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 pellet stuck halfway into the barrel and half in the magazine. It could have been an easy fix, just knock the pellet back into the mag and fixed, unfortunately not, there's no room behind for the pellet as another has indexed behind it.
So, after a almost complete strip down I was able to remove the mag with no damage and was quite surprised to find 11 pellets stuck in the barrel.
It really does make me wonder how some people survive with so little common sense or mechanical sympathy that you would keep trying to shoot the thing without realising that something was amiss.
Sure enough, the magazine is locked solid and I suspected, as any revolver shooters will guess, there's a pellet stuck halfway into the barrel and half in the magazine. It could have been an easy fix, just knock the pellet back into the mag and fixed, unfortunately not, there's no room behind for the pellet as another has indexed behind it.
So, after a almost complete strip down I was able to remove the mag with no damage and was quite surprised to find 11 pellets stuck in the barrel.
It really does make me wonder how some people survive with so little common sense or mechanical sympathy that you would keep trying to shoot the thing without realising that something was amiss.
