Original Mod 5 pistol

The reason I stripped it was because it wouldn't blow a pellet out, you could feel a light draught if you fired (no pellet) at your hand. Once I had it apart, it was obvious, there was no piston seal, gone, no bits or remnants, just missing Tom thought it was the breech seal leaking but that looked good to me.
I've got it together & working, it chronos Accupells around 265/275 ft/p/s. It does have have a very tight choke on it though, here is a selection of pellets I shot through it.
It was easy enough to strip but I couldn't get the spring back in without my spring compressor, I hadn't added anything it was as I stripped it.
Quite pleasant to shoot, trigger is reasonably light but no safety, not keen on the foresight, it comes to a sharp point rather than squared off. I'd say it's a tidy plinker rather than a target pistol even though it's got an anatomical grip. Pleased with it now!!

That's chewing up the pellets pretty well! Do you have any smaller head sizes to hand?

No, the Air Arms Fields are 5.51, I have a pellet sizer, I might try & drop some down to 5.4 or even 5.3 & see how they look. I shot a few into a target across my garage, taking my shaky hand out of the equasion they seem to group OK.

I've had a play with my pellet sizer, 5.3mm is too loose, the gun fires like it's empty & velocity was 78 f/p/s, the 5.4mm were a little better but still not tight enough, velocity 217 f/p/s, 5.45mm weren'y bad 229 f/p/s but unsized 5.51mm were 258 f/p/s, the best by far & the gun was a lot smoother.

Shooting at about 6 yds, accurace wasn't too bad, especially as it was me shooting, the very tight choke doesn't seem to have any adverse effects on it.

Looks good to me!

TWBryan said:

Looks good to me!

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I took it back to him on Friday, when I saw him today, I asked if he'd tried it yet, yes he says, I've shot the tin that holds the clothes pegs he's now in trouble with his Mrs, flippin kids he's 66 later this year.