The Webley & Scott Vulcan Air Rifle -- A Vox-Pop History

[Gareth W-B]

Tonight I got a real grip on the trigger started doing one hole groups at 12 yards .
That's the, standard trigger no mods just me working out the feel for it.
I had been snapping it as a way to get better groups but I found it does have a predictable let off tonight it just takes a lot of pressure to get there before you let it break.

Perfect outcome. Yep, trial and error is how I came to grips with my remaining Vulcan's standard trigger (have a one of 110 Vulcan SE in .22 which I don't want to divorce from standard in any quarter), too. Am no where near as good a shot as you, however, as on open sights at ten yards (not tried 12), I am content to achieve touching hole clover leaf groups.

I used to shoot a .22 then follow up with a .177 and the challenge was to not make the holes bigger .

That sounds like real fun, and I'll give that a go sometime, but for me, and so as to get the one hole thing started, I'd need to maybe start at eight yards and move out with progress (and to make it even more interesting, make the follow up open sight rifle my AIRGUNAID SP5 .20 Hunter ). Atb: G.

[Daveo]

Seems like a good place to talk about my mk1 Vulcan.
I've just put it back together after converting it to .20
I had the gun given when a family friend asked me to have a look at it because it didn't shoot straight.
Turns out he bought it new in 1980ish. And still had half the original tin of pellets given gratis when he bought it.
At some point he had lent the gun to a friend who must have had a mishap of the letting go of the barrel during cocking type.
The skinny barrel had a definite upward bend.
I explained the situation to him at which point he told me to keep it.
So I did...
I got the barrel straight again with brute force and it shot ok.
I stripped the gun found the internals pretty good as would be expected from the amount of use its had.
So I turned a delrin Spring guide, relubed the gun and it shoots sweet but accuracy was always average.
I recently bit the bullet and ordered a HW barrel in .20 from silco.
MAN the original was stuck in the breech block good.....
Stuffed the blank in my little Chinese lathe and made it fit the Vulcan breech block.
I got the barrel and breech block back from being blued on Saturday and built back up Sunday.
I have to say it feels good with abit more weight up front due to the 16mm barrel and accuracy is pretty good.
So I'm now the proud owner of the possibly the only mk1 .20 Vulcan???
Unless someone knows different.
I'm thinking about fitting shims like HW do around the breech block because since polishing for bluing I'm feeling some slight play.
Cheers fellas

[Gareth W-B]

Superb and fascinating account there, Daveo, a .20 Vulcan, eh? Fantastic and thanks for sharing your endeavours with us: much appreciated.

[thisisdonald]

Superb... I love it. I hope it is the only. 20 out there!!
I would etch the details of the calibre change somewhere on the action like Mr potterfield dies at midway... that way in 100 years the story won't be lost!

Here's a picture of mine. I got given this by my grampa 25 years ago and I treasure it... shot thousands of pellets through it! Just put a prosystem silencer on it thanks to me hsing-eee from Dundee, and am in the process of sorting out the power from it's new gas ram.

[Daveo]

Superb... I love it. I hope it is the only. 20 out there!!
I would etch the details of the calibre change somewhere on the action like Mr potterfield dies at midway... that way in 100 years the story won't be lost!

I did stamp the cal on the barrel just like Webley had done all those years before......
Wonky!
The woodwork on mine is much plainer than yours,
You've got posh white spacers....
I love these guns because they are so easy to work on and cheap to buy.

[Daveo]

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ght=Vulawkocet

I assembled one from bits I found.
A fella I work with still shoots it.
Like I said great to work on.