Keeping the rifle in competion form.

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B.Johnson

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I asked in an early post what to use as a spring, and chamber oil without much luck. My rifles have been sitting a good long time, and need attention. How do you all manage to keep your rifle in top form. Mine are an older model Anshutz, and Fienwerkbau. I don't want to risk damage by just going ahead, and shooting them. I should probably say, how do I take them out of storage?
 
For match type springers that right now still seem to work ok, Shooting them actually seem to keep em going better than not shooting em. So long as they fire hard enough to cut decent holes in paper, you are not hurting em.

Keep external linkages lightly lubed with liquid gun oil, or even non-detergent motor oil. Don't lube inside except perhaps a very, very small drop of silicone airgun oil, perhaps once every 2000 shots at very most.

IF power fails so holes are just tears, or pellets stick, or any hunks of plastic blow out the barrel ... stop right then and have the gun looked into. Some guns have seals that fall apart due to age, but nost of these fell apart ten years or more ago, so if yous still work, the gun was rebuilt since.
 
Thank's very much for the reply. My Fienwerkbau was bought back in the mid 60's. That was when it was brouhgt into this country by Daisy Airrifle C0. It is a model 150 side cocker. The other is a Anshutz, also a side cocker bought back in the early 80's. Except for service with Beeman lube, niether rifle has every given any problem. I would think that any seal would be long gone by now. Where would I send them if need be?
 
For the FWB, Scott Pilkington does great work " back East", as does Dave Slade in Tennesee. On the FWB 150, there is a rubber-like buffer in the piston nose the really MUST be replaced if it hasn't already. It would really be a shock to see one that has not been changed already that still works ok.

For the Anschutz, Randy Bimrose, who lives here in ca., does nice work on these sort of guns, Perhaps Scott Pilkington still does as well, although parts are difficult to get for those.
 
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