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  1. 13-01-2017, 07:42 PM #1
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    tatty airsporter MK5...

    I've a slightly tatty Mk5 5 in .22 that I've got shooting quite well thanks to a diana seal conversion and a 1/4" stroke increase.

    I'm really tempted to shorten the barrel a bit to make it a little more compact and handier (I've shortened and recrowned plenty, so no technical issues), however I've a niggling voice that says I shouldn't be chopping old airsporters up, even if they are the inferior and common-as-muck MK5 variant
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    Do these variants still have the long tapered crown ?

    I think they do so not you can't go ahead with this.

    It's wrong
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    But if you wanted the to cut the barrel and use it to turn into a fly tying vice the yes you can, as long as the emblem is still there.

    I think you should look into turning out a few fly tying vices such like my J-Vice with damascus jaws, there is a good market in the U.K. for something quite nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clanchief View Post
    Do these variants still have the long tapered crown ?

    I think they do so not you can't go ahead with this.

    It's wrong
    they have the counterbore, yeah, up to about where thhe foresight screw goes through. That's 1.5" of dead barrel length for a start !
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    Well if you start chopping then this will alter the dynamics of how sweet you have got it shooting, as you know more than most, so more tinkering will result.

    I couldn't do it to mine as I've had it for forty years.
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    sure, but I'm talking cutting off 1.5" of couterbore and just another 1.5" of real barrel - so will still be around 15", so not exactly inneficiently short...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Budd View Post
    the inferior and common-as-muck MK5 variant
    They're not always going to be common as muck though, are they? If it were mine, and it was a tatty one, I'd just refinish the stock and replace any missing bits.
    Were the later Airsporters blued, or painted?
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    Quote Originally Posted by harry mac View Post
    They're not always going to be common as muck though, are they? If it were mine, and it was a tatty one, I'd just refinish the stock and replace any missing bits.
    Were the later Airsporters blued, or painted?
    Indeed, certainly not like Hw77s/80s/95s/meteors

    Yeah, done exactly that, so it's complete and refinished. Blued (except for the ally end block - which I need to find some suitable paint for).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Budd View Post
    Indeed, certainly not like Hw77s/80s/95s/meteors

    Yeah, done exactly that, so it's complete and refinished. Blued (except for the ally end block - which I need to find some suitable paint for).
    If you know what you are doing - do it - it's your rifle mate!

    I didn't know what I was doing when I shortened my old cheapy secondhand Mk4 I bought when I was a kid. Mind I shortened it 25+ years ago when I thought that crowning was what happened to monarchs.
    Replicated the counterbore but left it at that - then ended up fitting a meaty muzzle wieght - so it looks as mean as an Airsporter can.

    Didn't seem to affect the accuracy - but then it was never that great in the first place and really was only my plinker gun!

    Would I do it again? - possibly to that rifle but no other - and certainly not to a Mk1!

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    Nah, the Mk2s are staying unmollested

    The Mk5 (with a coke can shim pushing the tap a fraction to the LHS, until I get around to ordering an extra shim from JK) is shooting around 1/2" groups at 25 yards, which I think it pretty fair for a tap loading airsporter, and doing just over 11 FP
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chippendale View Post
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    haha - you'd not recognise your old gun now, especially if you shot it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Budd View Post
    haha - you'd not recognise your old gun now, especially if you shot it
    Thought it was a MKII I sold you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chippendale View Post
    Thought it was a MKII I sold you?

    Philistine
    That Mk2 was great, yes, but did I not get the tatty £25 Mk5 off of you too ? My memory may be failing me...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Budd View Post
    That Mk2 was great, yes, but did I not get the tatty £25 Mk5 off of you too ? My memory may be failing me...
    Yes of course, forgot about that, think its called old age, carry on

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