Your first airgun

I remember we had a Jacana break barrel in .177 when I was very young, must be 35 years ago…
I can’t remember what happened to it, I think my dad gave it to my uncle and it ended up going to my two cousins. Who knows where it is today.

Many years later I bought my self MY first Airgun, which was at the time a very expensive Diana model 48 side lever in .177.
A beautiful rifle that was heavy but lovely to shoot.

Many years after that I became a game ranger and my every day constant companion working rifle was a CZ .458Lott which I had custom fitted to my very long arms and big hands. As a charge stopping rifle it had no fancy optics, just simple, reliable, easy and quick to find open sights and was intended to stop a charging Buffalo, lion or elephant at 10m. To be able to shoot quickly (very quickly) and accurately with open sights takes a lot of practice and building muscle memory, but at $15 a round practicing with .458Lott ammo gets expensive quickly!
So I took my old Diana to the same gunsmith who had restocked my Lott and asked him to replicate my Lotts dimensions, I wanted them identical in every way, including the sights and sight picture.

The end result was that I could pick up and shoulder either rifle with my eyes closed, and when I opened my eyes I would be looking stright down the barrel with the sight picture perfectly lined up on what I was pointing at.
I lost count of how many tins of pellets I put through that Diana, one pellet at a time.
Shoulder, aim, shoot, quick as you can. Shoulder, aim, shoot. Shoulder, aim, shoot.
At 12m freehand it was pellet on pellet one hole groups all day long.
I loved that rifle, both of them.

nunga wrote: The first problem is the name, Gamo. the second problem is they are crap. Ive done a lot of trigger conversions for them which did improve them a little but they are a cheap rifle with a high price tag.

Your not the only one who has had those problems.

Its not the problem the the game ram vs spring as I have had the same problem the spring powered gamos and a couple of my friends who own gamos have the same as well particularly with newer models. I've got rid of all mine

Yeah, this is great mercs!

My very first at age 5 (in 1957) was the BSA Cadet .177:

Crosman XT

Edited by mercs - 19 May 2022 at 2:51pm

will do that,we can allways make it a joint project,i can possibly machine things you may not be able to and visa versa mate been a while since have done a joint project,because of where i live i dont see many like minded people,as you know am not easy to find eh!!!most the time i like it that way,but allways nice to kick things around in person with some one else with same interests at times,PM  me and we can swap email addresses etc as i dont really like putting some my ideas or what i do on open forums the way things are these days.

the pcp revolver is 22 cal,my next build is going to be a 25cal lever action rifle ,i now have most of what i need to start the rifle so hope to start on that this year,the pistol going fine,still working on it tho,had some design issuses with valve am sorting out,wasnt sealing properly.