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I was improvising using differnt size allen wrenches to keep track of my movments. At my last setting I used 40 clicks of up past scope...

I improvised using allen wrenches as a spacer to keep track of my progress. The last adjustment put me 2.25 high at 30y. It took 44...

Your original setup only needed a .279 degree (16 moa) adjustment. That would be very hard to eyeball. A magnetic bore sighter may be...

Allright, back to the subject of the modified "West Hunter" rings. I haven't drilled the stop pin, but I figured it was test time. No...

You're right. Rings could be at fault in some cases. Theres ways to check that. On a dovetail gun it's pretty easily checked. Just slide...

How do we know it’s always the gun and never the scope rings? Does anyone know what the tolerances are on scope rings? For scope rings...

I am 1 of those guy who loves to tinker. Last week I cut 1 coil off the spring in prep for this project. Today, we find out if I can...

Here’s a photo of the new rifles.

Nice looking rifles.

Just arrived today, a new Cometa Fenix 400 Star in a very pretty walnut looking stock . Now for some dry weather, and after mounting a...

I bought this rifle probably 15-20 years ago. Shot it quite a bit, and as I acquired more air guns it began to sit. I would take it out...

I tested a used hw97 spring (14.5 fpe .177 with 1000 shots on it) and it took 59 pounds to compress it 2”.

I am going to upgrade my dovetail attachment at some point and I am going to look into Hooke’s Law. Thanks for the information.

Here's one for your collection, made from some beautiful walnut:

The bottom line is every spring compressor pictured above gets the job done. We are only dealing with preloaded springs and not fully...