advice. Operating within the recommended range making adjustments to the reg, and hammer spring, while chronographing shots, and testing penetration on the same or similar materials that will be behind your intended targets is probably a sufficient exercise to know whether you will risk damaging anything on pass throughs or misses. Keep in mind that you’re not monitoring the regulator adjustment in terms of fps of a given projectile (velocity can change by switching projectiles or projectile weights without altering any settings. Even temperature changes), but by psi/bar setting of the regulator. The velocity can change with a hammer spring adjustment leaving the regulator set pressure the same. I’ve killed rodents with a Crosman Punpmaster and bbs. I wojldnt be concerned about power. If you can penetrate cardboard, the rodent should be dead within a reasonable distance.

Yep. Personal use only.
Thanks! I can work with .stl or .stp...

Same. I lucked out and got a fantastic deal on a m357 from Rich. I almost bought this gun a couple weeks ago but I had just pulled the trigger lol on a aea m457. The m257 was on Amazon for something like $729 after taxes. They only had 2 available. Looking forward to following your threads.

As a general rule I use +\- 1% of bullet weight for small caliber, and +/- 0.5% on larger. I also find if you control lead temperature and mold temperature you get more consistent results. Letting those two variables swing a lot causes a lot of weight swings.

When casting watch for sharp square edges on bases and driving bands. Soft radius edges points to temperature being to low, and swings in bullet weight because the cavity is not being filled completely.

marflow 777 said:

Scott i write for you or anyone that comes across the thread
every gun is not straight forward for example the Cometa Indian now that is and odd duck to take apart and reassemble
i never try to write like i am a know it all because i sure as hell am not but ideas help other to form their own ideas
my go to thought about all this
is humans put them together i am human i should be able to do the same LOL

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Good attitude 777!!

Last night I ordered a different reseal kit from"Baker Airgun". There kit includes a synthetic replacement valve stem/seal.
I wanted to have a backup plan.

My new to me 78G is out for delivery today. I'll report back what I find with this one, after I open it up.

Have fun

Blue Dog said:

That’s a ton of info. Thx!

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@Blue Dog No problem.

I recently purchased a SR2 missing the removable. 177 or .22 barrels. It is the Stainless version with the plastic stock . Called Beeman in California and the only have the painted black barrels. Anyone else have a Stainless looking barrel or know where i could aquire one. Preferably in .177

Thanks Don

Thanks everyone, i have a walnut FORM stock ordered. Carro, cheek riser, front and back studs.

Interesting idea. On clearance which means they didn’t sell.

Why different hammer weights . I go on the idea of increased reg pressure will at some point need a heaver hammer to get added power from reg increase . What am I missing in my thinking ?

Hello everyone in this forum, some of you will know what are the oring measurements for the rattler 357, I would appreciate it, I already searched on the Internet and I can't find information, specify, it is the oring that pushes the pallet, why does it come out. The air through the barrel, Thanks a lot

I do remember the howl, just not which night
VERY distinct differrence in the wolf vs coyote noise making, that was most certainly a wolf. What would life be like without memories like these!
Thx
Dan

I have a Disy 599. Weighs in a pinch over 7lb.