Well, Mister Know It All, The manual that came with the gun specifically says do not hold onto that thing using it to cock the rifle. No matter what you say, the weight of the thing is 8.11 lbs. As I said it's heavier than any of my regular sporting scoped rifles. I see that your rifle has a wood stock on it. The clunky composite stock on the Ruger is what makes it so heavy. How about weighing your rifle and letting me know it's weight?The heavy thing on the end is used for balance, vibration and yes you DO use it for cocking. The rifle you have is called a "Springer". My most favorite of air rifles are Springers. Extremely dedicated fan for many decades. The rifle has Ruger name on it and it is a kickoff of the Diana RWS model 34 which is a fantastic German made rifle. The Ruger is made in China. But that does not mean it is a bad Rifle. Ruger put their Specs and quality control on the gun and it should be a nice gun. Use the shroud, much easier cocking. By the way Umarx is a importer
Note: The proper way to cock the rifle is too take your hand and hit the shroud to release the barrel and then cock it.
Here is my Diana Mdl 34 tuned by MZ.
You still didn't answer my question about how I should cock the gun. By the way, I take back the "Mr. Know It All" thing. That was a bit smarmy. I will Quite my pathetic whining. I was only stating the fact that you said never mind Ruger's instructions on cocking the thing. So you seem to know more than Ruger about the gun. I'm not blaming you for anything about the gun. There was just no good reason for anyone to make the gun so heavy. The first and main reason that I don't like the gun is that it is so hard to cock going by Ruger's instructions.
Dang, I thought it was a WiFi connection with a USB charging port
.22 CO2 gun?Here is my 5G. I bought it in the mid 80's for practicing silhouette at home. Long before they made an airgun category. I set up my distances by score. When my animal count was similar to my BB and SB scores, I shot from there. Years later when they made an airgun category my distances were within a couple feet of the rules. Usually longer. Now it is relegated to verminator status.
Yesterday, to my own disappointment, but not shock, I missed a red squirrel twice with my air rifle at 45 feet. Admittedly I haven't put much time behind it, or any rifle really, so I grabbed the 5G. 65 feet, pop! red squirrel down. I am a handgunner and bowhunter, but not a rifleman.
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.177 Springer
I have the rifle version of this pistol....a lot of fun and very accurate. I may have to get this pistol to keep it company. Put a little more challenge into busting the little buggers that are putting holes all over my septic sand mound.
What is the name of the red dot? Thanks
Yes cartridges. They go in under the barrel. The rifle I have made by Diana gets about 30- 40 depending on temp.
Okay, to make that work, I took the rear sight off, bought an 11mm to picatinny rail adapter and attached a Sightron SRS-2 reflex sight on it. The Sightron looks just like a Vortex Venom or a Burris Fast Fire III, either of those would work fine, I just got a good deal on the Sightron.
Got one of those too. They also sold little darts to shoot with it. I used the darts in my Crossman pump up air pistol. The darts make a satisfying WHAP when they hit the dart board. But they also kind of destroy the target after a while.
I looked at the bandit, this gun in PCP.
