P95Carry
Moderator Emeritus
I was reminded of this from following the ''Which airgun to wound'' thread ......
Mention was made of firing cleaning felt wads or similar .... but it reminded me of one very major ''no-no'' with spring powered air weapons ..... NOT firing them empty. In fact I wonder whether these cleaning wads give quite enough resistance.
Ok .. probably shouldn't even mention it cos pretty sure most will know ..... but just in case .... throwing it in in case someone has not thought it out.
The reason is pretty obvious but ... if no pellet .. and thus no resistance to release of air pressure, the piston can slam home so hard on end of chamber, that damage occurs. It has no decelerative buffering, as you get when pellet needs expelled.
Once or twice may not be too bad but repeated empty shots sure will create damage. Only mentioning - ''just in case''
Mention was made of firing cleaning felt wads or similar .... but it reminded me of one very major ''no-no'' with spring powered air weapons ..... NOT firing them empty. In fact I wonder whether these cleaning wads give quite enough resistance.
Ok .. probably shouldn't even mention it cos pretty sure most will know ..... but just in case .... throwing it in in case someone has not thought it out.
The reason is pretty obvious but ... if no pellet .. and thus no resistance to release of air pressure, the piston can slam home so hard on end of chamber, that damage occurs. It has no decelerative buffering, as you get when pellet needs expelled.
Once or twice may not be too bad but repeated empty shots sure will create damage. Only mentioning - ''just in case''