My Three Discos

[Van]

  I like the Disco tube for pumping with my China hand pump.  I may some day move up to more expensive PCPs but for now its Disco as long as I just pump.  I already had most of the trigger packs, barrels and breeches from other pumper and CO2 projects, so I just ordered tubes, valves and fill plugs.  The one on the left has a 160 Crosman stock, cut down 19" tube, 14'' 22cal. barrel and a regular Disco valve.  It's a great light weight carbine.  The middle one has a 160 stock, 19" tube, .25cal. Baker Airgun barrel and a Magnum Airpower valve.  It likes Baracuda Hunter Extreme pellets best and hits with a wallop that has to be heard to believe on tree rats.  The one on the right has a Walnut stock made from a stock blank, a 20'' .22cal. barrel, regular length tube, and a Magnum Airpower valve. It's my long range hunter.  They also have Hill depingers.

[Acapulco]

I remember when they first came out....lookin good.

[kingrude1]

Any time I see one of the discos it takes me back to what started me down this never ending rabbit hole of pcps. Loved that gun so much I knew my springer days were officially over.

[mackeral5]

Great looking Disco's.   That middle one, I have a duplicate if it, but built off a qb78.  Same barrel, same valve, same length tube, but I believe a little less air capacity due to the qb's longer hammer area.  Mine also had a gauge port, leaving about 70cc of air.  It is my little high power problem solver., tuned for 6 tight shots over 60fpe. 

[mobilemail]

Discos didn't make me give up springers.  But they made me quickly give up pumps!   

Once I got a carbon tank I was truly lost down the rabbit hole of more PCPs.

[Van]

 Mark, I like the gloss finish on your stock.  I just did a few coats of True oil and a matte finish on mine.  I may have to do a gloss on one after seeing yours.  Here is a shot of a Baracuda Hunter Extreme in the 25cal., with the magnum valve, I shot across my driveway into duct seal.  At about 50fpe they expand pretty good.  I must be in the minority because I don't mind pumping at all, at least with a Disco size tube. 

[Air Head]

Great work!

They all look great, and I really like the Carbine on the left.

[only1harry]

Very nice 3 Amigos!    I am surprised they all still have a single barrel band even though they have other mods.  The extra barrel band improved accuracy in both my Disco's. 

[Van]

  Thanks for the compliments folks.  I had to make the breech risers from PVC and the barrel bands from a black, tough, hard plastic cutting board because of the clearance problem caused by shorter barrels and TKO.  The bands are a very tight fit and have set screws.  They do not move like the stock metal bands.  The plastic grips and holds much better than metal on metal and I found I could get by fine with just one per gun.

[2K1TJ]

Fine looking trio, Van!

What scope is that on the .25?

[Van]

   The scope on the .25cal came on a SKS rifle I bought in the late 1980s.  It is a Chinese Red Star brand in 4x-20mm.  I doubt it was very expensive as the new, unfired SKS was only $99. back then.  It has a very clear, sharp image and is only 6 1/2" long.  I use it a lot hunting because it's so handy on air guns and my .22 LR semiauto.  Not a big field of view, but I would buy another one if I found one priced right at a gun show.

[PerpetualStudent]

That cut down one might have just sold me on making the PCP jump. I've been weighing a wildfire vs 1077 for a while now. Going back and forth but a shorter discovery means I can make a child sized PCP to teach fundamentals to my kids on as well as getting an airgun to train transitions between targets.

[Van]

  Mountain Airgun cuts the back end off a regular tube and recuts the slots and holes so no gauge hole means more air space in the tube.  I got my tubes from Baker Airgun ($19.99) but decided not to do the machine work myself.  If you have the right tools it should not be hard to duplicate the holes/slots in the cut down tube.  I wanted blued tubes so I did not order Cothran stainless ones.   The carbine is a really light weight fast handling little gun.