Have a very nice TX200 in .177 with a vortek kit installed. Shoots well, very accurate and death on pest birds and gophers.Does not like many pellets. Very difficult to load a lot of them. Really tough trying to get Crosman Premier Hollow Point pellets loaded. In trying a number of different pellets I find the JSB EXACT Heavy Diabolo go in like butter. Very smooth. Also shoot very accurate groups and nails birds well.Is the loading problem something to do with manufacturing or pellet composition? Why are a number almost impossible to get loaded and these slip into the barrel loading section just fine?-------------------------On Safety. Is there any way to re-set the safety once you have taken it off in preparation to shooting? I get sighted on a bird or gopher and it moves behind branches or pops into a hole. Means sitting and waiting. Would like to put it back on SAFE like the s510 and Marauders I have. In addition, once loaded and cocked - am I going to have problems with waiting at times for nearly an hour to fire the weapon? I can't wait to load til I see a target in front of me - the movement will scare them away. Will this type of wait before shooting cause me any problems?Thanks,
Should be no problem leaving the gun cocked for hours at a time, Tom Gaylord did a test awhile back storing a rifle cocked for months without any loss in performance.
I have an HW97, so somewhat similar loading difficulty, inherently. JSB Exacts go in super easily, where I might fear them falling out if it were a break barrel.Recent reports have JSBs, Exacts anyway, pretty undersized. And they are noticeably softer than HNs and Crosmans.So I think its a function of small heads and soft lead.
Quote from: c_m_shooter on May 05, 2017, 01:59:43 PMShould be no problem leaving the gun cocked for hours at a time, Tom Gaylord did a test awhile back storing a rifle cocked for months without any loss in performance. When I first got my CFX, I figured out how to load it without cocking it, but then took to just cocking the thing to be ready for a follow up shot, which then turned into just leaving it cocked and loaded, ready to go on short notice. That was a few years ago now and the factory spring finally gave out due to old age at around 4500 rounds (broke about 2 inches from the rear). So, I guess that's a vote for "no harm in leaving it cocked." That gun got dry fired more than once, too, but I read somewhere that Gamo claimed it could take that kind of punishment.
4500 rounds is only a few months of shooting for me. I know they break at random, some take 200 shots, others more like 20.000, but 4500 isn't all that much.Also don't believe everything you read, no springer should ever be dry fired!