Originally Posted by
gingernut
Harvey -you will find one man and his mate,not U.K. based ,on you tube.
They show you badly deformed bb Peacemaker barrels where naughty bbs have got out of line on entry and in one case punched a hole through the barrel.
They blame poor build and thin barrels.
I blame tinkering with new guns and bad re assembly but then I'm an old cynic.
I think this could be related to the fault that developed on my SAA, after a couple of weeks of use and maybe 400 shots fired the entire barrel assembly developed a slight wobble leading to groups opening up massively. It was only noticable by feel initially but then started to developed until you could visibly see the foresight could be moved a couple of MM
My fix was to strip the gun down and use strips of thin foil to shim between the outer barrel and the frame (around the housing for the forcing cone) then reassembling.
I was unimpressed with the build quality inside (the original fault was clearly down to poor castings, and I suspect they are being taken from the mould at varying temperatures resulting in slight size differences).
That said my fix has been in place for 18 months and it is still shooting as good as it did when new. I haven't checked my barrel for damage by out of line bbs, maybe should have but I don't want to strip the gun down again as I suspect there is only so many times you can drift out steel pins and refit them into a Mazak\ZamakzZinc alloy frame.
Both good fun guns though!
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