Noob Vulcan Owner
I just purchased my first PCP a Vulcan .25 from Tony. If not for this forums high regard for Tony I would be very nervous right now weather my new gun even existed or not. Tony says he will have it shipped by Friday. I have yet to purchase a hand pump pellets or scope. I am leaning tward the hills pump and a hawk sidewinder 30 scope. I was wondering if anyone information on break in sight in pellet selection any other heads up for a noob pcp/vulcan owner. Looking to shoot targets and help keep the red squirrel population in check around our small hobby farm in SW Michigan.
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Well done! Those are healthy looking squirrels. If you’re in the US, you might want to save the tails for fishing lures. I think Mepps is still trading/buying them.
on some guns :biggrinn: the first shot after refill used to be low because the opposite. too high pressure in the prechamber.
on a perfectly working regulated gun, if you keep the fill pressure as per manufacturer. this should not be happening at all.
the regulated chamber refills the moment there is enough pressure in the cylinder to fill it. some regs leak or the valve in the reg shuts too slow when you initiallly quick fill it.
No but depending on how much settling time you give it, it might not be full power either… I know my crickets sometime shoot squirrelly for a shot or two after a refill from a low pressure refill point. Haven’t had my vulcan long enough to really get a good feel for it and how it behaves yet.
Ok so if I shoot a string of pellets and my pressure drops below 1,500psi let’s say 1,000 psi for conversation. I cock the Vulcan then fill to 2,500 psi will that first shot be unregulated at less than 1,500 psi?
More addicting than AR’s (black guns) ever were!
Indeed! Lots of factors to take into consideration, it never ends! :angrymob:
What a awesome weekend with the Vulcan. The Weather was great Saturday and Sunday. I mounted a cheep 3×9 Kronus scope I had off of one of my muzzleloader on the Vulcan so I could play around with it, I quickly zeroed the scope in at 50yds and was dropping bullseye after bullseye. After a hour of shooting bullseyes I felt confident enough to unleash it on the chipmunks. The first two chipmunks were lights out at 45-50 yards I was blown away!!!! Then something strange happened I missed 3 chipmunks at close range less than 10 yards ( I feel I had enough hold under)so I went back to the target and it took me a bit but I discovered how much parallax is in that cheep scope. I feel the different shooting positions I was in enough to completely miss both chipmunks. So I mounted a iphone scope attachment up, that way the eye position would not change eliminating parallax. After that I was hitting small water bottles from 5yards all the way to 75 WAY TO MUCH FUN!!!
I cannot wait to get a quality scope on this Vulcan and will probably ditch the Kronus its ok to use at the range but not fair to use on animals in my opinion.
I missed a doe during a doe season two seasons ago with that scope on a muzzleloader. She was 20 yards away, I was in a tree stand shooting in a semi awkward position, that miss has perplexed me for two years. I have done I ton of airgun research so far and have learned more about shooting in the past two months than I have learned in the past 40 years.
This air gunning is a pretty cool sport 😎
A fixed scope always stays the same, that is why people compare it to ffp scopes because no matter the magnification on a ffp the holdover and click values stay the same.
Since it is a fixed power the holdover and clicks will also stay the same because you cannot change the magnification. So the scope is always true and calibrated
220 BAR – 3,000 psi range. I don’t run it up to the full 250 BAR in case the gun/air tube warms up.
Also, it’s important that when you cock the gun, you pull the bolt back all the way, kind of hard. There’s a slight stop, right before the end of travel on the bolt, spring tension. If you accidentally do not pull the cocking bolt back all the way and it does not move to the forward-locked position/it jams: put on the safety, pull the bolt back, as if to cock again, take the magazine out. Close the bolt without loading a pellet-a pellet was probably loaded when the jam occured. My wife had a little trouble getting the mag to cycle and it was due to being a bit too gentle pulling the bolt back/cocking.
Tony did a great job setting the .25 up. Didn’t take long before she was nailing a life-sized squirrel target in the vital zones at 40 yds.
Hi T T
My .25 V , So far 220 bar, difficult to read gun gauge. Dive bottle pressure gauge reading. I have two 300 bar bottles. One recently filled from dive shop, and was told that bottle gauge was over reading by 10 bar. Therefore it was only 210 bar. Other bottle gauge accuracy unknown as yet. Will when my new hammer arrives , test across varying fill pressures for optimum shot count. So for an accurate gauge try 220 , 230 and as Elect in hammer post does 250 bar.You must or will be built like Arnie Terminator afterwards? Lol. If you are close to a dive shop reccomend a bottle.
Does bring into my mind if we all are looking for consistency in our gun . and to a certain extent worship the god of fps/es/sd, surely it seems best to have our gauges checked for accuracy.
Safe shooting
What pressure do you guys fill up to? Using a hand pump
Hawke is made in china and has varying quality, I have never looked through a SWFA but have had 2 hawke sidewinder. One had nice optics and the other sucked, I will never buy chineese optics again, only made in Japan, germany etc.
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Way to go TT, I dropped 16 tree rats late last year in one day with my Vulcan.