cocking
I understand the new airforce products can’t be uncocked. How long can they be cocked without damage. With my talon ss I cock it and put in the pellet ut if the target leaves I uncock it and wait for the next target, no spring fatigue here. Will I get spring fatigue with the new guns as it is sometimes an hour between shots when hunting. Gene
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+2 with SteveB
With a springer you open the barrel take it off safety hold the barrel and pull the trigger and let up on the barrel easily. Do not pull the trigger and not hold the barrel it will slam shut and break something.
Hi KM. How do you un-cock a springer?
Humm? I’ve never owned a springer that couldn’t be un-cocked. 😕
What was preventing you from un-cocking them? Bear trap issues?
KnifeMaker
I tried many springers before I bought my TSS. There was no un-cocking the springers; that sucked. It was so refreshing to have a gun that could be de-cocked and then re-cocked at will. I thought that was a brilliant design! I have never trusted the safety on my TSS from all that I have read here on the TAG about AF safety mechanisms failing. Why is it everytime someone designs something that works, that design gets changed? Oh well, hopefully someone here will figure out how to fix this brain fart of a design change.
I would not leave it cocked.
First I would not trust a safety to leave a gun cocked while in the field for an hour.
And second how dumb are they for making it so you can not uncock your gun while loaded ?
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And make sure that you swing the barrel to the fullest of it’s cocking arc to where it normally cocks, then while holding the bbl. release the saftey, and pull trigger. DO NOT LET GO OF BARREL. GUIDE IT SLOWLY TO THE FULLY CLODED POSITION AND RELEASE THE TRIGGER. Your gun is now un-cocked. 😉
KnifeMaker
P.S., I do the same thing with bolt action PB’s. I do not want an expensive high power rifle cocked while in storage. I lift the boat handle, and while holding it up, pull the trigger, and ease the bold back down to the locked , in-battery position . (Do not pull the bolt back. Only lift the handle fully). This will un-cock the gun, and take the tention of the firing pin spring. This is doubly important in Rim-fires, as you do not want to dry fire a Rim-fire, as it will dimple the breach end of the barrel eventually, and prevent the firing pin form ignighting the primer. (A major cause of miss-fires in older (well used) rim-fires!
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