Recent content by rockdrill

Good on him for taking action! Regarding the 'gun toting' youth I think he learned the lesson of the Jeff Coper quote: Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

Screwed on, but with loctite to retain it.

From what I gather the idea of the insert was good as it stopped the upper surface of the cocking arm scraping the underside of the cylinder, however, HW added a fairly strong spring under the insert and this caused the cocking 'shoe' end of the arm to scrape along the inner edge of the cocking...

In terms of 'galling' shooters who experienced it knew about it before the internet, but, there was no ready way to disseminate the information. I have experienced quite severe galling on an HW99S, a very similar rifle to the HW50, which made the rifle very unpleasant to cock with a horrible...

Regarding BSA Airsporter S & Mercury S models, I agree, nice walnut is by far the exception rather than the rule. I have seen a few really nice examples, but the majority are nothing special. As to the pre-war BSA rifles, overall wood quality seems higher and I think many of those already had...

My comment was not meant to insult, but, with the nasty factory varnish, it isn't doing it justice. As you rightly say it certainly has potential, but it needs a proper finish to get there. If you had seen that 300 stock as it was when I got it with a dark brown heavy factory varnish the wood...

There is no way the OP's stock is beech, that is walnut, perhaps not the greatest bit of walnut, but it is walnut nonetheless. Getting the horrible factory varnish / lacquer off it and applying a proper oil finish will probably work wonders with it. This is an FWB Mod300S I acquired several...

Hello, I was looking online for some information and the picture of Lewis's rifle caught my attention so I registered with the site as I thought you might like a bit of background information on this gun. I acquired this rifle about twenty years ago for my friend Tony Collins who was originally...