Hmmm, not a happy bunny.....
Went shooting this morning at Mays Shooting Ground, all was going fine until I took a shot at a target and missed (so I thought), reloaded and took another shot and 'missed' again - sounded a bit strange. Looked down the barrell and couldn't see any daylight, not good!!!
One of the guys came to the rescue with a barrell cleaner and pushed (both) pellets out, gave it another try and same thing happened. Pushed that one through and tried a cleaning felt, that didn't even reach the end of the barrel
The spring is recoiling, so I am guessing that it might be one of the seals gone?? Has anyone else had this happen, or do you think it might be something else?? I've got home now and taken the action out of the stock and dried it down (bit wet this morning) and can't really see anything.
Have kind of decided that I want to do the work myself after building a spring compressor and following that strip down, and have been looking at the maccari kits as if I need new seals I might as well put a new spring in it as well. So a couple of questions;
1) Am I biting off more than I can chew?? (I have never tried stripping down an air rifle before).
2) Is there anything I need to look out for / be careful of (re: Garvin's comment about the safety - my gun does not have a safety thanks to the previous owner).
3) Am I barking up the wrong tree with assuming that it's one of the seals??
4) Am I right in thinking that the pistons seal is the same as the washer, as I have heard people talking about (leather) washers crumbling with age??
Anyway that's enough questions for now, I would appreciate any help that any of you can give. I'm off to sulk now.