How to Time Autocockers

If you're a paintball enthusiast, then you know that the autococker is an important tool that affects your ability to fire rapidly at your enemies. Timing your autococker to meet your specifications requires checking the hammer lug, changing the three-way joint's timing for recocking and the pressure needed to complete the recocking. Adjusting all three of these processes will help you get the timing you want.

Instructions

  1. Hammer Lug Adjustment

    • 1

      Check that all of the gas is out of your gun before you uncock the gun. Otherwise, you won't be able to get to the hammer lug. Remove the bolt if necessary.

    • 2

      Slide a 1/8-in. Allen wrench into the hole you will find on the top of the frame, just behind where you feed in the paintballs. When you feel the wrench enter the lug, turn clockwise to drop the hammer later in the pulling process, or counterlockwise to drop the hammer earlier.

    • 3

      Pull our the wrench and give the gun a test. You want the hammer to drop in the first quarter or third of the trigger pull.

    Recocking Point Adjustment

    • 4

      Skip to the next section if your gun does not have a mechanical cocker. If it does, take out the cocking rod. Remove the screw that holds on the timing collar. Recocking should come after the hammer drops.

    • 5

      Go to Step 3 if you have a slider frame. If yours is a hinge frame, slide the timing collar up to show more threads if you want the recocking to happen earlier, or pull it back to make it happen later. Most guns have a guard to keep you from making the recocking happen before the hammer drops.

    • 6

      Move the timing collar back to show fewer threads if you want recocking to happen earlier on a slider frame. This directional difference is the only variation in this process between the two frames.

    Recocking Pressure Adjustment

    • 7

      Read this section if your cocker is mechanical or electronic -- "Classic" mode for electronic -- and has an adjustable LPR. Put the cocking rod back in and pull back the trigger, holding it in place.

    • 8

      Find the bolt by looking into the tube where you feed paintballs. You should not be able to see anything but the edge of the top. If you can see more, you need to increase recocking pressure.

    • 9

      Turn the LPR clockwise to increase recocking pressure. If you couldn't see the bolt, turn the LPR counterclockwise to bring the pressure down. Each time you make an adjustment, cycle the gun to reset pressure.