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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => PCP/CO2/HPA Air Gun Gates "The Darkside" => Topic started by: pepegraves on December 07, 2014, 04:03:08 AM
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What more can I say, I LOVE everything about this rifle!!!!
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It's a good looking rifle!
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Look, someone done went and colored his black stock brown...
Seriously, it looks nice.
Both of mine are all synthetic(a.22 & a .177)
I want to find a wood stock one day..
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Looks good Darrell. Have you held a gen1? if so how does the gen2 wood stock feel compared to the gen1?
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Darrel
+ 1 ;D
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Hey Darrel,
No doubt, it's a bute.......... ;)
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Good looking rifle.
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Looks good and shoots even better...What's not to love?
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Thanks guys and gals. I appreciate all the good compliments. It was a long time coming, that's why this first one is so sweet.... which brings me to why I think they call it the dark side (and tell me if I'm wrong guys and gals). Once you get in to PCP's you just want more and more of them and, you know what that means?... taking every red cent you can sneak past the wife and BUY BUY BUY LOL.... I'm officially on the Dark Side :-X
**I wonder if there is a topic about "what the definition of The Dark Side means to you." **
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I'm curious,
Do the Gen 2's have the "Lawyer Spring" that most of us remove from our Gen 1's ?
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I'm curious,
Do the Gen 2's have the "Lawyer Spring" that most of us remove from our Gen 1's ?
Yes they do, and the later ones have a lawyer gauge installed on them...
I have a gen 2 in .22 dated 11/2013, it's gauge reads same as my hand pump and my cf tank.
The new one dated 5/2014 in .177 it's gauge reads 400 psi higher than my tank and my pump...
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Haha, "Lawyer Gauge" that's a good one ;) ;D
All gauges read a bit differently at a given pressure. Especially the cheaper mini gauges used on our rifles.
For those of us that use a tank to fill, (and it has a in-line gauge, as well as the tank gauge).
One suggestion that I can make is when you go to fill your tank, ask the person to compare and record what HIS gauge reads, what your In Line gauge reads, and what your TANKS gauge reads at various pressures.
(say every 500 or 1000 psi on HIS gauge).
This will give you a better idea of what the actual pressure you are filling your rifle to from your tank. (fill your rifle to desired pressure using the In Line gauge), then compare what your rifles gauge is reading.
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Have you held a gen1? if so how does the gen2 wood stock feel compared to the gen1?
Not like 2x4! :) Gen II wood is only an ounce or two lighter than gen I stock, but much more comfortable to hold. Very similar to the syn stock, but slightly thicker in grip area, and the forestock doesn't flex. The airtube is floated from in front of gauge forward.
(http://joefish.homestead.com/Stock0.jpg)
(http://joefish.homestead.com/Stock03.jpg)
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I think my fill systems are accurate.
My scba tank has both a tank gauge, and a inline gauge, glycerin filled, both jive with the fill gauges on the 2 places I fill.
My guppy tank only has a inline gauge, it jives with the gauges of my fill places.
My hand pump matches the gauges on the guns that match my tanks.
The only oddball is the newer .177 marauder.
It doesn't match with my scba tank, my guppy, my scuba or pump.
Yea, I know, lots of fill options.
But 2 reasons.
1. If I find a tank, at a good deal, I can probably fill from it.
2. I started off with a pump, and found a cheap scba tank, and bought a fill station for it
Then I bought a 4500 psi guppy that came with a din 300 to foster connection.
Then I found a cheap scuba tank, so bought a inexpensive yoke fill station.
And I just can't bring myself to part with one yet, (until I find a 88cubic foot 4500psi carbon fiber)
Then I will get rid of the others except for the guppy.
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LOL, I like all the "new to me" info this thread is generating 8) ...No, I'm not a target shooter with the M-rod...yet. Once I got it dialed in at 35 yds, I went straight to the oak trees for some squirrel hunting. One day, when I get a tank, I will target shoot with it (it is such a joy to shoot). But for now, I have to save all my air for the hunt :D ... I don't know much about tinkering with airguns other than the little trigger job I did on my Trail Np. But my Benjamin pump gauge and my M-rod gauge jive, which is good because it's difficult to see the gun's gauge while pumping. Loved the pics of the different stocks BTW