lol, some MD, he doesn't even know his product line! It's not as if there's much to remember!
http://www.webley.co.uk/index.php?op...d=18&Itemid=25
lol, some MD, he doesn't even know his product line! It's not as if there's much to remember!
http://www.webley.co.uk/index.php?op...d=18&Itemid=25
saw a new left hand alecto on a site for £199...extra £30...rip off
It should do more than 2 if seals are in good nick, more like 2.5-2.7. A .22 will do a little more because larger calibres are more energy efficient. But for a plinking pistol you don't need a lot of power. My HW75 does 2.2-2.5 at the moment but it could do with a service.
One reason the vast majority of air pistols, as opposed to rifles, are .177 is because only .177 cal is allowed in formal (i.e. Olympic style) 10 metre target competitions. So if you wanted to join a local club and do some some "proper" paper target work you couldn't use a .22.
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.” - Marcus Aurelius
I would have thought that the extra price for LH grips\LH stocks\LH actions is down to paying for the tooling to make it and then for every 9 RH guns sold only 1 LH gun will be sold. This is assuming left handers are equally attracted to shooting as right handers.
As you know, prices go down with volume manufacturing and vice versa.
Left handers make up only 10% of the population. The top 10% mind
Yes, I'm left handed (but shoot right handed )
Chris
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Same here, I write left handed, but shoot right handed! Wierd!
I shoot, write, spanner, fettle and drink right handed but I ride a skateboard & snowboard "left handed" or daffy-footted as it used to be known
ATB,
Nick
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Another one in the write left handed, shoot right handed club here
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.” - Marcus Aurelius
wow, i play guitar (used to anyway) right handed, probably do some other stuff right handed, and appreciate some things the way they are that are designed for right handers but i feel play right ito my left handed game (gearstick on my left, rifle bolt on the right etc) but i can't imagine writing or shooting right handed: my right hand is relatively useless when it comes to dexterous ability!
Strictly speaking, there are some circumstances where dry-firing can be done with minimal/no harm to the spring piston pistol/rifle.
Not recommending this unless you find yourself with a pistol/rifle without a pellet in the breech, and no safe way of getting one in there...
... If you press the end of the barrel firmly, muzzle down, against something with a bit of compression give (like a sheet of rubber, thick and stiff cardboard, etc...) and then dry-fire, you can simulate the resistance that would have been offered by the pellet as it travelled down the barrel, and avoid excessive impact of the piston against the end of the cylinder.
Again, I stress that this is for emergencies only, if somehow your kit ends up cocked without being loaded. It can happen.
Welcome, by the way, and I too have just recently discovered pistol shooting and loving it! Got myself a HW40, and a HW45. The 45 was only recent, and a world apart from shooting the HW40, and I'd agree that starting with the HW40 would be a good idea. Let you focus on the basics first.
atb,
shammo.
Weihrauch HW40 (.177), Weihrauch HW45 (.22), Weihrauch HW45 Silver Star (.177)