Beeman Beeman R9 .22 3 months in

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Buddy2023

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Well I've owned my R9 as the title suggests for three months now and all I can say is it's become my favorite springer. The twang is becoming less pronounced and it shoots just about every pellet I've tried in it exceptionally well. I don't even have a full tin of pellets through it, although it's close, and it appears to be well on it's way to being broken in. The Diana 350 (needed) the 500 rounds and then some to get broken in, but this R9 has shot well from the begining and just keeps getting smoother. I've never owned a Beeman before and I'm impressed with its quality and accuracy, I have a 2-7 Tasco AIR A/O mounted on it and the scope seems well made too and is clear and holds its zero. The pellets I've tried include the Crosman 14.3 grain hollow points, RWS Super H Points and the JSB Hades, all of them shoot well with the edge going to the Crosman pellets. It's a wonderful rifle to carry in the woods too. I'm sure others have posted similar comments about the R9 but I'm just so impressed with how well things have come together with it I just had to say something LOL.
 
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I'm glad your happy with your R9. I have two HW95s also in .22. The HW95 is the same rifle as the R9 just a different brand name.
I'm also very pleased with the HW95/R9. Both of mine are great shooters. One has a scope the other has a Williams peep sight. I shoot mostly the Crosmsn 14.3 gr hollow points in them.

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cjtamu said:
Great rifles, love mine, my Best all around springer.. Shoots the JSB 15.89 very well. Shoots the H&N FTT even better. Might try them sometime.
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My buddy has some of those, maybe I can bum a few off of him LOL! I didn't mention it in my original post, but the only pellets this rifle doesn't like is those Crosman destroyer pellets and none of my other rifles like them either LOL
 
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Buddy2023 said:
My buddy has some of those, maybe I can bum a few off of him LOL! I didn't mention it in my original post, but the only pellets this rifle doesn't like is those Crosman devastator pellets and none of my other rifles like them either LOL
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Mine is happiest with 5.53 head size. Shoots the 5.54 very well also but loses about 8 FPS.

Edit: Good grief. Changed head size to account for .22 not .177! Sorry, been a crazy week.
 
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Maker's Marksman said:
I have the 85 which is nothing but a long barreled 95 (it was something different as Beeman R10 but the two rifles fused together)
My best airgun at shooting consistency, pellet sensitivity, least recoil least piston slam, most efficient straightest shooting. cal 0.177 @ 16 ftlbs.

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16 FPE in 177 for that gun is a lot. What pellets are you using? Did you add a tune kit?
 
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The gun likes H+N sniper lights (which are discontinued, I think they bought them from Luman) These pellets are a wonder of their own, weighing 0.48 grams and coming out of the muzzle with 2 ftlb more than the barracuda BUT having twice the power at 40 m distance. Which is quite strange and against theory. But they do so in all my cal. .177 guns as the HW 35 and Diana 35c keep their energy much better than the barracuda. The barracuda turned out to be no good in any of my guns. By the way we're supposed to reduce lead use :)
No tune kit, just the standard Diana 52 mainspring and spring guide. And thinner grease sleeve for the genuine wouldn't fit. And chamfered TP entry (in which I don't believe to have a noticeable effect.)
 
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These springs are the best I know. Cheap and seem not to droop or shorten at use or get bent. I put them anywhere they would fit so in the 85 and in the Diana 35c. Quite in fact the spring in my 85 serviced in the 52 before for about 2000 shots. At disassembling it was 1 cm shorter at most and completely straight. Too good for waste so it went into the 85 where it seems to last forever.
And straight still in the 85, 35c and 52 unlike so many other springs.
 
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Lightweight pellets up the energy quite a bit by themselves. All of my springers lose energy as pellet weights increase. Generally standard weight lead pellets either side of 8-9 grains will have good performance in most midsized springers. Big springers can handle a little heavier. Even my R1 made 17 fpe with 8.64 FTTs but only made 14 fpe with 10.65 Barracudas.

I'm not sure if you were comparing Sniper lights to some alloy Barracuda version. Typically light alloy pellets have terrible BCs because they have little sectional density. Not sure how the Sniper lights could land with twice the energy unless the Barracuda were alloy as well and a terrible design.

Often people with large calibers use alloy pellets to up their muzzle velocity to flatten trajectory. It sort of works but the cost is a lot of lost energy at the terminal end. Especially at longer distances because alloy pellets lose velocity quickly. Similarly shaped lead pellets may start off slower with less muzzle energy but will retain more of it. It's possible for the lead pellet to land with more energy and near the same velocity at the far end as the alloy. These are general ballistic principles occasionally there's exceptional pellets that buck these principles.

Also I feel the lead reduction thing is an exaggerated concern that doesn't warrant the financial cost and efficiency loss that alloy pellets bring. You're entitled to your views on the subject. Let's just leave it at that. I'm just tired of that argument.
 
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Well to me it's quite plain to see why a light pellet leaves at higher speed that the Barracuda (with much better BC) But I don't understand why at 40 m distance this difference is increased to just half the energy for the Barracudas. But this is ecactly what happens.
And yes for my two guns at 0.22" I switched to lead free pellets for the higher speed.
The Weihrauch FT (JSB ecact) 11.75 gr. leave the HW 80 with 289 m/s, The H+N FTT Green 9.57 gr the HW 35 with 253 m/s, the 11.75 gr with 229 m/s
 
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Yes, I think they're not worth it. In Germany they seem to find much attention as well as even heavier monster pellets. But German airgunning is silly anyway. They run Barracudas throiugh a naturally stroked HW 80 @ 0.25" and 5.5 ftlbs. feeling fine. I'd prefer to throw stones instead.
Only to avoid supersonic in super powerful airguns they make sense. But in this case a bigger caliber does better
 
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