Advice Needed - Air Rifle

[Jamesey1981]

Thanks chaps.

[Wulfshead]

My son's workmate is a air gun collector who custom makes rifle furniture also.
My lad bought another two air rifles off him this very day.
His friend brought them to work where my son had his large gun bag with the padlock ready to snap on when my son traveled back on the underground then overground to Chelmsford.
I am delighted to say he made it to Liverpool St before he was stopped by two policemen, only because one was also a shooter and identified what the bag was designed to carry.
But, rather than letting my son let the copper have the key to satisfy they were permitted rifles and then be on his way NO, my son had the transport police escort him to a Met station so they could look at it there.
Anyway, our dinner was nice and hot when we ate it, his was 60 minutes colder.
Thumbs up to the police and in today's world I'm glad a bloke with a rifle bag does get stopped and checked out.
Just a rethink here, this is actually the first time he's been stopped while over the last couple of years he's carried rifles back from his friends often or taken a rifle in to be worked on.
That's actually quite worrying on second thoughts.

Wulfshead

[preparedsurrey]

No 1 son is off to camp soon with the Cubs and rifle shooting was on the list of activities, oddly he wasn't keen till he found out it was air rifles (which he's had practise with before), just had to sign the consent form stating he isn't banned from having them.
Really glad that the cubs and scouts are still doing this. Girl Guides don't so it looks like no 1 daughter will be practising with dad when the garden is clear.

[Wulfshead]

Preparedsurrey,
We started our 6 year old grandson off with target shooting with a £20 unlta-low power toy crossbow so he could learn to aim.
3 years on my son bought a .22 off his hobbyist gunsmith workmate and the guy made the grandson a custom short stock for the rifle.
The lad loves it and when he's around you can hear a regular ping as the pellets slam into an old gas knife forge I don't use often now

When the 3 of us are shooting in the garden it's almost hillbilly heaven

Wulfshead.

[Mortblanc]

Three air rifles is hillbilly heaven?

Here's you some hillbilly heaven.

Knob Creek is just down the road from the house. They hold this shoot twice each year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBf_LvqUsQ

[Wulfshead]

Three air rifles is hillbilly heaven?

Here's you some hillbilly heaven.

Knob Creek is just down the road from the house. They hold this shoot twice each year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MBf_LvqUsQ

Mortblanc,
With our gun laws it's a close to hillbilly heaven as we get sadly.
I got a Survivalist buddy in Tennessee who keeps sending me tempting real estate adverts for land in Alabama, I am so tempted !!
My son just wants to fly the rebel flag, turn up his amps and blast out some Skynyrd

I hear there's little work in Alabama so I'd deffo have to go full time bladesmith to earn a crust though !

[Edit] Been looking at land in the Ozarks also.

Wulfshead

[shocker]

On the subject of air rifles, I have recently acquired my dads AGS PCR1 (pause for everyone to laugh at the notoriously sh!te item) which he bought 10 years ago and never used. I have never owned a PCP before, many springers, so I know little about them bar what I have read and youtubed.

I went to the local (ish!) gunsmith to get it filled and it dumped all the air straight out again. Twice. We took the fill valve apart and found a buggered O ring which would be the first reason for the dump.

However, my thinking is that since o ne O ring has gone, its best to change them all now rather than do them as they fail, repeatedly losing fills of expensive air and wearing the thing out. What I am having trouble with is finding anyone that sells a full seal kit for it, since AGS have long disappeared in corporate muddles with Logun and Webley. I know I could buy a mixed box of O rings but there would inevitably be ONE that wasnt included. I have also heard that the hammer springs are weak, so that will get replaced too, but I would like to find everything at one place to save on massive postal charges. All the shops I have spoken to put me onto Chambers Gunspares but they do not have the complete kit.

Sooo....anyone know of anywhere that could help? No one at my shooting club is helping- they have gone all clique-ey on me. I made a mistake in opening my big mouth to another club member about his AR-15 lookalike .22. Apparently we were overheard and people there seemingly do not like me having knowledge of firearms working bits. Oh, that and I fell about laughing when a guy told me he had been shooting his pistol for two years and never felt the need to clean it.

Like I said, big mouth, foot in, etc

On the subject of a first (in many years) buy of an air rifle, Gunstar and similar websites have many fine rifles for sale cheap these days. They would have to be delivered to/collected from a RFD if they came from a distance. There are quite a lot in the London area though and it would be worth a train ride out to the 'burbs to picj one up...you might even meet someone with some land to shoot over.

[Plymtom]

Sooo....anyone know of anywhere that could help? No one at my shooting club is helping- they have gone all clique-ey on me. I made a mistake in opening my big mouth to another club member about his AR-15 lookalike .22. Apparently we were overheard and people there seemingly do not like me having knowledge of firearms working bits. Oh, that and I fell about laughing when a guy told me he had been shooting his pistol for two years and never felt the need to clean it.

Like I said, big mouth, foot in, etc

Oh dear, you have to clean them, especially if there's three of you using them, I know some don't if they don't shoot alot, but they'll find it jamming up eventually and as you know it can get dangerous.

Phone the guys at pull the trigger, I'm no airgun expert hence no laughter at the AGS PCR1 ( I've never heard of it)

[Brambles]

On the subject of air rifles, I have recently acquired my dads AGS PCR1 (pause for everyone to laugh at the notoriously sh!te item) which he bought 10 years ago and never used. I have never owned a PCP before, many springers, so I know little about them bar what I have read and youtubed.

I went to the local (ish!) gunsmith to get it filled and it dumped all the air straight out again. Twice. We took the fill valve apart and found a buggered O ring which would be the first reason for the dump.

However, my thinking is that since o ne O ring has gone, its best to change them all now rather than do them as they fail, repeatedly losing fills of expensive air and wearing the thing out. What I am having trouble with is finding anyone that sells a full seal kit for it, since AGS have long disappeared in corporate muddles with Logun and Webley. I know I could buy a mixed box of O rings but there would inevitably be ONE that wasnt included. I have also heard that the hammer springs are weak, so that will get replaced too, but I would like to find everything at one place to save on massive postal charges. All the shops I have spoken to put me onto Chambers Gunspares but they do not have the complete kit.

Sooo....anyone know of anywhere that could help? No one at my shooting club is helping- they have gone all clique-ey on me. I made a mistake in opening my big mouth to another club member about his AR-15 lookalike .22. Apparently we were overheard and people there seemingly do not like me having knowledge of firearms working bits. Oh, that and I fell about laughing when a guy told me he had been shooting his pistol for two years and never felt the need to clean it.

Like I said, big mouth, foot in, etc

On the subject of a first (in many years) buy of an air rifle, Gunstar and similar websites have many fine rifles for sale cheap these days. They would have to be delivered to/collected from a RFD if they came from a distance. There are quite a lot in the London area though and it would be worth a train ride out to the 'burbs to picj one up...you might even meet someone with some land to shoot over.

If it were me, I would source my own. This place is just one that sells them singly, in kits or rope that you can cut to length to make your own.

https://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/All-O ... index.html

It will probably work out a lot cheaper too as we all know how much specialists like to add value