bootneckbob
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New pistol arrived today. No revolvers ever over 40 years of owning airguns and now this is my second since Xmas.
The backstory to this one is my father in law died early December and my wife found and air pistol in his possessions which I was subsequently given to sell on to help pay for his funeral (long story!) Anyway, I had a go with it at home in my indoor range to check it was working before selling and was really surprised how good it was. Now, unfortunately I only tested it on 6 yard targets and I put groups in as tidy as I do with my Walther LP500. Anyway, I sold that on to @robs5230 who's local to me and we both use Shebbear shooters range. Rob told me he had the 586 3 barrel set previously and regretted selling it, but was pleased to get hold of the pretty much unused nickel one of my F-I-L. Roll on a week or two and Rob tells me that a rare as hens teeth 3 barrel set is for sale on another forum. As Robs been buying far too many pistols over Xmas his piggy bank couldn't take another hammering and really mine shouldn't have either, but there you go. New to me, 3 barrel 586 set arrived today.
This is it next to my M29 which I bought for Xmas.
Finally, a 10 round group after I got the sights on. By the time I'd put it over the chrono with all 3 barrels I only had 3 groups of 10 to zero. This was the last 10 shots (51-60); two handed supported. Not claiming its fantastic, I'm sure I can tighten it up when I get a feel for it properly. At the moment this group is possibly a tad better than what I've done with the M29 which is a BB version but I use pellets in it.
I'll do some better head to head testing later. I'm also looking forward to trying the other barrels out too.
The backstory to this one is my father in law died early December and my wife found and air pistol in his possessions which I was subsequently given to sell on to help pay for his funeral (long story!) Anyway, I had a go with it at home in my indoor range to check it was working before selling and was really surprised how good it was. Now, unfortunately I only tested it on 6 yard targets and I put groups in as tidy as I do with my Walther LP500. Anyway, I sold that on to @robs5230 who's local to me and we both use Shebbear shooters range. Rob told me he had the 586 3 barrel set previously and regretted selling it, but was pleased to get hold of the pretty much unused nickel one of my F-I-L. Roll on a week or two and Rob tells me that a rare as hens teeth 3 barrel set is for sale on another forum. As Robs been buying far too many pistols over Xmas his piggy bank couldn't take another hammering and really mine shouldn't have either, but there you go. New to me, 3 barrel 586 set arrived today.
This is it next to my M29 which I bought for Xmas.
Finally, a 10 round group after I got the sights on. By the time I'd put it over the chrono with all 3 barrels I only had 3 groups of 10 to zero. This was the last 10 shots (51-60); two handed supported. Not claiming its fantastic, I'm sure I can tighten it up when I get a feel for it properly. At the moment this group is possibly a tad better than what I've done with the M29 which is a BB version but I use pellets in it.
I'll do some better head to head testing later. I'm also looking forward to trying the other barrels out too.
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