Grendel's Pyre #PY 008 from Palmers

[Chappy]

cool will have to take a look at it

[gfgjester]

Completely SWEET! Very nice investment...

[drewcif]

wierd. Im interested in a report. Comprable to the Sterling?

I'm really pleased by all of the new Pump action going on

DREW

[spyderman]

I am not even a pump fanatic and I still think that is one VERY nice piece of equipment.MAYBE I will see it in action at blanding,got to see how the cash flow is

[Big Bear]

Can't wait to see it in action.

[Grendel]

Okay so today was the first day actually testing the Pyre. After eating some BBQ with Thumper we went back to his house to do some inital testing.

1/31/08 1:35 PM Temp - 55*F

• Paint: Stinger ~.684 [eggs and dimples if it'll shoot this it'll eat up good stuff]
• 20 oz CO2 screwed straight into the ASA
• No adjustments have been made at this point.

Chrono Results

1. 292 fps
2. 292 fps
3. 287 fps
4. 287 fps
5. 292 fps
6. 289 fps
7. 283 fps
8. 290 fps
9. 280 fps
10. 280 fps

Average =287.2 fps [Note this is straight out of the box no adjustments anything]

We then proceeded to just shoot the gun doing some auto triggering until about 100 rds were fired. The gun started to settle in at the 285-290 mark so I went ahead and banged out another 50 rds and the gun was still staying in the 285-290 range.

We then broke out some Snipers we are familiar with to refresh ourselves on how they feel. Now these Snipers are "Old Friends" well used and we are used to them, definitely "broken in".

Thumper remarked that the Pyre had a smoother pump stroke then our "Old Friends". We did compare the Auto-Triggers between Thumpers Evolution Sniper with homemade AT and his CCM Series 5 with AT and the Pyres AT. The Series 5 AT felt the easiest to AT, then the Evolution and in a close 3rd the Pyre. This is not to say the Pyre was bad because it ATed easily it just had a different feel then what we were used to and it also has not had a chance to break in.

Given the crappy paint we were using the accuracy was pretty impressive for the Pyre and the Wedgits did a wonderful job of holding the position of the paint. The barrel is a 10" non-vented barrel and I am used to shooting a Sniper with a vented barrel so the sound the Pyre was making when fired was definitely louder than I'm used to but not bad. I will be ordering 2 - 12" vented barrels soon .

The trigger is fairly light and smooth which I'm sure will become quite buttery in the near future after a couple cases are shot through it.

After shooting the Pyre some more maybe another 50 rds I decided it was time to adjust it. Now I could have utilized the hammer spring adjustment but since I wanted to decrease velocity some more I thought I go ahead and use the built in reg. I backed off the Reg 1/4 turn which netted me a decrease from 287 fps ave to 265 fps ave. So I increased the reg ~1/8 turn and imediately velocity went to 277 fps ave. The gun also settled down some as I shot the gun I was varying from 275-278fps much tighter then before adjustment. Since this is right where I like to shoot I am not going to mess with it until I can get some break in time.

Overall I've very satisfied with the Pyre's performance and really look forward to getting the air system setup asnd plumbed so I can get out there and doing some playing with it

[claydirt]

Good deal Grendel, Good report. I can't wait for Blanding to see how the real life smoke test goes!!!!

[thumper]

Good pork chops make all pumps shoot well, but the Pyre is a nice marker out of the box. Very very smooth action - very tight tollerances - no slop anywhere - obviously expert design features.

On the critical side : it seemed the pump was a bit longer than Im used to - and the 10" unported barrel sounds a bit loud (duh).

I'de like to try it again w/ a decent back bottle rig and 12" double spiral ported barrel . more pork chops please

My gut reaction after shooting the S5, Evo and Pyre side by side left a few impressions:

If I were a speedball pump tourney junkie, Im afraid I would have to say the SS25, S5 and S6 still put everything else on the planet to shame when it comes to hammering paint.

For the pump rec baller who occassionally likes to AT on that rare occassion - I have to give the nod to my evolution sniper -- most of this is I'm sure due to familiarity.

For the connoisseur in me, I can sence a level of excellence in the Pyre.

[thumper]

Allright G -- we have been waiting patiently for your review... Blanding certainly had to provide a suitable test bed.....
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Now post up, or Im going to flog you with pork chops and corn bread!

[Grendel]

Patience my little one. I have pictures to take, impressions to collect from those who handled it other than myself. SOON Soon.