Hi lads, like a lot of airgunners (Teenagers mostly) I crave for a reliable air pistol, with cool semi-auto features that has enough power to take down small game.
I even get my hands on an HDR .50 11 joule version, a horribly bad revolver from umarex that cant even cycle propperly if you don't pull the trigger has strong and fast has you can. I take my f**** time to polish the internals to poke more the retention pin, bend the cilinder rod and lower the valve retention, then I take off the internal block that limits the co2 per shot and reduce via dremel the valve rod. I obtain a much better piece that actually don't jam half of the times you dare to try precision shooting, also ram the power to 15/16 joule (around 11,7 fpe).
Sadly the precision out of the smooth bore is still horrible, specially if you try pointy or fancy shaped projectiles, the trigger pull is atrocious, you shake the whole gun no matter what and there is no single action mode, even manually rotating the cilinder at first stage of the trigger wont help. Also, cal .50 means little to no penetration at those power figures, you are gonna punch that poor rabbit a few metters and you may NOT even kill it.
The HDR.50 is not designed for that anyways, so... back to the begining.
I'm about to acquire a fantabulous zoraky HP-1 /webley alecto in .177, a trillon times better pistol, single shot, 3 pumps up to 9/10 joule (7fpe), and really precise and quality gun.
But then I see the new Co2 Pisol Gamo p430, small, big claims of 150m/s 495fps, rifled barrel pellet shooter, sexy... for under 50 bucks.
The gun got 5 Gamo out of 5 for pest control of his ultra-reliable Gamo pro shot ID system, and they even have the balls to put 3 Gamo out of 5 for HUNTING. (the 1 Gamo for target shooting seems the more sincere of all).
Well... of course those 495 fps are gonna be from ultra-light pellet in the best conditions, but with all those claims better than a crosman vigilante, the idealistic part of me wants to belive that the gun will drop a rabbit on close distance with a well placed shot, so I can have a pocket size semi-auto thing capable to do small game at close ranges... And even in cold temp I can store it near my balls to hot the Co2 between shots.
I didn't found any chrony video with the weight of the pellet, also the reviews at the moment aren't very profesional, no chrony, no trigger pull, no reliable precision testing...
So... I come here with the vague hope that some of you tried the Gamo p-430, wich on the other hand seems a copy of the daisy 415 but with pellets instead of bb.
Mod edit: Removed profanity LAW #1.
I even get my hands on an HDR .50 11 joule version, a horribly bad revolver from umarex that cant even cycle propperly if you don't pull the trigger has strong and fast has you can. I take my f**** time to polish the internals to poke more the retention pin, bend the cilinder rod and lower the valve retention, then I take off the internal block that limits the co2 per shot and reduce via dremel the valve rod. I obtain a much better piece that actually don't jam half of the times you dare to try precision shooting, also ram the power to 15/16 joule (around 11,7 fpe).
Sadly the precision out of the smooth bore is still horrible, specially if you try pointy or fancy shaped projectiles, the trigger pull is atrocious, you shake the whole gun no matter what and there is no single action mode, even manually rotating the cilinder at first stage of the trigger wont help. Also, cal .50 means little to no penetration at those power figures, you are gonna punch that poor rabbit a few metters and you may NOT even kill it.
The HDR.50 is not designed for that anyways, so... back to the begining.
I'm about to acquire a fantabulous zoraky HP-1 /webley alecto in .177, a trillon times better pistol, single shot, 3 pumps up to 9/10 joule (7fpe), and really precise and quality gun.
But then I see the new Co2 Pisol Gamo p430, small, big claims of 150m/s 495fps, rifled barrel pellet shooter, sexy... for under 50 bucks.
The gun got 5 Gamo out of 5 for pest control of his ultra-reliable Gamo pro shot ID system, and they even have the balls to put 3 Gamo out of 5 for HUNTING. (the 1 Gamo for target shooting seems the more sincere of all).
Well... of course those 495 fps are gonna be from ultra-light pellet in the best conditions, but with all those claims better than a crosman vigilante, the idealistic part of me wants to belive that the gun will drop a rabbit on close distance with a well placed shot, so I can have a pocket size semi-auto thing capable to do small game at close ranges... And even in cold temp I can store it near my balls to hot the Co2 between shots.
I didn't found any chrony video with the weight of the pellet, also the reviews at the moment aren't very profesional, no chrony, no trigger pull, no reliable precision testing...
So... I come here with the vague hope that some of you tried the Gamo p-430, wich on the other hand seems a copy of the daisy 415 but with pellets instead of bb.
Mod edit: Removed profanity LAW #1.
