Recent content by moleeye

I like them for their minimalist design, which makes them as easy as it gets when it comes to loading and shooting. I started with the early one at the bottom and liked it well enough to buy the later variant in the middle as a backup. This one I liked well enough to reason that if I could shoot...

I have been really fixated on these little rifles lately since I mainly shoot at spinner targets placed at different 20 to 35 yd distances and a few soup cans further out for my Quigley astounding distance shots ( maybe 55 yds :) I'm partial to the Scottish Model 230 22 cal. versions of the...

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I have found that's the beauty in buying vintage airguns, you have the opportunity to amass impressive cost overruns and discover innovative modifications by previous owners! I can't stop though. My HW70 is marked Made for Beemans also.

Yep thats a good pic of the early seal we have been discussing and so far not finding anywhere. If it looks usable give it a shot! I have not disassembled mine just made up a new breech seal to replace the original one that resembled pie crust. I shot it about 50 times today and it's pretty...

Yes, from my recent reading online, yours is the next version with the newer piston seal, and does it have the grub screw to hold the end cap in place? That was supposed to be another change. Regarding the foreign body in the seal, I remember when they released a bunch of those Predom Lucksnic...

I found a post from a canadian forum in which the guy stripped his early model down and found the piston seal to still be viable even though the breech seal had deteriorated. It did show a pic of the piston/seal and it was indeed hollow in the middle like the Win 353. In that spirit I made...

Thanks Mike, I really appreciate you taking the time to do all that research for me. So you think I could just get the new style piston and seal and it would fit OK ? I might go that route. I will look into the cocking arm info also. Thanks, Dan

Yes, I only find old springers interesting at this point, and parts are frustrating, I find that on JG the box beside the part I want often says "notify me when back in stock" which means forget it, and at Chambers a month ago I spent 45 minutes composing a small order only to have the site...

Hmmm, I saw that white HW seal online, it is available, but I think I saw a post with a pic of the seal someone used for one of these earliest HW 70 s that showed a seal that was like the one in my Win 353, which is hollow in the middle and therefore shows the flange on the piston in the middle...

So I bought an early ( SN 89k ) HW70 online, pretty clean but I assumed it would need a reseal, so I started researching and it looks like these earliest ones may need a different seal from later models. Some suppliers of seals don't mention any difference, JG mentions an older stye seal but...

Your reply reflects my thoughts exactly, and I would think just about any other normally moral person. I should add I have had NO dealings with any of these tuners personally, I'm just surprised at the number of well known tuners that take a wrong turn eventually.

Unfortunately I can think of top 4 highly regarded tuners of 14- 20 years ago on the old yellow forum who were the "toast of the town" in airgun forums- until they weren't, fading away along with many airgunners property who had sent their guns to them in good faith. Any oldtimers remember the...

Yeah, plastic guns rule now. BTW, I appreciate your video reviews!

I remember going to the little strip mall sporting goods store in around 1959 with my mom to show her the Slavia they had recently gotten in, the guy there took us out behind the store and let me shoot it at a cardboard box to try it out. Talk about a different time! Imagine that scenario...