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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => European/Asian Air Gun Gates => UK Airgun Gate => Topic started by: RonC808 on December 03, 2022, 05:40:32 PM
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Kevin LaRose video featuring a couple Webley classics...
https://youtu.be/0BTyL72mbi8 (https://youtu.be/0BTyL72mbi8)
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The Tracker needs the barrel cleaned. Had a lot of guns shoot like that. Bought used and were scatter guns. Clean the barrel and they're shooters. It matters that much. No wonder they sold them. I shot an HW95 like that last week. Cleaned the barrel and pushed a pellet through to feel the bore. Felt normal. The rifle grouped very well afterwards.
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The Tracker needs the barrel cleaned. Had a lot of guns shoot like that. Bought used and were scatter guns. Clean the barrel and they're shooters. It matters that much. No wonder they sold them. I shot an HW95 like that last week. Cleaned the barrel and pushed a pellet through to feel the bore. Felt normal. The rifle grouped very well afterwards.
Good tip👍 Thanks
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The Tracker needs the barrel cleaned. Had a lot of guns shoot like that. Bought used and were scatter guns. Clean the barrel and they're shooters. It matters that much. No wonder they sold them. I shot an HW95 like that last week. Cleaned the barrel and pushed a pellet through to feel the bore. Felt normal. The rifle grouped very well afterwards.
Hey Karl, that's my gun and my video. A big thanks to Ron for posting it. I'm gonna clean that barrel 1st thing tomorrow. Thanks for pointing out something that I should have done already. 😊
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Hey Karl, that's my gun and my video. A big thanks to Ron for posting it. I'm gonna clean that barrel 1st thing tomorrow. Thanks for pointing out something that I should have done already. 😊
Hey Kevin, what a surprise! I am so glad you are on this forum. I do enjoy your videos, shared experiences and story telling. Looking forward to hearing if the barrel cleaning helps. Those are some nice classics that I wasn't aware existed.
Ron
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Hi Ron! So glad to hear that you're enjoying the channel. I've decided to tear the Tracker down and go right through it while cleaning the barrel in the process. I'll post up a video detailing the job. Hopefully I'll squeeze a little more accuracy out of this handy rifle. Thanks again my friend.
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NICE video! Well-done...and great to see something besides TX 200's in this gate, LOL!
Very interesting late Tracker with long barrel; most have the stubby barrel with muzzle weight (there were originally two separate guns - short Tracker, and long-barrel Viscount. But eventually the latter was discontinued and the Tracker name used on long ones). I love those rifles, a nice compact size and so beautifully made and finished. But yeah, dialing them in can be a real trial sometimes! I'll be very interested to see how the rebuild comes out, these rifles are sometimes seen with tap alignment issues too.
Early Tracker for comparison (in US-import "Barnett Spitfire" guise).
(https://i.postimg.cc/DZmrTm5F/1-C48-DAEF-BA0-B-4-DDB-ADBA-49822-DA1-A7-E6.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Protek Supplies has NOS springs for the Tracker
http://proteksupplies.co.uk/mainsprings.html (http://proteksupplies.co.uk/mainsprings.html)
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Trackers are great little rifles
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I've been tempted by the Tracker for quite some years, starting from when I read A. Dahlman's very high praises for the gun, from the early '90s.
To date, there's been exactly two Trackers for sale locally enough to me, but both fetched prices that are too steep for a second-string gun to me. Now, had either been the Deluxe model, with a finely figured walnut stock, I would've bitten.
From my research, there are individual Trackers that are useless, with up to and including banana-shaped receivers. It would be mandatory to get to test shoot the gun before purchase, which is a very rare commodity to me.
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My Eclispe was one of the most accurate air rifles I owned, sold for a Thoeben Fenman that always had and still does have an accuracy problem.
The problem with the Fenman is it far to accurate! Gets boring shooting it, might as well use a PCP.
Going back to the Eclispe it was very capable of one hole groups. One day I decided to check the scopes zero, it's .22 and I shoot standing, no support and 30 yard range.
My back stop was a log which I changed for a fresh unused one that had no pellet holes in it .I fired at my target a number of times but couldn't undestand why there was just one hole. On investigation I found seven pellets butted up to each other.
Scope used on the Eclispe was a Bushmaster 3-9x40 AO BDC.