someone managed to get some that were cnc'd from the mk2 in Indonesia I managed to get a couple
someone managed to get some that were cnc'd from the mk2 in Indonesia I managed to get a couple
sorry mate non spare
Yesterday evening whilst reading this Ma7 1982 AGW I saw that John Darling used an Innova too.
Don't know how often, but a nice photo of a young JD.
There's yer Galway silencer...
Galway silencer ad from the same mag:
My .177" Victory had a silencer on it when I bought it, it looks like Galway as well.
Am I right to think that they were more cosmetical than functional? There are no baffles in there.
It makes a bit of a difference sound wise, but I guess they could have been made to be much quieter.
Galway were actually very good silencers, they used a material insert, a kind of ‘sonic felt’ I guess you could call it. When you look through it you should see a few stray fibres. Ken Galway used to say that these were pushed out the way by the air in front of the pellet.
Richard
Founder & ex secretary of Rivington Riflemen.
www.rivington-riflemen.uk
Well Ian, I don't know anything about conflagrations, I think the visible hairs that were the real issue for Galway, there’s a bit of a tale to tell there actually.
At the Game fair in ’83, on the Airgun World stand Ken Galway was there with a prototype of the Fieldmaster. Me and Dave got chatting to Ken, at the time I was the reigning National Champ for FT, and by the end of the conversation Ken had offered to sponsor me and would let me have the first Fieldmaster available. I was super excited, at that time the Fieldmaster was like something from Star Trek.
A couple of days later, a large box arrived at my home, full of different silencers. Silencers were new to us so I fitted one on my 124 and got stuck into testing.
There was a definite noise reduction but the biggest surprise was the reduction in felt recoil. Accuracy was good but every time I looked up the barrel I could see all these hairs in the line of the bore and I found it really disconcerting. So my Dad heated up a piece of rod and pushed it through the silencer to singe off all the stray pubes.
That week my Uncle Dave was off to Hippenscombe for a days shooting with a certain esteemed beardy Airgun World scribe. Dave discussed our findings with him and some how word got back to Ken. He went postal and that was the end of that.
So thanks very much - you know who you are
I guess the upshot is, I think Galway silencers were very good. Certainly much better than the Whisperer model.
I still have a couple, I just can’t bring myself to use them, (they’re just so, so hairy).
Richard
Looking at an Air Logic ad from 1985 - “NO PLASTIC OR PVC NO COTTON WOOL NO BITS OF WIRE”; instead an “everlasting maintenance-free sound soaking turbulence chamber”.
Or one for the Gowers Phantom - “a unique baffle system which... in field test had shown a marked steering effect on the pellet, improving its ballistic performance, resulting in tighter groupings and overall improved accuracy”.
Both of which were available for the Innova.
I think some of those guys back then were better at writing adverts than they were at actually designing suppressors.
Let’s not even mention the monstrosity that was the Ox Neutraliser.