Webley versus Steyr shock!!!!

[Abasmajor]

My .177 Turkish Tempest has now arrived and I put a couple of shots through it before I came home tonight.

I will shoot it some more at the RMTC tomorrow night, but first impressions are:-

1/ that the pistol came in its original box still wrapped in its plastic bag with the handbook and looks like new.

2/ the pistol is harder to cock than my .177 British Tempest, but it had a nice smooth trigger and felt quite good when I shot it.

Tomorrow night at 10 meters on an ISU target is a much tougher test so I will attempt to get it sighted-in and put some more pellets through it, but the pistol feels so "new" and smelt like it was dieseling a little, so I think it may need some time to get "shot-in" before any serious accuracy testing can be made - but it will be shot against my old to get an initial impression at least.

I will try Hobby, Meisterkugeln and GECO to give it its best chance.........unless anyone can suggest a better flat headed match pellet that works better in a .177 Tempest ....?

Hello,

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Turkish 'Tempest compared with the original 'Brummie' pistol.

I think the 'Turkish' pistol must have a stronger mainspring fitted which I believe the original export 'Brummie' models did as it is quite hard to cock.

Mine shoots best as do all my .177 Webleys using H&N 'Match' or RWS 'Hobby' as a cheaper alternative.

Regards

Brian

[zooma]

Hello,

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the Turkish 'Tempest compared with the original 'Brummie' pistol.

I think the 'Turkish' pistol must have a stronger mainspring fitted which I believe the original export 'Brummie' models did as it is quite hard to cock.

Mine shoots best as do all my .177 Webleys using H&N 'Match' or RWS 'Hobby' as a cheaper alternative.

Regards

Brian

Hi Brian,

I will let you know as soon as I have been able to give it a fair test.

I think the pistol is pretty close to being brand new and so I will put a tin of pellets through it to let it settle down and stop dieseling before attempting to make any fair accuracy comparisons with my well used BT version.

I can also add the H&N Match pellets to the choice I will test once the pistol is ready for accurate testing - but the new H&N Match aren't as good as the older ones used to be so I am not expecting them to be as good as the RWS types....but you never know.

I do have a tin of H&N pellets from some time ago when they were good - and a tin of the (very similar) Eley Match pellets from the same time period ( very very similar ) so I will try these as well.

The TT is harder to cock than the BT but it did feel smooth so it will be interesting to see the results. The wider trigger on the TT feels better than the narrow one on the BT so I have bought a spare wide trigger and will fit that to the BT sometime as I think it can only improve the feel of the trigger and put both pistols on an equal footing.