I picked up a 362 yesterday and plinked a little bit. I confirmed the 8 pump limit. At 800' elevation anything more than 8 definitely retains air. I have a 1377 so I'm familiar with a lot of mods that can be done, but I don't think I'll need anything more than the 8 pumps, as long as the squirrels don't start taking trt. The only things I'd like to add right now is a suppressor and some glass. That should help me keep the baddies away from the chickens.
Wow, $59 was a nice deal.
Quote from: Brawny on April 11, 2025, 10:30:04 AMI picked up a 362 yesterday and plinked a little bit. I confirmed the 8 pump limit. At 800' elevation anything more than 8 definitely retains air. I have a 1377 so I'm familiar with a lot of mods that can be done, but I don't think I'll need anything more than the 8 pumps, as long as the squirrels don't start taking trt. The only things I'd like to add right now is a suppressor and some glass. That should help me keep the baddies away from the chickens. After reading this I checked my model 362 guns for retained air at ten pumps. I bought three at the local Meijer store after Christmas when they marked them down to $59 as I wanted to convert two into .177 and .25cal. Two of them dump all 10 pumps and one retains a small puff of air at ten pumps. Eight is plenty for the smaller calibers but 10 would be better for .25cal when I get around to converting that one.
Quote from: Van on April 12, 2025, 10:04:18 AMQuote from: Brawny on April 11, 2025, 10:30:04 AMI picked up a 362 yesterday and plinked a little bit. I confirmed the 8 pump limit. At 800' elevation anything more than 8 definitely retains air. I have a 1377 so I'm familiar with a lot of mods that can be done, but I don't think I'll need anything more than the 8 pumps, as long as the squirrels don't start taking trt. The only things I'd like to add right now is a suppressor and some glass. That should help me keep the baddies away from the chickens. After reading this I checked my model 362 guns for retained air at ten pumps. I bought three at the local Meijer store after Christmas when they marked them down to $59 as I wanted to convert two into .177 and .25cal. Two of them dump all 10 pumps and one retains a small puff of air at ten pumps. Eight is plenty for the smaller calibers but 10 would be better for .25cal when I get around to converting that one.And after reading this, I'm wanting to dump all the air out of ten pumps. Would adding a power adjuster do the trick? I figure I'd have to remove some of the stock, but that's fine by me.
Quote from: Brawny on April 16, 2025, 10:44:45 AMQuote from: Van on April 12, 2025, 10:04:18 AMQuote from: Brawny on April 11, 2025, 10:30:04 AMI picked up a 362 yesterday and plinked a little bit. I confirmed the 8 pump limit. At 800' elevation anything more than 8 definitely retains air. I have a 1377 so I'm familiar with a lot of mods that can be done, but I don't think I'll need anything more than the 8 pumps, as long as the squirrels don't start taking trt. The only things I'd like to add right now is a suppressor and some glass. That should help me keep the baddies away from the chickens. After reading this I checked my model 362 guns for retained air at ten pumps. I bought three at the local Meijer store after Christmas when they marked them down to $59 as I wanted to convert two into .177 and .25cal. Two of them dump all 10 pumps and one retains a small puff of air at ten pumps. Eight is plenty for the smaller calibers but 10 would be better for .25cal when I get around to converting that one.And after reading this, I'm wanting to dump all the air out of ten pumps. Would adding a power adjuster do the trick? I figure I'd have to remove some of the stock, but that's fine by me.Hammer spring adjuster (with notched stock), heavier hammer spring, lighter valve spring. Any of those would do the trick . I did a spring adjuster and a lighter valve spring in mine. I did this to my 367 conversion as well.Doesn't take much if you use a short Allen head bolt with press on bolt head thumb cap. Anything bigger gets in the way of your hand. I actually made my own from the original tube cap.This gives me good hand clearance while still doing what it is supposed to.
FYI I was ordering parts the other day and asked about the valve. I didn't buy those parts but the rep told me they recently made some changes on the valve so S/N guns after a certain point have a slightly different valve (threading or attachment? not 100% sure on the change.) Kinda dumb that the Chinese parts are now being changed, we saw it on the 2100, the 2240 valve, now the 1322 valve... I mean they could have just easily kept the same specs. Anyways.
I do not know what serial number or generation it changed with, but I have a 1st run (2021) I bought for my first mod, and another (2023) that I bought for my 367 conversion. The 1st run gun has a valve with a threaded front trigger screw hole for the front trigger frame screw. The 2023 has a groove all the way around the valve front where the threaded hole would be and the pump tube is threaded for the front trigger frame screw. Makes no sense why they would do this other than maybe so you could rotate the valve in its entirety for TP hole alignment without unthreading the valve front slightly like the original valve sometimes requires? My 2023 gun is serial number 090 which would mean that they did this before that.
I do usually polish the burs off the compression tube cutout.
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