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    I thought the barrel latch looked a bit plasticy so I'm glad to hear that it is metal, in keeping with the rest of the pistol.

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    My local 10m range take a dim view of anyone using BBs of any material on their backstops due to the ricochet risk- Anyone know if there is a pukka .177 pellet version on the cards?*

    *Or a way of making the BB version take normal Hobby wadcutters?

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    Quote Originally Posted by demoncase View Post
    My local 10m range take a dim view of anyone using BBs of any material on their backstops due to the ricochet risk- Anyone know if there is a pukka .177 pellet version on the cards?*

    *Or a way of making the BB version take normal Hobby wadcutters?

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    Pull the two parts of the shell apart. Drill the plastic to 4.6mm. Load pellet from rear and reassemble shell. May need to seat pellet towards front of plastic.
    Note that the shell will no longer hold the bb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jassi View Post
    Pull the two parts of the shell apart. Drill the plastic to 4.6mm. Load pellet from rear and reassemble shell. May need to seat pellet towards front of plastic.
    Note that the shell will no longer hold the bb.
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    Wouldn't you need to change the barrel sleeve for a .177 rifled one as well?
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    In an ideal world, but pellets can be shot through a smooth bore just as easily. Some early air pistols were smooth bored, including some Webleys.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zippy View Post
    Wouldn't you need to change the barrel sleeve for a .177 rifled one as well?
    The drag differential between head and skirt keeps the pellet travelling headfirst, like a shuttlecock.

    In my misspent youth, I did some experiments with a .22 rimfire smoothbore garden gun. When I shot rifle cartridges like LR or Shorts, the bullet toppled within a foot or two of the muzzle and I couldn't keep them all on a roughly foot-square pistol target at 10 yards. When I tried a .22 airgun pellet propelled by a starting-pistol blank, the results were far better - about 1.5 inches offhand at 10 yards.

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    [QUOTE=MikB;6520370]The drag differential between head and skirt keeps the pellet travelling headfirst, like a shuttlecock.

    In my misspent youth, I did some experiments with a .22 rimfire smoothbore garden gun. When I shot rifle cartridges like LR or Shorts, the bullet toppled within a foot or two of the muzzle and I couldn't keep them all on a roughly foot-square pistol target at 10 yards. When I tried a .22 airgun pellet propelled by a starting-pistol blank, the results were far better - about 1.5 inches offhand at 10 yards.

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    Didn't the late great Gerald Cardew once say that airgun barrels did not need to be rifled because a diabolo pellet is self-righting, like a badminton shuttlecock?

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    A rifled barrel will probably be better in an ideal world, but I'm not going to be vying for the podium at the next NSRA 10m comp with the beast- as long as I can keep it on the card (if not in the black) I'll be happy..... Call it 'Minute Of Screaming Savage' as per the original

    My only concern was the 4.5mm barrelling for steel BBs is a hair tighter than a true .177 barrel-Usually roundabout .175 but looking at the .177mm head diameter of my normal range fodder (RWS Hobbys)....Well, what's 2 thou of soft lead between friends?
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    Hobbys will shoot through the barrel, no problem - that's what I'm using at present.

    An advantage of leaving it as a smooth bore is that you can revert to bbs ( as long as you have some unmodified shells)
    Last edited by jassi; 11-11-2014 at 03:25 PM.

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    spare shells

    As there are no spare shells for the mk.6 yet, I managed to shorten some D.W. shells to fit, but.......
    I was wondering if maybe the shells for the Umarex Colt Python may be the same size as the Wobbly ones...???
    Does anyone have both to compare, or could anyone give dimensions of the Python shells.....?

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    From the Pyramid site - "The Colt Python CO2 BB revolver is compatible with Dan Wesson BB revolver shells, however you'll notice a drop in velocity due to the smaller size of the Dan Wesson shells"

    This sounds as if the python shells may be slightly longer than DW ones

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    Indeed it does Ian, so they are no good then.
    As a matter of interest the Webley shells measure 38.8mm x. 9.6mm
    Whereas the DW shells are 40.20 mm x 9.6 mm
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    Quote Originally Posted by demoncase View Post
    My local 10m range take a dim view of anyone using BBs of any material on their backstops due to the ricochet risk- Anyone know if there is a pukka .177 pellet version on the cards?*

    *Or a way of making the BB version take normal Hobby wadcutters?

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    Simple, use gamo lead bbs. No ricochets like pellets and at only around £2.50 a tin I recall of 500 from JSR they're hardly expensive.

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