Unbelievable quotes.....

[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.

[Benelli B76]

My mate who is an RFD is often told that people owned BSA Meteors that could penetrate right through a telegraph pole ! I still have the special heavy pellets that came with the old Career 707 pcp that produced 80 ft.lb. Ordinary pellets were absolutely useless in them. In my early days of reloading I tried cast lead/antimony bullet heads in my .222 to save money, but at 3200 fps they ended up as specks of dust on a target close by.

Baz

[nced]

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

I live in North Carolina and shoot a .177 HW95 and .177 Beeman R9 breakbarrel and never had as much luck at my back yard lane as the shooter in this vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm7_1wjfJY
LOL.......this group I shot at my 53 yard back yard practice lane (max distance property line to property line) in North Carolina seems to contrary to the above...


How about this "tuning advice"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVa86f8vzg0

[Rickenbacker]

He's a funny guy!

"I shoot outside 100% of the time - unless I'm somewhere else shooting"

[bozzer]

Didn't he design the BSA Goldstar?