VSR-10 Wont shoot in the cold

[Baroc]

Hey guys, hope you can help me out with this problem.

A buddy and I both ordered the exact same VSR-10 TM clone (Bolt action). Everything worked fine and has worked fine on the gun when test firing on warmish days and indoors.

Today, we go to an outdoors game where it was aprox. -4 degrees and NEITHER of our two rifles (which had worked that very morning indoors) expel the BB. The BB's get loaded into the barrel and the piston/cylinder appears to be working (it makes a firing noise, but I can't see it obviously). When fired however, the BB's either simply roll out the barrel and drop on the floor ahead or don't come out at all and need to be "shaken" out.

My buddy thinks the cold weather might be affecting the cylinder o-rings, but I really have no idea what it could be.

Any ideas on making my gun a 4-season rifle ?

[ThunderCactus]

Try turning the hop down, cold weather makes the rubber extra stiff and typically causes jamming if you don't re-adjust it

[CDN_Stalker]

Cold air is also denser, so you should be able to get away with less hop up as well...

[m102404]

While you can set things up nicely so that you've got a good airseal to begin with (perhaps more important with bolt guns than AEGs)...it's not uncommon for AEGs to shoot very much under what they normally do if they're cold.

At a number of late season games we have people rip off a burst of full auto (blanks) before they chrony. The difference on the chrony is enough to go from, "crap my gun is broken" to "that's where it should be".

But if you've driven a couple of shots through your bolt gun and it's still barely kicking the BB's out...then they're likely jammed up at the hopup rubber.