custom b2 rifles

[norbert]

Does anyone own one of these rifles?
If so whats your verdict on it?

[Bales1983]

I have a normal b2, the custom is just a bit beter wood wise,

Its exactly what the price says, a cheap garden plinker,

Accurate enough for tin cans etc but for the £60 a custom costs you can get better starter guns!


Lee

[norbert]

I bought a custom b2 about 3 weeks ago.I must have fired 250 pellets through it,and the dammed thing is falling to bits.And i mean literally.The silencer fell off first.Then the scope mounts worked loose.Next to work loose were the screws to secure the breech to the stock.And FINALLY!!! the catch that holds the barrel down after loading effed up.

[ross H]

i have too agree with above statements. although mine hasnt broken that fast. silenceris thats what they call it fell off. the thing on the breakbarrel comes loose. the stock comes loose

[2 stage]

i bought a b2 as my first airgun after returning to air gunning after a long long time 1st thing to come loose was the silencer , aridited it on
then the stock screws came loose ,needed tightening after 1 hundred shots
mind you it was pretty accurate out to 30yrds on tin cans ,but it,s the old saying you get what you pay for .
i now own a raider 10 fantastic gun .I binned the b2 after it failed to break
properly on loading safely i might add
cheers

[g60bv]

save up a bit more. and get a hw or a lightning. both good 'cheap' (ish) and excellent rifles
s/h lightnings are every where and normal about the 80- 100 mark.

[norbert]

save up a bit more. and get a hw or a lightning. both good 'cheap' (ish) and excellent rifles
s/h lightnings are every where and normal about the 80- 100 mark.

Sound advice im now saving for a hw80.

[Bales1983]

Itried to zero my b2 today and its just not worth it, i cant even get the first group in 3 inch circle!!

Shooting at tin cans yeah but for gods sake if you do get one have enough respect for birds/rabbits to not try and take them with this, its not even powerful enough i dont think!



Lee

[2 stage]

sound advice tin cans only
cheers

[Tom_S]

seem to get good ones or really bad ones... luckily was one who got a good one! :D

[ross H]

i chronoed mine at it was running at 4FT/IB just cans me thinks:eek:

[Tom_S]

mines was 9 ft lbs and produced 1 inch groupings at 30 yards and was defenitely capable of hunting

[macdaddymac]

Just cant get the scope to zero at all on mine, get good grouping without the scope but with scope fitted seem to be all over the place !

[Thegreg]

Iv found that too. my dad bought me one years ago and it wouldnt hit a thing! seriously, 5 yards wouldnt get inside 3 inches!!:eek: that went in the bin;) then i was given one a few months ago, let me tell you, accurate as anything (well not anything!! obviously!;) ) i was shooting those little green garden canes in half from 20 yds every time! in .22 aswell. i agree its luck of the draw weather you get a good one.

the quality is poor, but for 30 notes, 11 notes trade price and heck knows what they are made for, their ok, still not advisable!!!:D GET A PROPER GUN!!;)

Greg:)

[bugsy]

i'll hold my hands up,

well my brothers hands anyway, he had a b2 (i recently sold it on his behalf as he know lives in the usa) and his wife does not like guns at all!!??! (bummer eh? ha ha):)

i have to admit it wasn't a bad rifle (not a good rifle either) in .177

tried it myself and couldn't do anything with it with a scope mounted, but to use the open sights, absolutely spot on:confused:

at the time i got the better deal by paying a few more pounds and got the custom lion, to which i still have and use today and getting better with, albeit at paper targets down a gun range, and getting 1inch groupings at 20yards, no where really to try it anyfurther in distance (not safely anyhow)

No if some kind gent or lady will relieve me of my lion, i am gladly looking for a hw57 or hw95 or even a cheap bsa lighning xl, not bothered about caliber, but .22 prefered

mark

[jase74]

Don't do it!! Buy decent secondhand instead.

Regards

Jase

[queens_own]

I have fired my friends B2 and I find that the trigger pull needs something like a ton and a half to get it going!:( couldn't get smaller that a 3" or 4" group over 15 Yds does anybody know if the trigger can be adjusted or smoothed out?:confused:
BSAs forever (Bike or Gun)

[Ludford]

B2's are cheap chinese Cr*P don't buy!

[Marko]

They are rubbish.

In fact, they are not even that good.

I thought they were pretty good when I first tried it but since then have had an opportunity to use many other rifles and when I went back to using my B2 I realised what a piece of junk it really was and it was no wonder I paid just £35 with scope for it! Still think I paid too much. Also, why do they advertise it as full power when it never is!? Mine went down to 7ft/lbs.

[karls]

My sons got a b2 and i payed £25 for it. Unused with a 4x40 and 1500 aa pellets and case...we go hunting most weekends and so far he has shot and killed 3 bunnys with it..for the money it's a good little gun. one year later it still looks new and he still has fun with it.

[Gareth W-B]

My sons got a b2 and i payed £25 for it. Unused with a 4x40 and 1500 aa pellets and case...we go hunting most weekends and so far he has shot and killed 3 bunnys with it..for the money it's a good little gun. one year later it still looks new and he still has fun with it.
Glad your lad is enjoying the B2, but c'mon... three rabbits? Either they were less than twenty feet away, or they died laughing :rolleyes:. The B2 has a smooth bore barrel and poor quality leather breech seal which will allow different power through on each shot (I know as I had one once). This makes consistency impossible :eek:.

As such, B2s can at best only ever give 3" groupings @ 30 ft, 5" groupings at 40 ft, 7" groupings at 50 ft (yup, we are talking feet not yards), and beyond that are so gutless and random that the pellets seldom reach the target. So unless the rabbit is practically on your lap, or is a special three feet wide super-bunny with extra thin skin, many may find the idea that the B2 can be used to hunt rabbits a little too far-fetched :o.

Enjoy the B2 for what it is, a garden tin can plinker. Nothing wrong with that, but please don't try and bill it as a hunter, because it aint! No offence ment matey, but I gotta say it as I see it for the sake of any newbies or visitors who may otherwise think the B2 is a good vermin hunter, go out and buy one, and subsequently leave their local land littered with injured wild life who have to crawl off to die in agony just because their hunter's equipment wasn't up to the job of despatching them humanely :(.

ATB and happy "FUN" shooting with the B2 to both you and your lad :): Gareth W-B.

[karls]

Right lets get this straight;)
yes we do go hunting and yes he has killed 3 bunnys with the b2 gun.I dont know what b2 you had but he's one is 1. 19" rifled barrel NOT smooth bore.
2. power is 10.3lbs. 3. 1" grouping @30mt's is easy.4. velocity 550-560ft/sec.. in 22
yes it can kill vermin and it can do FUN but the bottom line is £25 quid you name any rifle that comes close for that money and i will go out and buy it now...for a first gun it's very very good value for the money..

Ps i would not take this b2 with us if if wasn't up to the job and left the local land litterd with injured wild life..now that would be bad and cruel...and yes it's also good for the garden
where isn essex do you go shooting? we go to pete's farm on the a414
kind regards karl:cool:

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[Gareth W-B]

Hi Karl, hope all is well this fine shootin' Sunday morning (just setting off for a bit myself :D). But first, to answer your Qs, my B2 was probably the same type as those owned by the chaps quoted below... :rolleyes:


I bought a custom b2 about 3 weeks ago.I must have fired 250 pellets through it,and the dammed thing is falling to bits. And I mean literally.

I have too agree with above statement.

I bought a b2 as my first airgun after returning to air gunning after a long long time... First thing to come loose was the silencer... then the stock screws... its the old saying you get what you pay for. I binned the b2 after it failed to break properly on loading...

I tried to zero my b2 today and its just not worth it, I cant even get the first group in 3 inch circle!! For gods sake if you do get one have enough respect for birds/rabbits not to try and take them with this

I have fired my friends B2 and I find that the trigger pull needs something like a ton and a half to get it going! :( couldn't get smaller that a 3" or 4" group over 15 Yds.

B2's are cheap chinese Cr*P don't buy!

They are rubbish. In fact, they are not even that good... I realised what a piece of junk it really was and it was no wonder I paid just £35 with scope for it! Still think I paid too much. Also, why do they advertise it as full power when it never is!? Mine went down to 7ft/lbs.
However, I accept that the od one can be okay, especially if you replace the poor leather breech seal with a nylon one off a Diana and polish the piston crown internally (which I think your B2's previous owner may have done to yours? ;)), and that later B2s have some rifling to the barrel (mine was an early example and defo a smooth bore), and that some people like Logunsolo22...


Seem to get good ones or really bad ones... luckily I was one who got a good one... mine was 9 ft lbs and produced 1 inch groupings at 30 yards and was defenitely capable of hunting.
But, and its a big but, seasoned air gunners like you and I can tell a goodun from a baddun, whereas a newbie can't, and so with that in mind, it is best not to promote the B2 as a hunter verbatim, as the chances of them getting a goodun are very slim (unlike me :o).

Anyway, I'll leave it at that B2-wise for now, and move to your last Q... Yes mate, been to Pete's Farm several times: very good day out indeed (especially as its only a couple of miles away from me), but I also go to my club ground near Ongar (Springfields -- great club, great range, great wood and a great bunch of blokes), and/or a small stud I've the shooting rights to near Burnham-on-Crouch.

Lastly, do hope I haven't offended you with either of my posts Karl, as its only friendly BBS banter, and would just like to close by saying that as your B2 really does seem to be one of the sorted ones -- and £25 very well spent -- do keep hold of it, as it seems quite literally, to be the one in a hundred :cool:.

ATB and 'Happy Hunting' :): Gareth W-B.

[karls]

God i love this site..
Do not buy the b2 if you want it only for hunting..yes it can kill but like scotty says it needs more power capn....and Gareth i was not offended i like input from other air gunners:)

regards karl

[paul68]

They have very poor quality control. I bought one because I didn't believe it could be as bad as the reviews made out.
The one I bought had a barrel that pointed downwards because of a poorly machined breech. I sorted this with an angle grinder then stripped the whole thing down, cleaned, polished and lubed the internals. Polished the trigger mechanism then I reassembled it with thread locking compound to all the fasteners. Because I had wrecked the breech seal removing it prior to grinding the breech, I fitted (with a mallet) a piece of reinforced hose of roughly the same diameter. Then I stripped the brown crud off the stock and oiled the wood with linseed oil. Still looked rubbish, so I cut a lump out of the wood to make it a skelenton stock (still looked rubbish).
Result...
A crap rifle that is just a little less crap...:D
There is nothing you can do to improve these guns (not without spending money anyway). Better go for a used BSA meteor or something.
It produces around 9 ft/lb in .22, but the accuracy is poor.
I think everyone should try one.
Has anyone come across a worse trigger? If so I must know....
I may want to buy one..:D :D