How do you store your Marauders

[SniperX]

Hi guys,

Just wondering how you store your Marauders? Do you keep it with or without air in the tank?

[Supercharged86]

Hey SniperX, Definitely keep it filled with air, better for the valve seal. Your free to keep it filled at whatever your normal fill pressure is without any worries of damage. Cheers. Steve

[SniperX]

Hey SniperX, Definitely keep it filled with air, better for the valve seal. Your free to keep it filled at whatever your normal fill pressure it without any worries of damage. Cheers. Steve

Thanks Steve. If I may ask, what is the ideal pressure if you will store it for 3 months? How much psi do you fill when storing yours?

[Supercharged86]

Hey SniperX, I have my Mrod tuned for 900-910 peak velocity using the Eunjin 16.1 gn @ 2750 psi. So this is how I store it, this way it's always at it's peak muzzle velocity when I need it for that spur of the moment shot. If I was shooting for strings then I would fill up more then shoot through the peak settings and then stop at about 2300-2400 psi. But you can store it at any pressure you want; a minimum of 1000 psi would be best, especially if your using a hand pump. So if your like me and need or want that spur of moment shot then keep it filled to the peak pressure. Hope that helps. Cheers. Steve

[SniperX]

Thanks for the help Steve.

[Toyota328as]

Try to keep with air in tube below 2000psi. The lower the better but not too low beyond 1500psi

[markasaurus]

Try to keep with air in tube below 2000psi. The lower the better but not too low beyond 1500psi

Out of curiosity - not criticism - why would less air pressure be better for storing?

I too have thought that maybe it would be a good idea to have LESS air pressure when storing. I don't have any logic or evidence for that kind of thinking, just a feeling that maybe the gun shouldn't have so much air pressure when storing for some reason...but I work around welders tanks and pneumatic equipment, you know welder's tanks for instance, stay pressurized for years and no one worries too much about it.

[Motorhead]

Fully charged ..... Magazine in place with bolt closed and that shot fired making gun Cock & Rock ready !!
Resting in a corner by back door, flip scope cover closed and a RED slip over cap on muzzle keeping crap out of bore.
My powder burners are locked away in the safe ... Yard gun stays readily accessible

[AlanMcD]

Ditto to what Motorhead said - I do the same thing (except mine does spend most of it's time in the safe and not by the back door). Mag in place with first round fired, fully gassed, and ready to go - usually also with a pass of my boresnake before loading that mag and firing off that first shot .

I keep it fully charged and ready to go, and with my current tune that means 3100 psi, constantly at that pressure except for when I'm actively shooting it. I would only consider "storing it" at 2000 psi or so if I were truly putting it into storage - planning to leave it alone for six months or more (it would also be fully wiped down with a good coat of Balistol then too). Other than that, it stays fully charged all the time, and I expect no troubles from doing so - there have been none to date on my 2009 gun, and for much of 2011 is was running (and stored) on a 3200 psi tune . . . .

[DRAGON64]

My Marauder has sat charged at 2500 psi since May. I knocked off the dust, carried the rifle out side, loaded a pellet (CPL) and chronied the rifle... rifle is holding a tune that I put on it 5-months ago. The Mauder is a beautiful thing... I call her the M1 Garand of the PCP world.