Check your screws!
Quote from: Hoosier Daddy on December 12, 2021, 10:37:48 AMCheck your screws!Thanks! I haven't heard that diddy for a long time and actually forgot about it!
I know bronze is softer than steel, and therefore should not damage a springer bore, but:Boresnakes feature bronze brushes that springer expertise tells are too risky to use with the soft-steel, fine-rifling springer bores. So, airgunners take the brushes out. I did, too.Now even Boresnake the company offers a brushless snake for airgun use.Are you saying, Scott, that bronze brushes inside a springer bore are a-ok, after all?
cztheday IMHO, if your 200 was shooting quarter size groups out of the box you have an extraordinary rifle. I ordered mine in April and received it in late August, it wouldn't shoot quarter sized groups at 25 yards. My rifle was very buzzy so I took it apart and cleaned, deburred, polished the spring ends and lubed it. The rifle was better but still had a harsh shot cycle. After about two tins of pellets I installed a Vortek PG4 kit, it's a different rifle, much smoother. Like others I fought the fore end screws coming loose, mine would get real buzzy. I fixed that by making pillars to epoxy in the stock, no more loose screws.The trigger in mine was very rough, so when I was working on the pillars i took the trigger apart and stoned it. The only thing that really needed any attention was the bottom sear where the stage adjustment screws ride, it looked like a wash board. After the stoning and adjusting the trigger is fantastic.I tried several pellets through mine and it shot H&N FTT in 4.51 best with AA 8.4's 4.51's very close. Through the chronograph the H&N Baracuda match looked best, low ES and SD, but on paper not so good. After the spring change the pellets preference flip flopped. Over the chrono the SD and ES dropped for all three, the SD of the 10.65 was 2. Now on paper the 10.65's will shoot dime size or smaller at 25 yards, the other two will be about a quarter size.I had one of my 52 Winchesters out Tuesday practicing for a 50 fun match Wednesday night. After it was put away I got the TX200 out to try. It was shot off a bull bag in the front and a rear bag. The best it shot was about 2" with the 10.65's the FTT and AA's were 2 1/2-3". In all fairness the conditions were far from ideal as the wind was blowing and swirling, at times my two wind flags were showing opposite of each other. I'll try this again when conditions are more favorable.Pillar.