Good news! The wife called to tell me the Avenger is here! But now what...too cold out there to go some plinking. I really wish I live down south somewhere. Not too many months to do anything worthwhile in Minnesota! AARRGGH!!!
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Avenger Coming This Week
- Thread starter CP598
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So I checked Fedex tracking around 4:00, it changed from delivery at end of day Monday to Delivery Pending, "AGAIN". Are you freakin kidding me? Anyway about an hour later I hear a truck out front, I look and see a Fedex truck out front, I get my hopes up but he is parked in front of the neighbors house. Sure enough I watch him deliver 2 packages to my neighbor. As I am peeping through the blinds watching this, I see a long thin box in the front of the truck, I say to myself "that's got to be my gun", The driver gets in the truck closes the door and drives down the street, which is a dead end. He makes his deliveries and drives back out and I hear him stop again, I get up and look and sure enough he is stopped in front of my house and delivers my order!! Yeah!!!! My Avenger arrived basically empty of air. I opened the bleed screw to set the reg. and not much air came out. Hopefully it didn't leak out and was drained, "for reasons unknown" prior to shipping. I pumped it up to 3000PSI and set the reg at 2000, so far "15 hours" it looks good. I cleaned the barrel and could not believe how dirty it was!! I will try to get it sighted in later today.
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Cp598 just to let you know mine was in the same condition. Very little air (maybe 100 lbs) barrel was also very dirty. I used a patchworm to clean it. Mine is a .22 and I could not believe how tight it was to pull through. The lead in edges were very sharp . I hope it doesnt cause problem with the pellets havent mounted a scope yet or fired it. Maybe later in the week . Was yours tight too?
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My .25 came today. It had about 800 psi of air in it. I dry-fired it a couple times and degassed it. Reset the reg like the book showed. Started filling it and it was leaking past the reg. Degassed it again and filled the rifle to 4000. It was still hissing. Turned the reg up to about 1800. The leak stopped. Then I upped the reg to about 2800 or so. I did shoot a couple mags of Hades through the crony and averaged 950 FPS. Will clean the barrel, oil the side lever tonight and scope it. Will see how it turns out tomorrow. Na, I will be shooting it tonight out the barn door. I am not one of you guys that can Waite!
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Netman, yes mine was tight as well. After running a few patches with good ol' No. 9 and then some clean and oiled patches, it seemed fine. Sounds like some have air, some don't.
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Alright, mounted my POS, BSA Sweet17 "what I had laying around" on medium scope rings. Quite a bit higher than it needs to be, but those were the only rings I had laying around also. 3000PSI in reservoir, 2000PSI reg. 2.75 turns on hammer spring, shooting cheap Crosman HP 14.3 gr. at 20 yards. First picture is 8 shots to get scope somewhat close. Rather than spend any more time sighting, I thought I would shot a 10 shot group. That is the second picture. Taped a nickel to target for reference. This was shooting out my backyard window, using the couch for a rest! I was moving around quite a bit. Need to use my Caldwell rest at the range. I think the Avenger has potential. Anxious to try my JSB's.
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Coming together really good...!! I have not got to groups yet but rifle shooting good, no leaks.
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Just a question for you guys. When I cleaned my barrel it was tight at the breech then loosened up towards the muzzle. I know it supposed to be choked. Is it possible the barrel was installed backwards?
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Good question Netman. Mine seemed tighter at the muzzle, but I can't say with 100% certainty.
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What do you guys use to clean the bore/barrel? Just a cleaning rod? There's a guy that actually polished inside of the bore. I wonder if that helps with accurate or consistency?
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My package from PA has been stick in IA for the last 10 days. now states unknown delivery. Called PA, they told me to call fedex.
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Played with the POS scope a little more. Attached 5 shot group at about 20 yards again. I know only 20 yards...
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Got my Avenger just over a week ago, it has and does everything I could want and I'm happy! For air compressor I went with an electric (12 volt and 110volt) air cooled unit so I can go anywhere anytime without having to worry about a bucket of water to cool it. As for FedEx, their ground service is not a corporate entity, it is a bunch of independent owner/operators who too often hire hourly employees and that is where the problems begin. Late shipments, damaged shipments and lost shipments all the time. UPS is much better and often just a bit more in cost but worth it.
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does the avenger picatinny mound have degree of upslope to it (sorry dont know what the phrase is)? I mounted my scope on it and had to adjust it to the max of up adjustment. Anyone have the same problem?
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No MOA built into the picatinny mounting rail. My best guess is 1) scope problem or 2) bent barrel
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Take the scope off and tighten the 5 Allen screws that hold the rail down. Had to do it to mine today. While I was at it, I took the stock off and checked all screws. Good luck putting the stock back on! I got it figured out. Just put 1 side on at a time. You need to tuck the back end of the front stock under the front of the back stock first. Then pop the front flat nut in to the inside of the stock. Same with the plastic cylinder that sits between the block and bottom of the stock that goes around the screw-head of the reg. I bet you will break a couple of the plastic tabs that Alain the 2 front stock halves. Doesn’t seem to hurt anything.
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