Webley Hawk improvements

[BTDT]

How do you ensure that the floating guides do not end up all the way forward in the piston? Do they reset position with every cocking stroke?

From memory, I think it used to end up somewhere in the middle. It would have been better to anchor it at the rear, but the important point is that it kept the compressed mainspring straight.

[evert]

I had an extra Hawk piston in the box of webley parts, and comparing the two pistons I found that the original piston in the gun was not rounded the same way at the edge where the spring enters at the rear of the piston. The spare piston seem to be unaltered, but was radiused at the rear. Changing pistons made a huge improvement in the cocking stroke!