60 days in the hole.Unexpected long-time cocked springer. Not that I hadn’t left a springer cocked by accident….I just never lest one cocked and tested it after every spring-prison term.Kind of test that takes + 2 months AND you have top have a springer that you wouldn't care if it got AFO’ed.Webley Valumax 5mm fits that description. I have several cheap springers, this one rates about as crude-cheap as I can stand...so it was the best choice (as I wouldn’t miss it as much) for a compressed spring test.Not that a one-gun tests means “jack” other than for that one gun.DSCN0130 by Robert Dean, on FlickrLast post was in Feb (when the topic came up again)….and I’ve checked in a few times in the last 2 months.TEST 1: Broken in but never stored cocked managed right at 18 foot pounds (13.7gr. @ 770fps)TEST 2: Survived 11 days…..did lose about 1 foot pound (13.7gr. @ 752fps)TEST 3: Survived the next two week test….no real velocity change (13.7gr.@ 754fps)TEST 4: the unexpected.Safety quit working, rifle wouldn’t fire. Had left it it cocked on safe but unloaded for another long (3 week) time, then broke the barrel and inserted a pellet.Safety wouldn’t go to off...trigger wouldn’t pull.GREAT now I have a cocked and loaded springer...not the most fun thing to take apart to work on in order to figure out why.So I just put it safely away (4 pound block on lead on the muzzle in case it decided to self-shoot) and left it for 30 DAYS.Whoopie...didn’t shoot myself of anything else getting a cocked/loaded springer out of the stock.It was the safety button activator….basically got bent and wouldn’t un-safe the automatic safety.TEST 5:Leaving it uncocked for a week, then seeing if it regained any speed. (nope...entropy doesn't seem to work backwards).------------------Quick summation of this one springer…..which as a sample size of 1 may not match anything else.Lost some speed in the first long cocked session….didn’t lose any in the following long cocked sessions.Didn’t recover any speed from a long un-cocked rest either.Same pellets from the same Tin (13.7Jgr SB’s).Test 1: Not stored cocked: 770fps call it day 0Test 2: cocked for 11 days: 752fps(day #1 to day #11)Test 3: cocked for 14 days: 754fps. (day #12 to day #26)Test 4: cocked for 30 days: 753fps (day #27- day # 57)Test 5: (uncocked recovery): 752fps (UNCOCKED day 57-64).