Tuning
Iv shot 1000 pellets through my 22 matador and been hearing a lot about tuning it. Why do they need tuning what benefits will I get out of de pressurising my gun?
I’m a little worred about stripping my gun as I’m very good at braking things and not very good at putting things back together :-/
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The reports of rod breaking were on a 25 that was cranked up IIRC and broke somewhere around 5k shots.
For what it’s worth I’ve got over 30k pellets on my R3 22 and close to 10 k on my R3 25 now. Both set at 885 fps and laser accurate(when I’m sober of course 🙂 ).
Original Orings and rods on both and working flawlessly. I do have 3 spare rods just because those are the only non easily replaceable wearable part. Orings and Belleville washers are easy to get.
ive heard of the rod that releases the air to propel the pellet breaking over time…id like to know how long it took for the rod to snap
If it’s not broken, don’t “fix” it.
You have a perfectly good working Edgun that lacks no accuracy or quality that you are aware of. As it is received from the distributor, it is able to outshoot just about any marksman, if not all of them.
So why try to “tune” an instrument to achieve performance that is already superior to any other gun you have shot or owned?
Remember, this forum is a trusted source of information because there are mechanically gifted machinists, and air gun enthusiasts, who are capable of taking a watch apart and putting it back together without harm. I am not one of those people. Not many of us really are. If it ever malfunctions, or behaves badly…this is the place to come and ask questions, and/or fixes.
That being said, leave it alone! It’s perfectly ok to simply enjoy it as it is. The worst thing likely to ever happen to you is needing to replace a O-ring somewhere. Even that can be delayed with a bit of silicone grease now and then.
Kind regards,
Uncle H 😯 😯 t
So true, you will get your pellet flying in a stable zone, which is very important.
It don’t really sound worth wrecking my gun just to get more shot. It’s easyer just to put more air in her
De-pressurizing your gun achieves nothing except … a depressurized air tube. That said you need to de-pressurize it in order to get into the regulator and you need to get into the reg in order to tune it to work in perfect unison with the HST setting. All that ,in the end , will give you the smallest deviation in (desired) speed and highest possible shot count.
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Everybody should have a spare air valve rod for their Matador! It will eventually need it.
I agree with Demp; you can get O rings locally: not sure about the regulator’s bellville washers but, I don’t think that they will wear out till after a couple of 100,000 shots.
I had over 20,000 shots on my R2.5 25 cal long and it broke an air valve around every 5,000 shots until I turned it down to 885 fps. I was a power junky for a while and I liked to shoot 25.4 grain JSBs at 1050 fps. Once I turned it down to 885, I don’t recall breaking one at that speed.
I also discovered that the 25.4 grain JSB were far more accurate at 885 that at 1050! I like to do head shots on sparrows, starlings and ground squirrels at 100+ yards. It became so much easier to do once the JSBs were ONLY going 885.
Again, anybody that has a Matador really needs to have at least one air valve rod in stock! They cost $35 shipped and you would feel very stupid if it broke and you didn’t have a spare!
It can be changed out in 20 min or so.
I currently have 5 in stock: you just never know when you might need one!