Have a few questions…….
I have a few questions for you guys, since I’ve not had as much trigger time with my Cricket. This is my first reged gun so here goes.
What fill pressures do you guys like to use, I have a shoe box so running out of air for me so no big deal. Do you get to a point with the pressure, that you see no gain in your shots with in the 300 bar of course.
Ok how does your gun act when it comes off the reg, does your shot string go up, or down in speed? How do you know when your off the reg?
Thanks for the info guys & help.
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Greg read this http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/thread/1390162144/Hummingbird or here http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=77502.0 and also similar is written here http://eng.kalibrgun.ru/forum/index.php?topic=21.0 but unfortunately forum is temporary out of order now. When I fill my cricket to 250bar I have 25bar for 14shot so I got 2mags from 250 to 200bar but from 200bar I have 20bar/14shots… 😳 I reed about this phenomenon but I have to find it…
You might want to let the gun break in if it’s new.
About 300-1,000 shots first before tinkering.
Octavius/Jan has a tread about his reg adjustments about 15 treads down it’s a must read ! 😯
Also you might want to watch if you haven’t already, all Ernest Rowe videos on utube.
~ GKU
Hav any of u guys adjusted your own regs too flaten out your spread?
Too tighten your shot string?
How do you adjust the reg for that? 🙄
Hi Jan,
The highest I fill my Cricket 22 cal was 240 bars about a year ago but today I tried a bit higher fill.
Since my efficiency is 1.43 bars so if I multiply that to 14 times for each mag = 14 shots.
That would be a fill of 1.43×14=20 bars for each additional mag used assuming the efficiency stay the same.
The closest to that are 260 bars for my cricket I’m not sure if I would like to fill to that height even once.
So I fill to 240 bars instead and it got me 6 mags = 84 shot string with the same efficiency of 1.43 bars per shot.
Not sure if I want to try a 260 bar fill to get 7 mags = 98 shots or 280 bar 8 mags = 112 shots maybe ?
I only bought 6 mags anyway and I’d will take your word on it anyway !
~ GKU
kool beans.
got now thx guys. :suprisedn:
Exactly Greg. And second thing efficiency is poorer if you fill the cricket let´s say to 280bar and shooting to 200bar you get less shots than 200bar to 120bar. Try and you will see…
Therefore is recommend fill up to 220bar more is less efficiency 😉
do you get more shots at that pressure? 🙄
I think Jan meant that above 220 bar O-rings takes a beating and will not last as long.
Below the regulated setting the gun will become less efficient and use more air per shot.
My 22 standard fill is 220 bar shot down to 120 bar sending JSB 18 gr @ 880ish with a 5 mag = 70 shot string.
The efficiency is 220-120bar/70 shots = 1.43 bars per shot used.
My reg is set at 120ish and if I keep shooting below it does consume as much as twice the amount of air per shot.
~ GKU
how is the Efficiency bad at 250 bar?
do you get more shots at that pressure? 🙄
I´m filling maximum to 220bar but usually as Zonk said to 210bar. I have hill pump but it doesn’t matter it is no problem for me fill the cricket to 250bar but why? Efficiency is bad and I care about o-rings 🙂
perfect zonk thx 
I fill mine from 210 bar and shoot down to 130-120 bar and get 56 or so shots. After it falls off reg you’ll notice your velocity will spread and groups may open up. I never fill to 300 bar as it’s hard on O-rings and it’s just wasted air. I too have a Freedom 8 Shoebox and love it.
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Thanks Jan for the links !
~ GKU