Reply With QuoteThe comedy barrels are one of the major design flaws in AA PCP's. If you have a moderator check without it, but it may have crimped the crown.
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Hi guys,
Some bad news...
I was carrying my s400 in my bag, when the strap ripped off the bag and the gun landed barrel first on the ground.
The ring attaching the barrel to the cylinder moved and twisted the barrel round to the side. After 15 mins of trying to get it back round, it finally moved back. Obviously it had lost its zero. But when trying to re-zero at a close range the scopes ran out of vertical clicks. I thought this was odd as the barrel didn't appear to have bent. I re mounted the scope and the same problem occurred. I then added some paper to the rear scope mount which sorted that problem out. Shooting pellet through pellet like it used to. When moving back to 25m the grouping was lost entirely. Pellets landed in a 5 inch 'group'.
What should I do? Will I need a new barrel and if so do I send it back to air arms. will they replace it, and how much?
Thanks
Rosehip
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The comedy barrels are one of the major design flaws in AA PCP's. If you have a moderator check without it, but it may have crimped the crown.
God rest ye jelly mental men
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It does have a moderator on it, i was thinking about checking without it- I'll try tomorrow. If it has crimped the crown what shall I do?Originally Posted by tinbum
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Get a better handbag and a new barreloh and be more bloody careful in future
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It's a lesson well learned. Are the barrels easy to replace?Get a better handbag and a new barrel
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Imho, buy another barrel, sell the gun and get a decent one.
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If he had a silencer on how has he damaged the crown.I suggest placing a metal ruler along the barel to see if it has bent before you shell out your well earned cash,or remove it and roll it on a flat surface.
Remove the silencer and the figure of eight and see what results you get
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Last edited by Blackbaronfish; 03-05-2016 at 07:40 AM.
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Take the action completely out of the stock take the scope off go over every thing inch by inch resemble with out shims in scope mounts that's if they weren't there before then if you are lucky it will shoot as it did before this is what I did when mine flew out a open bag end butt first and crashed down the stairs in my house thank god for barrel band it saved a lot of damage if it had been free floating !!
Any way hope you have fixed it by now best regards Frank
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For the future . . .
. . . there is a mod you can do - or have done - to the figure of 8 bracket. The standard design has grub screws at 4 and 8 o'clock. There is plenty of room to drill and tap and add two more grub screws at roughly 2 and 10 o'clock. Much less likely to shift out of alignment then.
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All sorted now.
Thanks everyone. It's back to shooting like it did before. I took it to Belper tackle and gun and they took the barrel off and straightened it. Really nice people there.
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Glad it's sorted for you.
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Nice one, bloody horrible when things like that happen.
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Great news
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