Firstly Kral puncher in 25
Replaced with a Kral punches breaker synth in 22 which was lovely to shoot, when it worked. I was well pleased at first but it went off a cliff really quickly.
After that I gave up and got shut to a good friend who is an engineer. He ended up making a new valve, stem, valve housing etc.
It was a shame that it failed because I love it at first.
The puncher was a lovely rifle to handle, nice turk walnut stock and scary unsafe.
When I bought the np02 I was at a boinger bash and a mate who is a forum member told me he had mega problems with an early puncher. I had bought the np02 on a whim and straight away thought oh no what have I bought when he told me all the problems he had with his kral. Fortunately after a couple of days shooting it at the bash I was already smitten with the rifle, and after the mate who had such a bad experience with his kral shot it he seemed pleasantly surprised. I think the earlier models were plagued with issues but they have learnt from their mistakes.
I'm not so sure that have learnt by their mistakes. I bought the mk2 Breaker bullpup and within a week it had seal problems. It was sent back and returned fixed within the week. A month later I sat drinking coffee when a big bang followed by a rush of air and a burst disc had blown. The rifle was filled to a 190 bar as I was already aware of not going to the recommended 200 bar because of this problem. Although I bought mine almost a year ago, reports of problems are still pretty much on going.
It's a shame as their line up has nice looking things, but for me they are not reliable enough.
A friend owns a shooting range and had NP02s as the hire guns, they are great but he decided to sell them off as a bit too complicated for newcomers. Has had less than a tin of pellets through and it's great I really can't fault it all. Hitting a 6inch tall bell at 70 metres no problem at all. It's .177 calibre. I would upload a photo but I can't remember how.
Only things I would check is the that it holds air and check the crown, as someone else mentioned some of the krals have sub standard crowns causing accuracy issues. It has a power adjuster on the left of the action which is handy as mine was putting out a very consistent 11.84ftlb with JSBs, a little too close to the wire for me so I knocked it down by 0.5.
Last edited by Dakine; 30-09-2020 at 07:11 PM.
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Since getting the bug and being allowed to join Rivington I have spent thousands!
Will i take my midnight to outddoor range- NO!
However the Artemis is just amazing!