Compressed air cylinder

Compressed air cartridge, cartridge

Compressed air cartridge, cartridges for sport air rifles/air pistols suitable for Feinwerkbau, Walther, Anschütz, Steyr, Hämmerli, Röhm, Morini...

The compressed air cartridge in modern sport air guns replaced the former spring-loaded air rifles/air pistols. This eliminates the need for muscle power to cock the air gun.

The air in the aluminum or steel cartridge has a pressure of 200 bar. However, the pressure decreases from shot to shot, which would result in the shots gradually hitting the target more slowly and thus deeper.

To remedy this, a so-called pressure reducer was installed, which constantly reduces the pressure to approximately 80 bar, ensuring a constant firing speed and thus precision.

With a filled cartridge, approximately 400 shots (for an air rifle) and approximately 200 shots (for an air pistol) can be fired before the pressure drops below the minimum working pressure of approximately 80 bar.

It is therefore important to ensure that the compressed air cartridge is filled before a competition to ensure consistently high precision throughout the entire competition.

In the past, the cartridges were often made of steel and could be re-inspected after 10 years.

However, since the price of a new inspection is quite high and the effort involved in finding someone who can perform this procedure should not be underestimated, the trend is very much toward aluminum cartridges, which can be used for 10 years and then must be replaced – an inspection is not possible in this case.