SwissAir rifle

doubleh · Jul 15, 2018

I picked up one of these to play with as I liked the adjustable stock. There is just one problem. My great grand daughter's Daisy Buck, yes, the little cheap BB gun, is more accurate than this thing. I just spent several hours with it and six different brands of pellets with no joy. I had cleaned the barrel using cut off q-tips the other day getting ready and checked all the screws for tightness. I even changed scopes today to no avail.

I then got out my old scoped Gamo Shadow 1000 with the horrible trigger just to check and it wasn't me. I was getting ragged little one hole groups at 25' with it. Just to make sure I broke out the Benjamin 592 with a red dot and was doing just about as good as with the Gamo.

OK, lets look at the barrels on these things. Both the Benjamin and Gamo had nice, shiny, mirror like bores. The SwissAir not so much. I told my wife it looked like Snow White's seven dwarfs tunneled out the bore on a Monday morning after a long weekend of hard partying.

I guess I could see if the company would replace the barrel but I'm afraid it would be just like the one I already have.

I'm going to think about it awhile and see if I can come with someone I dislike enough to give this thing to

but I'll probably just set it in a corner and let it collect dust. At least it wasn't expensive.

Hermet · Jul 16, 2018

I looked at buying one until I read the reviews. The general consensus seems to be that they're junk and yours appears to be the king of the heap.

doubleh · Jul 17, 2018

I should have read the reviews. I did read some after buying the thing and found it to be so bad that accurate and it won't fit in the same sentence.. They ran from "it's very accurate" to "the spring broke after a half dozen shots and the company can't be reached". It's supposed to give 1400 fps speed which I discounted right off the bat as about all the tests of air rifles I've ever read depend on the super light weight pellets and most don't even make their claims with them. One reviewer said he could get barely 1000 fps in his tests with this rifle. I just wanted something to sit out under the patio and maybe shoot bugs out in the old garden spot. Not happening with this though. I do like the stock. It fits better than the two rifles I compared it to.

I ordered some flitz polish as I didn't have any and will use this thing to experiment with to see if it can be improved. It's worthless as it is. If not then it can start collecting dirt.

Kookla · Jul 18, 2018

I'll say this- they chose a name that makes you think you're getting Swiss quality. I remember seeing those rifles and the name and thinking I found the golden egg. Then read the reviews

Chevota · Jul 19, 2018

It's a generic B18 made in china. You can still do stuff to it to make it better but you may consider it too much work. I assume by Fitz you mean to "polish" the bore? It will likely have no effect, not aggressive enough. What I do is sand the bore with sandpaper wrapped around the end of a dowel which I spin with a drill. Usually I only need to do it to chinese crap, but also do it to Diana, like my 34 and 350 b/c they do need it. Try pushing a pellet thru by hand using a dowel or whatever, you'll feel all the tight/loose spots and see the mess it makes of the pellet. These tight spots is what I sand out, and there's usually one ~ 3" down the bore so the pellet is basically loose from there on out. Picture a firearm like a 308 or whatever that the bullet is loose enough to fall via gravity down the bore b/c it was swaged down in the first 3". Imagine the accuracy that would have....
Chinese barrels are also usually oversize as well so even when you sand the tight spots it's may be fubar due to that. Sanding is risky b/c you can easily sand too much, but I can explain in detail if you want to try it. That or a new barrel is basically the only fix. A new B18 barrel is ~20 delivered.

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