Over The Moon With My New .177 97Kt.

[fret78 87]

I had my 97kt 22 dun by tony stage 2 mate your going to love it

I've not doubt. there should be a 97KT appreciation group on here lol

[guns 13]

Its better than my daystate air ranger mate one gun that will stay with me for life its a masterpiece

[mhopton 807]

Knowing and owning hw for most of my life as much as they are rated the 97 is a top springer so I ask all of you 97 owners why the hell is there so many for sale ??????

[pianoman 3,587]

Knowing and owning hw for most of my life as much as they are rated the 97 is a top springer so I ask all of you 97 owners why the hell is there so many for sale ??????

Who knows mhopton???? The reasons could be many. Need cash. Can't get on with their 97. New girlfriend is a Veggie Anti . Want to switch to PCP ....

 

But they are making superb HW97 tuning projects like Chris's here possible; at some decent prices!

 

Hi Chris.

Always a genuine pleasure to read what you've been getting up to in your workshop with your rifles and now this. Andy was out with me today with his HW90 .20 gasram and my HW97 and we had a lovely day just sitting in the peace of the woods out of the winds, enjoying a target plink and bagged a couple of birds; a crow for me and a woodie for the pot for Andy.

 

He's taken my 97 away to refinish his tuning and fettling work on it, now its Sandwell Field Sports spring kit has been just about run-in. I'm over the moon with mine too. It's a real retro-classic looking rifle in it's vintage HW77 stock. But it handles and shoots like a dream.

 

How you get such sweetly smooth performance from a bit of tin mug and what-not is fascinating engineering know-how at work to me. Brilliant to read of what you do Chris!

 

Best wishes to you both Gentlemen.

Simon

[thursodog 353]

Hi Simon.

Thanks for the great compliments mate, great to read your 97 is on top form and getting the tlc from a top gunsmith that it deserves.

Here's a pic of the piston sleeve, I've been looking all over for an exact thickness of steel all week to make a perfect fitting sleeve and had no luck from shops to engineering companies and suppliers and then on Friday Nicks asked me if i was keeping my old travel mug for a reason as it was taking up space in her cupboard.

I said nah chuck it out so it was duly handed to me for the bucket and as soon as i looked at delapidated thing with its stainless cover hanging off i thought surely not?

Low and behold the exact size so i checked my soles for dog sh!t once again and headed into the man cave all excited.

I'm fascinated by these gas rams, how do you and Andy fair with the 90, is it sweet to shoot?

 

http://s203.photobucket.com/user/thursodog/media/HW97KT035_zps5db21f19.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7

 

All the very best

 

Chris

Edited June 23, 2013 by thursodog

[thursodog 353]

Sounds like you have made a good gun into a fantastic gun ,well done It a shame you don't live near me so you could show me what to do lol

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Hi Villaman.

Thanks for the compliments

As you can see i've not had to do any radical engineering here, just a really thorough polish up of the internals and a light coating of Bisley gun grease, my personal fave.

The trigger has been cleaned out of all the crap grease thats not needed and then a polish up of the individual componants to have it breaking like glass at about a pound and a half.

Sorry about the rubbish pics, can't see the polished surfaces.

No grease in the trigger just some dry graphite lube, you can use an old HB pencil, just file the point onto a piece of paper and use the filings as lube, brilliant stuff and very slippery.

 

Hope this is of some use.

 

Atb

 

Chris.

 

P.S. As you can see from the pic, Nicks is a very understanding wife, she is so used to it she even knows what model i'm working on

Edited June 23, 2013 by thursodog

[pianoman 3,587]

What a fair and understanding lady you have indeed Chris. Nice Orchids too!

 

The note on using HB pencil filings as a lube. How on earth did you ever discover that? (You can tell I'm as useless at Engineering solutions as I am decently good at oil painting!) You seem to have a genuine gift for spotting the most useful materials from unlikely sources! The tin mug is another of your remarkable turns!

 

Andy's gasram HW90 is extremely accurate and its compact proportions make sweet handling. It's .20 and in his hands it's absolutely deadly. It has a snap-sharp let-off as all its air cracks off at once. It's not quite as smooth as a spring mechanism is, in my experience. But, nonetheless, I've split twigs with it at 40 metres range, just plinking with it! I'm not used to the cocking cycle which is like a 2-stage process. Break it and there's a bit of slack till the barrel link contacts the gas-strut and then it's a fairly stiff pull to cock it home, load the pellet and return. I prefer my spring cocking. But that's what I've grown accustomed to.

 

To Andy it's as sweet as a rifle can get and that's what matters!

 

Cheers Chris and all the very best with shooting your HW97KT pal. It must be running smooth as silk by now!

 

Simon

Edited June 25, 2013 by pianoman

[andyfr1968 772]

What a fair and understanding lady you have indeed Chris. Nice Orchids too!

 

The note on using HB pencil filings as a lube. How on earth did you ever discover that? (You can tell I'm as useless at Engineering solutions as I am decently good at oil painting!)

 

It's graphite, Simon. A very good dry lube but it wears off easily when used dry.