![]() ![]() Both the charging cylinder and the air cylinder on your rifle are designed to withstand pressures far greater than this, so what you’ve done isn’t inherently dangerous.Īpart from wasting air and potentially messing up the power curve on an unregulated PCP, the only undesirable effect overfilling may have had on your gun is to put excess pressure on the seals, which can shorten their life. Your charging cylinder will have been filled to an absolute maximum of 300 bar by your local dive centre or gun shop. Have I damaged my rifle? Is this dangerous? A: Let’s talk about the danger aspect first. ’ve always had trouble turning on the valve of my air tank when filling my PCP and today I filled my gun to 250 bar instead of the 210 it should have been. It’s good to spend time with your gun, and that doesn’t always have to mean time behind the trigger. ![]() And even that’s a moot point if you enjoy the whole cleaning process. ![]() Then you can tighten it clockwise as usual.Īs long as you’re careful not to cause any physical damage to your gun when cleaning it, the worst you’re doing is wasting your time. ![]() My own technique when screwing metal into metal (it doesn’t work as well when screwing into plastic or nylon) is to turn the screw anti-clockwise until you hear it go click as the threads engage. I’ll do this to my rifles at least once a year even if they’ve only been shot at an indoor range, and will remove the stock every time the gun’s been out in the rain or particularly humid conditions.ĭoing it any more than this will put some minor wear and tear on your stock screws, but more importantly you run the risk of cross-threading the screw when reassembling your gun. Removing a stock to make sure the gun is clean where it can’t be seen, and more importantly, isn’t gathering any trapped water or condensation is a great idea. For most people though, cleaning a barrel after every tin of pellets is usually sufficient. And your method also means you’re starting from a known baseline every time you shoot it. Having said that, you can soon learn from experience exactly how many shots it takes for your particular barrel and pellet combination to come back on song. Patching the bore or shooting felt cleaning pellets will certainly help maintain the right degree of accuracy, but it does take a few shots to re-lead a perfectly clean bore afterwards – sometimes by as many as 50 shots. There are two potential issues with your own regime: are you carrying out any needless work, and are you doing more harm than good? It sounds like your cleaning method is thorough – but maybe a bit too much. Our airguns will certainly soldier on for a while if they’ve been neglected, but will perform at their very best when they are being maintained to an optimal level and are being protected against rust or any other type of corrosion. It’s great to hear that you want to look after your guns. ![]()
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