Gun Watch Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 Air Arms Pro Sport (walnut stock) £500 .177 Air Rifle Private Seller Used - Excellent Condition Bristol, Avon Under Lever Description Overview: Excellent condition - 3 years old, very little use. (sorry about dark photos – contact me for more). Air Arms Pro Sport .177 (walnut stock, oil finish). Model - built in suppressor. Full V-Mach Rifle Tuning Kit - 11.89ftlb with lightest pellet at 7grains. Runs at 11.5ftlb with normal AA pellet. (Also comes with all original internal components in excellent condition). Bisley adjustable recoil pad. 11mm to 20mm picatinny rail with adjustable 30mm scope mounts. Walther 4-12x50 parallax focus, illuminated reticule, (also has sunshade). GINB Custom Brass Trigger Guard (comes with original trigger guard). Suede leather rifle sling (fixings fitted to rifle and spares provided). Comes with: Combro Chronograph, Laser Range Finder, Flambu Hard Gun Case, Rifle Slip, Eye piece and flip covers for scope, Accuracy Plus and Logun Penetrator Pellets, as mentioned all original internal parts that have been replaced with V-Mach kit, original trigger guard and spare sling & swivels. Reason for selling – I’ve owned and looked after this rifle for the last three years and it’s an amazing piece of kit in build quality, finish and performance. It’s very accurate and its hefty weight probably helps this as well. The only down side to the rifle in my opinion is its weight, as carrying it around all day can be tough some times, hence the sling. I’m selling it because I don’t use it and the only time if do get to see it is when I take it out of its case once every few months to give it a wipe down with an oily rag (always stored barrel down). The factory oil finish walnut stock is nice if you like the natural look but it is porous in its grain and could do with somebody with a dap hand at stock finishing to give it a proper oil finish with some tru oil. The stock is also dent free completely apart from a small nick on the right side near the barrel (visible in picture). Thanks for looking. This gun is being sold by Pigeon Watch member Cake444. Message them here View all the gun sale details on Gun Watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake444 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 (edited) Hi everybody, Sorry about the double post! Just to let you know this is my Air Rifle for sale, thank you for reading. I have many more photos so please let me know if you would like to see them. Thanks again, Mike Edited November 10, 2011 by Cake444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kay8.4 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 More Pictures. Hi Mike Very interested could you tell me who fitted the V Mach and what model range finder? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake444 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 (edited) Hi Mike Very interested could you tell me who fitted the V Mach and what model range finder? Cheers Hi there, Thanks for messaging me. The range finder doesn’t seem to have any manufacturers stamp or markings on it. I purchased it off of eBay about two years ago from a company in the UK that supply general shooting/outdoor gear. I paid £69 for it new so I can’t imagine that its one of the well know ones but to be fair to it I have used it a lot over the years and never had any problems with it (rain or snow). Mainly use it for ranging up pattern targets to test home loads, never changed the battery in it yet! To be honest I’ve always done all my gunsmithing myself, so fitting the V-Mach kit wasn’t too complicated at all. I will outline how I fitted it below as I remember most of the details. The kit comes with some basic instructions and there are also some good tutorials online that can help provide visuals just for a bit of fore sight prior to any work. Field stripping the Pro Sport is very user friendly (unlike the old BSA's etc..). You simply remove the stock and then the cocking arm unit which has a main bolt in the rear that eases off the spring block, allowing you to take the whole internal piston out (including cylinder if you pull the trigger). After this you can discard the spring, spring guide and spring block that sits between the spring and piston internal face (this is recommended or it will be above 12ftlb) actually if you look at one of my pic’s you will see it sitting on the end of the spring. V-Mach provide some shims including synthetic shims so you can gradually install them while testing the power of the rifle to get the desired ftlb's (this generally happens right at the end though). The V-Mach kit comes with piston grease so you can apply this in modderation to the new spring guide and spring just for future proofing. The internal cylender needs gegreasing and cleaning and then a very tiny thin layer of grease inside (not too much or it will build up at the face), the outer can be applied much thicker if desired. The kit comes with a tool for popping piston seals onto the piston face. It’s very simple, affective and needed as the pistons are tough as hell. When fitted you have to push the piston into the cylinder to see what the fit is like (V-Mach suggest it may be oversized). This is the most important stage of fitting the kit! You must take great care when doing this part of you will be buying a new V-Mach piston seal. The ideal is that the whole piston, with seal fitted, slowly slides down the cylinder under its own weight gradually pushing air out the breach whole - you must fix the V-Mach piston seal onto the shaft of a Dremil and spin it while touching it down with very very fine grade wet and dry. You keep doing this and testing it bit by bit by bit until you get the desired outcome which I mentioned above. This is what I did and it fitted beautifully sliding down the cylinder GRADUALY under its own weight with no leakage around the edges, just the breach hole. Another test is to put your finger over the breach hole and push the piston - it doesn’t budge even with my body weight on it. (according to a friend of mine this part sounds quite sexual) Once you have this set up you can apply some piston grease around the seal (not in front!) and then reassemble the gun. At this stage you will need to Chronograph the gun and either remove or insert shims to get the desired ftlb. When I first inserted the kit I used all five shims provided and the gun was way too hot! So I went down to two shims which took me to 11.89 - 11.93ftlb with a very light 7grain pellet. I cronoed it with a light pellet to gauge its maximum performance as it would be illegal to have a gun performing at 12ftlb with a Bisley magnum for example! The gun hits 11.50 - 11.63ftlb with Air Arms and Accuracy plus so it’s performing very well. Basically this is all that I remember, I’m not sure if I missed anything as it was almost a year ago, so I apologise if I did. Thanks again, and let me know if you want to know anything else. Edited November 11, 2011 by Cake444 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay8.4 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Hi Mike PM sent Cheers John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay8.4 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thanks for the info mike Sold to me then Pm sent re collection etc Thanks John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake444 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thanks for the info mike Sold to me then Pm sent re collection etc Thanks John Thats great John. Sold! Will send a PM later with details. Thanks again, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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