Pcp rifle storage

[Str 793]

How much air should you leave in your pcp air rifle when not it use? Cheers.

[stealthy1 3,964]

Take your bottle off to store your gun.  Air depends on whether you have a pump or divers bottle, to low and you wont get it pumped up with a pump.

[Str 793]

18 minutes ago, stealthy1 said:

Take your bottle off to store your gun.  Air depends on whether you have a pump or divers bottle, to low and you wont get it pumped up with a pump.

It’s a bsa ultra se bottle doesn’t come off, I’ve a pump but it’s not too difficult to blow up from 1/4 full, so your saying you don’t want much air left in? Cheers.

[mark williams 7,549]

I once put this question out str to a couple of forums as well as this one and the general consensus was - " whatever is left in the rifle".

 

                             atb  Mark.

[The one 8,397]

35 minutes ago, mark williams said:

I once put this question out str to a couple of forums as well as this one and the general consensus was - " whatever is left in the rifle".

 

                             atb  Mark.

Aye i mostly use mine for lamping and when you come home in the wee hours it goes into the cabinet im no worried about how much airs left in it 

[j j m 6,481]

Im never bothered how much air is left in my rifles as long as there is some in ,left one of my rifles for months was still fine when I used it

[PLEDGEY 493]

I never used to bother how much air was in my AA S 410. Then one day I went to use it and it was completely empty. I remembered when I had put it away it was low on air as that was why I had packed up the last time I used it. I tried filling it up, with my syrup pump, but it just wasn't having it. Had to send it to the Gun Dr to be fixed. Now I always make sure it's got enough pressure in it for, say, 10 full power shots before I put it away.

[Str 793]

Cheers lads I am going to leave it around half full so it doesn’t end up empty, is it normal for them to loose air after a month or so?.

[stecorr 75]

I've left my r10 half full now for over a month and its nto lost any air nor any other effects it seems

[Phill-W68 547]

I would of thought it does,nt matter as long as there is air left in it, I,d never leave it empty... 

[Deker 3,453]

Sometimes mine gets quick, regular, use, then things go quiet for a while, its stored with whatever is left in it.

No problems seem to have turned up so far, my oldest is about 18 years old!