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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:40 am |
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packrat |
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Anyone here own or have even used the FX brand Stage 3 or Stage 4 Super pump?? At $269 and $289, respectively, I'd sure like to hear from somebody that has first-hand, hands on experience with one before I peel off that kinda $$$ for a hand pump... If no experience available, then what's your experience with other brand names of hand pumps??? PLEASE I already have researched the Benjamin pump (and associated fialures) so we need not discuss it ...thanks for any hands-on insight as to which pump is the one YOU would buy |
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:02 am |
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Alstone |
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Going by your Sig I would get a scuba tank, unless you want an early death.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:39 pm |
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packrat |
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So then, not only will "pumping" make ya go blind, it can also cause death perhaps I'd better leave it alone? ("it" being the hand pump) and follow Lloyd Bridges's lead on "Sea Hunt" ??..
C'mon now, I know there are a good many of you guys using a hand pump, what say ye? Help keep me from making a costly mistake..need no help in THAT area<GULP> |
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:49 pm |
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I'll let you know. Plan to go pcp after the .25 Mrod comes out. I need MOAR!!!! |
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:33 pm |
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rsterne |
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I find pumping is good cardio exercise.... I pump about 50 times (more when the pressure is lower), take a short break (~2-3 min) to let the pump cool down and my heart rate subside and then do another 50 (sometimes less when the pressure is getting near 3000).... I'm a big guy, however.... so I don't have a problem getting to 3000 psi.... even though I'm 61 yo.... In the winter it's about the only good exercise I get.... I actually convinced the Mrs. to let me get my Disco for the workout....
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:42 am |
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packrat |
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Well I too am 61 YO,,but at 5'8" and about 130 pounds well........... I was hoping someone here has personal experience with one, and that the reason the FX pumps are SO EXPENSIVE is because they work so effortlessly that a skinny guy like me would be able to use one without having a coronary |
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:54 am |
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When I bought my discovery, it came with the footpump. Now I do realize that I do smoke, and I do have a spare (truck) tire around the middle (6' 325lbs). But hot dang! I can't get the pressure above 1400psi. I too figured this would be good excersize. I was quickly proven wrong spent the rest of the evening with a heating pad on lower back and forcing a couple tylenol #3's down. (I hate taking pills).
Ah well, I'm hoping to get a scuba tank and parts soon. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:09 am |
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No point pumping up a rifle over 12 Fpe's what I say. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:58 am |
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rsterne |
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Get the FX Stage 4 pump... It "shifts gears" automatically when the pressure gets high.... good quality from everything I have heard.... The FT guys in Ontario use them....
Jax.... I'm built about the same.... guess I just "work through the burn".... mind you I've never smoked....
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Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:14 am |
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packrat |
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I'm surprised that with so many guys here with PCP, HPA guns , that not a single one owns (or HAS owned) an FX pump. Guess I'll be the first...even with the price tag @ $289.00 As long as my 61 year old skinny _ _ _ can keep a 13 cu.in. bottle pumped up, then I guess it'll be worth it???..Living so close to Atlantic ocean (55 miles) means an abundance of dive shops, the problem is that they are 30 miles away, seeing as I chose to live in "the sticks". Bob, the "shifting gears" thing makes it even more attractive!! Hoping more info will turn up here... |
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:50 am |
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Midichlorian |
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I have a Axsor PCP hand pump .
Before I got it I had the Benjamin hand pump.(and that crap pump broke in 26 days)
The Axsor is so much better then the Benji.
It pumps smoother,and takes less effort to get to 2600psi. |
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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:39 pm |
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packrat |
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Thanks for that reply, seems like I read somewhere that the Swedish fellow that designed the Axsor also "had his hand" in the FX pumps as well ,hmmmmmm....... |
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:27 pm |
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packrat |
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Midichlorian--what outfit did you buy your Axsor from? Think I may want to phone them. |
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:22 pm |
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rsterne |
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5'8" and about 130 pounds
Get the FX Stage 4 pump... |
I've heard very good things about it.... all the FT guys rave about FX pumps....
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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:57 pm |
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Midichlorian |
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packrat wrote: |
Midichlorian--what outfit did you buy your Axsor from? Think I may want to phone them. |
I got it from PA,but if you want to save a few bucks you can buy it through Hurricane INC
You can contact him on AirGunspace
Here is his profile.
http://airgunspace.ning.com/profile/JOHNTHOMASWHEELER
Tell him Joe sent ya! |
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