Measuring Cocking Force

[Lewis]

What is your process for measuring cocking force?

I have a few spring and gas ram guns: 

Side Lever

SSP

Under Lever

Break Barrel

I would like to do an experiment to see which ones are most efficient and just for fun.

Bathroom scale, fish scale bow scale? Please be descriptive and pictures would be great for extra credit.

 

[bltefft]

I'm interested in the answers your get. I've thought about rigging up my bow scale (I use it to measure bow draw weights) and then using the scale to cock the springer. But I've never tried it.

 

[Fischer]

It really depends on the rifle size and where the forces go to swing it cocked in the easiest fashion.

For i.e. I cock my Theoben eliminator .25 using all arms and waist and legs to "crunch it" past the cocking joint lever and engage the safety in one smooth and easy motion almost as fast as I can get an HW30 cocked and ready.

I am 6' 2" and 175 with severe shoulder injuries and metal hips to boot. The smoothness and well made machinery of the Theoben makes cocking that rifle a ceremonial act I actually enjoy.

The cocking force is 69 lbs but I can manage it as easily as the HW30 since instead of just using my arms I use everything I have to cock it without straining any muscle in my body.

Some air rifles have a cocking force as sidelever or break barrel and even that means the angle of cocking a barrel or lever or underlever or sidelever and THEN trying to Compare them saying use a scale!

No way Jose!

Some big rifles are WAY easier to cock than some light rifles and the variance is too big to measure this cocking spring force at the end of the cock at the end of the barrel etc is all relative!

If YOU can cock a sidelever or underlever or break barrel of say 45 lbs then you've already solved the mystery what you like over all the rest for regular shooting or serious shooting.

I look at my HW50S .20 as my "favorite" all around anytime anywhere anyplace rifle. All others are specialized into arenas I've encountered and the basic HW50S .20 open sighted is straight on in any air rifle enthusiast's hands. And the pellets are not hard to buy or find in my mind for what I get in return. 

What's the cocking force of the HW50?

 

[shambozzie]

Try placing butt of gun on bath scale. Bottom of gun facing you. Maneuver gun while cocking and watch scale. Works for me.

 

[bltefft]

Sounds a lot safer then mu idea.