Coenen
07-12-2015, 03:14 PM
Some time ago I picked up a used mag here on AO as a project. I've always wanted one, and the price was right, so I sprang.
Its got an an E-mag Valve, on a Minimag Body, with an Intelliframe, and a Level 7 bolt kit. I've got a Level 10 waiting in the wings, but thought it'd be smarter to get it working as is first, and save that install for later. I'm running it all off of an old school, "Red" Crossfire preset HPA system. I got it aired up, and breathing pretty quickly. There were some leaks, but I dumped a bunch of oil into the reg, and they went away, no problem.
This brings me to my first real hurdle with this gun, I took it to the field yesterday, hand fed a few balls into the powerfeed, and shot over the chrono; 311, 330, 332, OUCH! Got my wrenches out, and turned the reg down until we got her doing between 285 and 290. The only problem is that now, the marker won't fully cycle. At the higher pressure there was a very crisp pull, and RT push-back, I could even get the gun to "run-away" a little bit. I was pretty sure from reading that that would go away as we dropped the pressure down to chrono, however, I was not expecting completely lose the ability to cycle.
I'm fairly handy with the various guns I've owned, but this is my first 'Mag, and I'm not quite sure what to look for. I suspect that there's something going wrong with the interplay between the trigger, trigger pin, sear, and on/off, but to be honest, I'm not sure quite what to do with which components to get this thing rolling. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Its got an an E-mag Valve, on a Minimag Body, with an Intelliframe, and a Level 7 bolt kit. I've got a Level 10 waiting in the wings, but thought it'd be smarter to get it working as is first, and save that install for later. I'm running it all off of an old school, "Red" Crossfire preset HPA system. I got it aired up, and breathing pretty quickly. There were some leaks, but I dumped a bunch of oil into the reg, and they went away, no problem.
This brings me to my first real hurdle with this gun, I took it to the field yesterday, hand fed a few balls into the powerfeed, and shot over the chrono; 311, 330, 332, OUCH! Got my wrenches out, and turned the reg down until we got her doing between 285 and 290. The only problem is that now, the marker won't fully cycle. At the higher pressure there was a very crisp pull, and RT push-back, I could even get the gun to "run-away" a little bit. I was pretty sure from reading that that would go away as we dropped the pressure down to chrono, however, I was not expecting completely lose the ability to cycle.
I'm fairly handy with the various guns I've owned, but this is my first 'Mag, and I'm not quite sure what to look for. I suspect that there's something going wrong with the interplay between the trigger, trigger pin, sear, and on/off, but to be honest, I'm not sure quite what to do with which components to get this thing rolling. Any help would be greatly appreciated!