More pleasure.

[Raygun]

Going off the number of posts on the subject.

How many people are getting more pleasure from tuning, messing, working with or just re-lubing springers than with PCP's.

PCP's are so accurate and clinical they have no soul. The springers on the other hand have plenty of soul and character.

You don't even have to shoot a springer well to enjoy it. Just pulling one apart, a little play, a little polish a little lube and hours of enjoyment

Or is it just me that's sad

ATB
Ray.

[Ideot Savant]

Ditto

[Paddy_SP]

No - I'm sad too! I love pulling springers apart and playing with them...

[harrisP]

i like it aswell but then they dont normally go back together because i lose bits and get bored

[Beagle Boy]

So long as it's not just me
There are others

ATB Rob

[luddite]

I once pulled a springer to bits but the airgun fairies escaped and the gun was never as good.

[Nige]

Apart from 4 SSP's, ALL my collection are springers

[Ruger Red]

I prefer springers in the same way I prefer automatic watches over quartz watches.

[Matt C.]

Gosh, I am the same. Modern PCP's are like modern cars - controlled by some clever bit of kit. I leave clever bits of kit to gunsmiths, a springer though now that can be polished and loved. OOOh eck reminds me of setting dwell angles on an old Ford Anglebox....

Take care, Voldy

[Bob Roberts]

Going off the number of posts on the subject.

How many people are getting more pleasure from tuning, messing, working with or just re-lubing springers than with PCP's.

PCP's are so accurate and clinical they have no soul. The springers on the other hand have plenty of soul and character.

You don't even have to shoot a springer well to enjoy it. Just pulling one apart, a little play, a little polish a little lube and hours of enjoyment

Or is it just me that's sad

ATB
Ray.

And I thought I was the only one. Last Saturday I purchased a air rifle but since it only tuck an afternoon to fire off the two hundred or so pellets I had to my name, I have spent considerably more time tinkering with the trigger and relubing the internals.There is just a felling of pride and accomplishment I get from owning a springer that I don’t get when using and maintaining a recoilless air rifle.

[Ranyhyn]

Quite agree, springers are much more fun for fettling and pulling apart, and in a perverse way the more obscure and the harder to fix up, the more diversion from doing something useful can be gained.

[paul68]

Yes, springs for me too.
Will buy me a PCP one day, but just bought a Feinwerkbau 300S for 75 quid so it may be a while yet.
Glad i'm not alone....

Paul

[Born Again]

Me too ! Love my TX, but my problem is growing, I feel the need for a break barrel now ! Help !

[I. J.]

You mean all that dirt and grime under your finger nails. All that sticky, messy 'tars' and greases which, no-matter how careful you are always find their way onto your trousers and shirt. The cut fingers (from the Weihrauch trigger slot edge). The sweating and swearing. The searching for escaped tiny parts. The hours of polishing bits of this and that and de-burring. Those damned coilbound springs. Making leather washers and spacers. All those days waiting for replacement parts (when you can source them). That first cocking and firing after hours of painstaking work.

LOVE IT!

Its a great part of the enjoyment of airguns.

Ray (RAYGUN) is the clubs resident gunsmith doing repairs, re-springs, re-lubes, buttoning, stock finishing and with over 150 members he's kept VERY busy. His prices are reasonable -a couple of tins of pellets here and there. Then therers Jim Edge famous for his silencers, adaptors, strippers, single shot trays etc. If its metal Jim can probably make it. Then theres Alan (ORA8i) our clubs 'What if I do this?' and his transforming pigs ears into silk purses. For heavier gunsmithing (re-blues, silencer thread cutting etc.) there Dave (DM80). No wonder fixing and fettling airguns is so popular within our club.



ATB
Ian