Mountain Air

[ribbonstone]

Will be a bit (like 6-8 weeks) but arranged for a QB 25cal. to be started (in about a month...backlog).  Normally not a power-hungry co2 kind of guy, but found that there are 11 tins of various .25 pellets on the shelf (and a 5# bag of buckshot), and no gun to shoot them in.

[leftcoast1]

Wow I feel like I'm waiting for one too. Looking forward to your opinion on that beautiful shooter. Remember the pics when she shows up.

[Gene_SC]

Hey Rib, I bought one of Roy's QB 25 cal's a couple years agon. It was a fantastic hard shooter. I cannot remember the numbers but for sure it was pushin high 600's. I was using a hpa tank. I also had one of his .22's as well. Wish you had bought them when I sold them. I never ran more than a couple tins through the .22 and not even a tin through the .25. I sold them cheap..

The first pic at top was the QB .22 and the other two pics are of the QB .25. Had not scoped them yet.

Gene

[ribbonstone]

Wish i had as well....but never a deal when you want one.

Figure I'll do a one thing to it right off the bat.  Will want the safety mod done to the others (limit rotation to 90degrees so it points straight down when "off", inlet stock, never have to take the ding-dang thing out to de-stock and can flip it on or off with your trigger finger)...maybe a stock refinish.

When the time comes, will have to ask about barrel bands...notice your's doesn't have one.  Have become a believer in them for a hunting gun; set up right it seems to maintain zero better on a hunting gun that sees a few knocks.
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Knew I had 5 partly used tins of .25's of various types...butran across two cartons I had forgotten (not too exciting, beeman only packed 3 tins per carton)..one of Kodiaks and one of RamJets.  Was also a 20ga. reloader, and found a 5# bag of buck...which happens to be .25 and MIGHT shoot well enough to good off with.

[Gene_SC]

For sure Rib, they are needed for hunting. I used mine for targets. I was a newer airgunner at that point and really did not know diddly.. They were accurate but not target shooters.. I thought I needed power when all I needed was a nice .177. I later bought a QB-79 and enjoyed shooting it a bunch. I have sold the QB-79 .177 since and now the only Co2 rifle I have is the RWS 850 .177 which is very accurate and a blast to shoot. That will be going HPA this summer.

Gene

[ribbonstone]

Still hooked on co2.  Fast enough for my needs, no accuracy complaints at all, and it is just so easy to bulk fill the paintball tanks.

Decided on two co2 10pound bulk tanks rather than one 20 pound...easier for me to transport and store, and by using two, will have one full while one is being filled.

Am with you on the RWS850...impressed the devil out of me.  Probably the most accurate sporter I've un-boxed (and that includes guns that sell for 3X and 4X as much).   Have sporters (as opposed to "match") that will fire some great groups, but if you were to ask me to go out and fire 10 or 12 great groups in a row, I'd pick up the RWS850.

[TimN]

I have one from Roy, it is a great shooter.  I am getting 20 to 21 fpe with FTS and Kodiak Match pellets.  It is very accurate, ragged one hole and clover leaf at 25 yards.

Here are some pics:













TimN

[leftcoast1]

Tim,

   That is some nice looking lumber on that 25. You sure do work some wonders on thoes blanks. I saw the stocks you had for sale very very nice

[TimN]

Thanks Jason,

I really like carving the stocks.  It is very satisfying to see the end result after all the work you put in.  I feel it makes these guns special.  I just don't care for the factory stocks.

When they have a custom stock, are all tuned up and customized, you no longer have a cheap gun, but something that is unique and shoots very well.

TimN

[kirby999]

Gene you said one heck of a statement when you said Quote.. " They were accurate but not target shooters.." I think that's why I haven't ever been pleased with the QB's . I figure I'm too picky .   To me there's accurate , and then there's target accurate . My rifles have to be target accurate for me to be happy with them . kirby

[ribbonstone]

Agree...how accurate is accurate.   This is what those crappy  cheap QB's will do for me.  Useless guns, can't do better than 2/10ths at 20-25yards ...can't do better than 3/4" at 50yards...might as well use the barrels for rose canes or pry bars.






Or could it be that some shooters :
(1) don't try a varitety of pellets (and QB's seem to like old-school soft lead/deep hollow base pellets)
(2) can't shoot.


I'll agree that there are occaionsl bad barrels (as there are in any gun), and that the roughness of the assembly needs to be smoothed out to get decent accuracy, but I've lost count of the number of expensive German made guns that can barely equally  the Qb's 5-shot groups with 3-shot groups.  

Guess I should trade them all in for nice plastic stocked/plastic barreled (at least on the outside), brick-dragging triggered, Gamo springers (even though those cost a bit more).

My 78 aint that great either.

10 shots, 35 yards, sitting

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