rick-o-shay
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- Oct 28, 2017
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Been fooling around some new stuff 4 me. CO2, found the DY 5170, what a blast for a plinker, and powerful enough for varmints. If I could shoot a pistol.
With a fresh CO2 canister (12GR) 14 rounds (.177 BBs )clear through a steel can. (18ft down the hallway) Hard to believe. It's got a 21 round clip.
My hopped up Red Ryder and my Model 50 don't come close & they're not semi auto. But they don't use gas either.
And the Gamo maxim a 10 shot gas piston, cheap plastic, well built, well engineered, fun to shoot, light weight. I'd rather fiddle with the magazine... mines 22 cal... than spend all day stuffing pellets one by one. I could see the .177 pellets could be a bit fussy in the magazine at my age. The Gamo mag is a lot easier to load than those marauder type mags.
I did have trouble with the scope. tried a bug buster, had to use a two piece mount but didn't have a scope stop, it creeped. That surprised me as it's got little recoil compared to some of my break barrel guns. Ended up with the provided one piece scope mount and a Hawke 7X30. Not keen on their one piece mount...as it uses star keyed socket screws, so I have to keep that one key...which isn't allen...separate . (memo... replace star keyed allen heads-metric) But it does have a pin for a positive stop, so it's worth the price, the scope provided isn't.
Neither one are tack drivers, both are great plinkers, at 18 ft and 10 yards.
Xmas came early.... till next year....
With a fresh CO2 canister (12GR) 14 rounds (.177 BBs )clear through a steel can. (18ft down the hallway) Hard to believe. It's got a 21 round clip.
My hopped up Red Ryder and my Model 50 don't come close & they're not semi auto. But they don't use gas either.
And the Gamo maxim a 10 shot gas piston, cheap plastic, well built, well engineered, fun to shoot, light weight. I'd rather fiddle with the magazine... mines 22 cal... than spend all day stuffing pellets one by one. I could see the .177 pellets could be a bit fussy in the magazine at my age. The Gamo mag is a lot easier to load than those marauder type mags.
I did have trouble with the scope. tried a bug buster, had to use a two piece mount but didn't have a scope stop, it creeped. That surprised me as it's got little recoil compared to some of my break barrel guns. Ended up with the provided one piece scope mount and a Hawke 7X30. Not keen on their one piece mount...as it uses star keyed socket screws, so I have to keep that one key...which isn't allen...separate . (memo... replace star keyed allen heads-metric) But it does have a pin for a positive stop, so it's worth the price, the scope provided isn't.
Neither one are tack drivers, both are great plinkers, at 18 ft and 10 yards.
Xmas came early.... till next year....