Hello to the pistol crowd

[sevorg]

I've been on the forum a few weeks now in the general section, but thought I'd be brave and have a dabble over here and say hello! Although I've got a couple of nice spring rifles I've had pistols since I was far too young to have pistols in the olden days. I used to shoot my dad's Webley Senior, which I still have, and bought a Tempest about 20 years ago so I didn't wreck the family heirloom.

I bought a chrono recently and was interested to see the senior was putting out a consistent 3.0 fpe compared with 1.6 from the Tempest. So I thought it was time to pull it apart and clean and relube with modern stuff. Managed to get it up to 2.0 which still seemed low for a good condition, non-abused gun that’s had a good few thousand pellets through it.

Tonight I decided to be brave after having sized the piston washer on my HW77 to good effect and had a go at the Tempest. In brief it's now a very smooth 3.0 fpe and a pleasure to shoot, albeit only in my shed.

All the best, Tom.

[magicniner]

Hiya Tom!
Welcome to one of the more select (but not sniffy) corners of the BBS, it's a nice crowd here,
Regards,
Nick

[hwtyger]

Tempests are GREAT. I own several myself, both .177 and .22.
They will never do high powers, they werent meant as such..
Welcome in the pistolsection by the way.

[malakiblunt]

Hi Tom i think a 100% power increase was a prety good result!
lets face it when it comes to weblys they dont make them like the used to!


a senior is on my pistol wish list.

[Eddiekneejerk]

Hello Tom,

I just got my hands on a lovely Tempest - excellent springer!

I've only recently rediscovered Webley pistols and have 3 Juniors and a Mark 1, a Senior and a Premier are on my "wants" list too....

[Paul55]

Hi Tom, nice to have you aboard.

Why not pop across and visit us at the UBC http://www.ubc.btik.com/p_Home.ikml

We hold lots of e mail comps, at least one a month. There is a bi annual meeting coming up also on 1-2 May.

Easy to join.......Hard to leave

ATB

[mickson]

Welcome to the section, enjoy your pistols & watch out for the odd bit of banter
very odd in some cases...mike...

[Jim McArthur]

Hi Tom, nice to have you aboard.

Why not pop across and visit us at the UBC http://www.ubc.btik.com/p_Home.ikml

We hold lots of e mail comps, at least one a month. There is a bi annual meeting coming up also on 1-2 May.

Easy to join.......Hard to leave

ATB

Emphatically seconded! And your pistols are right on the money for the UBC's 6 yard, and 10 meter, competitions. And the Senior for Vintage pistol.

Jim

[sevorg]

Thanks for all the welcomes, I like the idea of the UBC, I think you'll be seeing me over there too. I'll post some pics of the old Webley when I get a spare minute or two.