HAve never tried the FAS. Do have the older version of the V10 (the Gamo Compac) with is nearly identical (V10 has a better trigger adjustment system) and have played with Avanti/Daisy 777's , 747's, old Webley Nemisis, and P-17's.
All are really low speed SSP's, kid of designed for lite weight pellets at about 400fps (earning about 2 1/2 foot pounds). If you try a really heavy pellet or a really tight fitting pellet,it can actually gag on them.
If (in the v10 or FAS) the pellet isn't flush(or loose enough to back up a little in the act of closing the breech), can catch the skirt when closing the barrel, which cruches the skirt and ruins the seal of the pellet to the barrel....which can stick the pellet.
With so little air for a shot,if the breech seal doesn't seal well (it's an o-ring), can waste the air. With the SSP's that have a housing over the breech, may be hard to detect that leaking air.
Been pretty long lived systems for me, but sooner or later the compression cycle can leak a bit. Laod it,let it sit unshot for 15 min. of so, and see if it shoots (best if you knew how fast5 it was shooting, but your imprsssion would be good enough). If the pellet always clears the barrel when you load and shoot right away, but sounds week or sticks the pellet in the barrel when you load it and wait 15min. to shoot it, then it needs resaling.
It's not that other airguns can't also have the above stuff happen to them....just that these little SSP's don't have the "extra" air to make up for a small loss in air delivered to the pellet.
Use long wooden BBQ shishkabob stick or a couple of straws that come with your Capri Sun or Yoo Hoo drinks to dislodge the pellet from the muzzle end. To avoid this you can size your pellets with a sizer or use lighter weight pellets then your will be fine. Seat the pellet at least flush before closing the over lever. I have those pistols which are lowish velocity shooters but they are fun to shoot.
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May not work...after all, I've only tried it one way....but I'll store the break open types (like the Gamo Compact/FAS/V10/p-17) with the action cracked open but uncocked. Figure letting the breech seal sit in storage uncompressed is better than letting it sit in storage compressed. MAy not help a bit, I haven't run a side-by-side comparison, but it made sense to me, and that old Compact is still working with the original seal.
no on either been using RWS R-10's or RWS Meisterkugeln both in 7.0 gr.
well the FAS 6004 seals on the end of the barrel with an o-ring check an see if it missing and the Compact seal on the valve face again check for missing o-ring
and the BBQ wood skewer is a very handy tool, it makes a cheap clean push through
All I needed to do is seat the pellets in the barrel. I made a pellet seater from a toothbrush with the rubber pick on the end.
Now it shoots all pellets with no problem. However the MFG failed to countersink the barrels in these guns which would have
eliminated the problem altogether. Kinda cheep if ya ask me.
Very interesting. Sounds like it might also help to try pellets that are lighter, run a little smaller dimensionally, and have thinner skirts made of softer lead. In other words, give that tiny power plant a little less work to do in getting things started, LOL.
Some of the lighter JSB models might be a good bet.
I just now tried shooting 7.4gr Crosman Premier pointed Walmart pellets through them and no problem whatsoever and had very good accuracy too out to 40 yards. No seating tools required.
NOTE these are NOT the 7.9gr Crosman Premier Super Points that don't shoot worth a squat due to them being way too oversized!!! They only shoot good in guns with oversized breech and bores and would most definitely get stuck in your guns.
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