Congrats and good luck with the M4, buts let’s clear up some misconceptions:
1. Frequent adjustment of a reg is often tied to poor performance involving creep and high ES. There’s a lot to be said for the gun that is not so easy for the noob to screw up. The Impacts all have a substantial learning curve and YT heroes have brought many new users to tears chasing unfeasible goals. Take it easy and leave the reg alone for a few hundred shots.
2. The Jack of all trades airgun is in practice a fantasy in almost all cases, particularly alternating between pellets and slugs, the latter of which are very sensitive to the leading of the barrel. If only it were as simple as adjusting the power wheel and clicking over to a different zero. Part of the aforementioned learning curve.
3. The current Huben mags are chamfered at the entrance such that no pellet seating is needed. In fact , seating only causes pellet skirts to be compressed, allowing them to rattle around. I have >22000 rounds through a GK1 with no seating and no issues. I can click 19 pellets into the mag using the OEM loading gate as quickly as I can open and load an FX magazine. I can sure unload them a lot faster, which gets expensive. I agree that there are concerns relating to safety but there are steps that can be taken (rotating the mag to an empty chamber) to mitigate that problem. I also posted a very simple method for Huben barrel cleaning, going in from the muzzle with a rod-in-tube holding a retractable patch. It’s so easy that I now favor its use on all my guns.
4. A few minutes with a Taipan Vet would forever spoil you in terms of its ease of use, trigger, shot cycle and butter smooth operation. Almost all other guns feel gritty by comparison. Very few guns are so easy to shoot accurately, particularly offhand. Taipan mags are very simple to load and cheap to purchase. I’d wager that over the distance, you’d spend less time loading per shot with a few Taipan mags on hand. Plus, there are no springs pushing pellets or slugs to one side during chambering.
5. It was very amusing to read, along with your question to me regarding attaching multiple moderators to an RTI Mora, but if you want to get your squirrels to fly, you will need to use a large caliber at a low speed, which is actually a very quiet mode of airgun operation. Perhaps one of the air powered tennis ball launchers that I see at my local dog park would be the ultimate tool. I doubt that I would return to your backyard after being hit by one of those.
Thanks From what i've read and saw, there's no need to mess with the reg and valve adjustment unless i'm shooting a wide range of pellet/slug in different weight with a huge gap, like going from 11gr Wadcutters to 35gr slugs. When i receive the M4 tomorrow, i'll load the more common pallets and slugs to see where it's at by default, without making any adjustment, i'll get a baseline first to see how the new gun react to different projectiles, to get a feel for it If the M4 is shooting fine out of the box then I won't need to touch any setting and will leave the tuning alone. For lighter weight projectiles below 15gr i'll leave that duty mainly to the Umarex Notos, 15~21gr my Avenge-X got that covered. The new M4, i intend to have it take on heavier pellets/slugs mostly between 25 to 35gr, won't be messing with slug liners or slug power kit unless there's a real need for them, have no intention to "pimp out" any of my PCP guns, if the stock can is quiet enough I won't even bother to add different moderator to it.
The Huben is probably fun to shoot, being semi auto and all, but the downtime between reload is way too long, I'm already annoyed by the 16 shots magazine from the AvengeX "high capacity" mag and often wish to double the capacity, but still....I could preload multiple magazines and swap them out on the fly when it's empty, less than 2 seconds to swap out a pre-loaded magazines and continue shooting! With the Huben, I'll be sitting there trying to shove tiny little pellet into the fixed magazine every single time when the mag is empty, and i have a feeling the mag in these Huben gets emptied much quicker.... with semi auto fun and all, it's going to be even more annoying trying to load that fixed mag in low light condition, my eye sight isn't what it used to be....can't see poop without reading glasses anymore, one of those aging thing. lol swapping pre-loaded mags is significantly faster than trying to load the Huben, just no....i would never EVER buy or own a fixed magazine PCP gun, ever, it's going to annoy the hell out of me every single time, that kind of design isn't meant for me. If i really want a semi auto, i would go for something like the Western Sidewinder with the swappable mags.
Taipan Vet 2 is probably super accurate, consistent, and a pleasure to shoot, but it's fugly as hell....maybe down the road when i get tired of the M4 and need a new toy again, it has this industrial and watergun appearance that is hard for me to overlook. lol
I did consider the RTI Mora, spent a few days researching and reading about it in multiple forums and youtube reviews, etc, ultimately i decided against being a beta buyer to test first generation of any product, attaching multiple moderators on it was more like an experimenting idea, be it on Mora or on M4 or the Avenge-X, it's not realistic, practical, or necessary really. I can't even find any information on swapping out different caliber barrels on this thing to repurpose it if need be, or can it? Maybe when 2.0 come along in a year or so i might revisit Mora and take a look again, for now this $2.4K "nightmare" isn't for me.
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