Paging Senor del la Airguns -- Crossman Shokwave

by John Meeker , Saturday, September 24, 2016, 19:44 (2920 days ago)

It is now printing a very low at 30 feet, with an 8" to 12" "high hold" the required drop for a hit, precludes any accurate sighting, and requires a contortionist to actually fire AND see both sights -- at the same time. yeah...really.

This, from a killer-driller of near and far 'needed dead' targets. . Even had found some rings, and a semi-solid scope, from out of the shoe-box. Bad Words - many.

So, after really verifying that above was not me for sure, and that the deviation was more than a screw turn or six, I start shimming the receiver. The reciver bolt holes thru the stock come out at an angle from two threaded sheet-metal studs, welded on the side of the receiver. The screws come in from the exterior of the stock, at a upward angle, just under the rear sight. This is where the slender 'scnable' design of the fore-end, is at it's thinnest.

The whole effect locks everything together into a secure 'pull', down into the molded bedding area. A big-headed Philip's bolt, just behind the trigger guard, secures the rear of the receiver. The design results in a very 'pointable' weapon. The local walnut-eater tribe has been diminished, thereby. And, the two-year old Chessie Gurl is now a squirrel fanatic. She goes out to the garden shed first thing in the morning, to see if those tails tacked to the under-eves for curing -- arew still there.

For the money, [129] the .22 pellet-pusher was OK. You do have to turn-in a bolt accessible thru a hole thru trigger guard. As a built in safety defense, there is a LOT of light take-up, before you sorta fall over the stout trigger pull. However, regarding the mfg due caution about making the 'adjusty' too light, I'm down to 'usable', without and perhaps can further.

My eventual thought was that the bbl was bent. However, I had never dropped or knocked it over. Soooo...I wondered that due to the stiffish-resisting gas-piston< I could have pushed it too hard, to fast, etc. and bent it? Grasped straws...and such.

Because of the angled-in front bolts, shimming [when tried] is limited, due to the need to engage the bolts and their seats at matching angles. Have not had much time lately to go further. If no relatively simple fix is 'known', then I better go looking again....it's busy time of year for me...and make sure I get an underlever of side-cocker For 'the bizness'. can use CB's, in the new-to-me vintage .22 Remington, Model 33, first issue. [i930's] Has a tidy contemporary commercial peep-sight mounted on the receiver, and a filler where the original rear sight sat on the bbl. Nice long bbl, too. Can't 'hoot it in town', so...I am discrete.

At any rate, tomorrow's workbench is just over behind my shoulder, but a "slap my forehead!" overlooked solution, wouldn't be a bother at all...to make some immediate working space, there.