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Air Gun Home Forum Index » General Air Gun Questions and Topics » leaving gun cocked Goto page 1, 2  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  leaving gun cocked   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:23 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 I left my springer cocked for like 3 hours yesterday, will that hurt it do you think? _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:26 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6930 Location: "Out There" 3 hours- probably not. 3 weeks might be an issue... Of course if it's a really really low-quality spring, you never know.   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:27 pm The outdoorsman Veteran Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 240 Location: Canada not to badly i leave my phantom cocked while huntin but, not for 3 hours... i know a day wil forsure hurt it _________________ ' I dont think of the audiance as anything different than me, you have to seduce the audiance ya cant beat'em and ya cant kiss their a$$" Harison Ford   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:32 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 I suppose it would only cause a decrease in power, but maybe only a few fps drop in velocity. Should be negligible. Probably more of a longterm thing is what would damage the spring. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:34 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands I consider a cocked gun unsafe. It's not hard to uncock a rifle, at least most break barrel, underlever or PCP/CO2 rifle. I have no experience with sidelevers. I think i've once read that you can't uncock the FWB300S but I'm not very sure. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:39 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 Yeah, I thought about breaking the barrel and pulling the trigger, but I didn't know what to expect. Don't need anymore scars either. I didn't intend to leave it cocked, either. But it was pointed in a safe direction. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:55 pm 23ib0d0n Moderator Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 757 Brandon left his GSI kit Diana 34 coilbound for over a week and still shoots cpl at more than 875fps, down <30fps from the rebuild velocity. Still just as accurate as well   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:06 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Rogerflat wrote: Yeah, I thought about breaking the barrel and pulling the trigger, but I didn't know what to expect. Don't need anymore scars either. I didn't intend to leave it cocked, either. But it was pointed in a safe direction. If you keep the lever all the back and pull the trigger, it should be fairly easy to uncock the rifle, but I can't guarantee the safety, as I don't know what rifle you are talking about. Some sidelevers have a cogwheel meganis, which doesn't allow uncocking. The thing is, that with heavy springers you have to be more carefull, as there may be a large "preload" (I'm almost sure there is a different term for this). I have hardly to no experience with this so take extreme caution. Best is to try it with a lighter rifle first, just so you know what to expect. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:56 am Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 Well, I assume that once you pull the barrel back and then release the trigger, then all the pressure will go back into the barrel again in an instant. This shouldn't be too hard to control I wouldn't think. However, I've made the mistake of thinking my rifle wasn't already cocked, so I go to break the barrel again and I use a fair amount of force anticpating the normal amount it takes to cock it and the thing flings open real quick. You'll know what I mean if you've done that before. That's the opposite of what un-cocking it is like I bet. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:59 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands I once pulled a trigger when the gun was open, because I thought it wasn't cocked. It didn't fling in my face, but since then, I always took care of uncocking when I would. My Slavia never has problems uncocking. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:31 pm The outdoorsman Veteran Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 240 Location: Canada if you are talking about shoting it while it is cocked to uncock it, why dont you just put a pellet in it and shoot? _________________ ' I dont think of the audiance as anything different than me, you have to seduce the audiance ya cant beat'em and ya cant kiss their a$$" Harison Ford   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:54 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 Quote: if you are talking about shoting it while it is cocked to uncock it, why dont you just put a pellet in it and shoot? Because sometimes stupid people who should be at work decide to come early right as you cock the gun. And since they are not allowed to know that you shoot from inside, you cannot discharge the gun without risking them asking what the noise was. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:29 pm The outdoorsman Veteran Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 240 Location: Canada Rogerflat wrote: Because sometimes stupid people who should be at work decide to come early right as you cock the gun. And since they are not allowed to know that you shoot from inside, you cannot discharge the gun without risking them asking what the noise was. _________________ ' I dont think of the audiance as anything different than me, you have to seduce the audiance ya cant beat'em and ya cant kiss their a$$" Harison Ford   Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:31 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 Seems wierd I know, but that is the circumstance I'm in. Sometimes I wish I could just arbitrarily leave work early to go home and rain on someone elses parade, but I can't. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:12 am Mar Veteran Member Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 428 Location: Victoria, BC Your one strange fella...hate to be around you when you have a gun in your hands. You just don't seem like the type of guy who should even be near one. As we say here..." you're a disaster waiting to happen". Just my feeling after reading all your stuff here. 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