Alecto questions

[paul4be]

I am giving serious thought to a change of pistol to an Alecto. So, what needs sorting on them and how much of a job is it to work on them? Opinions of accuracy out to 25 yards??

Thanks

[Odjick29]

I am sure someone with first hand experience will post shortly but for what it's worth, a guy at Sandhall has fitted a longer barrel and a red dot sight. He easily knocks shotty cartridges over at 35yds or more. I know he is very happy with his.

[AdamA]

Biggest issue IMHO is the barrel, you just can't fit a silencer on the std barrel, hence why so many end up with a longer barrel so you can. Equally to really get the best out of it you need to be using something else than the stock open sights, red dots aka holographic sights halved my group sizes. Fitting a proper telescopic sight and the thing is only limited by how smooth and steady you can squeeze the trigger when rested.

Only other thing if your after a real target pistol its not what you want, too big + heavy. its at least to me a perfect "plinkers" pistol that wants to avoid springs or co2 cartridges.

[paul4be]

How easy is a swap to a longer barrel??

[deg1]

How easy is a swap to a longer barrel??

just undo 3 small screws and slide it out. i have one with the longer barrel with silencer fitted. its one of the best pistol for accuracy in its price range on par
with the hw45

[bfhb]

Hi,

I have an Alecto in .22 and so far it has been great.

It is quite large compared to other pistols I have used, but holds nicely in the hand.
It is actually quite light considering the size and very balanced.

It is made of plastic, but it feels like a very tuff plastic and has a matt sheen to it that gives off that well made feeling.

The trigger appears to be a single stage with quite positive action.

A strip down is easy if your careful with remembering what parts went where.
There are several loose springs which you have to be careful when reassembling as they are held in place only by grease when positioning the parts back in the gun.

I have found cocking the gun easy and mostly only use one pump.

The black sights take a little getting used to and I will probably be fitting a reddot or pistol scope.

I also found it to be very quiet and not needing a silencer at all.

There is also almost no recoil, only the very small inertial kick from the pellet.

Accuracy, well, I cant really comment as I'm a crap shot.

I'm currently using RWS Superdomes and also some ~23gr homemade pellets which still fire nicely even though they are a tight fit in the barrel.

Inserting a pellet into the barrel is a little fiddly as it is recessed in the upper gun housing.
I have dropped a few pellets down the side, but they are easily retrieved with a little shake.

When cocking the gun, sometimes I find myself not cocking it all the way, ( getting lazy ) and then all you get is a small pop and nothing happens. It appears that the major part of the air comes from extending the piston in the last 30-40 degrees.
Cocking it three times for full power takes a bit more effort but not too much to put you off.
And at this point you hear the safety valve dumping the excess air. So it appears that it really only take 2.5 pumps! ish..

I do like it very much and would recommend one. There is one in .177 in the forsale section currently and I am seriously tempted!

Hope this helps.

Mark

[paul4be]

Thanks.

The one for sale is now mine

I have tried one previously, and was impressed. Will just have to see how it goes once the pictol arrives. Now need some weaver mounts to put my scope onto it.

Then will look at longer barrel etc. I was quite impressed with the specs of the export version on the webley site, right up there with rifle power. As such I am assuming that the sub 6fpe versions should be pretty much unstressed.

[bcham]

i haveone in 177, with the valve mod done,3 pumps takes it just under 6ft lbs.great accurate gun esppecially with a red dot.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/258...1141208291.jpg

[paul4be]

i haveone in 177, with the valve mod done,3 pumps takes it just under 6ft lbs.great accurate gun esppecially with a red dot.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/258...1141208291.jpg

What's the valve mod then??

[bcham]

google alecto valve mod.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuPGMWI_9Ck

[paul4be]

Looks a straight forward adjustment

[AdamA]

I actually lowered the pressure relief valve so it vented anything over 2 pumps, (from the factory mine was venting a fair bit of the third pump anyhow!) that was with the original barrel and depending on pellet (premier heavies in 177)was just touching on 5ftlb then. with just a 1 1/2" more barrel length with the new barrel that is that's enough to just pass 5ftlb with a heavy pellet. Due to all the potential agro IMHO it pays to keep well away from that 6ftlb limit! Mine very much got a lot more power out of heavier than lighter pellets too, something that you need to consider if chronoing to check power. The original barrel did not seam at all pellet fussy either, not something i can say applies for the new one :-(

I find a good silencer makes a world of difference, but im often shooting indoors. Hence any noise echos back a lot more. A DIY big + long silencer and i could get down to true James bond puhh type levels, but it looked daft! A shorter but less affective version though really does take the edge off the crack, especially on more than one pump. This might be less of a issue in 22 though as they generally need less air pressure to get to the same power level.

The other posters comments about 1 pump being enough most of the time is spot on too, that puts mine in the 3+ ftlb range and has no problems with any coke can i have yet to encounter :-) Target shooting wise the diffrent impact point at least for 177 is small at 10 meters between one or 2 pumps. I find even 2 pumps easy enough though, but im only just in my thirty's and reasonably strong. That said after putting a decent dent in a tin of pellets in one trip to the range, you will know you have been pumping it, but IMHO no more so than any spring air rifle would give you as a work out.

As to the weaver mounts, i really can't see why so many airguns are still using dovetails after using the weaver rail. You can take sights on and off and hold zero at 10 meter ranges with out issue. You can swap from red dot to scope back to open sights in seconds and still hold zero. One comment i will add though, watch out for the front sight with the scope, im running a 3-9x32 bugbuster and needed a circa 1/2" riser with the std medium height mounts the scope came with! That said i found a nice reach back one that helps get the scope back further which helps eye relief any rate :-) Some point i may get a proper pistol scope, but normally use it more carbine style with a wire stock. Problem is i like that so much i now want a proper PCP carbine, hence gotta refill the piggy bank!

[the logun-ator]

...ive a hw silencer on my std length alecto....and forget messing on with the valve unless its seriously under powered and you do plenty of testing,one thing you DONT want doing is knocking it over the limit.note the vid didnt show what it was doing with 4 pumps??

[paul4be]

As long as it is around 5fpe, I won't be messing. How does a silencer fit to a standard length version (I'm assuming that it isn't the latest threaded version)??

[the logun-ator]

As long as it is around 5fpe, I won't be messing. How does a silencer fit to a standard length version (I'm assuming that it isn't the latest threaded version)??

...i reamed out the plastic around the muzzle and fitted a std 1/2'' silencer adapter.