Just about a year ago I posted an item about a Slavia ZVP I was restoring that was lacking the rear sight. Today I was visiting a superb website by an an amateur airgunsmith that I linked to previously, and lo and behold, he’s crafted a replacement rear sight for his Slavia entirely from scratch- that’s [...]
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One of the most popular inexpensive air guns around is the Chinese-made QB-78, a clone of a classic Crosman design, the 160. The original QB-78s were kind of crude, but later models have been better made, and ever since Crosman finally discontinued the 160 there’s been a big demand for the Chinese clone. The gun [...]
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Digging around in the basement, I came across this treasure: It’s a Jim Maccari laminated field target stock blank, inletted for the TX-200 I was shooting in competition back in 1998-99. I think I bought it in 99, intending to finish it that winter, after the season, but other projects intervened that year- like a [...]
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
I wrote about this a while ago, but it seems there’s still a lot of this nonsense out there. I just found this on another air gun site: “Sporting” spring airguns need to combust. “Match” spring guns generally do not. Match air rifles usually yield less than 6 foot pounds of muzzle energy. Adult sporting [...]
