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Airguns by Make and Model => Vintage Air Gun Gate => Topic started by: KWK on January 30, 2024, 07:15:41 PM
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I'm certain I've seen them go for more on the open market. But I don't see many change hands. Anybody know what the Baloney (Blue) Book says?
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I think it was a bit high for the condition? But how often do you see them. To me a rifle that is extremely well made but seems to be a rifle designed by a committee of engineers, so odd and complicated. They took their successful pistol design and just made it bigger?
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"They took their successful pistol design and just made it bigger?"
That's what a Mark 1 rifle is. The Mk2's are more complicated with the bolt handle and flip up sight. The ability to swap barrels. Too complicated IMO. Fun to look at.
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I've thought about trying to make a second barrel for mine, just for grins. Need to find a .20 barrel .61-ish in diameter.
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"They took their successful pistol design and just made it bigger?"
That's what a Mark 1 rifle is. The Mk2's are more complicated with the bolt handle and flip up sight. The ability to swap barrels. Too complicated IMO. Fun to look at.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you wrote, but the MKI had interchangeable barrels that required a screwdriver, just like the pistols do, while the MKII barrel replacement is just a push of a button (at least for the 2nd version on up). Did you mean to say that's too complicated? IMHO, they're extremely easy to use and work on. Check out Smith's Encyclopedia, pgs 111-112, where Ivan T. Sanders from the British Museum describes doing field repairs while on expeditions with nothing more than bits of "wire, tin, old shoe leather and sealing wax."
Extraordinary guns. The only downside is the 26" barrel, which is way too long for its compression. The pellet is undoubtedly slowing down considerably even before it leaves the barrel. Then again, the long barrel gives the MKII the legendary profile that I think is one of the most beautiful of all air rifles, past and present.