A little custom work

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I have had my RWS 48 in 177 cal. for about 6 years and shoot it quite often.

I put a Vortek spring kit and Vortek seals in it and the gun smoothed out quite a bit, but still had a sharp recoil that disrupted the shot keeping it from being the accurate gun it had the potential to be.

After doing a bunch of reading, I figured if I could reduce the weight of the piston a little, and take a turn or two off the spring, it would calm the gun down from a hard shooting magnum to a more reasonable target gun.

Step 1 -- drill some equally spaced holes in the piston to reduce the weight.
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Then cut the spring.
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Then heat the spring and push it against the vise so the coils are even.
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Then grind the top coil so it is flat and polish it.
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Then properly lub everything up with molly paste and put it together to shoot.

The top is before at 40 yards. The bottom is the result at 40 yards. Both are from a solid rest.
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I took a chance on this and it could have easily gone the "other" direction. I don't recommend doing it unless you are willing to buy new parts should it go astray.
 
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