Danced with a couple different frauleins tonight. FWB 124 .177 and Diana 56TH .177. FWB is such a smooth, elegant, easy to cock little rifle. The 56TH is its polar opposite, but man is it accurate. Both are a joy to shoot.
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What springer did you shoot today?
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Love the stock on the 56th. I hemed and hawed to buy one in .177. When I finally when to buy it, it was gone. Snooze you lose. Nice gun. Crow
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Thank you. I can’t believe I own one you don’t have. Hail, I can’t believe ANYONE owns an airgun you don’t have ha ha ha.
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I have had my first FWB 124d a little over 50 years now, and picked up a second late last year. I was always amazed at the ease of cocking, accuracy and power. It was not long after I got that 124 from ARH in W. Va, that I spotted a Williams receiver sight at Beemans and put one of those on. I was in the USAF at the time in base housing. so I would shoot in one bedroom down the hall into another bedroom. I did not have a proper rest, so would set a dining room chair in the bedroom, sit on the floor and use the chair as a rest. I was probably shooting at about 15-18 yards max. but little one hole groups were common. I have increased my collection or accumulatin of air rifles a lot in the ensuing years, but those remain among my favorites.
I remember the hype about the power, so tested it I think with silver jet pellets against a 1" (3/4") white pine board, and at about six inches from the muzzle it would completely penetrate the board.
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Stopped by my fav pawn shop on the way home, and jumped down the Layaway Rabbit hole head first for a nice looking Diana 350 Magnum in .177 with a brown woodgrain plastic stock market RWS . I'll be able to climb out of this hole on Oct 15. Lol
Oh yeah I wanted to make sure it would shoot , and that I could cock a Magnum , so I took it outside , and dry fired it once. I know your not supposed too , but it had to be tested , and I had not pellets. Cocked very smooth , and fired very powerful. So I did shoot a springer today sort of. Lol
Oh yeah I wanted to make sure it would shoot , and that I could cock a Magnum , so I took it outside , and dry fired it once. I know your not supposed too , but it had to be tested , and I had not pellets. Cocked very smooth , and fired very powerful. So I did shoot a springer today sort of. Lol
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Great story @jkingrph . I bought my 124 from someone on another forum. Had been his dad’s gun and he was very happy it was going to be used again. Besides it being a wonderful rifle, that makes me smile every time I shoot it. Diana 45 today. Quirky little gun and not sure they get the love they deserve. One of the best things about this gun is that it came with a Diana 75! That’s actually the gun I drove up to get. Sorry so and so saw me coming and put several other rifles in his truck, including the Diana 45 ha ha ha.
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I did not shoot it today . But I will be shooting it all weekend.
This is my trusty TX200 I have had for ten plus years. It is tuned to 12 ft lb and I had a giant scope for open class with 40x magnification.
The scope cost 300 dollars and was not great. Now I’m shooting Hunter and I put a smaller scope on and for the first time since I have owned the gun the loading port is not covered. This made shooting so much more pleasurable. It is just a breeze to load. So I upgraded my PCP and put this Aztec Emerald 5.5-25x50 on.
This is such a nice FFP scope for field target. I am really excited to sight this in. And shoot it.
This is my trusty TX200 I have had for ten plus years. It is tuned to 12 ft lb and I had a giant scope for open class with 40x magnification.
The scope cost 300 dollars and was not great. Now I’m shooting Hunter and I put a smaller scope on and for the first time since I have owned the gun the loading port is not covered. This made shooting so much more pleasurable. It is just a breeze to load. So I upgraded my PCP and put this Aztec Emerald 5.5-25x50 on.
This is such a nice FFP scope for field target. I am really excited to sight this in. And shoot it.
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Yes, I like those 124's The seals in my first one crumbled after about ten years, so off to Beemans for repair, those lasted about 35 years so sent it to David Slade and he resealed and put in a new spring. The second one I found on ebay last year, I really looked at details and pictures carefully. It came sans sights, and some kind of cover over the muzzle to hide the dovetail. I removed that and put on an Anschutz diopter front and a Williams receiver sight, like my first. It had documentation where it had been resealed about three years prior to my purchase so both should be good for years to come now. Lately I have gotten more into the older FWB target guns, picked up a couple of the 150 models, from 1967 and 1968. One of those had documentation of recent resealing the other needed it so sent it out. I like the stocks on them better than my later model 300, they just fit me better . They are not as powerful as the 124, but quite a bit more accurate, at least off a bench, plus they have better sights.
The bad thing, is that here in E Texas unless I can get out very early it is too hot to do much shooting. Even early morning the humidity makes it rather oppressive.
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The FWB target guns are amazing. I have a 300S and a 601, marvelous shooters both. Have you ever shot a Diana 75? Unreal. Mine needs a reseal. Talked to David Slade about sending in 18 months or so ago and then life got hectic. Need to get in touch with him and send in. My youngest daughter lives in Paris and I think we’ll be up there in late October. If I have resealed by then I’ll bring with me if you want to try one out.
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Finished a huge job on driveway, 1 1/2 weeks. Cooler today. Shot my HW77 .20. Super accurate. Gets better every time I use it.
Also shot a HW30 .177. These will never leave.
Crow
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Thanks. In 5 minutes I’m going to ask you to stop talking. I wish you were right.
Should have said. New gun only shot a few times. Seems to be getting better. Crow
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HMMM > 94 degrees out and 73 % humidity , ""They say" Feels like 106 , interesting . I am going out to shoot anyway . Morini 162 IE .
Shot 4 Squirrels stealing from the feeder early AM . TX200 .177 H&N FTT .
Shot 4 Squirrels stealing from the feeder early AM . TX200 .177 H&N FTT .
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No shooting today. Did a little yard work early then went in to work on a trio of .22LR Revolvers. Two S&W K frames a Model 17 and Model 18 along with a 22/32 Kit gun a smaller i frame.
The chambers were all so tight that it was very hard to extract fired shells. The Model 17 I have had since 1969 and really do not remember any problem, but having problems with the other two, I checked it with the current batches of ammo I have and it was hard.
The other two I got, used about a year ago and taken them to a gunsmith to have the chambers reamed, but that did not help as I learned last week when I took my son and grandson to the range, First cylinder full would not come out withour hammering on the ejector rod. I ran them back by the gunsmith and he said he could not do anything else.
I researched a little more and ended up ordering a special reamer from Manson, listed as a .22LR finish/cylinder reamer, along with some high sulfur cutting oil. This morning I reamed one, it took several applications, being a few turns of the reamer, removing it and cleaning shavings out of the flutes then more oil and a bit more. Cleaned it up loaded with two of the ammo's that had been giving problems and went out to the flower bed and fired down into the ground( I am lucky to live just out of the city limits on a very large lot) Got back inside and the empties extracted fine, so cleaned it and proceeded to work over the other two, repeating the same test process.
From what I read on some of the S&W forums this has been an ongoing problem with S&W rimfire revolvers for years. I suspect that they keep using worn reamers and a lot of guns come out with chambers smaller than SAAMI specs.
It took probably 45 minutes to an hour per gun, going slow and careful, so I was getting tired, especially my right hand and arm twisting on that reamer.
The chambers were all so tight that it was very hard to extract fired shells. The Model 17 I have had since 1969 and really do not remember any problem, but having problems with the other two, I checked it with the current batches of ammo I have and it was hard.
The other two I got, used about a year ago and taken them to a gunsmith to have the chambers reamed, but that did not help as I learned last week when I took my son and grandson to the range, First cylinder full would not come out withour hammering on the ejector rod. I ran them back by the gunsmith and he said he could not do anything else.
I researched a little more and ended up ordering a special reamer from Manson, listed as a .22LR finish/cylinder reamer, along with some high sulfur cutting oil. This morning I reamed one, it took several applications, being a few turns of the reamer, removing it and cleaning shavings out of the flutes then more oil and a bit more. Cleaned it up loaded with two of the ammo's that had been giving problems and went out to the flower bed and fired down into the ground( I am lucky to live just out of the city limits on a very large lot) Got back inside and the empties extracted fine, so cleaned it and proceeded to work over the other two, repeating the same test process.
From what I read on some of the S&W forums this has been an ongoing problem with S&W rimfire revolvers for years. I suspect that they keep using worn reamers and a lot of guns come out with chambers smaller than SAAMI specs.
It took probably 45 minutes to an hour per gun, going slow and careful, so I was getting tired, especially my right hand and arm twisting on that reamer.
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