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I bought the barrel as a cheap blank, also bought the air bottle and regulator body direct from China. The rest was made in my home shop with a small lathe and Chinese mill. The way it's designed I can easily change the regulator pressure, the weight and throw of the hammer and the strength of...

I've been testing my second home made air rifle today - I really built this to be adjustable as possible so I could try out various ideas with accuracy being the main aim, and to see if I could make a competitive air rifle to compete in the 25yd air benchrest competitions without spending...

The resins seem to be getting better at a steady rate and the resin printers give a much finer finish that the layer printers. This was with a quick spray over with a can of satin black auto paint.

3D printing is like a magic tool - You think of some small thing you want to make - you design it on your computer with a CAD program - you transfer the design to your printer - a couple of hours later, there it is. Ok, not quite that simple, but not rocket science either. There are basically...

OK - Don't know why this is in Italic, I can't seem to switch it off. I really don't think a sensible sized brake will effect the performance of an HW30 one bit - it will however help to tame the ferocious recoil. :) I doubt if there's an "off the peg" brake for the HW30 but as it's purely...

I repair a few airguns for my local dealer and picked up one yesterday - It's a Chinese PCP, Artemis M11, a fairly budget level rifle with the attached note "Magazine stuck - please fix". Sure enough, the magazine is locked solid and I suspected, as any revolver shooters will guess, there's a...

Thank you JM - Unfortunately I didn't record the build as I went along - I'm not really one for exact plans and drawings - more make it up as I go along. Here are a few pictures of the build I do have. After thinking about the idea and a few doodles on the back of beer mat I tried a basic CAD...

I have a host of airguns and all are fun to shoot - just this weekend my daughter and grandsons came for a visit. We had some fun with some metal spinner targets shooting some of my old vintage spring guns, a couple of 1920's BSA underlevers and a couple of 1960's BSA underlevers.

I built this for competition use - among all the other stuff I shoot, I also shoot AR benchrest and AR 20yd offhand. I shoot this in a 25 yd indoor NSRA (UK) rules benchrest league. NSRA benchrest is shot from the shoulder, no rear bag and sub 12ftlb. So, it's single shot .177, with an 8.4gn...

Just thought you guys might be interested in my homemade air rifle. I bought the pressure tube and a Walther barrel blank and made the rest. It's a hammer design with an electronic trigger. Short video of testing the trigger mechanism: https://youtu.be/cBwPoKaZm8Y

I broke the ejector on my Winchester 94AE .357 at the weekend - I found some of the ejector on the floor but no sign of the spring. These parts are almost unobtainable in the UK but it is a fairly common problem with the 94, particularly in .357. So spent yesterday afternoon teaching myself how...

Here's a quick clip of me pellet testing in an old LGR at 10 metres I saved from the scrap bin - it had been laying unloved and non working for around 10 years in a local rifle club safe. The seals had totally disintegrated and it was in a generally poor state. I ended up making a new piston...

Over here (UK) the CZ's are quite popular in sporting class benchrest and rules state must be singularly loaded - So I make a few of these single shot adapters. There are plenty of cheap 3d printed single shot adapters out there, almost all made with the usual FDM layer printers but, to be...

I use Autodesk 123d design for CAD - I think it's a brilliant program for the type of stuff I do, about half way between Tinker cad and Fusion360. Unfortunately, for some reason it has been discontinued by Autodesk, I really can't understand why. Just at the moment I'm attempting to...

Here you go Bill.