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Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
« Reply #45 on: August 09, 2009, 07:39:18 AM »
I wish they had them at the Cabela's here, only a couple miles down the road.
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Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
« Reply #46 on: August 09, 2009, 08:12:36 AM »


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BJames - 8/9/2009  3:39 PM  I wish they had them at the Cabela's here, only a couple miles down the road.



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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #47 on: August 11, 2009, 01:49:08 AM »
    yeah, I saw, but I wanted to look at it before I made that HUGE $69 commitment...I'm stalling...lol.
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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #48 on: August 13, 2009, 06:26:08 AM »
    Well, I received my Air Hawk last night, and it has no scope stop.  Also, the stock was damaged in several places.  

    I'm not impressed with Cabelas' shipping department, as the gun was single boxed in a thin cardboard box with only a couple of blocks of foam to keep the gun from shifting around.  Two of those blocks failed at some point, so the gun was sliding around inside the box by the time that it reached my house.  Also, the scope in it's own little box was simply placed into the gun's box loose, so it banged around during the ride over as well.  All told there were 3 or four blemishes on the stock, plus the windage adjustment wheel was torqued pretty badly.  It would only click through about half of it's revolution, so the rear sight was move around on it's own.  The pictures tell the story.

    I spoke with the nice folks at Cabelas this morning, and they're giong to ship a replacement today.  So, I am impressed with their customer service department.  I offeered to send her pictures of the shipping damage, and she replied that there was no need.  She assured me that she would ask the shipper to verify a scope stop on my replacement.  The blemishes I can live with as it's going to be a hunting rifle, but I don't feel like doing any machining to keep the scope stable.

    Now, having said that, I do like the gun itself.  It's a good sized gun that shoulders well.  I fired about 15 or 20 rounds down range last nignt, and it's a bear for recoil and buzz.  A deburr and lube tune will definitely be in order, but the power appears to be there.  I didn't bother with mounting a scope, so it remains to be seen whether the stock will work well with a scope, but it seems okay for open sights.

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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #49 on: August 18, 2009, 05:57:13 PM »
    I waited until last week and I rolled the dice on the $69 Airhawk. For once in my life I think I might have thrown a lucky 7. The gun I got came in two plain brown boxes but it looks NEW. One small mark on the fore stock that looks like a blemish in the varnish more than a dent or something caused by it being used. Even better than the way it looks is the way it shoots I put a scope on it and shoot about 30 shoots before I had to go to work. I have never had anything shoot so good first day right out of the box. I'll post some pixs and the target I used to sight in the scope. It was only about 3 inches off when I took my first shoot. I looked everywhere and can't find a letter " R " stamped on it . It was very hard to put it away and go to work! THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS RUGER AIRHAWK INFO ON BARGAIN GATE.
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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #50 on: August 19, 2009, 09:29:20 AM »
    Wow, glad to hear you made out so well on this one.  I decided to save my pennies for the R9 deal I'm waiting for--might be a long wait LOL.

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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #51 on: August 19, 2009, 09:45:57 AM »
    Glad to hear you got such a nice one :)

    That stock really looks nice !!

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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #52 on: August 19, 2009, 10:34:32 AM »
    JDnearAC You Rolled a 10 haha very nice looking rifle it doesn't even look refurbished,  As for bnations sorry to hear about that!  Mine was also like yours Banged up!  it's a luck of the draw,  But... you could refinish the stock and have some fun with that.  I am going to refinish mine sometime this fall!  I'd like to do something different with it.   As far as mechanically speaking my gun is sound though.  No scope stop..
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    Cabela's exchanged my damaged gun
    « Reply #53 on: August 20, 2009, 02:30:26 PM »
    The replacement arrived Wednesday afternoon, and it's in much, much better shape.  In fact, were it not for the 'R' stamps, I would be tempted to say that it were new.  It was double boxed with all styrofoam still intact.

    Out of the box, it like the previous one was a very rough shooter.  No detonations, thankfully, but lots of twang and twist.  So, I immediately started tearing it down.  I cleaned up the interior, which had almost no oil thankfully.  The spring has a nice patina, so I'm glad that I tore it down right away before the rust got too thick on it.  The piston has lots of rust freckles and just a very thin coat of a light oil similar to 3-in-1.  Not as pungent as the normal Chinese mystery oil.  I spent last night sizing a washer to fit inside the piston sleve per Gene's suggestion,  buttoning the piston, and lubing with good quality moly and JM tar.  The compression chamber looked good, so I skipping honing it.  I did debur all of the cutouts in the compression tube.  The transfer port actually had a burr, so I carefully filed it out (hopefully without opening it up too much).  So far, so good.

    The trigger almost defeated me, though, as holes for the pins were really rough.  I spent two hours last night trying to get the pins back in while it was in my spring compressor before giving up.  Tonight after work, I took dremel and file to them to smooth out the tool marks until they would accept the pins with just a little more than finger pressure.  I also had to carefully round one end of each pin as they were ever so slightly peened.  Oh, and the frickin', frackin' lever pins seem to fall out every time the wind blows, whcih makes things interesting in the Chinese proverb way.  But, I"m thinking happy thoughts now :-)

    Now that the kids are off to sleep, it's time to button it back together and see what kind of difference the lube tune makes.  I'm hoping for a good smooth shooter with just a thunk, as it should have plenty of power for squirrels, rabbits and birds already.  If not, then it'll be time to bed the stock and see what difference that makes.

    The stock doesn't have any nicks or bangs to it, but the finish itself looks bad.  It's almost like someone laid it on a towel before the final varnish (or oil) coat completely dried.  Hard to describe, but when you hold it to the light, there's definite patterns in the finish that shouldn't be there.  Since this will be a hunting rifle, I'm probably going to try my hand at camo.  Oh, one stock bolt was boogered up, but I cleaned it up and reblued with no problems.

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    RE: Cabela's exchanged my damaged gun
    « Reply #54 on: August 20, 2009, 02:34:00 PM »
    I forgot to mention that this new rifle has the scope stop.  Also, the picture above, DSC_2405_T.JPG, shows what I was trying to illustrate about the waviness in the stock's finish.  It's a picture from the first rifle that I got, but this second one has the same patterns in the stock.  I might try to buff it out and then just put on a poly coating for now.  Who knows, but it sure is fun to tinker :-)

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    RE: Cabela's exchanged my damaged gun
    « Reply #55 on: August 20, 2009, 02:36:12 PM »
    Glad to hear they replaced your rifle with a nice one.   That's great....  

    I'm looking forward to your first reports on how the rifle shoots after your work on it.   As for hunting...... I'm sure it'll make a great hunter.  I have a new Ruger Blackhawk (same rifle different stock) and I took it out for it's first hunt this afternoon.   Nailed 2 woodchucks with 2 head shots at 20 and 25 yards.  Both G-hogs went down hard and stayed where they were shot, I'm really impressed with the accuracy and power of my Blackhawk...  No doubt yours will be just as effective as a hunter  :)

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    RE: Cabela's exchanged my damaged gun
    « Reply #56 on: August 20, 2009, 05:15:39 PM »
    Well, I got it all back together and put about 30 pellets through it.  Mixed emotions.  The twang is mostly gone, and it doesn't twist at it previously did, and cocking is more quiet, but those are the only positives.  It's still pretty loud, and it wacks the shoulder pretty good.  I messed something up in the trigger b/c it's now breaking much harder.  It's possible that I installed the sear backwards.  It fell out at one point, and I didn't see which way it went in.  On face was flat,and the other had a chamfer to it, so tomorrow I'll disassemble and swap the sear around to see if that tames the trigger.  

    It's possible that I just don't know what to expect, as my only other springers are a B3 and an R7.  Compared to the AirHawk, they don't even move when shooting.  And the B3's trigger is better.

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    RE: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #57 on: August 20, 2009, 06:23:53 PM »
    The one bad thing I can say about my airhawk is the trigger is really heavy. I tried to clean and polish the parts I could get to without removing the spring but it didn't make much difference. Am I right to say that the adjustment screw only changes the amount of creep. And that my best bet to make it pull easier would be to polish the area were the sear and piston connect when the gun is cocked
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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #58 on: August 21, 2009, 02:33:40 PM »
    HELP!!!  So as most of you know, I picked up this little Ruger.  I decided to see what it looked like inside and as soon as I removed the two pins holding the (what I'm going to call) upper trigger assembly, it exploded on me and sent pieces all over the garage.  I found a schematic on line for the RWS 34, but this doesn't look like the pieces I'm looking at in a pile on the work bench.  Does anyone have a schematic for this or pictures that you would be willing to post so I can try and re-build this?  As you can probably also tell, this is the first time that I have taken apart a "spring" air rifle.  

    Thanks in advance!!!!

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    Re: Ruger Airhawk $69
    « Reply #59 on: August 21, 2009, 03:30:06 PM »
    Scroll to the bottom it is a picture of the T-05 trigger. Next time use a spring compressor or bar/pipe clamp and you will have no problem.
    http://home.comcast.net/~scot_for_sale/guns/RWS48_tune/index.html