Got up early this morning and went over to CDT's house and rousted him outa da bed at 6:00 am..
Drug him to his shop and through my new Wally World Shadow 1000 on the bench with a new Walthers Choked .20 Cal barrel from Rich, AKA "Peterdragon"..
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Immediately CDR's eyes got as big as eggs when he picked up the barrel and checked the rifling and choke out. He carefully ran a pellet through the barrel with a dowel. Very slow until it popped out on the bench. He picked it up and pulled down the big lighted magnifying glass from over head. He gazed at the pellet for a moment or so spinning in his fingers and said, "the rifling is perfect on this barrel". I looked at the pellet head outer surface myself and there you could see I think 12 lines on the outer edge of pellet. I learned now what a nice choked barrel is supposed to spit out..
CDT then called his Doberman out of the house and told him to watch me till he was done. So I went to the corner while Fritz layed starring at me for 4 hours.
While I was sitting for all that time, CDT was exchanging the .177 Gamo barrel with the .20 cal Walthers barrel. Giving the Shadow a complete Turbo Super Tune with spring, trigger, custom made spring guide, then deburing all parts, honing the chamber tube, washing cleaning and blow dried everything.
Then he took out seven containers with a different grease in each. He then applied the different lubricants to different parts of the Shadow just like he does all of his tunes. He was using home made tools that he made to apply lube meticulously all over the Shadows's working parts.
After he was satisfied with the lube, he began the process of putting everything together. Bit by bit, piece by piece until it was completed.
Well 4 hours later CDT he looked over at Fritz told him to go in the house and called me over to the chrony and said shoot the dang thing..
First thing I noticed was the barrel was a bit bigger and the Shadow was a tad heavier but not much. I threw in a pellet that Rich, AKA "Peterdragon' had supplied with the barrel. Laid the barrel on the chrony rest and fired. First shot was 683 and all consecutive shots were between 728 and 783. As I put in the pellets and shot the numbers would grow bigger. We had put in around 15 pellets and the numbers just got higher.
To say the least, I am very very pleased with the outcome of the Conversion. Rich, AKA "Peterdragon" had sent me a flawless barrel that converted very easily. He also sent along a tool to use in order to remove old barrel with and, pellets, muzzle brake and allot of talent and workmanship. Thanks Rich and thanks to CDT's excellent airgusmithing.
I have ordered 6 tins of Beeman FTS pellets and will have some more information after the weekend.
Gene
