New 8.7 lb baby girl arrived today at 12:03PM

[VINNY]

congrats! she is beautiful,have lots o fun.

[DanoInTx]

When I got mine apart it had gooey grease all over it, including the piston seal.  Mine was shooting somewhere between 850 and 1200fps out of the box!!

Here's a look at the piston seal:



That black crud is all grease, I actually cleaned my stock seal up and it is a perfect cream color, not black like in the picture...that's some gooey stuff!  I saved my stock seal/spring/guide in case I ever need a spare.  The stock spring is a bit loose on the rear spring guide, but not by much, unfortunately there's no tophat like the Maccari kit has.

Happy that yours finally came in and that you got a good deal, they are awsome guns and well worth the money spent:)  Bet yours will shoot real nice with the "Gene tune" on it and all of that gunk cleaned out of it.  Mine is my favorite springer of all time.....oh geez, I used "favorite" and "springer" in the same sentence, guess Kirby is rubbing off on me    

[kirby999]

Quote" Mine is my favorite springer of all time.....oh geez, I used "favorite" and "springer" in the same sentence, guess Kirby is rubbing off on me" If I had to pick a favorite springer , It'd be my HW97K ; for now anyways . LOL It's the one I feel I have "sorted " out ; It's the one that if I "had" to hit something with , I'd grab it and not think twice. That's in the springer department ; that is . LOL kirby

[Gene_SC]

Unlike my first BSA Lightning the HW has some spring twang. I already have a couple spring's and seal kits set up for tuning. I will do a complete tune including a new guide etc.  I cannot wait to be able to get back on my bench again.. May have to go back and get some more OJT from Bob... hehe

[shadow]

That shooter is soooooooooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet brother. I can't get over the lines on her, very nice indeed. One of these days I'll work up to the BSA's, I've heard nothing but great report's about em. Ed