Other than the great KT has anyone built a decent springer from scratch?

[nurek]

I have seen Ken’s stainless HW design guns and have always fancied building myself a stainless steel HW80 style rifle with some improvements. […]

Which KT guns have you seen Richard?

Ken Turner has built several stainless guns, and they were not copies of the HW design, unless we say that any break barrel is a HW80 and an underlever is a HW77… His first stainless gun made in 1982 did use a Rekord trigger from a HW35 but it had a barrel concentric to the cylinder, a cone shaped piston, ¼” long transfer port, O-rings on PTFE piston heads, Delrin pegs on piston (Lazaglide), barrel latch (like the VenomMach 1 and Walther LGV).

[...]Has anyone ever done something like this other than this chap in the states.

This guy in Poland has done a recoiless springer similar to a Whiscombe:

http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?t=38715#p525101

A TX200:

http://forum-bron.pl/viewtopic.php?f...#263;#p1092346

He also did a copy of a Rapid, and a Theoben style gas ram, all of these are loosely based on the actual production guns.

[nurek]

I wonder what happend to the 77K recoiless KT did back in the late 80's? Mach 1.5

Hi Paul, it may have looked like a 77k or a TX200 or even an LGU , as you know it was a prototype of the TX200SR, running on sliders, with a freely rotating piston, piston running on Delrin rings, etc. so not really a 77.

It was made in 1987 and Ken was already trying something new, rather than just tuning old HWs...

And to answer your question, the prototype slider now lives in the US with a collector.