7th Series Titan.

[micky2]

I have just spent an absorbing couple of hours looking through the second edition of John Griffiths' excellent Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols and noticed that he still lists the 7th Series Titan air pistol as being smoothbore with some possible rifled examples. Mine definitely has a rifled barrel and I wondered if any others owned by forum members may also be rifled. The rifling isn't very pronounced, but is certainly present.



Brian

Hi Brian, l have just looked at mine and it is just like yours. there but very little pronounced.

[Abasmajor]

Hi Brian, l have just looked at mine and it is just like yours. there but very little pronounced.

Hi Micky,
That’s at least two then, so maybe there were more rifled barrels fitted to the 7th Series Titan than we might have imagined. Being rifled would have precluded the use of steel darts for fear of damaging the rifling so one can understand why smoothbore would have been preferred for this class of air pistol. Anyway in my experience, the difference in accuracy between smoothbore and rifled barrels at their intended range of 6 - 10 yds is minimal to say the least.

Brian

[rapidresponse1]

nice looking pistol