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  1. 21-10-2010, 08:50 PM #1
    mallyally
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    with all the fwb sport threads on here

    and me contributing on most of them i thought you might like to see my favorite TOP GUN IN THIS PICTURE http://i839.photobucket.com/albums/z...51/guns005.jpg

    i bought it from JEANS MILITARY MEMORIES of great harwood /I.J. will remember jean
    it cost me £90 and didnt shoot as the piston seal had disintegrated (as they tend to ) i slimmed down the forend and tuned it myself / its a 124 but with a 22 barrel and shoots lovely, since this picture i have shortened the barrel and fitted a theoben vortex silencer
    i will have this gun for a LONG time
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  2. 21-10-2010, 09:04 PM #2
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    There was a fashion for skinny-maling-king fore-ends in the early 1980s, yours looks really very nice and infact better than the standard profile. How does she shoot?
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  3. 21-10-2010, 09:05 PM #3
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    Nice pictures. Just out of interest, why did you alter the woodwork. Was it personal preference for grip or just aesthetic?
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  4. 21-10-2010, 09:39 PM #4
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    seem to be flavour of the month the sports at the moment

    my 127 http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...k/Cimg3275.jpg

    and 124 http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...pperuk/fwb.jpg
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  5. 21-10-2010, 09:43 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by snipperuk View Post
    seem to be flavour of the month the sports at the moment

    my 127 http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...k/Cimg3275.jpg

    and 124 http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...pperuk/fwb.jpg
    Coor! Look at the tits on that 127!
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  6. 21-10-2010, 10:42 PM #6
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    A couple of left hookers. Mk 1s '124 and '127.

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  7. 21-10-2010, 11:59 PM #7
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    Nice looking gun Mally. Did accuracy suffer at all when you shortened the barrel? I know the tuners in the '80s used to cut them at the breech end to preserve the choke, although I read somewhere that it's easys enough to re-choke the barrel if you know what you're doing.
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  8. 22-10-2010, 09:06 AM #8
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    What is the reason and technical ins and outs of mixing barrels and actions?
    I see Mallyally has a.22 barrel on a 124 and I have a 124 barrel on a 127 action.
    I presume they cant just be swapped without internal moods?
    I chronoed mine yesterday and with AA .177 Fields and it averaged 11.09.
    You would presumably not get that just by putting a .177 barrel onto a .22 action?
    Hsing-ee says mine was a specal by The Airgun Centre. Why didnt they just make it a special 124? Maybe they had a few .177 barrels lying around but that doesnt seem likely.
    Look forward to expert replies.
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  9. 22-10-2010, 10:51 AM #9
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    A barrel swap on a 'Sport is fairly straight forward and the only reason you could tell the difference (apart from the obvious) is the engraving on the action just above the trigger which denotes MODEL 124 or MODEL 127.
    Swapping .22 to .177, in my experience, means a loss of approx. 20% in the M.E. (the opposite also applies - .177 - .22 a gain of 20%) but this is easily recovered with a bit of tuning.
    Also to be totally pedantic the back sights are marked differently!

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  10. 22-10-2010, 11:03 AM #10
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    Thanks I. J. Now Ive got to go and compare rear sights.
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  11. 22-10-2010, 12:53 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by gingernut View Post
    Thanks I. J. Now Ive got to go and compare rear sights.
    Only to willing to help

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  12. 22-10-2010, 01:12 PM #12
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    Ok so its a 127 rearsight.
    But you see I put spare 127 sights on this particular rifle as they were missing.
    So can I take my airguns with me to the Home?
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  13. 22-10-2010, 01:27 PM #13
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    ... and theres two types of foresight units.

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  14. 22-10-2010, 01:45 PM #14
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    You are not getting me to go in the storage area again.
    I know I put 127 sights on this gun ....unless the foresight wasnt from a 127 but just put on the spares gun I bought.
    Right Im stopping this now!!! Dont care.
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  15. 22-10-2010, 02:13 PM #15
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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    ... and theres two types of foresight units.

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    I make it 3 (4 if you include the 'Dan Dare' post).

    They are: fixed post tunnel (dovetail), removable element tunnel (dovetail), removable element tunnel (cross bolt).

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