I never understood why someone would take out a perfectly good rammer to put a twisting spring in. My Fenman is 30 years old and shot loads with never needing anything done. Heck, I sent it off five years ago for a service, just to be sure. It was returned with: "nothing needed doing".
They point rather well. There are better triggers out there, but the one they have is good enough.
Such of the fun is The Project. Well done, but more than I would take on.
I shoot RWS Superdomes .177 in mine and can hit small things out a good way.
The seven or so Theobens I've owned for a while over the years were all pre millennium manufacture, so I can't give a view on later rifles.
They all shot exceedingly accurately. They make a different noise to a spring gun. Non gave me any problems.
Two I lent to friends and they came back with bent barrels. Others I just traded along as part of the hobby. Most I'd be happy to have kept. Quality always way ahead of nearly anything out there. Of their time, but so are spring rifles.
I have a Steve Pope tuned HW95 which is more hold sensitive, though has the better trigger. Its smoothness is more refined but all round quality not a patch on my Fenman.
Both it and my Fenman get the job done in a very similar fashion.
Last edited by Muskett; 03-08-2022 at 01:20 PM.
ive a early 95 in 22 fully tuned one of the best guns ive owned
I have a little period B&L 2-7X32 on my .177 though it is accurate enough to utilise more magnification. I suggest nothing too big.
I'm glad the ram came in handy bud, this to me tho shows spring is king as the diana 340 is so much nicer with the spring in as opposed to the ram, I have sleeved the port down to 3mm too but was nicer before.
Do love a theoben rammer tho.
I could quite easily have put in the spring kit I have but the ram I got from you slotted nicely into the HW90 rear guide and its all held together neatly, I'm tempted to put the spring kit in and try it but I think a bit of mass input from the bash boingerati is needed, especially if I can compare it to another proper Fenman rammer with the current drop in ram set up and I don't think it would take much to fit the spring kit at the bash just to see how it shoots and then tinker with it later if needed, I also wanted to try the drop in ram first to try and keep the gun a rammer for nostalgic reasons.
Pete
Last edited by look no hands; 06-08-2022 at 02:43 PM.
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in