Think I finally got a shooter

Although I never owned a s410 before, I could still tell something wasn’t quite right with it. It took way to long to peak, with as many as 15 shots before it found the top of the curve.

I dealt with this for a while, and finally decided to call PAG Steve about it. He said it wasn’t right, so I packed up the action, and sent it to him. A couple of days later he told me he took the valve, put it in his lathe to relieve the area where the valve stem goes in. He said this area was ‘squared off’ which he’s never seen before, so he gave it more of a taper, or cone shape where the stem goes into the valve body.

The next time I called him, he was in the middle of testing the MV on the crony. He wears a headset type phone, so he can talk and work at the same time. He said the gun was running strong as hell, and right out of the gate. I could hear him shoot the gun as he talked to me, I would hear a pop, and he’d say “1000”…. pop…. “1003”…. pop… “1002”

This gun is now breaking 1000fps with 16 gr JSB’s. Of course, the down side is that it’s now a bit of a air hog, I only get about 25 decent shots per fill on full power, when before I could 40, but with a crazy spread. But I can always turn it down.

So I got the action back today, scoped it up and set up some quick targets to check out the accuracy part. (the important part) here’s a quick pic. The first shot is the one way out to the left, clicked way to the right, which put me just to the right of center, and came left a bit for the bulls. Then I shot the 3 red dots at the bottom, 5 shots each at 20 yards with 18gr JSB’s. I’m loving this gun now.

Steve is a good dude, he was a great help in getting it more where it should be.

😛 😛