Swedish Air rifles

[hawkeye]

Hello
not all the excellent rifles will load pellets, the ones with the rotary knob will only take 5.4mm ball ammo unless you want to try to push a pellet backwards into the rotary breech and i wouldnt have thought that a good idea?
if you want to go the way torrens suggests you need to make sure you get the one with the pivoting breech, i still have a brand new excellent match somewhere which takes 10x lead balls in a magazine, they are a nice gun to play with if youve never had one, they feel and handle better than they look.
ric

A friend on another forum from Netherlands has a couple from new and he has said he tried sizing pellets but accuracy was crap so he reverted to buying the 5.4mm ball shot from Sweden but postage was crippling , what year is the match rifle you have and is still 5.4 mm ?

[gedfinn 2]

A friend on another forum from Netherlands has a couple from new and he has said he tried sizing pellets but accuracy was crap so he reverted to buying the 5.4mm ball shot from Sweden but postage was crippling , what year is the match rifle you have and is still 5.4 mm ?

Hi, I have one !
Its not called an Excellent because this is the gun they were copied from ?
Its a " Bahco " Made by the wrench people from sweden circa 1900 & mentioned in the Blue Book. ( Note the price )
Its also not 5.4 mm, I think 4.4 mm , It would make I would think around 3-4 Fpe ,

I think any of these guns regardless of calibre would not make much more , I say this because even though they are pneumatic, There is no breech seal & The pumping has no mechanical advantage ?
The one I have is in very good condition ( It needs the nickel plating to the brass parts to make " Nearly " perfect for the year )

Certainly a collectible ! Possibly a museum addition for the swedes !
Anyway, Here it is, Ged.