So, has the Colibri been cured of it’s ills?
It’s the one airgun I regret most having to send back (for a refund). But I’ve seen where that copper tube came loose, and of course the issues with failed indexing and cocking. It was the repeated failures that made me give up on it. Still, I never quite held a bull pup or any airgun that felt so right for me. So, what’s new on the Hummingbird front in the way of improvements?
darryl
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After tuning, repair a lot of Colibri and 1000+ shots with my 2 HB I know more now then when I had Darryl’s HB, I think it was the 1st HB I tried to tuned—-wish I had that one back—->easy fix!
Just want a health working Colibri family !
So anyone of you HB owners have issue I will fix it for free or others HB I tuned before some mods was not done, like installing an oring for the back of the shroud, this will prevent the shroud from moving when the shroud isn’t bottom out and tighten or the 3 and 9 o’clock not aligned. over tightening the shroud will affect the accuracy and have POI issue.
Final fix on mag not advancing all the time is to install a mod spring to insure the mag lever is in contact with the mag, but this mod will disable the pellet double load safety.
Those small cocking knob—the fix is a delrin sleeve.
I didn’t know that. 😯 I guess I need to get over the Hummingbird, and really move on. Thanks all for your replies. My Colibri jones has finally been sated.
darryl
PS Ernest must be having a ball setting those guns.
Ernest took over the patent and is making them out in his garage however he is slow as SHYPT and will never sell them. So we are shypt outta luck………………. :whistle:
Perry, I must be jinxed. That’s my only explanation for my bad experiences.
darryl
I purchased 2 Colibri when it first arrived. One had a leak and the other preformed flawless but, I sent both gun to Ernest anyway. He did a trigger job, removed the cocking spring for easy magazine load and tuned it to about 890fps. They both shoot absolutely amazing and have been performing flawless. These guns should have shot and perform like this out of the box. So far, there are no regrets in buying these two gun. Too bad its discontinued because I was hoping for a compact & .25 version.
hello Keyser,
I wish you the best of luck with your new-to-you Hummingbird.I would guess Ernest knew what he was doing, if the gun was tuned by him. by that I mean he’s probably well-perfected his tweaks of the cocking and indexing mechanisms since I owned one (two actually). Also, I’m sure if he tuned the trigger, you’re going to love it. Like you I was amazed at the gun, and felt like I was in bullpup Nirvana. I feel K-Gun let me and it’s sellers down, and that it needs to redeem itself with those who bought the gun. As I mentioned earlier, I give a lot of credit to TGAG (Petr), and to Ernest for their efforts in trying to salvage my experience with the Bird. My experience with the Hummingbird was very unfortunate, but I do still miss it, and consider the concept to be unbeatable. The Vulcan may be close, but it hold no attraction for me; not with the straight-forward cocking of the Bird versus that gun. Simplicity at it’s best when it worked.
Keep us posted. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen an in-depth review, so I look forward to reading your assessment of it’s cpapbilities.
darryl
Darryl I have been looking for the perfect backyard quiet gun too. As you may know I had the baby mutant and the barrel is worthless. I looked at the FX verminator but it’s really expensive and loud. I would have to invest another 300 bucks into the Hugget just to get it close. I know the Colibri is seriously the most quiet pups for its power I have ever seen. So I bought that used one on yellow. I hope I didn’t make a poor choice. The gun design is amazing in my opinion. K-gun really blew it IMHO. I think that the Colibri should be their new flagship. I’ll report back on this new one when I get it. It was already Ernest tuned. I really do think you’ll see the return of the Colibri one day. Kalibergun has to do something new.
Guys,
I’m not the one who suffered the detached copper line. Using silver solder is almost a lost art for high pressure copper lines. That person probably didn’t get the best day’s work from the welder. My issues were high pressure air striking me in the face, and continued indexing problems. Peter fixed air leak, and tweaked the indexing and the cocking mechanisms, but they still failed (not the air leak, and let me tell you, high pressure air stings like a sumbitch when it strikes you on the cheek near the magazine. Dangerous too). Because Peter has a day job, and my indexing and cocking problems persisted, he OK’d me sending the gun to Ernest, who tried to sort things out. He returned a tuned Bird to me, with a 12 oz trigger pull. It shot great…until it failed to index again. So I talked with Peter, who wanted me to send the gun back to him. He sent me another sample which he personally tweaked (both guys put a lot of time and effort in, and get a lot of credit from me). The new sample didn’t get two magazines through it before another fail. I finally asked for and received a refund from TGAG, and bought an Edgun R3M, the grandpa of bull pups. It’s been flawless. Of course Ed has had time to improve the breed while the Bird was new to the market.
While all this was going on, Ernest had told me where Kalibrgun had messed up with a design feature of the cocking mechanism, and that he had a fix for it, but I’d shot my bolt, so to speak, with the gun and wanted nothing more to do with it. Still, it was so close to being the perfect gun for me… I like the Edgun, and love that it’s power can be easily adjusted (because I like to tinker, though not so much anymore), and the gun is easy enough to work on. My two samples of the Bird spent more time away from me than with me, and the frequent shipping was getting to be old fast.
At any rate, it pleases me to see owners enjoying their Birds. May you have continued and uninterrupted fun shooting them.
thanks for the replies,
darryl
PS is anyone aware of any design changes from Kalibrgun?
And NO PING or HAMMER SLAP :8:
Dave
Regarding the copper airline I believe that the FX Royale uses the same line.
Was it you that had the airline failure or someone else?
My gun was part of the original WWAG order.
BTW Steve at WWAG sent me a shipping label to send it to Earnest!!! So it did not cost me any additional.
I had Ernest do his tune on it while it was there.
Dave
I have sold off most of my airguns and kept only my Crickets & Hummingbirds. Unfortunately, the Crickets rarely get used anymore. We hunt three Dairy Farms that are lousy with feral birds by day & rats at night..and needed a close-quarters, quiet, accurate & nimble bullpup. (love speed-loading the 14 shot mag as well)..Through trial & error, buying , borrowing & trying, the Colibri is my go-to gun. Of my three Colibris, all had some minor issue with either blow by or magazine indexing. Full disclosure, Ernest did a full tune on the top Colibri with the NV on it before I bought it. On the remaining two Colibris I personally fixed these issues in a matter of literally minutes, and all three run like swiss watches. Admittedly I’m a tinkerer and I have no problem digging into these guns. I haven’t experienced the regulator copper hose detaching , but I would guess its another fix that can be handled if the proper cleaning & reattachment is made. Darryl, I would probably have sent it back too if the reg/copper hose detached, as it sounds like you bought it new and thats a definite deal breaker.. I agree that these Colibri’s were released too early before the bugs were worked out, but in reality, the average shooter/tinkerer can work those bugs out, and even if you can’t, we have Ernest in our corner and he can. They all shoot JSB 18’s around 890 and 15.8’s around 925 fps. and are very quiet..
The Colibri is an absolute tailor-made hunting bullpup. Couldn’t say whats next in the way of improvements…but once these run right, they really can’t be improved upon..I guess either you love the Colibri or hate it…For me, it just works. Day or night..
ps. Darryl, if you ever get a chance to pick up an Ernest-tuned Colibri, JUMP ON IT…you will love it..
My Ernest tuned colibri has been flawless. It addresses the things that I don’t care for on bullpups. It is the one airgun I would keep.
Dave
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Ok I lied again. I admit it I have a problem I lie a lot so Ernest doesn’t really hold the patent to build Colibri’s but it sounded g00d. He doesn’t even have a garage. He does fix em up real nice like. I don’t know how he does it but he does. :fishinghole: