Hi Muskett
Webley had their moments with the Mk3, The early ones i've seen have been rather bland but the later ones were usually much nicer
Mk3's
And again..
One more!
John
Hi Muskett
Webley had their moments with the Mk3, The early ones i've seen have been rather bland but the later ones were usually much nicer
Mk3's
And again..
One more!
John
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Does anybody know who made the stocks for the Challenger?
Did BSA make their own Mercury 'S' stocks?
I suspect they did, no reason not to.
Different countries have different sources to get their wood. Often reflected in the stocks of their guns. There are levels of quality that any rifle can reach to hit the target market. So it all depends on the cost of the wood and where it comes from; some luck involved.
Air Arms has always acquired some good wood.
Exceptional wood is luck, or specifically sourced. If you like it buy it, you might not find a better one.
The BSA article is in the July 1979 (45p) issue, page 32/33, titled Birmingham Bound!
Eddie Barber and Fred Grimwade (are they still around?) made the visit. The BSA managing director at the time was Alfred Scott. Chief designer was Roger Wackrow, who had been with the company since 1933!
The following is taken from the article..... "The wood store was fascinating. Tons of selected beech and maple are kept here and we followed the journey a piece of timber makes from this yard to the stock making department. There it is cut to length, marked out on a template and then roughed out. The stocks are then transferred to another machine to be smoothed to the right shape before being hand finished and fitted with recoil pads. The pads are then masked and the stock goes to be sprayed with a hard wearing lacquer."
No mention of walnut in the wood store. Possibly because the 'S' models were not being produced yet.
Mike.
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
That's what I meant to say earlier. Dunno where the regular stocks came from, but the 1980s "S" models were, IIRC, from an Italian manufacturer.
There is definitely a big contrast between the slabby plank of beech on my standard Mk5 and the nicely-shaped (but often lower quality) walnut I have seen on the Mk6S.
you guys have some amazing works of art!!! you good ole boys in the UK have taken airguns to an art form. yes some of them may be made in germany .but it is you like no other airgunners in the world who take a raw factory air guns into the dark depths of your sheds and strange labs and what emerges sets the standard the world over. inside and out they shine bright enough to iluminate the rest of us common folk.
Aint no fun when the rabbits got the gun
How can you come onto a BSA thread and mention German rifles
I've spent the last two weeks rubbing down my Airsporter S walnut stock as I felt I didn't finish it properly the first time (which I didn't), it is now as smooth as a babies arse and it's just had two coats of thinned down boiled linseed oil to help it soak in, it will then have a coat of 100% boiled linseed oil massaged in by hand over the next few weeks.
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in