Paratroopers ...help with history.

[battyone]

Yes on all counts, they are complicated, trigger and history wise. They aren't much good, but they do have that strange something. Maybe it's just the link to simpler times???
And yes there was a folding stock version... Ranger here I think, commando in Germany from the info I found.
I've seen pics of the early trigger guard with the pronounced spur. Pretty sure Sniper on here has/ had one, found old threads when I ran a search.

I like my mk2 .22 it is as good as I am, what more could I ask for?
The.177 needs some help, we have the technology... to quote a fave program from when I lusted after one first time round.

[battyone]

The German info I found. Lots of pictures.
http://www.co2air.de/wbb3/index.php?...threadid=57567

[Geezer]

The German info I found. Lots of pictures.
http://www.co2air.de/wbb3/index.php?...threadid=57567

The "first version" is what I had, but with the trigger guard from the "second". Given the context, there is no way at all mine was a bitsa, it must have been as it was sold. So Mk 1 and a half?

[thisisdonald]

The confusion between these fdifferent models may come from the fact that paratroopers were asi imports and the rest if the world had gamo 85's. The stocks and trigger spurs were different on these. In fact while at first glance they look like the same rifle, there are many differences.

[Unframed Dave]

Try posting on the other forum, gasman on there is an avid collector of these.

Dave

[Benelli B76]

Just rebuilt one of these this week. Although they have the longest spring of any rifle I work on (about 40 coils) they do not produce a lot of power. This one had a broken back stock in plastic which I repaired with fibregalss resin and a missing front pistol grip which I replaced with a plasic moulding. Will sell for £50 to my mate as the magazine is missing, but you can get replacements. Our local RFD has a rifle for sale at £170!

Baz

[battyone]

I've read a few threads about the spring! It's hard to believe that there's so much coiled in there when they make so little power and shoot so smoothly.

I'm already planning moulds for the plastic. Composite construction is my thing and the paratrooper furniture is all very simple. The only complicated part being the inside of the one butt piece.

I didn't realize that the 68 85 Euro models were completely different. That might be due to the crappy translation I got??? However I have definitely seen the pointy trigger guard pictured on here. I thought the Germans were talking dates.

Hopefully another one shortly on the way. Mk1 in .22 . I'm going to have to get working on some display racks, I'm running out of room in cupboards.

£170!!! The one must be a miss print. They are a cheap collectable at a time when the pre war bsa models are getting more expensive. And there seems to be a Webley service round every corner- although prices don't reflect their profusion.