Blog
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Today, I’ll apply what I learned about bending an airgun barrel to a real problem. As I said in several earlier posts, I have a BSF S70 breakbarrel that came to me with a peep sight installed but no open sights. … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Announcement: Jedediah Strong Smith is this week’s winner of Pyramyd Air’s Big Shot of the Week on their airgun facebook page. He’ll receive a $50 Pyramyd AIR gift card. Congratulations! Jedediah Strong Smith submitted this week’s winning photo for BSOTW. Do you see that there are two people in this image? … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This report talks about bending and straightening airgun barrels. Sometimes, airgun barrels are bent and need to be straightened to work properly with their sights. While there are many home fixes for doing this, I wanted something more precise that I could control more closely. … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1 This is the second part in our series of bending airgun barrels. Settle in, boys and girls, for this report will be long and involved. Today, I’ll begin the quest to bend or straighten an airgun barrel to fix many problems. I’ve waited to do this report until I could … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier A couple weeks back, we talked about straightening bent airgun barrels to improve accuracy. We want to do that so we can hit targets with the sights that were installed. There is, however, another reason for bending barrels. Some guns have sights that do not coincide with where their barrels are pointing, … Read more
by Tom GaylordWriting as B.B. Pelletier Slavia 618. Part 1Part 2 History of airguns This report covers: The test RWS Hobby H&N Match Green Falcon domes Gamo Match RWS Meisterkugeln Rifle JSB Exact Jumbo RWS Superpoint Summary Today we test the Slavia 618 breakbarrel’s accuracy. I have described the rifle in Part 1, and in … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Walther’s LGV Challenger is an exciting new sporting breakbarrel springer. Today, I’ll start looking at a new breakbarrel spring-piston air rifle that’s offered by Walther — the LGV. I saw the full range of these at the 2013 SHOT show and asked to test this one. For the record, … Read more
