On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:45:45 GMT, Trevor Jones
wrote:

Gunner wrote:
I was browsing through a local second hand store, and found a Chinese
(one assumes) break barrel .177 pellet gun. Interesting one...looks
a lot like a RWS 350, but without the checkering. Decent monte carlo
stock, full sized length of pull. Safety is inside the trigger guard
Strong! spring and a very loud Crack! when fired without a pellet,
moved much dirt on the floor. In very good shape. Surprisingly
comfortable to pull to shoulder and get a stock weld. Much different
than prior Chicom air guns Ive handled

Got Chinese markings? Not seen very many without, and they were the
REALLY nasty ones, very obviously low end.
Don't fire it without a pellet. Plays hell with the seal, in some
cases, and with the front of the piston, in others. Universally a bad
thing to do to anything that you want to last.

ANY markings?

Without any markings at all, you could have just about anything, and
may well have something gloatable. :-)

Ill be checking this weekend. The weekend I got it I simply stuck it
in a corner and went out and sighted in the 39 Marlin that I got some
months ago and had installed a Lyman peep sight on.

Shoots as well as I remembered they did. VBG!!!


Missing the rear sight.

Bryan and Assosciates, Mac1 Airguns, Beemans. Fun Supply Airguns,
Airguns of Arizona, etc. All should be able to set you up with something
that'll work. Parts for the Chicom stuff are pretty cheap, but you
likely have something that will work, in your gun junk.
Since none of those sort of parts is "universal", yer gonna have to do
a little work, unless you can find a model number and go from there.

Anyone know where to find one? Ive kinda sorta browsed the net
without finding a parts source.

DAGS for Chambers Gunmakers. In the UK. Scots I think. They have a
selection of exploded drawings that may help ID the rifle in question.
Pictures are good!

Yah...I could make one from scratch...I AM a chip maker of dubious
talents..but would rather spend my time shooting it.

Anyone put a scope on their break barrel and pull the rear sight?

Yep. Get one rated for airguns, then you have a higher chance of it
lasting for a while. The harsher recoiling springers are harder on a
scope than those that are smoother, but they are all hard on scopes. The
forces are ass backwards to rifle recoil and it plays hell with the
adjustment mechanism inside the scope, as well as putting a walloping on
the crosshair "wires".


Ayup...I blew the crosshairs on a Feinwerkbau rifle..er the crosshairs
on a Nikon 4x, brand new one at that, before someone told me about the
reverse recoil. Nikon gave me a new one and told me it wasnt rated for
air rifle use. It now lives on my 375 H&H and has many hundreds of
rounds fired.


Cheers
Trevor Jones