Quote Originally Posted by douglas hatcher View Post
I was just thinking about the late Gerald Cardew also known as blue nose who use to do the research and development in air gun world during the late 70's to I think early/mid 90,s I still read his old work as I have a vast collection of old air rifle magazines and still find it relevant and fascinating the guy was extremely clever and very deep with his research and experiments of all types of air guns and especially his findings with spring guns.
I would have loved to have met the man in person.
Who else remembers his work?
Cheers Doug
I would say that most springer fans over the age of about 35 will be well aware of Mr Cardew's workings, much of which was very eye-opening at the time.

And his books, The Airgun from trigger to muzzle and, later, The Airgun from trigger to target, can be considered "must haves" for many wanting to work on their own guns.

However, time stands still for no man and although his work was invaluable to us, modern knowledge and thinking has moved on, with the likes of Jim Tyler and Dr Mike taking things so much further and actually dispelling some of GC's findings. Like the dependance of the springer on combustion to make decent power. And we have more than our fair share of very knowledgeable tuners right here on the BBS.

Taking nothing away from the great man, though....his works can be regarded as pioneering and probably helped pave the way for the modern tuner.