I am surprised that no one has replied to this post yet....so here goes. The "guide tube" is in fact a piston weight and is placed inside the piston to improve the power ( and the recoil). The 45 will be more pleasant to shoot if you place the weight at the rear of the mainspring and will,to some ex...

I have come across several smooth bore Crosmans in my life ( I still own one). The rifles I have owned were not supposed to be smooth bored. I believe this is caused by loose tolerances at manufacture and therefore the rifling 'button' has not touched the walls of the bore. Sloppy q.c. at Crosman du...

Oh go on Patrick, do tell us.........what was it Baz purchased from a fishing tackle shop that fixed your toy....?????



Pete.

I prefer pistols to boxes myself...

regards,
Pete.

Hi Patrick, From memory the super rocket has a soldered in valve unit ( same as my Benjy 352 ), and was a beggar for a slow leak. The problem was a worn valve seat.....that is the brass seat that the polyurethane valve seal sits upon ...and because the valve body is soldered into the tube it was all...

Hello Brian, Yes, you could be right regarding the single handed shooting stance. I only ever shoot handguns using the two handed 'Weaver' stance, ( coming from practical pistol background), which does ,as you say, put the pistol closer to the shooter's face. Also, there may have been some wear evid...

Hello folks,
My name is Pete Pritchard and I have recently rejoined this forum. I am known to some of you from the other airgun forums as 'flatrajectory' or ' the sage 49'.
I am 66 years old and a retired R.A.C. Patrol.
I will no doubt see some of you at Melbourne in just over a weeks time.
Pete.

I regret selling mine, a lovey thing it was. I found that Eley Wasps functioned flawlessly in it too, at least until the O rings wore out ( well it was 40 odd years old ). I managed to find a good replacement set of O rings for it ,in viton, and normal service was resumed. The method of using O ring...