It comes with basic adjustable fibre optic sights and has an 11mm dovetail rail for mounting a scope.Īs I had removed the rear sight, I had no need for the front sight, so I removed that too, but not without fun and games! First up was removing the small grub screw – easily done, but trying to get the front sight off was a different story! I tried a couple of methods, such as heating it with a hair drier to heat up the plastic, but that didn’t work.
The stock is very plain and lacks any form of checkered grips. The rifle is quite light coming in at a weight of around 5.5lbs (2.36kgs). The plastic endcap does have a handy little thumb screw beneath a plastic cap (bet you didn’t expect it to be plastic) which allows you to release the last of the gas in the tube rather than having to dry fire until all the remaining gas has been spent and you are able to remove the empty CO2 bulbs.
Unfortunately though this will probably be a nightmare for left handed shooters, but fear not there as you can always mod it to remove this if you wish and if you do a quick Google you should be able to find information on how this is done. This is situated forward and right of the trigger and for me easily within reach for my trigger finger. There is an automatic safety which is activated when the bolt is drawn back. The trigger itself is a two stage adjustable trigger which is easily removable with the whole mechanism being self-contained. You can see this frame in the above photo along the barrel just in front of the scope. The gun has a fair bit of plastic, such as the trigger guard, safety, endcap, front sight, rear sight and a plastic band which holds the barrel and the tube together. The action was very stiff and after a bit of searching I found a helpful chap on a forum who had made a post about changes to make the action smoother by replacing the hammer spring, which I did and this made all the world of difference to the action which is now a lot smoother.
So if you do put the full bulb in first, expect the first shot to do nothing however the second attempt to fire should work (I haven’t tried this, but looking at the mechanism it should work this way). This is because the bulb that is placed in first is only pierced after the first shot has been fired. *2 – if only using one full bulb, then make sure that the empty blub is placed in first. *1 – only using one CO2 bulb will just give you less shots and not less power – this is CO2 and not air.
Unfortunately I am unable to give more specific details as my custom Chrony software crashed when saving the results! However if I recall correctly the maximum was about 10.4ft/lbs, so this was somewhat lower than I was lead to believe! The maximum number of decent powered shots I was getting per two CO2 bulbs was only about 30, but I have seen others claim they can get 60, so am not sure if this is due to a leak on mine. I shot 15 shots and got an average of about 9.75ft/lbs. Next up was to give it a test fire, so I loaded in some 12g CO2 bulbs – one used and one unused *1 *2.
However this was nothing that wasn’t quite easily solved by removing the rear sight and replacing it with a 3-9 scope as shown below. So the store was nice enough to try out a few more rifles and found that the XS501 managed to fire between 10.5ft/lbs and 11.4ft/lbs, so that was the one I went for.įresh out of the box, this single shot bolt action CO2 rifle is in my opinion quite ugly! out of the box This wouldn’t be so much of a problem if the manufacturer didn’t have this gun down as one which fired at around 10.5ft/lbs. 22, but when the shop tested this out for me it averaged less than 7.5ft/lbs. I had been planning on getting an SMK CR600W in. I recently purchased the SMK XS501 also called the Rabbit Destroyer from my local RFD.