Quote Originally Posted by Binners View Post
How often should you

change the spring/ washer on a classic BSA bell target rifle?
Back in the heyday of my prewar BSA collecting I used to routinely change the spring and washer in rifles I bought, if the power seemed at all low. But in the process I turned a few well bedded-in, sweet shooters into quite harsh shooters, albeit more powerful.

So I stopped doing it unless power was at rock bottom, or if there was a twang that suggested a broken spring. There's something about a well used but cared for BSA that's hard to reproduce with modern replacement parts, or perhaps it requires a lot of pellets through it first - and a heck of a lot of patience.

So to answer the original hypothetical, it's 'not as often as you'd think'.