I avoided the rush to buy one of these however my only wife talked me into my 22 Avenger, she nailed it.
I shoot indoors and tune my indoor guns to 500-600 fps with CHP’S. I was constantly working on my other 2 inside guns so she thought I needed something more reliable.
So, on an impulse I ordered the Avenger and then found out it did not do well at reduced velocity. I shot it for a while at its lowest setting, 800 fps, but mainly used my other two guns as the noise and power made me nervous. Then I read here about shortening the hammer spring. I cut .10 off the spring and velocity dropped to 500 fps. I then adjusted the hammer spring to get it to 600 fps with CHP’S. I get 200 shops per fill with this tune.
With the Donnyfl barrel adapter the report with my Donnyfl extender and Emperor is almost identical to closing our bedroom door. If I use my sound box, it is very hard to hear the report at 25 feet. A very long package but remember it is a bench gun.
I am sure when Harry Pope wrote only accurate guns are interesting he was not thinking of me decapitating 1/2 size little green Ruskie army men with cheap Crosman pellets, but this cheap plastic rifle has my attention! With a 4x16 Hawke Sidewinder mounted, a molded laminated leather cheek piece and a cheap bipod it will shoot an entire magazine into a almost perfect .22 hole, again and again.. yeah, it again I realize many of you studs can do that at the local gin mill with darts on Saturday nights, but being legally blind I am happier than a two peckered puppy on Christmas morning about this guns performance.
I do see some regulator creep, usually it takes two dry fires at the beginning of the shooting secession to bring it down and then it is good to go. I dry fire those two shots as they are in a slightly different poi.
I am critical of cheap Chinese Airguns, especially their unwillingness to produce great barrels, you can throw 1st gen M-rods into that mix also, make no mistake the Avenger is a cheap plastic somewhat noisy to handle rifle, but the folks who manufactured this barrel should increase their barrel business and sell blanks. My other two inside rifles are a Skyhawk with a LW Poly choked barrel and a much modded p-rod with a Jim Gaska hammer forged barrel, both wear Bugbuster 3-12 scopes so accuracy comparisons are not fair as they set, but I have had that big hawke on both and they shot tiny one hole round groups, at that point their ergonomics come into play, but bottom line, the Avenger has a slight advantage in accuracy.
Regards,
Roachcreek