Why would you sell your Baby ??!!

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JoeWayneRhea

JoeWayneRhea

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Lol its a question I've been asked over and over the last 2 days . I guess my answer is I enjoy the journey of taking a factory rifle and polishing , tuning , reinforcing weak parts , and just generally giving a gun the time and attention that modern manufacturing has all but done away with . Don't get me wrong I appreciate all the thought and design that goes into ANY PCP but time and cost dictate a certain level of " good enough " . I work in Quality Control at a Huge factory and the kind of hand fitting that used to be common is honestly no longer feasible if you want to stay competitive. ....Refinishing a stock to a perfect sheen where the buttplate looks as if it grew from the wood .
Polishing all of the pins and moving pieces of a trigger assembly to the point they look chromed .
Tweeking the hammer tension , fine tuning the regulator , trying different pressure point in the stock , or something as silly as a Crazyass paint job till it suits you .
There's a point where its basically done and its time for a new project ..
What's next ? Maybe a Wildcat , love the exposed works , maybe some nitre bluing in a spot or two . Or an OUTRAGEOUS color scheme to set it off . I honestly don't know yet . But I'm ready to take a new horse out for a ride .
 
Man that's a tough one especially when you have more than one that you really like. I've got four nice AG's now and I'd be hard pressed to find a good enough reason to sell any of them. They all shoot extremely well, hold air forever (knock on wood) and are reliable. Some are heavy, some short, some long but they are all mine....The only way I'd sell one of my "Babies" is if I just lost interest in one or the other and there was something else out on the market that I thought would be better than what I have no. Usually on a good weekend I try to shoot them all a time or two.
JK
 
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I know what you mean - it is amazing the improvements you can get with routine maintenance and a bit of spit and polish.

I have always tuned and tweaked and refinished my rifles - I will buy/sell rifles but I keep my personal rifles. Still have my original Slavia 618 (55 years), my Crosman 101 (50 years) my Browning .22 T-Bolt (45 years), my FWB 124 (34 years)... they are my babies :)

And now that I am back into pellet rifles there is a whole crop of young ones to love and spoil. :)
 
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Good for you Joe. Some shooters just want out of the box performance and never even adjust the trigger, other shooters want to squeeze out every last ounce of performance they can get. I'm somewhere in between. But having a 10 month old baby certainly limits my time these days, so I lean towards ease of adjustability.
  • I think the RAW rifles come pretty well tuned from the factory, so you may be disappointed if you can't find anything to polish!
  • Have you ever considered an Evanix rifle? Kind of rough around the edges, but relatively inexpensive, and lots of tuning potential (like the Rainstorm II platform).
  • I've always liked the HW100 (especially the carbine version). Having owned a few HW springers I can only assume that the build quality of the HW100 is also top-notch.
Please take lots of pictures and document your efforts, I'm sure many shooters would like to see your results.
 
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Haha, funny you mention it😀
I decided to let go of my beloved 6 weeks old Hm1000x yesterday, exactly for the same reasons.
I took out the factory barrel (.30) and replaced it by a BSA carbon fiber sleeved and shrouded barrel in .25 cal. 
Tweaked the reg, adjusted trigger, adjusted HST, and it is a SHOOTER☺
But the problem is that it ends there for me. I feel like I'm "done" with the rifle.
Too bad it's such an expensive gun, but the feeling is the same, regardless if it's a 300€ gun or a 2500€ gun.....
It's one of the best guns I ever had, but I made up my mind and it's time for it to make room for something else.

This is what I shot at the latest 100m match in NL. (too bad I was a bit rusty... I'm a tinkerer, not a competition shooter)
Note the 3 shot cloverleaf groups. One could have been a coincidence, but three...... I don't think so☺
Pellet: King heavy, straight out of the tin, unsorted, unweighted.
Smallest circle (11 points) is 1cm diameter, the second smallest 10 ring is 3cm. I shot a 290, but the gun is capable of 300+ points easily.


 
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Great shooting weather be! That sounds like that was a fun project and I love those guns. Luckily I got mine sold today from a real nice guy so I know it's going to be in good hands for the future its kinda like turning over a vintage car that you don't want to see somebody trash out lol now I gotta figure out what my next move is this is part of the fun part
 
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Well JoeWayneRhea I hope you work over a .25 wildcat, I would be very interested to read the thread.

I am in the middle someplace in terms of working guns over.

I wait for others with greater skills so refine guns etc and then pick the upgrades fixes that suit my needs.

My current gun (gas piston) has been great after I did a tear down and some mods as per other peoples upgrades and suggestions.

For me the Wildcat is a perfect fit in theory for my use and I plan to make mine into a nice example and hang on to it for the long haul if it all works out.

Happy new to you and others on this site, I find it very interesting.
 
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