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[Dukemeister]

I got the CO2 bug last year, marking the end of a 52 year exclusive to springers. This rifle has been the most fun to customize and tune and thanks to the various forums and mainly to the good people on this forum for making this come about. I named it “Erica” after our founder and because I name all my guns “Eric”, after Michael Palin although you don’t need a licence for a non-PAL rifle. Details: Customized to bulk fill, and run tethered to a 20 oz CO2 bottle. Brass barrel band, oversize bolt handle, brass muzzle weight w/air stripper, Fitco 6-24 x40 AO scope modded to focus at 7 yards-infinity. Internal mods: Polished hammer, bolt, and leade; new seals throughout, custom undersized TP seal to keep it under 500 fps, 2 setscrews in barrel at breach, and a few custom dings in the stock (my bad). I’m really happy with this rifle, it’s very consistent at 480 fps (75F CO2, JSB Exact RS) and rested it will put 5 shots into a single hole at 10 yards. It likes the JSB RS, not so good on CPHP. The first picture is as it was stock from S&A, second with barrel weight, the next pictures as it sits now:

[AirGunEric]

... scope modded to focus at 7 yards-infinity...

How did you mod the/a scope?

[Dukemeister]

How did you mod the/a scope?

Eric, the AO adjustment ring `fell off`for no good reason during one of my many strip down procedures. While off I noticed I could turn the objective lens in and out pretty easily, so I just turned it out some (I believe) and gorilla glued the AO ring back on. It looked to me that the AO ring was just glued with cyanoacrylate type glue to begin with. I was not impressed, but for a $50 scope it seems to be holding up. I find that dialed all the way back it will now focus to 7 yards, 20 yard mark is good at 10 yards, 300 yd mark for 30 yards, and infinity works at 50+ yards. Good enough for me! BTW, it`s pretty much useless at mag beyond 16x; As Rsterne pointed out to me (us) a 40mm objective lens just doesn`t have enough exit pupil for higher mags. I bought this model specifically because the Fitco site listed it with focus 30ft to infinity. I can tell you out of the box it wouldn`t focus to 30 ft, best I could do with it was around 40 ft, so it was lucky for me it fell apart.