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Thread: Nice gunsmithing video

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    Boolit Buddy
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    Nice gunsmithing video

    This video was done by a UK airgun shooter on his antique airgun restoration project. It is a spring mechanism that you won't see on any modern airgun.

    If you have half an hour spare and have an interest in gunsmithing, I think it is definitely worth watching.

    https://youtu.be/hwZ_O8j62Vg

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    Thanks! Really enjoyed that.

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    Lovely!

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    Pretty unusual mechanism, never would have dreamed of it myself, but then I don't live in Germany 200 years ago Interesting to see how others solved the problem of compressing air to move a projectile...

    Randy
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    Mm.
    Be aware that the Swiss (if memory serves) issued a PCP for their militia back in the day (late 1700 hundreds).
    Again taken from memory, of 8mm caliber. Using round balls AND a mag capacity (this at a time when a single shot flint lock was the norm)

    Guns were delivered with a hand pump and so forth.

    In turn on the approx same level there´s the old French offerings from about mid 1800´s. I believe these were often times in 8mm caliber as well.

    In short?
    PCP´s are nothing new, far from it.

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    Racing: the Girandoni Air Gun that Lewis and Clark took with them is the one you are talking about. They were .46 cal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle

    They carried it to impress the natives to not mess with them because it was a Repeater and could fire many shots before a flintlock could be reloaded,

    Robert Beeman was supposed to have that Lewis and Clark Gun in his collection.

    Randy
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