Badgerdaddy 24 Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Simon No worries regarding the contact for Carl. I have now found the Airtech web page and sent an enquiry to him. Cheers my friend and hope the Datstate is working out for you. 1 Quote Link to post
pianoman 3,587 Posted September 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Simon No worries regarding the contact for Carl. I have now found the Airtech web page and sent an enquiry to him. Cheers my friend and hope the Datstate is working out for you. Ahhh Good on you Badgerdaddy. I'm sorry for not responding sooner to your query, I'm really busy at work right now. But, you'll not regret your custom with Carl when you get your Regal back from him. He really is a thoroughly decent chap who really knows his stuff about PCPs and how they tick! All the best for your shooting with your new, vastly improved rifle. Simon 1 Quote Link to post
Badgerdaddy 24 Posted September 9, 2016 Report Share Posted September 9, 2016 Looking forward to it. Thanks again Simon Quote Link to post
andykllhr 91 Posted January 6, 2017 Report Share Posted January 6, 2017 FINALLY.... Carl has my .177 Regal ready.... and on Thursday I took the three-hour drive to Telford in the pouring rain to his place to pick it up. A nice cuppa and a long chat about what he's made, fitted, tuned and generally done to it and a proper test session on his benches has produced a stunning transformation with this rifle. And I mean the word STUNNING! I cannot possibly regard this as a Daystate rifle anymore. Without getting into technical stuff I know sod all about anyway, he's taken the Harper valve out and binned it. And replaced it with an engine worthy of the rifles' beautiful looks. Fully regulated now, it's amazing for a fellow like me to see what a remarkable job Carl makes of his gunsmithing. He is absolutely obsessive about perfection in everything he touches and makes. He showed me a complete Regal regulator he makes and how he mates it to the rest of the gun's innards. It's a little work of art these regulators. Made from aircraft aluminium, he filled mine to the limit of the cylinder , up to 210-bar and shot a ten shot string through his Chrono that didn't deviate a ripple. Then emptied it down to half the pressure and still, it shot without a murmer of deviation. In simple terms to me, I got what I wanted in the first place with a rifle of this quality and price-value. Absolute single pellet accuracy with 11.65 ft/lbs of humane killing punch behind every shot. He found, as with every Regal he's come across, that the barrel shroud is a poor fit and causing pellets to lightly clip the muzzle of the silencers I use. He cropped about an inch and half off the barrel and turned the barrel itself for any UNF threaded silencer. Recrowned and finished with a proper end-cap, he tested my A&M Marksman silencer and told me a lot about "Swept volumes and air stripping" but, the main thing was, that silencer is fine for this set up! He even went on to fix the three magazines I have for it. A tiny pin in each had failed or fallen out and rendered them useless (More Daystate standard Production Quality!). He fitted a tiny bit of very fine solder wire, heated and fixed into place and sealed; and that was all that was needed to get them rotating and indexing pellets properly again. He recommended Air Arms Diabolo Express 4.52mm from his tests and a tin has been ordered from an Ebay shop I use for ammo. Meanwhile I have about 5 thousand rounds of AA Fields in 4.51mm i know it likes and loded up with these for a test session when I got the rifle home. A sweet single hole group at 35 metres on my garden range on the following fine Friday afternoon. Well, I had to have a trip out to the rabbits on one of my perms and away I went. Dropped a rabbit, first shot, standing at 50-odd yards as I entered the field. It ran to the hedgeline as I walked through the gate and stopped to have a last look and listen. Fatal! It went over quick and didn't twitch. I found it with blood in its ears and a bloody splat behind its right eye. I was almost dancing! This is more like it! I went on to bag 8 more and a couple of woodpigeon at some pretty decent ranges over the course of the evening. I came away afterwards to a celebratory beer in the local pub and a happy smile on my face! NOW...I know he's not exactly good at communicating with his customers and can drive you fecking mad with wondering when he's gonna be finished with your pride and joy. But, you need to be prepared to fire a few emails off before you get a reply. He's a bloody obsessive who just loves, eats and breathes his work. And such people are not naturally good at PR and Customer Relations and communications for themselves. I'm quite that way myself with my paintings, but I have the good lady Helen to answer most business queries and, I quite like customer contact anyway. He's not quite that good at promoting himself and I think, he sees customer queries as a necessary evil! But I'll give the laddie his due. If you can put up with his lack of communication without going mad ( I know . Not easy!) He WILL contact you when it's ready or likely to be in the end. And you WILL get an incredible job for your rifle out of him! All the best and thanks for reading. Simon/Pianoman I told you lol, glad you like it Simon, I really can't rave about mine enough. I've just got my hands on a stunning little Burris 2-7X35 for my Regal, and what a combo, small scopes really suit the regal to a tee. Mine loves Daystate Sovereign, absolute tack driver. Sorry to drag up this old thread, don't get as much time on the forums as I used to 2 Quote Link to post
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