Improving my airgun.

At the factory, Weihrauch splodge grease all over the piston and piston seal. This results in dieseling
which produces over powerful shots (illegal) and inconsistant accuracy. Today I took my HW 80 to bits and cleaned all the excess grease out, replaced the rather burned piston seal with one from my airgun bits box and the standard spring guide with a Titan one. I'm glad to report that the result is an air rifle that shoots sweetly, cocks smoothly and quietly and shoots accurately with power just
in the legal zone! I wish that Weihrauch would not use all that grease. It should not be necessary to dismantle a new gun to make it shoot properly "and" legally.

This is another view of my HW 80! It is a standard model. I have removed the open sights . I think that this is what makes it so light that it floats in the air!

This is my new gun. An HW 80 in .25 calibre. and it is very good!
Notice that it is so light, that it can float in the air!

View from the window.

Loads of birds going about their business. Woodpeckers have a young one that can fly but still wants his mummy!Several Blackbirds, obviously feeding young.Magpies, doves and pigeons.
Often three or four squirrels out after the peanuts. Haven't seen any otters this year but no doubt they will be after the salmon later in the year. Yesterday, the weather was great but today it's cloudy. Funny how the sun can lift your mood. There are no sheep in the field at the moment. The grass is being allowed to grow for haylage which for those that do not know, is wrapped hay which turns into a wonderfully smelling feed. Like tobacco. The willow sticks that I stuck in the ground last year are growing apace. Grass needs cutting again but until I get a self propelled mower, it will have to wait as my heart protested last time I did it!!

This is a view of my front garden and cottage in early summer. (MAY?) Taken from the field side of the river and is where I'm going to set up a shooting table so I can practice and sight a gun in and learn to shoot a large calibre at distances of up to fifty yards.

When and if I ever get my new rifle!

This gun is a BSA Lightning with a brass muzzle weight that I had made but proved too heavy!
Very nice little gun though. Trigger a bit crude but a useful ratting or rabbiting gun. Of course I sold it!