Air Arms Owners Club

i took my new rifle out in the garden today's it's a tad on the blowy side i decided not to bother zeroing the scope, on loading it i noticed the bolt is fairly hard to pull back & not that smooth loading the pellet, this maybe me as i'm used to the side lever on a hw100,is it a simple thing that it will improve with more use as the part's need to bed in.

prior to ordering the rifle i ordered 2 extra 10 shot magazine's from BAGNALL & KIRKWOOD in GREY at £32.99 each, as opposed to YELLOW,i've tried them both & the loading is silky smooth.as for pulling the loading bolt back,i think it's just a case of getting used to it !!!!

tapps wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:24 pm

prior to ordering the rifle i ordered 2 extra 10 shot magazine's from BAGNALL & KIRKWOOD in GREY at £32.99 each, as opposed to YELLOW,i've tried them both & the loading is silky smooth.as for pulling the loading bolt back,i think it's just a case of getting used to it !!!!

Try wrapping your thumb over the back of the bolt.

I've got a .22 TDR that requires quite an effort to cock, it's an older model, I've tried pretty much everything to try and make it easier, but no success, I've even left it cocked for days, seemed better for the first few shots, then goes back to being hard to cock again, apart from that, its fine

Grip the bolt as near to the main shaft as you can as holding it and pulling on the bent part causes side pressure

BBF

Blackbaronfish wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:32 am

Grip the bolt as near to the main shaft as you can as holding it and pulling on the bent part causes side pressure

BBF

that's a great improvement, many thank's, as for the original 10 shot magazine which came with the rifle, it seem's like the pellet's are not lined up with the pellet probe/barrel,it take's a little force to push the bolt forward ,it feel's like the pellet isn't seated right, the two extra magazine's i obtained are good there's no effort required in pushing the bolt forward,is there an easy fix on the problematic magazine.

Take the screw out of the mag, and remove the cover, be careful as the spring and ball bearing might pop out, check the bearing, sometimes they are not perfectly round and can cause the mag not to rotate properly.

Roger5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 11:07 am

Take the screw out of the mag, and remove the cover, be careful as the spring and ball bearing might pop out, check the bearing, sometimes they are not perfectly round and can cause the mag not to rotate properly.

Open it in a plastic bag, if the ball bearing and spring decide too fly off you have them contained.

The magazine has a spring that could be made shorter. This will help ease the indexing. Also the o’ring holding the pellets can be lubricated slightly to glide the pellets through.

BBF

Blackbaronfish wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:44 pm

The magazine has a spring that could be made shorter. This will help ease the indexing. Also the o’ring holding the pellets can be lubricated slightly to glide the pellets through.

BBF

thank's for the tip,i removed about 2 coil's, it worked a treat,i lubricate my pellet's with lubro-teknik LT1 pellet lube.
it's great to have some good advice on here it's well APPRECIATED.