Author Topic: RTI Arms Priest 0033 Ongoing Review (Read 32433 times))

AndyH44 · « **Reply #100 on:** July 22, 2017, 01:36:54 PM »

Quote from: Jman2311 on July 22, 2017, 10:52:37 AM

Not sure how to improve on ragged one holers at 45 yds. I'm sorry to hear about the leak. There aren't many places where this gun can leak. I hope you find it. I posted in the long range section at the bottom of the forum list. This gun is good. Pretty under rated in my opinion. Have you ever filled it to a full 300bar and tested the 110+shot count claim?

No...not to 300bar, but 250bar gives 75~80 regulated shots with an ES of 10fps. Pretty satisfied with it's performance!

Removed the reg from the bottle, lightly lubed the reg O-rings with Dow55, and changed the bottle O-ring to a 90 duro. Hopefully it won't leak anymore. So easy to work on these Priests!

AndyH44 · « **Reply #101 on:** July 24, 2017, 08:49:43 AM »

The leak appears to be history! The bottle O-ring had a crease which allowed a slow bleed down. Back to stellar performance again!

Jman2311 · « **Reply #102 on:** July 24, 2017, 08:56:22 AM »

Excellent news. Glad to hear you got her squared away.

WiseGuy · « **Reply #103 on:** September 29, 2017, 01:32:10 PM »

Happy to report I am a proud owner of a Priest .25 with serial number 0025. Bought it off the Yellow Forum from a member that only shot 50 pellets thru it, it's basically new! Mine appears to be shooting hot, ran a crony string with JSB 25.4gr and average over 10 shots was 958fps with ES of 12...then I tried the MKII's those averaged 870fps! I really hope it likes the MKII's. I'll be out in the field testing accuracy and hopefully do a bit of ground squirrel hunting this weekend! Stay tunned. This thread alone is what made me pull the trigger on the Priest! So thank you Jeremey!

Jman2311 · « **Reply #104 on:** September 29, 2017, 01:48:43 PM »

870 with the mkii is pretty hot. I bet it'll shoot those really well at that speed. I use mk i heavies at 845 and those are very accurate but i have to use a bubble level at longer distances (>75 yards).

Fall ball season is in so I have not been shooting it for the last month. Playoffs end the last week of October so November and December should be a hoot on my days off. Total confidence with this platform.

Jman2311 · « **Reply #105 on:** September 29, 2017, 01:52:32 PM »

one more thing. at least with my gun. I don't use kings past 50 yards. at 50 they are fantastic. at 100 they not so good for me. I will likely only run king heavies once i burn through the last couple tins of kings i have.

WiseGuy · « **Reply #106 on:** September 29, 2017, 02:22:48 PM »

Quote from: Jman2311 on September 29, 2017, 01:52:32 PM

one more thing. at least with my gun. I don't use kings past 50 yards. at 50 they are fantastic. at 100 they not so good for me. I will likely only run king heavies once i burn through the last couple tins of kings i have.

Thanks for that information, since I don't really want to mess with anything on the gun currently, I figured I'd try the Havies first, even have some H&N Grizlys and Eujin 43gr...I'll report back after the weekend.

fishinglakes · « **Reply #107 on:** October 17, 2017, 01:36:34 AM »

Another one bites the dust...
After watching WiseGuy shoot his Priest last week, I too was lucky enough to buy serial number 0022 off the Yellow from the same guy that WiseGuy got his from. So far, I really like the gun, scoped it up and shot a few magazines out to about 40 yards and I’m pleased with the accuracy. Yes, it’s a little hard to charge, but I’m sure a little cleaning, polishing, and use will make a big difference. I remember my Vulcan was a little stiff and rough when it was new, but after a few thousand rounds, it is as smooth as silk now. WiseGuy and I are about to have the battle of the Preists in a little game of 5-Shot. Should be fun and profitable. LOL!!!

WiseGuy · « **Reply #108 on:** October 17, 2017, 12:02:07 PM »

Quote from: fishinglakes on October 17, 2017, 01:36:34 AM

Another one bites the dust...
After watching WiseGuy shoot his Priest last week, I too was lucky enough to buy serial number 0022 off the Yellow from the same guy that WiseGuy got his from. So far, I really like the gun, scoped it up and shot a few magazines out to about 40 yards and I’m pleased with the accuracy. Yes, it’s a little hard to charge, but I’m sure a little cleaning, polishing, and use will make a big difference. I remember my Vulcan was a little stiff and rough when it was new, but after a few thousand rounds, it is as smooth as silk now. WiseGuy and I are about to have the battle of the Preists in a little game of 5-Shot. Should be fun and profitable. LOL!!!

Glad you picked that gun up Craig. I think you'll be happy with its performance once you shoot it more and more at longer ranges. Surprisingly, mine is really not pellet picky at all, but what performed the best, especially at longer ranges up to 100 yards was the 34.95gr MKII's. After shooting it this weekend on the bench in a little friendly competition, I was really happy with the Priests performance. Hitting a target a bit smaller than a dime 3 out of 3 times twice at 50 yards, I was very happy with it.

skorec · « **Reply #109 on:** December 03, 2017, 01:47:58 PM »

Sorry I am not able to read so much English text of this tread.

Just I want ask you if someone of you tasted .177 JSB Exact Heavy and/or .177 JSB Exact Monsters at 70+ yd and which was the accuracy at which speeds . Thanks before for answer.

PushingPELLETS · « **Reply #110 on:** December 05, 2017, 12:28:18 PM »

Quote from: skorec on January 18, 2017, 02:35:39 AM

Quote from: Jman2311 on January 17, 2017, 11:55:39 AM
I know that my gun has the extra weight

What about to check/compare 100 yard accuracy also whitout extra hammer weight or oposit idea to add extra weight at the end of gun ( buttplate from plumbumb/lead ) .

Notice.
150 bar should be ideal fo King Heavy.
You definitely have to find the way how to improve accuracy because I want to buy RTI Priest too.

Important question.
Are we sure that all RTI Priest .25 calliber guns have CZ barrels ?

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“rwsmike”The cz barrel is the key to the cricket and Vulcan being so accurate at long distances . The grooves in these barrels are very very deep vs a standard barrel.

That’s funny, the Cricket .25 has got a LW barrel, not a CZ:
http://www.kalibrgun.eu/catalogue?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=8&category_id=1&manufacturer_id=1
The .177 is the only model with a CZ barrel, the .22 and .25 have LW barrels.
Or the information on their website is incorrect.
 The info is right. Kalibrgun sources the 22 and 25 barrels from LW. The earlier 22 had a CZ barrel. Later changed to LW. The 25 always had a LW barrel.

I was reading through this and would like to clear this up with no malicious intent....the cricket .25 in the USA markets all come with a cz barrel only if the foreign market it does I believe come with a lw barrel or a choice of cz barrel I own a .25 cricket with a cz barrel and had this info confirmed by rl airguns where purchased and an email to kalibrgun with seriel number of my gun provided etc...as far as the priest goes I have read all reviews and posts also...while taking into account the Dutch review I am searching for one to purchase... Until I can hold one and see for myself the quality and or concerns that were expressed I hold my final judgement until than I am sure like any gun certain materials can be upgraded but the chosen one seem to be holding up just fine as I haven't heard of any explosions ruptures or missing body parts (not saying I want that) but this reminds me of the Yong Heng Chinese compressor debates about being unsafe and exploding while I own and use one daily I am sure that will not explode if common sense and caution is taken...I am sure a 1000+ dollar gun is made of better material and has documented testing to back up the parts

Just my 2 cents

christoffv · « **Reply #111 on:** April 11, 2018, 05:39:18 AM »

I have followed the thread about the priest and I bought my self the .22 with the .177 kit.
Well last night me and a friend was invited to do some pest control, doves, at a shopping mall and we ended up
shooting 56 doves in an hour.

The security guards just stand with their jaws on the ground and could not believe how quickly the doves drop.
This was a good nite out. My son missed out because he was told to finish his science project, and it was not finished!
He was not very happy this moring.... But next time!

To swop the the calibers is not difficult, I use jsb Diabolo Exact Monster, the reason is that I want to keep the grains for .177 and .22 (JSB 5.5mm Exact Jumbo 15.89gr)
close to each other. Keep the scope adjustments to the minimum.

My person opinion is that the speed is still to high and would like to drop the speed.

Hope there is somebody out there with the same setup as me and can share their thoughts.

R0B · « **Reply #112 on:** August 31, 2018, 06:16:47 PM »

Has anyone used the arrow barrel yet. I haven't been able to find much information on it.

Rob

Motorhead · « **Reply #113 on:** August 31, 2018, 07:09:20 PM »

This gun in general seems to of fallen off the face of the web

WiseGuy · « **Reply #114 on:** September 04, 2018, 11:59:02 AM »

New version of this gun comming out soon according to RTI's FB page!

ellcrow2017 · « **Reply #115 on:** November 02, 2018, 07:59:01 PM »

any news about new Rti Prist?

R0B · « **Reply #116 on:** November 03, 2018, 07:38:18 AM »

I haven't seen any info about a new priest. I'm not on Facebook, but the only 'coming soon' I saw was 2016. I've just bought a .25 priest and the only difference is a factory carbon bottle at extra cost.

ellcrow2017 · « **Reply #117 on:** November 03, 2018, 06:21:18 PM »

that rti priest .25 cal is it able to make 1inc group on 100y ?

R0B · « **Reply #118 on:** November 03, 2018, 09:49:47 PM »

Unfortunately mine is 12 ft/lbs so I can't really comment on that kind if range. When i was reading up before buying I found a number of articles describing 1-1 1/2" groups...

ellcrow2017 · « **Reply #119 on:** November 12, 2018, 03:11:38 PM »

any news about new Rti prist group on 100y?

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RTI Arms Priest 0033 Ongoing Review

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