Taking the bottled plunge.

[avator]

Yep... if I know me it won't be long before I swap this .177 out with the .22 stuff that came with it. I have the Hunter and magnum molds so I have those options.
I just want to get some numbers on this .177 set up first for comparison.

[avator]

Forward heavy, It looks like the drop block is 3 pieces. Maybe a single lighter piece could be made?

I like the drop block because I can hot swap the bottle. The barrel would be in the way of the gauge and fill port with a straight block. I'm not too unhappy with the forward weight, like I said, I shoot from a bag.
I think I could also trim that stock back and add a clamp on rail to the tube for a bipod. Or I could just add a rail to the bottom of the wood.
I just got this today so I'm sure it will go through some changes before I'm done.

[avator]

Never had one of these QBs before. It was a bit strange to push the bolt forward to set the sear.

[aluminumfetish]

Never had one of these QBs before. It was a bit strange to push the bolt forward to set the sear.

There is a mod to change it to cock on open although more conventional, it limits the travel of the probe, making for a small area to drop the pellet. I prefer the way it comes stock, push forward to cock it. After following your posts here, I dusted off my QB collection to see what I might do to clean them up a bit. I am half tempted to tune one with a 800 psi ninja bottle in .177 and have a low power / high shot count shorty plinker. I am sure a 7-8 fpe rifle might be fun to have around the house.

Cheers !

[avator]

Never had one of these QBs before. It was a bit strange to push the bolt forward to set the sear.

There is a mod to change it to cock on open although more conventional, it limits the travel of the probe, making for a small area to drop the pellet. I prefer the way it comes stock, push forward to cock it. After following your posts here, I dusted off my QB collection to see what I might do to clean them up a bit. I am half tempted to tune one with a 800 psi ninja bottle in .177 and have a low power / high shot count shorty plinker. I am sure a 7-8 fpe rifle might be fun to have around the house.

Cheers !

Yup.. I'll leave this one stock (push forward). I may have a lever action breech coming to play around with on the C02 gun. If it works well it may end up on this gun.

[avator]

I've had an idea rolling around in my head to add a rail to the stock for a bipod mount. I have an adapter type rail that attaches to a sling stud. If memory serves me I can put the stud just behind the gauge hole and the adapter will cover and hide the hole. That would put the bipod as far forward as possible and balance out that forward weight.
We'll have a look tomorrow when I get back out in the shop.
I'll also dig into that other mess of parts and see how close I am to another build.. looks like it's all there from the picture.

[OTmachine]

The Barra 1100Z breech should fit.  Shares a lot of the QB features.

[avator]

The Barra 1100Z breech should fit.  Shares a lot of the QB features.

Thanks.. I'll wait to see what this other package coming contains and go from there.

[avator]

Quite the productive morning.. so far.

I found the sling stud and pica rail adaptor in my parts drawer. I measured and drilled the pilot and put the stud in and attached the adaptor.
Next I taped off the raw front end of the stock where I chopped it and painted the end black.
While I was digging in the parts drawer I came across a carbon fiber wrapped silencer. It's not the big honking soup can looking things that I hate. It is the perfect ID for the barrel and 3 grub tighten to secure it. It matches the carbon fiber wrap on the bottle and looks great. I would guess it reduces the report by 50% or better. Loud don't really mean much to me around here.. if you don't hear gun fire around here something is bad wrong. 
Anyways.. have a look.. whatcha think?

[avator]

Call it luck but the position of the bipod seems to be the exact center of balance.

[Plinker4life]

I was going to drop these pic's to you in a PM. But couldn't figure out how.  I originally hacked up the AR2078 stock for the bottle conversion several years ago. A friend sent me a JTS Aircuda.  I could never get a good feel for the reach on the trigger with the JTS stock, just felt like my hand was too far away from the trigger. A few weeks ago I started looking and realized it would be possible to inlet the AR2078 stock for the JTS.  Made the JTS way more enjoyable to shoot. I had a ton of fun messing around with the QB stuff several years ago, I'm glad the parts fell into the right hands.

[Matchstickshooter]

Quite the productive morning.. so far.

I found the sling stud and pica rail adaptor in my parts drawer. I measured and drilled the pilot and put the stud in and attached the adaptor.
Next I taped off the raw front end of the stock where I chopped it and painted the end black.
While I was digging in the parts drawer I came across a carbon fiber wrapped silencer. It's not the big honking soup can looking things that I hate. It is the perfect ID for the barrel and 3 grub tighten to secure it. It matches the carbon fiber wrap on the bottle and looks great. I would guess it reduces the report by 50% or better. Loud don't really mean much to me around here.. if you don't hear gun fire around here something is bad wrong. 
Anyways.. have a look.. whatcha think?

This looks awesome! Nice Job!

[avator]

I was going to drop these pic's to you in a PM. But couldn't figure out how.  I originally hacked up the AR2078 stock for the bottle conversion several years ago. A friend sent me a JTS Aircuda.  I could never get a good feel for the reach on the trigger with the JTS stock, just felt like my hand was too far away from the trigger. A few weeks ago I started looking and realized it would be possible to inlet the AR2078 stock for the JTS.  Made the JTS way more enjoyable to shoot. I had a ton of fun messing around with the QB stuff several years ago, I'm glad the parts fell into the right hands.

Thanks Brandon.. I like the way it turned out.
As for the other one..
Looks like the aluminum end (the long end) of the valve body is broken and most of it is gone. Other than that and a stock I think, from watching videos, everything else it there to get it back up and running. There is a felt wiper supposed to be in the valve missing but I don't think that would stop the gun from functioning and one could easily be made.
I also think I am going to swap barrels and bolts and change the HPA gun to .22. Seems like it has plenty of power to push a .22 pellet. I'll chrony the gun as it is first for comparison.
Thank you again for the opportunity to tinker with these.

[avator]

Quite the productive morning.. so far.

I found the sling stud and pica rail adaptor in my parts drawer. I measured and drilled the pilot and put the stud in and attached the adaptor.
Next I taped off the raw front end of the stock where I chopped it and painted the end black.
While I was digging in the parts drawer I came across a carbon fiber wrapped silencer. It's not the big honking soup can looking things that I hate. It is the perfect ID for the barrel and 3 grub tighten to secure it. It matches the carbon fiber wrap on the bottle and looks great. I would guess it reduces the report by 50% or better. Loud don't really mean much to me around here.. if you don't hear gun fire around here something is bad wrong. 
Anyways.. have a look.. whatcha think?

This looks awesome! Nice Job!

Thanks Wendell... I'm having fun with it.

[Plinker4life]

I was going to drop these pic's to you in a PM. But couldn't figure out how.  I originally hacked up the AR2078 stock for the bottle conversion several years ago. A friend sent me a JTS Aircuda.  I could never get a good feel for the reach on the trigger with the JTS stock, just felt like my hand was too far away from the trigger. A few weeks ago I started looking and realized it would be possible to inlet the AR2078 stock for the JTS.  Made the JTS way more enjoyable to shoot. I had a ton of fun messing around with the QB stuff several years ago, I'm glad the parts fell into the right hands.

Thanks Brandon.. I like the way it turned out.
As for the other one..
Looks like the aluminum end (the long end) of the valve body is broken and most of it is gone. Other than that and a stock I think, from watching videos, everything else it there to get it back up and running. There is a felt wiper supposed to be in the valve missing but I don't think that would stop the gun from functioning and one could easily be made.
I also think I am going to swap barrels and bolts and change the HPA gun to .22. Seems like it has plenty of power to push a .22 pellet. I'll chrony the gun as it is first for comparison.
Thank you again for the opportunity to tinker with these.

I’m sure I hacked that valve up for some sort of experiment back when I was tinkering.  It’s just been so long I just forgot all the things I tried to do.

[avator]

I was going to drop these pic's to you in a PM. But couldn't figure out how.  I originally hacked up the AR2078 stock for the bottle conversion several years ago. A friend sent me a JTS Aircuda.  I could never get a good feel for the reach on the trigger with the JTS stock, just felt like my hand was too far away from the trigger. A few weeks ago I started looking and realized it would be possible to inlet the AR2078 stock for the JTS.  Made the JTS way more enjoyable to shoot. I had a ton of fun messing around with the QB stuff several years ago, I'm glad the parts fell into the right hands.

Thanks Brandon.. I like the way it turned out.
As for the other one..
Looks like the aluminum end (the long end) of the valve body is broken and most of it is gone. Other than that and a stock I think, from watching videos, everything else it there to get it back up and running. There is a felt wiper supposed to be in the valve missing but I don't think that would stop the gun from functioning and one could easily be made.
I also think I am going to swap barrels and bolts and change the HPA gun to .22. Seems like it has plenty of power to push a .22 pellet. I'll chrony the gun as it is first for comparison.
Thank you again for the opportunity to tinker with these.

I’m sure I hacked that valve up for some sort of experiment back when I was tinkering.  It’s just been so long I just forgot all the things I tried to do.

It's all good.. lots of this stuff still around and this gun is not something I'm in any rush to get up and running. I'll post a wtb in the classifieds.

[Back_Roads]

 I will get to looking but I IR there are some valve parts in the mix I am putting together.

[avator]

I will get to looking but I IR there are some valve parts in the mix I am putting together.

That would be great. I also put a couple feelers out.

[avator]

Heading out to get some heat in the shop and set up to run some numbers on the .177 before I do a barrel and bolt swap to .22. Hopefully it will like my cast pellets as good as it does .177.

[OTmachine]

Gun looks Good!  A Lot of us probably have the parts that you need.  I am pretty sure I have extra parts that were not required on the bottle guns. I believe that all you need is the piercer, 1 or 2 felt filters, a washer, a spacer, & a spring.