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| Value for Money | 8.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 8/10 |
| Overall Rating | 8.3/10  |
By LunkerHead
on 30th Dec 2004
| Value for money | 9/10 |
|---|---|
| Overall value | 9/10 |
 LunkerHead's recommendation | |
Reasonably accurate
Looks exceptionally nice
No Co2 leakage
Plenty of power
Ammo clip
Daisy Powerline 617x - This is my first co2 pistol. The only complaint I have with this gun is the ammo clip. The advertisement says that it accomodates both bb's and pellets. It doesn't. The fit is too tight. As a matter of fact, it was so tight the co2 burst could not blow the pellet out of the clip and the co2 blew back and caused the barrel to pop up at the hinge where the ammo clip is inserted every time.
BB's are slightly smaller than pellets. This protects rifled barrels from getting screwed up. Consequently, the holes in the magnatized ammo clip holds the bb's well, but the holes are too small for a pellet. What I did at first was ream the pellets through 3 or 4 times to take off some lead to loosen it up. For a permanent fix, I reamed each hole out of both ammo clips with a drill just enought so that the pellet would stay in the clip but loose enough to be shot out of the clip. The only problem with doing that was that the hole was much to big for the bb's after that and it changed the alignment of the bb's. I am too worried now to use those clips for bb's because I worry about the bb hitting the inner lip of the barrel as it passes into the barrel because the bb is sitting in a different position.
Solution. I'll use the reamed clips for the pellets and get new unreamed clips for bb's. Not that big of a deal. Just had to figure it out. I don't know what the manufacturing solution would be. Put two diffent color coded clips in with each 617x pistol? One for pellets and one for bb's, instead of advertising the claim that the ammo clip accomodates both.
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