We had a good evening at the club last night and one of the most interesting things that we witnessed was when John G turned-up with one of the much talked about Airforce One air pistols.
Most of us had not actually seen one in the flesh before and had the first chance to have a good "hands-on" inspection and shoot with it.
John had spent some time testing the pistol with extensive chronograph sequences and noticed how much the fps varied from shot to shot. A few hours later in his shed and he had modified the pistol to give a remarkably consistent fps that had very little variation from shot to shot.
The trigger was also tweaked so by the time we got to shoot it the pistol had been "well sorted" and shot very well indeed.
IJ shot some very impressive groups with the pistol and basically everyone was more than impressed with the performance although the grip could do with some work to make it fit and hold better and the rear of the trigger guard was quite uncomfortable and may benefit by having part of it cut away to resolve this problem too.
For the money this is a very impressive little pistol that performs very well and with some minor work it can be made even better. It uses quite a bit of gas if the minimal fps variation and accuracey is to be maintained ( change CO2 capsule after about 40 shots) and with some further work on the grip and trigger guard it could end up being a very good club pistol that has the capability (in the right hands) to embarrass some much more expensive match pistols.
John G is likely to be kept very busy over the next few weeks as his tweaks worked so well ! 
Last edited by zooma; 11-03-2015 at 09:49 AM.
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