I've had mine for about 3 months. Love it. I haven't put it on paper yet. Just mounted a 3 - 12 bug buster, sighted it in on a small cat food can at 50 yds with CPHP's and went hunting. I've taken ~15 ground squirrels and 5 cotton tails with it out to ~75 yds. Wounded a couple of the squirrels, and the quick second shot available finished them off.Safety stinks, so I removed it. Gun's design is safe without it. Can't load 6 pellets in the cylinder or it will jam when held muzzle down. Load 5 and insert the cylinder with empty chamber lined up with the barrel.The chambers in the cylinder don't hold the pellets tightly, so the 1st one (if loaded with 6) slips into the barrel and then the hammer can't be cocked. Easy to fix (when I get around to it) by reaming the chambers a little deeper with a reamer that's ~.003" smaller in diameter. Thataway the skirts will be held tight at the bottom of the cylinder. Will have to push them in with a dowel, though.
Yeah, you bulk enabler, you. That was the post that made me get one. Thank you. It's such a pleasant, light little rifle. Bought a Tanto for it. I plan to do some modding when I have time. Needs sling studs, and I plan to add a barrel band. Got a .177 LW barrel blank I need to machine for it, and I bought a couple of .177 cylinders from Pyramyd. Nick N. gave me some of his 12.5 grain slugs to try.I do pest control at a farm that has an endless supply of ground squirrels and cotton tails. First thing I do when I get there is sneak around the corner of a building where the squirrels hang out. Last time I got three in ~15 seconds, before their friends made it down their holes. Even in single -action mode (which is all I use), it's faster to cycle than any lever or bolt gun I have.
I have one and I like it quite a lot.My particular cylinders don't have issues with pellets moving too far forward even with gun held muzzle down, but it could be just the pellets I use (JSB 18.13gr among others) but like anything else YMMV, I guess. It is rather accurate, and the only thing I don't like is no fill port cap. I even wrote the dealer afterwards and they said that's just how they come now.See a quick post I made about it here several months ago (before Vic got his):https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=177863.msg156015609#msg156015609
I really want a k550 it has the same action and is bottled
Quote from: oldpro on December 08, 2020, 02:02:13 AM I really want a k550 it has the same action and is bottledYeah Travis I think you and Manny both - or was it that he already had one? I forget. He had/has so many...
Are you getting 30 FPE for this rifle?
My experience with this action is stellar. I’d love to have a carbine version in .25. Lots of ways to get power out of them. Heck the K550 I e got with a 20” barrel does 60+ FPE in .22 . It’s got .20” porting throughout ,stock hammer spring and a PEEK Cobra valve. Not to mention some brass hammer weights. The Rainstorm makes more power. And it’s way easier to tune the hammer strike. The short stroke non adjustable spring in the AR6 make it harder to tune.