Macavity Arms Macavity MA2 issues

Have any of you had issues with the MA2? I am in my second one! I have the .22 sniper and have nothing but problems on both. First one I took the the range and it would not hold a group smaller than about 2 inches at 25 yards. In addition to that I could barely get through 2 magazines without running out of air. So I put the Chronograph on it and it was all over the place, 850-950 feather aft about 3 fills I noticed leaking from the barrel. I took it to the shop I bought it at and he tried everything to get it to seal with no luck. He sent it back a got me a new one. Well new one had basically the same issues. Manual states it was supposed to be tuned to 1300-1600 psi to shoot JSB 18grn around 870. It was over 2000psi and was shooting 940 plus and while it was shooting a little better it still would not group. So I adjusted the reg (not a simple task) when I tested colorist it was right there 870 pretty soli. Went the range and was shooting ok. Then reg jumped back up on its own and it started leaking from the barrel again. I’ve reached out too Macavity twice now with no response. anyone else have these problems?

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Let me know what you find out as I have the same gun haven’t had no leaks but I noticed that my reg is at 1900 psi I emailed them today about it
131 bar (1900psi) doesn't seem outrageously high but I'm not familiar with your gun or what you do with it. My .30 Boss is at 160, if that means anything.
 
131 bar (1900psi) doesn't seem outrageously high but I'm not familiar with your gun or what you do with it. My .30 Boss is at 160, if that means anything.
Well I know the gun was shooting a killer group out the box and I didn’t pay attention to with the reg was at and now it has gone to trash so that’s why I was wondering also gun doesn’t seem to have a leak anywhere that I know of and their website states reg is set at 1600 psi 🤷🏽‍♂️
 
Well not a word out of macavity arms today nothing but crickets so when I got off work I found a leak at the reg gauge so I pull the gun apart resealed the reg and turned my reg down a 3/4 of a turn out that put my reg at 1100 psi so I shot the gun and adjusted the hammer spring until I got perfect groups gun shot awesome even shot some 17 gr great so I pulled the gun back down and turned the reg screw in another 1/4 turn and I’m sitting around 1400 psi I’ll shoot the gun this weekend and let yall know the results if you have any questions just let me know
 
I havent had any problem with mine. I absolutely love the platform...I did some upgrades, porting, trigger polishing, heavy hammer, stronger hammer spring, increased reg pressure to 2400psi and got it to 1000fps with 33.5 grn nsa slugs. The trigger spring were swapped when I polished all trigger components....I am truly impressed, crisp clean 3 oz break. I added set screw for additional adjustment on 1st stage travel. Now I'm waiting on custom shroud and I'm adding TJ .250 barrel thats 700mm. I did the upgrades just to see what it can do. Its perfectly good from factory but i like to over engineer and improve on what is already good. I also prefer no choke higher twist rate barrels as i typically only shoot slugs.

All in all the platform is really simple to disassemble. The design features and the characteristics that are well above the price point...again impressed with the MA2. Its no impact m3 but for the money very impressive.

In fact I'd have to say it's build quality and fetures are comparable to guns in the 800 to 1200 category. If you need help with yours send me a pm
 
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