Long time airgunner first time poster
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Topic: Long time airgunner first time poster
Posted By: Who_me
Subject: Long time airgunner first time poster
Date Posted: 15 May 2026 at 11:37pm
| Hi my name is Craig.I am from Waimate.I got my first break barrel about 40 years ago the last 20 i have been shooting pcp's. My first pcp was a fx gladi8or. My latest a fx impact m4 in 30 cal. currently have it set up at just over 100 ftlb for around 50 shots. |
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Posted By: -Ec
Date Posted: 16 May 2026 at 12:22am
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Hi Craig, Welcome to the forum, here you will find a wide mix of air gunners with a wide variety of uses for their guns. I'm sure you will find many with similar interests to you. ------------- Regards, -Ec |
Posted By: Mintie
Date Posted: 16 May 2026 at 12:35am
| Mate good to hear from you! How is the Wallaby hunting going? |
Posted By: Who_me
Date Posted: 16 May 2026 at 12:38am
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Back in them next week. A guy i was working with has a bush block with a heap on there |
Posted By: Mintie
Date Posted: 16 May 2026 at 1:21am
| Sounds fun. I see Ecan have opened up $2m of funding to get on top of them, might have to give them a call 😆 |
Posted By: Myson
Date Posted: 16 May 2026 at 9:40am
Now that's a mean mother, Craig!: FX M4 at 100FPE!  Nice one! Are you using slugs? And what weight of projectiles? I'd be keen to know more about your rifle - eg: group size at 100yds, 150yds, 200yds. I imagine its very accurate and a goat killer too? Please do let us know more..... sounds like an excellent setup! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jVyBfFqE Air Arms S510 US .22 Air Arms S410 .22 Weihrauch HW97KT .177 Weihrauch HW95 .177 |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 18 May 2026 at 8:23am
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Welcome Craig,. Yea, i'll be keen to hear what pellets or slugs you are using.
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Posted By: Who_me
Date Posted: 18 May 2026 at 10:53am
| 54g slugs at 930 ftps. Reg at 120 bar have slug kit but only using probe which picked me up 50 fps. Accuracy i only shoot steel but got one big splatter mark at 100m with 3 shots. Good enough for me. Haven't pushed it past that yet. One day i will put the hammer in and crank it up to 170 bar but i like having 50 shots where it is set now. |
Posted By: metallicsting
Date Posted: 25 May 2026 at 10:50pm
| Welcome. I have an m4 also. It’s a .22 cal though. I’m waiting for a part as the nut got stuck in the shroud when I was indexing it. So waiting for fx to come back with an answer. Great guns tho. You shooting pallets or slug? I’m shooting pallets for now. Will migrate to slugs eventually but for now pallets are doing the job |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 26 May 2026 at 12:14am
| Ok, so is it the barrel retaining nut that secures the barrel liner in the barrel sleeve? It also forms the thread that the shroud, or a silencer would screw onto? |
Posted By: metallicsting
Date Posted: 26 May 2026 at 8:00am
| Hi Pauly. I just replied to your other post. It got stuck in the shroud so I couldn’t reach in to get it out. Gun city sent it to Hamilton and the guy up there kindly removed it for me. Now I’m waiting to see what fx says. It only removed it a total of about 5-6 times before it got stuck. I was trying to index the barrel as it was shooting to the left at 50-100meters so figured I needed to redline the barrel to fix that as per what I was told on air nation and YouTube lol |
Posted By: metallicsting
Date Posted: 26 May 2026 at 8:18am
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Man I would so love a Weihrauch HW97KT. They look amazing and from what I’ve seen are deadly accurate. I love that the barrel stays fixed and the action is underlever bar thingy which means the barrel position will never shift. Surprising than none of the big chains in nz sells them. Wish we had more gun stores in Wellington. We need a Wellington Airguns like Utah Airguns or something. Would also love to be part of setting up an out door plinking range like the have in the UK. I’ve been watching AdzHunts on YouTube and he goes to some pretty awesome plinking ranges in Cornwall. He’s learning how to shoot air rifles and is highly entertaining. Check him out. He’s really good at replying to his fans and even left me a voice message one day. Genuine nice guy. https://youtu.be/rZ18-2mRiiA?si=pcfsONsTDXS-VNHb |