bar of the bottle.

[jazz_11 5]

hiya i am buying my new air arms s400 in the next few days because i have sold my rifle i have been offerd a 235 bar bottle i think it is... is it worth me getting it or not should i just get a 300 as people have said i will struggle to fill a air arms properly..

what you think

cheers

jazz

[jazz_11 5]

how do i know when the gun is getting low on gas?

and the guy said he gets about 120 shots per a full fill, is that right because it sounds aboit high to me?

[Biffo1262 0]

The pressure of the bottle may well be OK as most of us only fill our S4**'s to 175/180bar. The number of fills you will get depends on the water capacity of the bottle i.e. 12 litre, 7 litre, 3 litre. The larger the water capacity the more fills you will get. As for getting 120 shots per fill he may well be if he overfills the gun to 200 bar and shoots till it vents at 50 bar. Not a lot of point in that though is there, as only about of those shots (.22) will be on the money. You can overfill a 232 bar bottle to 250 bar perfectly safely if the dealer will do it but most bottles get rather hot and the compressor cuts out before it reaches that. We used 200 bar bottles in the fire brigade (my younger days) but it was very difficult to get a full 200bar in them due to the heat generated. They usually dropped to 190 when they cooled down. It could have been easily solved by standing them in a cold water container which we used to do many years before but it was dropped for some reason.

Edited September 6, 2008 by Biffo1262