Unbelievable quotes.....

[WILBA]

Tell us the unbelievable quotes that people have said to you... I just had a chap word for word (no mistakes or lies) say to me after me showing him some pictures of a commpression tube of a 77....

"When we were young we used to take them apart and put extra seals in them, and longer stiffer springs. At 22psi (not a mistake this is what was said) the pellets would split in half as they came out of the end of the barrel, but at 20psi you could shoot a squirrel right between the eyes and it would go straight through, no word of a lie straight through"

Mmmmmmm... Anyone had an issue with pellets splitting at the end of the barrel when at "22psi"?!

Rhys

Back as a youngster i had a pretty mean hw80. 22ftlb. I tried marksman pellets in them and after several attempts i failed to hit a paper target at 15yards. Then i noticed a shot gun sort of pattern. It was blowing the shit marksman pellets apart. Anybody who used them knows they are utter crap pellets so if the guy ment 22ftlbs them yes i believe his story as they might be simular shit pellets.

[rhyslightnin]

They said the pellets disintegrate if I recall correctly. This could have been the hubris of an engineer talking to an enthusiastic young boy!

Back as a youngster i had a pretty mean hw80. 22ftlb. I tried marksman pellets in them and after several attempts i failed to hit a paper target at 15yards. Then i noticed a shot gun sort of pattern. It was blowing the shit marksman pellets apart. Anybody who used them knows they are utter crap pellets so if the guy ment 22ftlbs them yes i believe his story as they might be simular shit pellets.

Well well, maybe not a rediculous quote then... You learn something new everyday.
Thanks for your input.

[averageplinker]

Well well, maybe not a rediculous quote then... You learn something new everyday.
Thanks for your input.

Even if the pellets were falling apart I am still intrigued to know where the extra seals were required?!?!?!?

[TonyL]

Yep, can relate to this.......

Back in the mid-eighties I met this chap and we became friends for many years. Not a bullshitter and a very accomplished shot with Airguns and also at club level with .22 rimfire rifles and pistols.

He liked his power........and "got into" tweaking Innovas, Aces, Sheridans, Setras etc.......With the Innova he'd use 15 pumps and I witnessed the chrono readings.....686fps with 21.5 grain Barracudas. And accurate, too! He had commented on poor accuracy with many other lighter pellets and did, I'm pretty sure, say that some had stripped skirts etc. He even often used to use .22 short bullet heads in the Innova.




As for the "psi" remark, yes, I had the misfortune of coming across a clown who had told me that he had also tweaked his Innova (again!) and for an almighty "30psi power"!!!!!

[angrybear]

Back as a youngster i had a pretty mean hw80. 22ftlb. I tried marksman pellets in them and after several attempts i failed to hit a paper target at 15yards. Then i noticed a shot gun sort of pattern. It was blowing the shit marksman pellets apart. Anybody who used them knows they are utter crap pellets so if the guy ment 22ftlbs them yes i believe his story as they might be simular shit pellets.

Strangely they were superb in my Hatsan striker .25 only a couple of years back

[WILBA]

Strangely they were superb in my Hatsan striker .25 only a couple of years back

This was a longtime ago mr angry. Marksmans back then were mis-shaped. Headless and a load of swarf in the tin all free of charge

[madcarlos]

This was a longtime ago mr angry. Marksmans back then were mis-shaped. Headless and a load of swarf in the tin all free of charge

You right there, The old iron mongers used to sell them loose and would scoop them up with a metal scoop, Quite often some would be in half or heads missing,

[WILBA]

You right there, The old iron mongers used to sell them loose and would scoop them up with a metal scoop, Quite often some would be in half or heads missing,

I do think they had much lead filling inside of the head back then.as i said back then you could get away with a gun that was over power. Mine most probably blew the heads off as they went down the barrel. The milbro pellets were just as crap back then.only the webley specials put up with the power of that gun. Until the eley wasps came along.

[madcarlos]

I do think they had much lead filling inside of the head back then.as i said back then you could get away with a gun that was over power. Mine most probably blew the heads off as they went down the barrel. The milbro pellets were just as crap back then.only the webley specials put up with the power of that gun. Until the eley wasps came along.

We always went for the bulldogs, I still see boxes of marksman for sale. Yes we used to as kids go into a shop then and buy shot gun cartridges. How's things have changed,

[Rickenbacker]

A bloke offered me a go on his air rifle, and suggested I should shoot it at some tiny pebbles that looked about 30 yards away.

me: Thanks, what's your aimpoint for those pebbles?

him: I have my scope queued in just right, so I can aim dead on for anything.

me: OK, that sounds good (), what's your zero range? ().

him: Every range.

[lensman57]

An air rifle is at its most accurate 777 ft/s. How many times have you heard this nonsense?

A.G

[Peter Dunkley]

Again not airgun related but was on a now not much used airgun forum.

Guy said he had a friend who replaced the battery on his car with a higher amp hour rating and burned out all the wiring.
He also claimed he could rejuvenate knackered 12volt vehicle batteries and that his system was so good that he had a contract with the army to do this to all the old batteries and they were then returned into service.
He was serious.

Lots of other crazy claims but these two were the worst.

[rhyslightnin]

Again not airgun related but was on a now not much used airgun forum.

Guy said he had a friend who replaced the battery on his car with a higher amp hour rating and burned out all the wiring.
He also claimed he could rejuvenate knackered 12volt vehicle batteries and that his system was so good that he had a contract with the army to do this to all the old batteries and they were then returned into service.
He was serious.

Lots of other crazy claims but these two were the worst.

Now that's quite interesting actually, because to a curtain extent this could be true... Batteries in curtain instances where they haven't been charged correctly ever ( like via the single stage charging that a traditional alternators offer) can be brought back to life with proper 3 or 4 stage charging systems. Admittedly this isn't fool proof and it does depend on the type, build, & chemistry of the battery (most likely to be achieved with expensive maintainable lead acid cells because the plates are thick, the acid can be replaced and the sediment washed out) but there is some truth in this.
I've had an expensive 12v AGM stater battery be discharged down to a resting 3v before, (which as far as lead acid goes usually means off to the graveyard at about 9.8v) come back to life and offer years of good service after that so I think it's often thought through lack of knowledge that alot of Batteries are dead before they really are...
Interesting stuff!
Rhys

Ps the amp hr thing is definitely BS!! Lol

[rhyslightnin]

An air rifle is at its most accurate 777 ft/s. How many times have you heard this nonsense?

A.G

That'll be a .177 then

[Rickenbacker]

An air rifle is at its most accurate 777 ft/s. How many times have you heard this nonsense?

A.G

Good one, and absolute balls. It all depends on which gun. Some it's as low as 766. Others as high as 780.