Im just not happy with the 2" groups at 10yrds, and it certainly does not 'wisper'. I have never oiled it and it smokes, nitro piston should it be smoking? Recoils so bad even the mount pin cant keep the scope from moving.Anyways, So I bought my Marauder .177 today from Pyramid, they said it should ship by Weds the latest. Its been about 2 weeks leading up to buying, just hesitant on buying because of all the associated cost of PCP. Been doing my research, finally got all the ducks lined up today so bought the rifle.
My local welding supply was not very helpful with 6k nitrogen, wanted me to rent the tank and could not even quote me without me setting up an account which required credit check and all that crap, and I didn't want a rental, I buy all my cylinders. I know my welding cylinders would have cost $11 a month, well im not paying that the rest of my life, that's why I rather buy. I already have 4 various other cylinders so rental a month does add up if I were to rent. Found a guy that could get me one, 1K for the cylinder, $20 hydro and $200 fills,
yeah thats a little high. So I looked into other options, local dive shop would not fill without a scuba license, wasnt an ideal fill anyways.
I didnt like the shoebox because I found that you can't turn it on and walk away. Yes that's minor, it didnt kill the deal, but I passed on it for now.
So other option a scba tank. Found a place in town that hydros, and what do you know, the place that fills them is one mile from my house, didnt even know that place was there, small unsuspecting place. So I went there to talk to them before buying a scba to make sure they would fill and check on their valve fittings. Nice people and we got to talking about what I was doing and the options I had. They said well we have a 5000psi 472CF breathing air cylinder here we can sell. So thats what I did, bought the filled and fresh hydroed cylinder for $395 with $20 fills, and I'll get a guppy tank ordered tomorrow for daily use.
Using a guppy off the larger cylinder does make it less efficient, but did some calculating and if I stop filling the guppy when I can no longer get 3K in it and I fill my gun from 1800-2500 and assume 25 shots then I should get no less then 16K shots out of the large cylinder. I know lots of variables, but I needed to make a decision on which "air" route to take. So just did some worst case guestimating. Having never even shot a PCP I hope that I calculated and assumed correctly.
I don't normally talk money, but during my research there were more questions about what large cylinders cost then there were answers, so just listed prices as an FYI.
I guess thats a long intro and covers just about all of my adult air rifle experience. Havent own an air rifle since I was a kid, 20 plus years ago.
