Artemis P15 Owners?

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I dig em. Really light in fact one of the lightest PCP bullpups and decent overall gun for $300-$350 and with the money you just saved even better with a custom machined LW or CZ barrel and CARM Magazines (original mags are kinda sucky) like the typical crappyish Artemis mags. The Diana Skyhawk is the nearly twice the price brother (or sister) with heavier but nicer stock. There is a night and day difference in weight. QC hit or miss thats why you go for replacement LW or CZ barrel and CARM Magazines. Kinda line an economy older style Edgun once improved upon IMHO.
 
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I respect that, but gimme the p10 and P12. I have both in .25

Mean little shooters they are. I particularly like the revamped stock. Nothing flimsy or low quality about it ... more substantial than the p15, better magazine and materials too (titanium cylinder). 

The only issue is the cocking pin. Needs to be swapped out for an m5 allen. Not a big deal, some patient tapping and dremelling -- feasible even for paper pushers like your humble servant.

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@brillerino, Aaron Cantrell’s YouTube videos are what sparked my interest in the P15. He swears by them.

@Odoyle, they’re actually $500, at a Krale, (not $300-350), 

unless Google’s not leading me to a cheaper priced one.

I could see buying some Carm mags, but wouldn’t want to bother with rebarreling it. At that additional cost point, the light weight advantage (4+ lbs?, wow!) goes out the window for me, and I’ll stick with my Taipan.

@Parrotculler, I haven’t looked at the P10s or P12s, but will give them a look see.

@mikebeggs, I honestly don’t like to tinker. I lack that skill set, and would rather shoot.
 
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The $300-$350 are the original P15 prices. Wasn't aware they got jacked up like that.

In that case it's not much more for the heavier Diana Skyhawk with the nicer stock.

You may come across an already duked up P15 or Skyhawk on the classifieds that will probably save your money on the improvements that the previous owner had already done.


 
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I've been very lucky I guess I bought my P15 22 from Mrodair and it's been really accurate the only thing I've done to it was open up the barrel TP it's shooting the JSB 15.9 at 950fps, I had a P15 25 it was accurate also and not I have a Skyhawk 25 squirrel head accurate out to 40 yards farthest I've shot it so far, I guess I've won the lotto on barrels the Skyhawk is shooting JSB 25.39s around 815fps I've been planning to open the Barrel TP to get it up to 850fps like I did on the P15 25.
 
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I have a 22 Skyhawk.

I had to replace the barrel, shroud, magazines and regulator. It is light, the trigger can be adjusted to a nice level and in the case of the Skyhawk it has a lovely stock. Mine weighs in at 6 lbs and change with a compact scope and longer LW Poly chocked barrel. With a longer plenum you can get well into the 45 FPE with 25 grain 22 caliber pellets.

The concept of the rifle, a light, powerful bullpup is great, but there are pitfalls. You need to be a tinker, there are no parts available or service.

If you combine that with poor quality control and you have the potential for a several hundred dollar paper weight.

I recently had to make a trigger linkage. The lack of parts keeps me awake at night, enough so that at this point in my life, I will never buy another Snow peak rifle and due to how Diana dropped the ball on this, they are off my list also.

I love mine, however the best advice I can give is to follow the advice I got from Frank, there are far better choices out there.



Regards,

Roachcreek
 
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Where can you get the custom barrel for the P15? I've been thinking for a long time about getting one as my backup gun. I know the barrel is a lottery, I've read so many issues with those barrels?

Or should I just look at the new Akela?
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I bought a LW polygonal barrel for my .25 and had Lee at Lee Air Pro machine it. Very accurate now.
 
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My Recommendation would be the Kozak : Here's a good comparism to P15...











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Another Eastern bloc semi- heavyweight. The Kozac shows at 6.6# bare. My P15 is lighter with scope and rings, and a dovetail to Picatinny adapter.

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The only guns other than the P15 that were acceptable to me, were the Leshiy Classic (not the L2) but a big trade-off as only single shot, and the FX Wildcat Compact. The FX Wildcat Compact is close to the perfect all around gun considering weight, accuracy (short and medium range), multi-shot, and forward cocking, but at a substantially higher cost.
 
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