Cricket mag won't advance

[KzooRichie]

And accuracy falls off, when it's put in backward. 


Just a little tip.

[chad2]

make sure that your mag selector lever is in the right position. put the mag in, push the selector lever up and forward then manually spin the mag one pellet clockwise and the lever will fall into position. after this the mag will cycle with every new pellet lever pull.  hope this helps if it still does not work then there is a real issue.

[lagger]

And accuracy falls off, when it's put in backward. 


Just a little tip.

the pellets tend not to load into the breech that way also.. probably a good thing (don't ask me how I know this)

[Joe Brancato]

make sure that your mag selector lever is in the right position. put the mag in, push the selector lever up and forward then manually spin the mag one pellet clockwise and the lever will fall into position. after this the mag will cycle with every new pellet lever pull.  hope this helps if it still does not work then there is a real issue.

Good input. I learned this fact the hard way. I got in my first Crickets and kind of freaked, thinking the magazine feed wasn't working. I finally figured out the switch had 3 positions,  1) Loading position;  and after the mag was insterted I could choose 2) no-indexing, and 3) indexing.

Funny thing was I brought up this point to another Cricket dealer, and he was totally unaware of this fact.

Thanks for the information.

[chad2]

make sure that your mag selector lever is in the right position. put the mag in, push the selector lever up and forward then manually spin the mag one pellet clockwise and the lever will fall into position. after this the mag will cycle with every new pellet lever pull.  hope this helps if it still does not work then there is a real issue.

Good input. I learned this fact the hard way. I got in my first Crickets and kind of freaked, thinking the magazine feed wasn't working. I finally figured out the switch had 3 positions,  1) Loading position;  and after the mag was insterted I could choose 2) no-indexing, and 3) indexing.

Funny thing was I brought up this point to another Cricket dealer, and he was totally unaware of this fact.

Thanks for the information.

hey Joe this is Chad Stenger I am not trying to derailed the thread but I want to thank you for all of your help! there are not very many companies that do customer service like you do. thank you!

[vigilandy]

Don't any of you guys read the manual these days!?   

[GKU]

http://talonairgun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=32580#p330820

~ GKU

[jvanschoonhoven]

I just got the carbine version of the criket and this function is actualy very usefull. If your hunting and cant remember if you chambered another pellet you can switch to manual and try loading  it again. If you feel the hammer spring then you know there wasn't a pellet in the barrel and you can then switch to auto indexing and pull the lever again and chamber the new pellet. If however you dont feel the hammer spring cocking then you know you already chambered a pellet and can just close the breech and switch back to auto. Some times in the heat of the moment I forget if I cocked my rifle or not. One of the bad things about this rifle is that there is no loaded indicator i see you can get them for the pups but i think the stock is in the way for the carbine version

[William]

Here ya go... nice video and more Ernest Rowe has some good info on the Cricket. Understanding the cocking and magazine...


Also My Cricket .35/9mm Does not have the choice of auto or manual indexing, ONLY AUTO INDEXING. Just some info on my Cricket 9mm in-case you want to know... they made changes to the .35/9mm cricket such as added a safety and a cocked notification pin, which is just the back side of the hammer that comes out the back of the hammer spring nut with a red dot on it. 
 http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=78975.msg752256#msg752256

You need to watch Ernest Rowe's Videos on YouTube, they are very informative from basics to some higher end tuning.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmysxe6_F975u202x7Kszg/videos

William