Evanix Rainstorm 2
Finally she showed up!!!
First impression is it looks just like the old one =)
Except this one is .25 cal!!!!
This is my first magazine fed air rifle and I hooked! I am going to be going through pellets way easier 😆
As I expected it was going to shoot balls to the walls and the first string went like 957, 933, 924, 908, 897. This was with JSB 25.4 gr. So I went down to Browns hardware and bought 3 springs. My luck the first spring I tried was a winner!!!! I have not measured it and they didn’t have the specs. Anyway new spring and two turns in the with the hammer spring adjustment and bam! Went back to browns and got a 2nd one!
FPSI – 2950’ish
EPSI – 1800’ish
866, 873, 873, 878, 880, 886, 888, 891, 899, 900
896, 899, 905, 903, 899, 905, 904, 900, 898, 887,
894, 891, 887, 877, 874, 872, 862, 856, 850, 841.
30 shots at 50 yards all day!
Averages for shots 1-25. And I usually throw away the first shot after a fill so it could even be a bit tighter
Hi – 905
Lo – 866
Avg – 890
ES – 39
SD – 11
It has a nice size tube. 280cc. And a 17″ barrel. I think with either a smaller transfer port or tougher valve return spring I could get 30 45fpe’ish shots with 30 fps spread. If I fill any high I need a heavier hammer spring or reduce the valve return spring. It’s using a good bit of air. I have only shot about 200 rounds maybe. So this could get better by some breaking in.
What else….
Super light. Shoulders and balances nicely. Has an adjustable pad.
It uses the new spring loaded mags. And they have been flawless with JSB 25.4 gr so far. And looks like you could hand load a 6 ring slug!!!! Only other pellets I had were the 31 gr Barracudas but they did not work well at all with the magazine. So I didn’t even test them. I would like to get some of the 43 gr EJ’s and see what the stock hammer spring does with them.
The trigger is pretty good. 2-stage adjustable. Haven’t measured the pull. But I would guess maybe 2 lbs.
Shroud is still hair curlers and springs style. I have read on the yellow there is tuner in SC who machine an insert. I will probably get that one. It’s not loud but could be quieter.
I have not been able to stretch her out yet but she was stacking at 10 yards. Hopefully will get out this Sunday. Running the numbers through chairgun I will go with a 40 yard zero. Puts me on from 15 to 45 with a .60″ kill zone. I put on the Bushy Legend 5-15×40 with high rings. This gives a 2″ sight height. You could probably do medium rings depending on the scope.
Okay now some pics 😆
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The O-rings on the Evanix probe aren’t always the right size, or if they are, the tolerance of the groove is too deep.
The quick fix is to remove the O-rings, check them for nicks and damage, then put a couple of wraps of teflon tape over the groove, and replace the O-rings on top of the teflon tape. This will move them up a few thousandths, and that’s all it takes to being the probe into proper fit to refill.
The Koreans just haven’t gotten their “A” game perfected. I still think it’s a lot of gun for the money, and I may yet order another, but in .25 caliber.
I also noticed the safety knob fit too deeply in the stock groove. A bit of dremel work would even that out, and make the safety knob much easier to reach with your thumb.
If you don’t like that probe type fill, there is a fellow who makes a QD screw in replacement for Evanix for $50.00 shipped. Let’s see…where… ok, here is his home page, look under accessories: http://www.bgmfairguns.com It’s a black metal threaded piece that simply replaces the female Evanix probe receiver….I’m having impure thoughts right now…it’s late….and anyway, it looks like it would be worth the bucks. I was never impressed with probe type fillers. QD’s are just too simple and available and work every time.
I know for a fact the Marauder is a LOT quieter than the Evanix. Replacing that 6 X 6 fence post stock it has, with a bullpup kit, would make a very nice bit of equipment.
The Marauder isn’t quite as powerful as the Evanix, but I’m not shooting anything bigger than a racoon or coyote at 150 feet here in the Quichita mountains, so it would fit my purposes nicely. But that Evanix is certainly nice in many ways.
Any suggestions, comments? I’m agonizing over this…
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Sorry to hear it. Even if it was only the money it wouldn’t be as bad as the money and time you spent waiting for your new tool.
Evanix Rainstorm II arrived at noon today!
Fill probe so loose I had to hold it in by hand, O-rings on probe too small to capture air.
Lens on pressure gauge cracked in two places!
Stock broken at the hand grip, not seperated, but a thin crack line running all the way around the back of the grip and into both sides.
What looked like three permanent black marker stripes across the thumb rest. At first I thought it might be part of the dark grain of the wood but it’s the exact width of a black marker, and the marks run horizontally while the grain runs vertically.
I took it out to shoot a shot or two and the first 21.14gr Baracuda Match went zinging out at 1024 fps, with a PING so loud it almost matched the muzzle report and the “crack” the pellet made.
In a word, .22 caliber in this rifle is too small. Perhaps the 25gr pellets might do better, but this thing is a beast! Far too powerful in .22 caliber for it’s own good.
All in all…..not a good experience. The excess power I could have handled. The noise I could have handled. The ping I could have stopped (I think…)
So, back it goes.
Yes, it was extremely well wrapped, double boxed, sandwiched between two foam pads, held in place with two large zip ties, firmly secured in the second box with LOTS of paper padding.
My advice….if you buy this beast, plan on tuning it down a lot! Plan on spending some $$ getting that extremely loud ping taken care of. Plan on getting some serious auxilary sound suppression added. AND…get the .25 caliber! Anything less is overwhelmed by the rifle.
I doubt I’ll get it replaced with another Evanix Rainstorm. Bad experience all around. Shame. A good looking piece of kit, with nice features.
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Hey benneeb0y,
did you get any new pellets, to run in your gun yet?? 🙄
Post your info when you can, man I hope the gun will like Predator pellets. 😯
So, perhaps some felt around their rear vent holes. It does make a difference.
There’s a couple of people on here that make baffles, but I need to get the diameter of the barrel, and how much length there is to work with.
Then there is the issue of the “ping” which I know nothing about. That I have to hear. Could be a Mamcrackin silicone hose insert in the air tube might resolve that, but I don’t know yet where the ping originates. Bean said the ping seems to come from the air cylinder. That takes us back to the original Mamcrackin post about the ping resulting from vibrations in the air cyclinder. His silicone tube, 1″ diameter X6″ long, slit lengthwise, rolled and tucked into the tube, should dampen that vibration, as it worked on every gun I tried it on.
I can always go with a full shroud replacement. An earlier post indicated this fellow was good with Asian air guns. I’ve never heard of him and he has not responded to my contact at his web site. He offers a full carbon tube shroud replacement, 3″ longer, with better baffles, and a tuneup for $220.00. That’s not a bad price if his work is any good. That I know nothing of.
Does anyone know this fellow? https://sites.google.com/site/saddlemountaingunsmith/contact-us
The gun can be made near silent. It’s just a matter of how I want it done. It won’t arrive until Monday, so I have time to make an inquiry or two.
I’ll keep you posted.
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Yes Will Piatt is the man for tuning Korean guns. I have his old Rainstorm .22 and don’t think I would part with it anytime soon. Its very quiet and still retains the factory shroud. Its got his custom baffles in it and I’m pretty sure a de-pinger too. I’d send any Korean gun straight to him. He just got done tuning my 909 bigbore, hope to have it back tonorrow.
Gary
30 shots at 50 yards. 45 fpe’ish. I put on a bushy legend.
I have read good reports on Will’s work. I might go for his baffles. Maybe even the extended shroud. The gun is fairy short.
A pic of the OEM and your replacement spring would help a lot as well.
Thanks!
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You got it on the xray!
I will measure the spring for ya boss!
I’ve spoken with Will a couple times on the phone. Seems to know his way around the Korean guns and was quick to share information that kept me from having to send him one of mine.
Cant vouch first hand for his work, but have never heard anything negative about him.
Replacement baffles are the first effort I will give, along with venting the rear of the shroud. (oops…Evanix already did that!)
So, perhaps some felt around their rear vent holes. It does make a difference.
There’s a couple of people on here that make baffles, but I need to get the diameter of the barrel, and how much length there is to work with.
Then there is the issue of the “ping” which I know nothing about. That I have to hear. Could be a Mamcrackin silicone hose insert in the air tube might resolve that, but I don’t know yet where the ping originates. Bean said the ping seems to come from the air cylinder. That takes us back to the original Mamcrackin post about the ping resulting from vibrations in the air cyclinder. His silicone tube, 1″ diameter X6″ long, slit lengthwise, rolled and tucked into the tube, should dampen that vibration, as it worked on every gun I tried it on.
I can always go with a full shroud replacement. An earlier post indicated this fellow was good with Asian air guns. I’ve never heard of him and he has not responded to my contact at his web site. He offers a full carbon tube shroud replacement, 3″ longer, with better baffles, and a tuneup for $220.00. That’s not a bad price if his work is any good. That I know nothing of.
Does anyone know this fellow? https://sites.google.com/site/saddlemountaingunsmith/contact-us
The gun can be made near silent. It’s just a matter of how I want it done. It won’t arrive until Monday, so I have time to make an inquiry or two.
I’ll keep you posted.
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OK, I get it. You are not sure how you are going to tame the beast so as not to inflame you beloved neighbors. So, my guess is that you are going to throw money at the problem and sent your ney lead spitting leviathan to your shrod maker for the transformation.
Give me proper homage, and perhaps I’ll share my secrets with you.
I see your question, however I see no “Homage” associated with your request!
You must grovel and snivel before my image, acknowledge my superior intelligence, wit, looks, personality, and knowledge.
Then, and only then, will I toss precious pearls of wisdom before you to hide in your cod piece.
I believe Jesus said it first…[b]”Many are called, but few rolling stones gather pennies earned!” [/b] Words to live by!!!
Regards,
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Ya, but how are you going to quiet it down? Those Evanix guns are noisy. Just sayin’, fearless leader. 😉
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Hoot,
Quacita Mountians,your shitting me!
I have been seeing this dog attack thread and thinking about when I got mauled as a kid.
Long story but bear with me.
I had been swimming at the neighbors irragation pond with the neighbors daughter, a mile away when I was 14 and turned 15 a week later, and screwing the neighbor girl.
When the day was over I cut acrossed their alf alfa field in my swim suit, and got attacked by two of their cow dogs, I went to ground and fought them with the soles of my tennis shoes, the only thing availble to me, and I got chewed up pretty good on the lower legs.
As I spent the next week healing, I kept thinking of my best friend in towns dog, this big damn Airedale that could whip everything on four legs.
So I ordered a Airdale pup from a kennel in Mena Arkansas from a guy named Jim Fowler that ran Quachita Kennels, in the Quachita mountains.
I named her Quachita Chita for the AKC registration, and called her Chita for short.
She was a cat killing machine, one of the best hunting dogs and buddies I ever had.
I lunged a 3 point one year with a 22 short at 100 yards, I had not wanted to take Chita for she was heavy with pups and whelped 12 of them a week later, but she snuck out and followed me.
That buck was drinking out of a stream a miles walk from the closest road, and when hit walked backwards 10 feet from the water and lay down looking dead as hell. I walked down, set my rifle against a tree and took out my knife, as I did that buck sprang up lowered his head for a charge, with those horns about 12 inches from my belly.
That was when that big pregnant Airdale bitch hit him on the hocks, flipped him over on his back so damn fast I was in shock, and retireving the 22 rifle and shooting him a few more times.
Needless to say I never got mauled by the neighbors dogs again, 4 years later I called them in on a coyote stand about a mile and a half from their ranch, I had my very first sporterized O3 Springfield….pay back is a bitch.
Regards,
Roachcreek