Theoben Rapid Airguns : Filling the buddy bottle from a 300 BAR Diving Cylinder

If you have never done this it can seem quite scary! Talk through of how I go about refilling my buddy bottles from a diving cylinder.
Safety first on these matters as high pressure air can be dangerous!
If this is deemed any good, I might try some more. Please feel free to give any feedback , good or bad and any hints to make it more interesting.

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Sports

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• Airgun
• Air
• Gun
• Rifle

[Darrenholmes]

Hi, can you leave the buddy bottle connected when storing the rifle for a while? or is it best to loosen the buddy bottle fire a couple of shots and take the pressure out of the system when not in use, I read a article from Pryamid Air that that leave it pressurised for years.

[garryg163]

@Darrenholmes You should be able to leave the gun for some weeks if everything is secure (O rings etc) Like anything else its better if nothing is compressed etc. I fire off the action and leave the bolt in the centre position so nothing is strained. If it does leak air, and it will eventually ther are many forums that explain where to check. (Usually valve orings dried out in my limited experience) Hope this helps.

[Darrenholmes]

Hi, is there a running in period when new? I have one of these and it feels great to use, but at the moment my groupings are about 5 inches at 35 yards, will it get better?

[garryg163]

@Darrenholmes Seems a bit of a wide spread. Some barrels are what is known as "Pellet Fussy". Try using top quality pellets such as Air Arms, JSB, Accupel. Some pointed / flat / cheap pellets will open up groupings considerably. My .20 and .177 both shoot 20-25mm groups (Rested / supported) when I am zeroing in. The .20 loves HNN FTT and the .177 loves Accupel and JSBs. Hope that helps.

[garryg163]

Thanks Tony. I love it to bits!

Nice to have met you.

[garryg163]

I charge my 400cc bottle to 220 Bar and get about 250 shots from the .20 cal.

[tempasfugit]

Garry ,great video, can you show me how to change the valve in the buddy bottle.

frankie ( fmck@ymail.com)

[numbstranger]

Great vid! Well put together and very informative, thanks!

[SamboHW100]

Fantastic vid mate, gettin a mk2 soon and this is what i needed to see!

[pats1972]

hope you like your new deluxe stock mate, tony