Someone asked for groups. I haven’t forgotten, just been busy. She prints good enough for me. JSB Kings 25.4 grain. It shoots tighter on wheel setting 4 at around 845fps but I’m good with these results. I strive for higher levels of accuracy out of my Impact MKII but for starlings and woodchucks this works just fine. The hades shoot good too.

Those are 1” squares at 70 yards. Prone with a bipod, holding not dialed and no rear bag. I also just shot this group, it’s getting dark around here and the center dot on the Athlon Helos is twice the size of the small dot I was aiming for up and to the right.

At my apprenticeship we had a huge band saw, it had a build in saw blade welder,and even a little grinding stone too, it was also excellent in welding a piece of round steel to a drill and so enable drilling way down deep.

Using it i also once hand cut a 3 mm thread thru a 150 mm long piece of brass pipe. the thread cutter only went as far as 40 - 50 mm or so, so had to get creative.

harrympope said:

its only an underlever if you lay it on its side ..

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You got me there

My Maverick shot its best shot string with 25.4 JTS .22 pellets. I switched to JSBs and the SD and ES was not as good .

From the groups I was getting on windy days looks like they will make some ragged 1 hole groups at 50y .

One of my tins are dented . Who do I talk too ? And that's from Pyramid.

I switched to a .22 cal…$15 a tin + $10 for shipping. These have been washed, lubed, and sorted.

Steve52 said:

I have noticed that on my Benjamin marauder that when I am filling it, and the gage on the marauder increases to 3000 psi, and I shut off the air source, the gage on the marauder will drop about 200 psi. It seems to do this every time.

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It could be that if you are filling fairly quickly from a tank, and are filling a lot - say from 1500 psi to 3000 psi - this would probably be a normal result from heating the air in the tube. The pressure drops as it cools. Feel your tube by hand after a fill - if it is slightly warm 10-20 seconds after you fill then that is what is happening.

You could fill slower and the impact will be reduced, or just do what you are doing and then top it up the last bit before unhooking. But keeping things cooler is probably for the better in the long run. If your tank valve can't be feathered to go slowly, then I'd break it down into 500 psi portions of fill with a pause between each one by closing the valve for 5-10 seconds.

rokonman said:

Very pretty gun. With the size of your R1 collection perhaps you could answer a question. I see that my carbine has a chamfered front compression tube cap seam rather than the usual attempt at hiding the seam. I have seen San Rafael without the chamfered seam so I know it’s not an early thing. Which R1s had the chamfered seam?

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I have broken this seam question away in to a new thread. I have no idea how to link that thread.

Hi good forum people , and thanks for visiting my topic, new complete begginner in the airgun world here and yet to buy my first pcp and wondering if would be possible to get some advice and help from the more experienced people at the forum .


i have had some begginer notions and been reading and watching videos but there's a lot of info out there, so easy to get confused, so let me cut it short.

I have a small fishing crowwbow, and im now looking for a small PCP Arrowgun, for inshore fishing on topwater here in Europe, and so far i was only able to find this model

- FX_Ranchero_Arrow_Edition - which goes for around 1000 bucks ands get up to 10 shots per refill.(10inch arrows)

The only alternative i found is called arcus viper or arcus harpoon but those seem to be Co2 only models..




I know there are bigger PCP arrowgun models too, like the fx impact fishingkit and the air javellin fishr, but i believe they are more directed to outshore species,




Any opinions are very appreciated


Have a great weekend

Thanks marflow!

Ohio Schedule updated.......October N50 match dates at Meeker have changed.

Ohio Schedule updated.......October N50 match dates at Meeker have changed.

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Flashbacks of the Dump speed loading Mag that never hit the market would flood my dreams also haha. ( Joking of course )

I have just received my fx impact m3 sniper 700mm .30
I'm using jsb knockout slugs 50.15gr
I'm not sure what reg pressures to aet gun up with
Can anyone advise me please

5.53 H&N FTT 14.66gr

hc977 said:

Question should be if anyone got sub MOA consistently with 25cal,as 22 is much much easier to achieve sub moa at least for me ,25 FX IMPACTS are finnicky and demanindg to tune with slugs especially...

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If you touching hole groups with slugs,the rmr hybrids will do it at 1100fps at 100 yards. The 1in24twist or 1in18 either. Both liners will shoot these slugs accurate in 25 caliber at high velocity. The Apolo 33 grain shoot will also,at least an inch out of my guns when I was shooting 25 caliber.

Stormin-Normin said:

Thanks for the additional comments Steve, very helpful. I’ve never owned a precision pellet gun so learning as I go. I’ve been a powder burner for over 50 yrs though. This concept of spring guns and 2 way recoil is new to me, but research suggests a Hawke scope is the way to go and I’ll definitely consider the Hawke mounts. I get the gun and scope delivered next week, but I’ve watched every R7 and HW30s video I could find on YouTube . Can hardly wait. What ranges do you shoot for targets Steve?

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Only 20-30 yards, but I had to move last August, so come spring, I'll be checking out a couple of the area shooting ranges and I have a nephew that just bought a new home parked on 4 acres I'm more than welcome to come shoot on.

daddypaddy said:

i’m imagining this would also shorten the time for the shot to reach the apex of the set regulated pressure to transfer energy to the pellet to travel.

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Yes, something like that.

A hard, relatively incompressible poppet is easier to knock off the valve seat. Meaning less of the hammer's energy is soaked up just getting the poppet unstuck, so to speak, leaving more of it to create lift and dwell. So if the hammer still has most of its energy, it still has most of its velocity which means the valve opens more quickly. By opening quickly, the pressure pulse reaching the pellet more closely approximates a square wave, whereby producing greater acceleration.

So if you combine a hard poppet with other things that promote short valve dwell (lightweight hammer, stronger valve spring, etc.), efficiency can be improved. Because if the valve closes quickly, before the pellet has moved far down the barrel, it means the volume behind the pellet is less and therefore less air is consumed to pressurize that volume.

harrympope said:

Yes display cases but for some reason it was the Monty Python theme song...

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har har har

If want light perhaps keep the CMP until you find a 500 it’s 3 lbs 4 oz lighter even with the added barrel weight With all of the qualities of the higher line guns. If you dont have any pcps you would need to get a pump. Though these use very little air.

Cobramechah1j said:

Nicely done video

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Thanks!!

Cobramechah1j said:

tape a lifesaver candy to the cardboard

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That is essentially where this challenge came from. Here is a link to @bucketboy 's original post that gave me the idea

Inherited my friends airgun collection. Selling duplicates that I have and project guns.
Theoben MK2 22cal
Action up graded with quick fill adapter and requlator and serviced by Martin. Has Custom barrel with threaded end cap and shroud.includes OBD moderator. With Chassis magazine One piece mount and USO TX 12X . The safety needs removing to fit in chassis
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Looking for the weihrauch gauge for the hw90. Thanks.

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Privateer said:

Next will be someone that wants to fill tanks/guns with a compressor that has WiFi.

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I want my scope and gun to be wifi so I can just look at my phone and and shoot.