Talk me out of the Notos
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I bought one, for 25-40 yrds. Its respectable. My only disappointment is that cheap crosman HP's aren't its favorite pellet. They are simply built and the trigger can be turned very light, about 760fps is hot as mine can go. I have a Vulcan, Cricket, Leshiy2, Hatsan flash and a pishtov. It's light weight fairly quite and accurate and powerful enough for back yard critters. I sold my "Prod" and bought this to replace it. Oh yeah, forgot to mention its regulated. At 30 yrds. I can get 1/2 inch groups with 18 gr. Jsb. From the reviews, it prefers light pellets but not crosmans. I dont like the safety in the trigger, my buddy shot a hole in his rain gutter taking it off safety, my trigger was set very light. Dont expect it to be 1500 dollar airgun and you're gonna be satisfied.
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Sorry, thought I linked the exact page. Check page 23 or 24
Here's the actual post
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I have a question. What ammo do your higher end guns like ?
Crosman pellets are not the standard by which I’d define a gun pellet diet . It does seem to like the softer pellets ( Notos )
To me and my stable this is the least pellet picky carbine I own.
I get that the crosmans are less expensive and available all over …
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I don’t believe it’s about “setting a standard” with CPHPs. Sub 30 yards, pesting? Plinking? Why oh why would I shoot my premium JSBs, AAs, etc. The Crosmans can “git it done” for a lot of shooters. My lesson was learned going through three tins of premium pellets on roosting starlings. After the fact, I realized at the ranges I was taking them the CPHPs were a less pricier alternative. Lesson learned.
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My Cricket and Vulcan like jsb 18gr., but most accurate at 50yrds are the H&N 21gr. Slugs. At 30-40yrds the crosmans perform outstanding, but the groups deteriorate at 50 and farther. 99% of my shooting is backyard stuff at 25-38yrds. With my Notos at 30yrds. A 5 shot group with crosmans will usually print 3 touching and 2 flyers. With fx 18's, a half inch ragged hole. I'm retired and shoot a lot, so my go to are crosmans, but at the range I shoot my good stuff.
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Notos should hopefully be here at the end of the month. This is my first foray into pcp... Thinking of starting with a four uncles 4500 psi hand pump. Does anyone know if there any additional connectors needed to connect the pump and Notos?
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I'm not familiar with that brand pump, but most come with a female foster fitting on the end of the fill hose. The Notos comes with a Fill Probe that is equipped with a Male Foster Fitting, so you just need to attach the Fill Probe to the Pump, inster it into the Notos and have yourself a nice cardio workout!
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Well I got my red dot yesterday for my Airacuda and gotta say.....don't think I'll be looking for a Notos anymore. With the Notos I'd have to retune it to a lower power for a max of 15fpe. But once there kinda stuck. My Airacuda with the TP adjuster I have a setting at 10fpe and then 23fpe which work out perfect for my in barn use, then for other opportunities that might arise. Plus it saves me $260 lol. So even though the Notos I bet would be a great gun and would love to own one, right now just gonna play with the Airacuda in that role for now. I'm happy though to see a gun like this being loved by many. These cheaper guns usually aren't so one sided.
Way to resist that GAS. I've got too many myself and most of them can be tuned lower or higher but I have a hard time resisting the latest thing.
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Notos is really not that hard to resist...it checks a lot of boxes but you do get what you pay for, I have had it carted twice and bailed both times, there won't be a third.
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Sometimes you get more than what you pay for. There is a very large group of content Notos owners. Shooting one will tell the tale.
I have heard zero in the way of negatives in mass aside from trigger work which is super easy
I have heard zero in the way of negatives in mass aside from trigger work which is super easy
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Well I'm back. Pre-ordered a Notos and Hawke 2-7x32 Vantage IR mildot for it. I was messing around with my wife yesterday and told her I had 3 guns ordered. Her response was that's fine I don't care. I told her I was totally joking and she said it doesn't bother me. She did just spend a decent amount of money at our school auction so made me think that's why she was ok with it lol. Anyways I thought about getting a higher end gun but think it's silly for my needs what it has to do. So a decent little gun and a decent scope to go with it for less than half what another option would be yeah I'm good with it. Then I can dedicate my Airacuda for slug use, Evol for my usual need then the Notos for close up low power needs.
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Welcome to the queue!
I've gone from April to May to June 28th and now at June 5th...
"Good things come... " - hope we both find out soon...
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" And only 20FPE what a weak pistol carbine"
AND people are wondering why there is a movement in congress to lump Air gun's with fire arms ??????????????
AND people are wondering why there is a movement in congress to lump Air gun's with fire arms ??????????????
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Oh great hopefully it's not pushed too far back. Oh well I'm looking forward to it whenever I do get it.
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I'm actually gonna tune mine down to 12-15fpe. More than enough for what I need.
But I agree some of these are getting too powerful and attracting too .uch attention
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I found the link to the GTA thread, but can’t seem to find the actual file. Do you remember which page it’s on? The link shot me to page 13 and I flipped around +-5 from there with no luck.
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