Webley Patriot-a review

[Rapidnick]

The rifle Nick has was mine at one time and it has non std spring and piston washer, the Patriot Brian speaks of had a gas ram fitted

The usual achilles heel of the Patriot was too much spring and too little piston washer, they can run themselves in eventually and sweeten up (if you havent expired by then)

But IMO the Eliminator in .22 or .25 will beat the Patriot as far as shootability goes, once of course you have got used to it

When the Pat first came out Webley and Theoben had a back to back gruelling test (which was in AGW I believe) Ben told me about it and brute performance wise there was little in it but the Eliminator pipped the Pat in silly long range testing, I seem to remember Tony at Theoben was hitting a litre plastic bottle at around 150yds consistently, my memory may be not as sharp as it was but thats the gist of what happened

Funnily enough I saw Tony last week with Costas and we were chatting about long range use of the Eliminator. I am very pleased with this Patriot-it certainly isn't difficult to cock and shoots pretty well. 28 ft lb with 20 grain pellets gives a pretty reasonable trajectory. The rifle maybe isn't as smooth as an Eliminator but it certainly isn't the twanging beast I had heard about. You did a good job on this rifle Baz so thank you!!

[Vulcanator]

Glad to hear the Patriot is agreeing with you. Perhaps more owners will speak out and address its undeserved reputation. For the money you pay for them in the UK they are hard to beat.

[verminhunter]

After shooting nikos's .25 patiot I have changed my views on the rifle.
Easy to cock and I mean easy, lovely trigger, and deadly accurate without too much recoil, one of the best springers Ive shot in a long time, top bit of kit. You lucky man nickos from Mogador.

[Rapidnick]

i own a patriot had it for years tuned it to around 24ftb using slightly weaker spring fitted a piston sleeve a good tight fitting steel spring guide and tight nylon top hat it shoots great low recoil very smooth with no spring noise forget fitting gas rams to these they are rubbish good tuning is the way to go for good accuracy and an all round good performance the trigger is very nice to i would say the patriot once sorted is the best allround recoilling fac airgun and they are getting very collectable now the best webley springer ever made by far.

Dave.

Praise indeed from a guy like you Dave. I'm pleased to own one especially such a nice one as this.