Re: Batteries in Airrifles - Deep Discharge Thread.

[Unimexsol]

Erm, could someone explain this to me please? As I've been away from air gun shooting for a while I feel a bit lost on this topic.

Do some airguns now need batteries to work? If so what do they do, how do they work, what are the advantages/disadvantages etc.

Please forgive my ignorance but I've not been on the air gun scene for 15 years!

Thanks

[Darren Petts]

Read this

[Unimexsol]

Thank you that explains it nicely.

I had visions of an electronic device that wound the mainspring back and such like.

In short it's just an electronic trigger then as far as I can make out.

[Darren Petts]

Instead of a spring pushing a weight to hit and open the valve, the trigger fires a solenoid to do the job. The result is a considerably improved lock time and no valve bounce wasting air.

[Gary C]

and a superb and consistent trigger.
Lack of wasted air makes it very quiet with a decent silencer as well

[PHOBUS]

I noticed that a lot of repeater pistols ( C02 pistols ) have horrible trigger pulls - some worse than others - & in the days before the GOVT decided that Brococks are as dangerous as AK 47 ,s - air cartridge revolvers had similar nasty triggers in double action .
I have a Russian CO2 pistol / carbine which has an electronic trigger powered by 4 aa batteries .
The difference is incredible - very very fast / & very very light trigger pulls which can only aid accuracy - not to mention increase the rate of fire to 3-4 rds per second .
I am convinced it is the future - especially for rapid fire guns . Not sure about the Daystate - bit pricey for me .

CARL.