Quite correct Graeme.
I think the scope you used was one I'd just purchased --- but I could be wrong.
Anyway I've just dug my Tornado out of the gun cupboard and taken a squint at it --- I didn't realise how much work I'd done to it until I read an old thread on here last night.
Internally mine is fielding a 26mm Weihrauch piston seal, Weihrauch HW95 Spring guide and a HW99 (?) spring, but it seems I gave up on it when I couldn't get past 530fps.
I may have to have another go at tuning this weapon of mass destruction.
All the best Mick
Look at what is still available.
http://www.proteksupplies.co.uk/relu...r-tornado.html
Founder & ex secretary of Rivington Riflemen.
www.rivington-riflemen.uk
Funny how everyone remembers the tornado , my brother had a telly .22 break barrel with an airsporter spring crammed into it in the early 80's & it was a much better accurate gun, still had a bad trigger, but he used to pull some impressive long range shots off with it with just the crude open sights.
I still have the plastic medallion that came with mine but unlike Granville I’m not into wearing “danglers”!
'A thing of beauty is a joy forever'
hhh, taste is such a conundrum, good to know that there is a group of afficionado's for rifles with 'inner' beauty....
Collection: vintage air pistols & air rifles / vintage air gun accessories
Facebook groups: vintage air guns 1. Webley, 2 BSA, 3. Haenel, 4. Weihrauch, 5. Diana
I bought the exact gun from the joke shop on Tibb Street in Manchester for the princely sum of 19 quid, which was a full weeks wage in 1977,
loved it until i tried an HW 35
This is identical to the one which started me on my path to shooting at the heady age of 12 and belonged to a friend of the family. Would love to have one in this condition if for nothing more than nostalgia.