Thanks for that Gary. Most all of the mahogany seen nowadays seems to be like balsa wood. One of my past businesses involved buying hardwoods and the market at the time was flooded with cheap Malaysian hardwoods of the mahogany family. No comparison. I have some house furniture made from good old Honduras mahogany bartops. A deep rich red color. Thanks for sharing. - Vicby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
That I do like. What made you choose mahogany? I particularly like the carving. I would guess it makes for an excellent grip. I once had a high quality European rifle that had a pistol grip shaped like a birds head with fishscale type carving. It wasnt just cosmetic but practical as well. It looks very nice indeed. I have only seen mahogany used before on Phillipino guns.by El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Thanks for the reply Mr Hoover. I hope your initials aren't J E and you have a penchant for female garments. He tends to be associated with his Titan style designs which started life in the late 70's early 80's but I have field tested all manner of weird and wonderful straght line valve equipped air/co2 bigbore guns over the years. I have access to plenty of piccies. They are something else whenby El Caro - The Picture Gallery
He was getting a bit impatient there. I had to erase the thought bubble from Ben because it was not suitable for viewers of a gentle dispositionby El Caro - The Picture Gallery
It's a few years now since I field tested it in the white and fitted into a slave stock and my memory is not what it was. I am imore interested in how it shoots than technical spec. but this is a mixture of what I remember from shooting it and some information from Bowkett. The barrel is from a batch of match grade .45"ACP blanks Bowkett bought from a company that make very expensive target assauby El Caro - The Picture Gallery
These are pics of a .45" carbine with 16" barrel. I dont own it but field tested it in a slave stock before he made a fancy set of clothes and blued it. It was for an overseas customer. 200cc bottle and a buit in regulator.by El Caro - The Picture Gallery
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello Vic. > > The idea of a brass liner has always seemed fine > to me. I've seen many antique air canes which had > rifled brass sub-caliber inserts that would thread > inside their larger smooth bore barrels. With > soft lead, brass is gonna be plenty durable. I > made some earby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
When I spoke to Bowkett he said that he had made several pistols and rifles in the 1980s using polygroove brass liners inside steel tube. The fifty calibre ones used a tight fitting .50" ball for best accuracy anything smaller gave fliers as you found out. He said that he couldn't get a .50" H&N ball and had someone cast them from a Lee mold. I remember shooting a little carbine in .50" that shotby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
You have more aches and pains than an old motorcyclist. I speak from experience. I was never very good at it hence the aches and pains. I hope you feel some improvement from the new medication.by El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Bigbore Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gary, > > Your Victory is where my tastes in big bore air > pistols lie, Hoss for biggest bore. > > That looks like a nice gun, but just a more > refined DAQ pistol IMO. I scanned some Bowkett > photos for Hawley years ago and still have the > pictures, that example is typical Bowkettby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Thanks for the welcome. I'm afraid I'm more interested in shooting and don't pay much attention as I should to the technical side but your description of screening was interesting and beneficial if it adds to accuracy. Bowkett tried to duplicate the golf ball look of the H&N balls by putting balls in a stout plastic container with some large steel ball bearings and then playing the maracas for tby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Thanks for the welcome matey. They are readily available in Europe for smokepole shooters but I don't know if H&N have a distributor/importer for this sort of thing on your side of the pond. I spoke to Bowkett this morning about a new toy and have some further information about the .50" pistol Mr Barnes shot. It dates from the middle 1980s by the way. - Vic.by El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hi all. I do quite a bit of field testing work here in the UK for Bowkett. I don't know if this information is of any help for those seeking really good accuracy with commercial balls but here goes. Bowkett used to make big bore air and CO2 rifles going back to the late 1970s. He always used H&N round ball wherever possible if he didn't want to use special bullets or pellets. Over the years I shoby El Caro - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum