Something New Everyday

I’ve been pretty lucky for the past two weeks. I picked up a very nice Synthetic Cricket .22 from Steve at WWAG a few weeks ago and luckily I’ve been able to put some lead through it while working at home. It’s hard not working and shooting the new bug. I feel so guilty 😈

The thing I learned is that the magazine works properly if you have pellets in the them. For the life of me I thought I had an issue with the mag advance when trying to work it with an empty one. It only sort of halfway advances. I looked and peeked and poked but with an empty mag it would still only advance about halfway. With a mag that had pellets it would cycle smoothly. Same is true for my .25. I checked both and noticed with an empty mag it kinda moved about halfway. With a full mag the probe is properly placed behind the pellet skirt to push in the barrel.

Oh and the .22 cost me less than the .25 even with adding a AEON glass. Bull puppies seems to be flooding the market – which I guess is good for us, more choices and more variety to choose from and much better pricing for the established airguns.

Keep the pests at bay… :5:

CJlomax

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June 14, 2015 at 12:38 am

aw, yes I remember someone had an issues with that.
He clamed the metal was of poor quality and very soft.
He soldered the gap closed.

This issues has come up only a couple of times.
aw, I found it here it is:

http://talonairgun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=29832#p300771

http://talonairgun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=31897&p=322744&hilit=mag+indexing#p322723

But you known like you said, I believe the pin polishing (less friction) and a not so rough with cocking will help with it also, less stress on this part. 😉

oow dang I almost forgot my friends, also if one uses a cheek piece a little word of caution.
If it moves/slides back and make contact with the mag it will put much load on this part (lever) when cocking !!

~ Cheers ~ GKU

cjlomax

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June 14, 2015 at 12:25 am

As usual Greg you are correct!!! 🙄 😎

I pull the trigger and hold the cocking mechanism to release the firing pin in a controlled manner with a full mag.. then remove the mag.. and send the shot to my trap.. so no double loading. I do the same with an empty mag to see the normal advance but leave it in. Safety first.

I checked my .25 and it advanced as you stated, yet my .22 was having issues. There is a minor difference in the mag advance mechanism between the two. The .25 is a solid piece that rotates on that pivot arm. The .22 has a thin gap at the pivot arm point. It seems with all the shooting i’ve done with the .22, and being heavy handed like when I crank on the .25, that gap closed so it was not extending the arm to rotate the mag properly, not unless it had a pellet in the mag – even a single pellet.

I had to finagle a bit of leverage with a couple of needle nosers to open that gap back without breaking the arm.

I think I saw a post about this a while back and the owner filled that gap or something to keep it from closing. I may do the same at some point , but right now I’m having too much fun shooting her.

Since I shoot the .22 more I swapped the advance mechanisms between the two. They are exactly the same piece except for that gap, and since it’s such a nice day – I got to polish both a bit more and a few other things just as you posted.

If I figure out how to post pic’s I’ll post that gap in the arm difference. But for now both work smoothly after the lube and polishing.

Thanks bud for the follow up and sanity check.

Oh.. I notice in another post you had that you got an Omega …nice piece of equipment – makes your pellet purchases increase I’ll bet! :8:

Figured out pics :

Closed gap:
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Opened gap:
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June 13, 2015 at 5:38 pm

With an empty mag when I cock all the way it advances like it should.
But on the next cocking the gun is already bine cocked and needs to be cock about a 3/8″ beyond it resting point to fully rotate the mag again.

You know what I’m getting at ?
With a full loaded mag we don’t do that unless you want to intentionally double load it ?
To be fair you need to de-cock it before each re-cocking when it’s an empty mag.

Hope I’m making sense ?
Also I believe in time the gun will smoothen out for ya.

~ ATB ~ GKU

June 13, 2015 at 5:19 pm

Yes Greg – I followed your lead on the polishing – it does hyperextend but much more cleanly with a load of pellets.
If you could give it a try with an empty mag and let me know how it indexes then. Just curious about this.

Cheers,

June 13, 2015 at 6:03 am

Interesting thing about the mag indexing.
Are you sure you’re cocking the lever all the way back.
It has to be slightly hyperextended to make a complete advancement.

I took my indexing pin out and gave it a polishing to help with the ware and tare it does on the mags.
It indexes/advances the mags butter smooth now.

~ GKU

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