This morning I made a nice bulb holder bracket from 10mm flat bar for the gunstock lamp and painted it, the steel was actually cheaper in B&Q than from the local steel stockholders and was clean (figure that one out )
Next I modified a one piece scope mount that arrived in the posties bulging sack to get proper eye relief on the Mercury (short scope rails) doing this saved me around 30 quid eg 15 for the good mount I bought as opposed to 45 for a cheap reasonable cantilever one to get exactly the same result
This afternoon I went to test the Mercury as it would have been rude not to...... after the most recent strip/rebuild its now spot on eg once zeroed a five shot group at 30yds about the size of my thumbnail, the same at 40yds and only marginally bigger at 50yds
Not bad on a windy day and that's probably better than it would have been capable of new even though its now packing a lot more power .................. what next? ... meteor, jaguar, stingray, smk or that German piece of crap that is cluttering up the gun room? ... you decide
Next I modified a one piece scope mount that arrived in the posties bulging sack to get proper eye relief on the Mercury (short scope rails) doing this saved me around 30 quid eg 15 for the good mount I bought as opposed to 45 for a cheap reasonable cantilever one to get exactly the same result
This afternoon I went to test the Mercury as it would have been rude not to...... after the most recent strip/rebuild its now spot on eg once zeroed a five shot group at 30yds about the size of my thumbnail, the same at 40yds and only marginally bigger at 50yds
Not bad on a windy day and that's probably better than it would have been capable of new even though its now packing a lot more power .................. what next? ... meteor, jaguar, stingray, smk or that German piece of crap that is cluttering up the gun room? ... you decide