Quote Originally Posted by TonyL View Post
Accepted, Pete.

But I still love 'em!

And they're a joy to work on compared to many other guns.
Ask Pete about the nut on the back block of his BSA Mercury, I dare you.

That tale is the airgun equivalent of one of Kafka's short stories. It has a happy ending though, but not until you have experienced despair and existential anguish beyond your darkest imaginings.

It's a tribute to Pete's moral courage and infinite patience that he did not just go barmy and batter it to death with a sledge-hammer or chop it up with an angle-grinder. I think I would have.