BSA Ultra Multi-shot advice.

[Ian.S]

Just bought a BSA Ultra Multi shot in .177 (my 1st PCP) to use on my permission and the reviews seem to vary so I was wandering if any owners on here could give me a idea of what fill pressure gives the best shot count since BSA say 232 and others have suggested 180-200 and some say it has a 40 shot count before refill and other say only 20?

Edited May 24, 2013 by Ian.S

[oscarsdad]

200 and about 30shots

[Dekers]

Mine was .22 and I have no idea, it could never keep the air in, went back to BSA TWICE to be fixed.

 

To be fair it worked when it came back the second time, but I got rid before it happened again!

 

Despite this I'd still say they are ok, but the loading malarkey seemed unduly complicated.

[secretagentmole]

I used to fill mine to 200 bar, but mine was a .22. used to get about 40 shots, it was accurate but I hated the loading system so much I sold it back to the shop we bought it from after 2 weeks and bought a Mark 1 Super 10, which was much better!

[secretagentmole]

See if you can get an old 42inch flat screen TV box, draw a series of parallel lines across it, shoot at the lines from a 232 bar fill after you have zeroed it.

 

Do this from your zeroed distance, watch the POI. It should be lower than the line as it loses pressure per shot, when it hits the line you are in the sweet spot, top up at this point, very slowly, see when the gun starts filling (the needle will ping), make a note of this pressure, this is the pressure you want to fill to.

 

Fire the same number of shots to get into the sweet spot, then keep firing until the poi drops again, then refill, note the lower pressure, count the shots! Then you know how many shots you get per fill!

[grantellissheffield]

send it to xtx air for a regulator fitted and a service then you should get 50-65 shots from a 250bar fill will cost you £150 but worth every penny

[Dekers]

send it to xtx air for a regulator fitted and a service then you should get 50-65 shots from a 250bar fill will cost you £150 but worth every penny

 

Sort of occurs to me if he had another £150 to spend he would have bought a better PCP to start with and got more shots than that anyway!

[weihrauch hw100]

best advice get rid of it. my mate had one he sent it back to bsa 4 times and then sold it got a bsa r10 and that was even worse. bsa cant make decent pcp guns if you ask me but thats just my opinion

[fabarm gamma boy]

See if you can get an old 42inch flat screen TV box, draw a series of parallel lines across it, shoot at the lines from a 232 bar fill after you have zeroed it.

 

Do this from your zeroed distance, watch the POI. It should be lower than the line as it loses pressure per shot, when it hits the line you are in the sweet spot, top up at this point, very slowly, see when the gun starts filling (the needle will ping), make a note of this pressure, this is the pressure you want to fill to.

 

Fire the same number of shots to get into the sweet spot, then keep firing until the poi drops again, then refill, note the lower pressure, count the shots! Then you know how many shots you get per fill!

very good advice

[Ian.S]

^{Thanks for the advice folks}

Edited May 28, 2013 by Ian.S