New Theoben Rapid .25 (R25)

Finally decided to get me a Theoben Rapid in .25. When Steve at Pamona Airguns called and told me the gun was in, i was excited as hell and i wanted to take off work to go pick her up. But instead, i told steve i would travel down that weekend to his place to pick up the gun personally. Did not want the BROWN SANTA to mess this 1 up or loose it. Plus, he is only 65 miles from me. He said “OK, COME ON DOWN, I WILL BE HERE”. I finally got to Steves place and man, his house is in the middle of JACK RABBIT HEAVEN (high desert)……HE HE. He greeted me at the door and we began to talk. He took me through to his SHOP/WORK GARAGE..etc. What a cool shop he has. No, not the store where you buy his guns and stuff (he closed that down due to all his business is now internet friendly). I saw a couple of his SHROUDS that he was installing on a few rapids and i was just in awe!!. I wanted to touch and play with everything in his shop. There were pellets and carbon fiber scuba tanks and airguns and tools everywhere. He also builds RC planes and cars and he also is rebuilding a old NISSAN 280 Z which is putting out 400 horses. OK OK, enough about the toys and back to the story at hand….HE HE. He is a really cool guy and has a lot of good knowledge about airguns. After 2 hours of talking i finally realized that i had to be home for a wedding. So after going over my gun and how to use it i paid him, sadly, i left. Steve also told me that i could have borrowed 1 of his scopes and put it on my gun and do a little JACK hunting if i wanted to. I darn near cried cause i had to refuse cause i was late getting home. But my sadness was quickly gone, once i remember…..”MY RAPID IS HERE”.

So, enough about me and STEVE getting all BUDDY/PALY. Here is what you guys wanna see 😀

The New Rapid 25 in free gun case-

The R25 with all the accessories to get me started. Gun, Carbon Fiber Scuba tank with adapters, 220 Swifts Valve parts, Bushnell Banner 6x24x40mm scope with scope covers, and 2-12 shot magazines-

Pics of Swifts parts. New parts-

New vs. old parts pics-

Swifts new bolt handle installed-

Gun all together. Notice the NEW scalloped receiver-

By the way, SWIFT or ERNIE is a guy from another forum who does great machine work for these guns. Here are more pics of his quick fill connection work. Without the QUICKFILL, you have to remove the bottle everytime you refill. IT SUCKS having to remove the bottle everytime you refill. Not as easy as on the AIRFORCE GUNS.

Brass insert fitted inside of stock forearm:

Notched stock for power adjustment on the FLY (why doesn’t Theoben do this??):

Quick Fill parts:

Parts installed into gun and gun assembled: