will this hurt my air rifle?
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 242
will this hurt my air rifle?
i have a gamo hunter 220 and a shadow 1000. i was wondering if it is ok to cock and load these guns and then wait 5 o 10 minutes to shoot it. i know that is not recommended with pump air rifles, and i am not sure about these... it just seems like everytime i find something to shoot, by the time i take out a pellet, cok it and aim, it has ran or flown off! thanks...
#2
RE: will this hurt my air rifle?
Never heard of that hurting any air rifle. I have pumped up air rifles and left them waiting for the next squirrel to enter me yard for hours at a time with no bad effects what so ever. Been doing that for as long as I can remember.
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: VA USA
Posts: 570
RE: will this hurt my air rifle?
10 to 15 mintues shouldn't hurt, but YES leaving a spring powered airgun cocked does weaken the spring. I don't leave any of my better spring guns cocked for extended times. There have been informal studies done showing that that leaving them cocked for extended periods is harmful. Several folks have chronographed guns before leaving them cocked then after leaving them cocked for extended time and found they had velocity lossed due to the springs taking a set. A pump-up gun probably wouldn't do anything but slowly leak off pressure.