AEA AEA semiauto after a week of ownership
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I love my .25 varmint. I've had semis and sold them. I have had zero problems from my Varmint. I wonder why the bolt stuff works so so much better and the semis are a constant source of repair.
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My HP semiauto works perfectly but I pulled it apart and studied the mechanism.
It's a piston driven blowback BUT has an adjustable transfer port... Hmmmmm
If you open the TP, more air is used to push the pellet out and we ALL want more fps & fpe!
I simply blocked off air from getting to the piston and tuned my gun to use an open TP with 90% restriction on the piston.
It's a piston driven blowback BUT has an adjustable transfer port... Hmmmmm
If you open the TP, more air is used to push the pellet out and we ALL want more fps & fpe!
I simply blocked off air from getting to the piston and tuned my gun to use an open TP with 90% restriction on the piston.
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i have a hp carbine 30 cal. has been fun. still shoots single loaded . the brass rod wont retract. any ideas
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I’m probably gonna switch mine to bolt action. It’s very pressure sensitive and that spring cycling noise just drives me crazy. But I will say it’s pretty accurat,when it cycles.
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On my Notos I installed the eBay plenum and turned up the hammer spring and it's now shooting at 850 fps. But I also installed the drop block and a 38L carbon fiber bottle and 2200 psi regulator to achieve this so it's definitely not stock. Also use Maple products Canada 15 shot mega mags for worry free feeding of ammo. Trigger tuned down to 16 oz as well. Man the Notos is accurate! So it's now a $450.00 gun......Had to make it my own.
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First run of AEA SF/HP .25cal mags will dropping at the beginning of next month. .22/.30cal will be released shortly after followed by extended capacity mags.
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Ok, let me shape my experience. I have two AEA semi autos, both works fine. AEA SF in 22 worked fine in semi auto right out of the box, no issues whatsoever, real glad I got this one in my hands and highly recommend it! Recently I came into possession of AEA HP Carbine in 30. And this one was almost as good as SF, but I got a few jams time to time, not big deal but a bit frustrating. I'm working on a few adjustments to the pushback rod and the gas port just as @Firewalker suggested getting it to cycle reliably, and I'm waiting for the new mags from ND Designs to test out because the mags is the biggest PITA of AEA guns. Really, they managed to design a really nice platform but failed to produce a reliable mag. These 18 bucks plastic piece of @@@@@ are the worst.
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BTW, there is a thread on AGN discussing how to make HP SS "great again" and the whole point comes down to the problem with the mag that has too weak spring to rotate quick enough when the pushback piston cycles the action. Let me look it up... Here it is:
www.airgunnation.com
AEA - How to make your AEA HP SS great again! 100%
Hi, Good news for the owners of the AEA HP SS. I have found the actual root cause of all the magazine issues, no guessing. All the owners of the HP SS semi auto already know by now that all the magazines sooner or later will start misbehaving, to the point of failure. Constant jamming...
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hmm my hp carbine .30 works great with stock aea mags and ae swede’s (very nice). only jammed in aea mags maybe 5 times out of 2000 shots. my sf .22 still leaks after dreads o ring post. i checked mine and it looks fine cleaned it and still leaks. i put the other kne back on i got from a member here after cleaning the same way and i think it’s holding? will see in the am…i want to try dreads next with my .22
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That's the problem with AEA, same gun can work or perfect or so-so, quality is not very consistent. My Carbine 30 is working much better than I expected but I had only one session with it, just got it a week ago. But I'll get it working 100% reliably, one way or another
. At least it does not leak at all, holds air perfectly. Same for SF. But my Challenger Pro and HP Max are both leaking, still did not figure out what's the culprit. But back to the HP SS, as I heard it the least reliable semi-auto they ever produced, and they stopped making it. Still, I'm looking to buy one second hand, I want to too what I can do with it to make it work reliably.Upvote 0
yea ill proly throw a bottle on my sf if i cant get that reg sorted…f it gotta shootThat's the problem with AEA, same gun can work or perfect or so-so, quality is not very consistent. My Carbine 30 is working much better than I expected but I had only one session with it, just got it a week ago. But I'll get it working 100% reliably, one way or another
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I have a 300cc bottle on mine. I use AE Swede mags and get 2 mags out of the bottle. That is 2 mags 34 shots with no POI change at 50 yds. I have been shooting this one daily on our dog walks.
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Nice setup!!! Which adapter did you use to get the bottle attached? AE Swede mags are great, but they are like 50 bucks a piece if I recall correctly.
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the regs holding well the original i bought from here… need to get with bin on the replacement they sent it still leaks from fill port
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