Any Superten owners out there?
This gun is just amazing. Easy to shoot, and so accurate. Only complaint would be the weight, but i guess that makes it easy to shoot well. Stock design is superb for my frame. Very quiet, mines the bull barrel model. Clips were a pain to load at first but it’s become easier. More shots per fill, at a more stable fps range, than my Talon, while using a smaller bottle. The wonders of a regulator i guess. All in all i love it, almost as much as my Talon, but that is comparing apples to oranges. I’d recomend it to anyone. Those Rapids must be really cool if this is the poor mans version. 😯
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I had one for a short time, Regular version so I made a shroud for it.
Gun is regulated and advertisied as being 30 fpe – Mine did 24 fpe and only got about 24 shots before it came off regulator. I ordered a new hammer spring, Rabbits send me some BSA spacers that are used with it and neither worked to increase the velocity. Its a very complicated design which makes dis-assembly unnecessarily difficult and awkward.
The cocking of the Mk3 is annoying – Cocking bolt is pulled up, back, DOWN, UP, forward and down again. There is no functional need for the last down and up except to disable a safety that BSA introduced with the Mk3 version of the gun. If you don’t go down enough the gun will not fire and you will need remove the magazine and cycle it back 1 so you don’t double feed when you reinsert and cock it again (properly this time). VERY annoying and unnecessary.
Because its a bottle gun and doesn’t have a quick fill refilling it a PITA too. Bottle unscrewed partially to close the tank valve an then dry fired several times to reduce the pressure in the gun.
Fit and finish on the metal was good, the wood was horrible with a blob of red paint by the safety that looks like a preschooler applied it.
It is very accurate, but the design, the poor performance of the reg, its finish and little quirk’s such as the cocking turned me away from it.
I sold it shortly after making the shroud and bought an AA410.
Thanks for the link, they got the better grade stock part right. Bottom of the stock looks a little funny, but overall good lookin gun.
Based on Scorpion Technology , but with a 500cc bottle.
Follow this link to see it:
Do you know what the differences will be? Whole new gun? Really don’t see how they could improve it all that much, grade of wood for stocks maybe.
Anyone who wants one should hurry to buy it, as BSA is launching its new R-10 that will replace the S-10
I love the size, accurate, multi shot, regulated and nice looks.
Like you said, feels heavy.
Have you tried a Lightning XL?
It is a springer. Although I am not a springer guy, the R7 and Lightning XL and SS are fun to shoot guns:)
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Yeah the cocking handle stroke is a bit weird, but i’m used to it now and gives me no trouble. My biggest quirk with the gun is no quickfill, takin off the bottle could be easier. I got 28 full power shots yesterday, shooting kodiak EHs in 900-915 fps range. Stackin em under a dime at sixty yards, this gun makes me feel like a rockstar. Until i can afford, or justify buying, a rapid, or daystate, i’m keepin mine.