Rossendale Model Target Club

[zooma]

Of course, silly me - I should have said caviare.

You are confusing us genuine state-sponsored old age pensioners with others from your own elite and privileged society

[I. J.]

You are confusing us genuine state-sponsored old age pensioners with others from your own elite and privileged society

And your confusing 'state sponsored' with just plain old tight. Ive heard you've glued pop corn to your ceiling so you dont have to buy a smoke alarm.

[zooma]

And your confusing 'state sponsored' with just plain old tight. Ive heard you've glued pop corn to your ceiling so you dont have to buy a smoke alarm.

I don't smoke and can't afford pop corn - and only posh people have ceilings (and glue)

[zooma]

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 !

[I. J.]

For once I agree Bob (ZOOMA). (The medication must be wearing off.)

The Air Force pistol with a few slight tweaks from standard (power, grip, trigger) could give a far more expensive pistol a good run for its money.

When I get mine I will pass it onto John GeeGee for his Snake Spit tuning. Well, I have helped him pick his next motorbike (although he doesn't know that yet).

ATB
Ian

[zooma]

John has made some more modifications to his Airforce 1 pistol since we last mentioned it on this thread and it is now even better.

Removing the back half of the trigger guard was a great idea as the hand can now hold it correctly and the half guard looks like those on a lot of current match pistols - and it looks better than the full size guard that comes as standard.

The pistol also uses less gas since the work has been done and puts out a regular 400fps - just right for target shooting giving nice clean holes in the target.

John completely stripped and rebuilt the pistol in just a few minutes so I could see the modification he has made to improve the pellet speed and consistency and to lighten the trigger for target work.

More work will be going on in the snake pit this week so we will see what GeeGee comes up with next week to still further improve this super little CO2 pistol - already incomparable to what it was like in it's standard format.

[I. J.]

More work will be going on in the snake pit this week so we will see what GeeGee comes up with next week to still further improve this super little CO2 pistol - already incomparable to what it was like in it's standard format.

The best improvement is give it me to shoot.