SteveieP

The sear engagement screw (ahead of the trigger) has 3 washers under it. Remove 2 of them & refit the screw You should still have safe engagement but a lighter trigger. Further or alternatively:- Venoman (Lyn Lewington) does a brass setback trigger for these with proper screws to adjust first & second stage. I have 1 of Lyns triggers on mine ..looks nice & works well

Just removing 2 of the 3 washers from under the sear engagement (front) screw makes a big difference, lightens trigger pull considerably & costs zero. if you feel the need to go still further, somewhere around £25 will get you a brass setback trigger from Lyn Lewington. A superb piece of engineering with 2 further adjustment screws to set the trigger "just so" The equivalent of Rowan Engineering triggers but about £10 per unit cheaper. IMO, my conversion is no different to putting a V-mach kit & Rowan trigger into a HW except the start & finish points are £x cheaper & the end improvement is just as worthwhile

And they can be modified Carbined to 12.5 inches & with Lynn Lewington AR silencer. The breach seal is shimmed because the seal does not stand quite proud enough for a consistent seal. (a built in design fault common to the Remington & SMK 208 series & cost about 2 pence to fix) Welshwilly tune kit Maccari piston seal Lyn Lewington brass (curved) setback trigger The scope is a Nikko Stirling Gold Crown Airking 4x12x42 AO/IR Mildot it goes very well on JSB Exact 5.52 and performs as good as it looks Some might argue that spending the money on the modifications defeats the point of a cheaper rifle However, the mod's are what makes this one mine,

Why not give Crosman Premier Ultra Mag a try? Crosman made the Accupels until a few years ago. The Ultra Mag is basically it's replacement. It's the same shape & weight etc...and also relatively cheap as pellets go

http://www.southyorkshireairguns.co.uk/find-us-16-w.asp If you visit the above, you are also 5 minutes drive from:- http://www.sheffieldairrifles.co.uk/ In the interests of equality & diversity or just want cheaper pellets etc Please note Sheffield Air Rifles is a retail outlet & not a range

I would probably cancel & buy elswhere, as they aren't offering you best price anyway. If you don't really need IR I would go for the 4x12x42 at £70 from BAR, which hits the sweet spot on price for me The non IR versions actually have a slightly wider field of view than the equivalent IR version They only charge a fiver for postage on top. I've got 3 of the 4x12x42 (including one with IR) BAR don't seem to do the same scope you chose as an IR version, but have a look at the choices on the link below. http://www.airgunbuyer.com/Showproducts.asp?cat=Telescopic%20Sights&SubCat=Nikko%20Stirling%20Scopes For less than the £99 you've been quoted BAR would do the 4.5x14x50 IR version! I bought all 3 of my Airkings from BAR at different times & always without a hitch. Also a good place for pellets, where a bulk purchase of 10 cans gets you a 10% discount and the same excellent delivery service.

My Crosman Optimus has a cut down barrel, done by it's first owner. Cut a little shorter than I would have done, but anyhoo A slip-on silencer hasn't been mentioned as an alternative choice. Barrel is 15mm dia such as in the link http://nmproducts.net/smk-sound-suppressor-ssxs19-fits-xs15-standard-model-177-and-22-to-fit-most-150mm-barrels-p-71757.html?osCsid=058937daa2738a5d427a441897e1a97a I wouldn't crop a barrel shorter than say 12.5 inches. You can use a jubilee clip over the barrel as a guide to the hacksaw blade, so it's cut square. Recrown and add the silencer. I did my SMK TH208 myself and the accuracy is still spot on. I took about 5 inches & a barrelweight off, which was making the TH208 nose heavy. The previous owner of the Optimus didn't manage to cut the barrel square, so I trued it up & recrowned. Also added a shim-steel piston liner, which smooths & quietens things a bit too

On the cocking stroke, is the tophat striking the top of the spring guide, before the sear has chance to engage?

A silencer does make a difference to the muzzle report irrespective of the source of the charge of gas (pcp, spring or Co2) it makes no difference to the noise arising from the action on a spring gun which is right next to the shooters ear. What does make a difference to the noise of the action is installing a tune kit to elimenate much of the twang, noise and vibration. The addition of a stainless shim piston sleeve helps a lot becauseit reduces lateral movement of the spring and so damps any resonation of the spring in conjunction with a close fitting spring guide. To quieten a springer down, and make it more pleasant to shoot in the process, needs both a tune and a silencer. why wouldn't a silencer work on a spring gun? It's like saying the silencer on a car works for petrol engines but not on a diesel

Bought some ages ago in .22 after an article in an airgun magazine said they went well through an SMK XS208. I thought I'd give them a try through my thumbhole stock'd and tuned TH208 I still have over half of the 200 left. Tight fit in the bore even for a 5.50mm head size, due to a ridge just below the dome Subject to horizontal stringing at the target, so not accurate enough to be any practical use (well for me anyway). I keep them to put a couple down a barrel after maintenance or a repair, to bed components in to save wasting better pellets. They may work ok for some rifles, just not in any of the 3 rifles I have. If I want something around that weight and shape, Crosman Ultra Mag work better (for me) and are cheaper. I was twatting 2 inch spinners at a measured 52yds earlier this week with the TH208 using the Crosmans, which isn't too shaby for a .22 springer. Having said that, I bought a new can of Crosmans last week and they had some crappy black lubricant on them that makes your hands filthy. Soon washed that off and relubed with LT1.

If you like the idea of a Titan Xs spring cut to the right size and tophat / guide made for that spring, plus slip washers and power bands to put the power just where you want it, then you can't go far wrong here http://www.woodfield-gcp.co.uk/springtuning.htm Got this chaps kit in 2 rifles and both work v nicely indeed. Now also doing a range of replacement piston seals, if you scroll to the bottom of the same page. Just another option for you to consider

If it's anything like my Gold Crown Airking 4x12x42, you won't go far wrong. The Airkings are getting difficult to find now for some reason and the prices are up to around £90 for this model, when a year ago the price was nearer £75.

I expect you mean Hammerli Looks more like an SMK XS19, which is a Gamo Hunter copy. If so there's a good availability of aftermarket tuning tuning kits, replacement trigger & piston seal etc. http://www.woodfield-gcp.co.uk/index.html is more or less on your doorstep Of course, you can just shoot it. LOL

http://nmproducts.net/air-rifle-cleaning-kit-for-177-22-plus-some-spare-parts-industry-brand-qf2-p-67205.html?cPath=22_1678&osCsid=058937daa2738a5d427a441897e1a97a Above is a cheap cleaning kit. It contains 2 of the breach seals you want. It also has a piston seal you can use, but it will be oversized & need sizing down. There is also a replacement spring of dubious quality which may be of some use depending on whether the one already in the gun is better or worse than the replacement. Heck, you even get a barrel cleaning rod & some oil for the hinges on your gate.

http://www.gunspares.co.uk/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=24886&cat=T05+Trigger+Unit# Above is a link to the schematic on the Chambers website. It's identical to the Diana T05 trigger, so you can search the web for info on that.