Friday 1 January 2021

Back from the dead

I deleted this blog a couple of years ago, having nowhere to shoot and having rekindled my interest in photography. However, the disruptions of 2020 caused me a bout of nostalgia for my shooting days, and so I salvaged the deleted posts from the Internet Archive and resurrected the blog. I still own the 300S Junior, 65, 127 and 150, the last of which is will be for sale as soon as I can spend some time back in England.

In the years since I started the blog, other, more comprehensive resources have come along, and so I direct the reader to the best of these: Garvin's Vintage Airguns Gallery. It is a veritable treasure trove of documents and photos, giving details of the tiniest differences encountered in each model over the course of production as well as information on custom examples.

FWB300S service

I took my 300S Junior to a local gunsmith for a service back in July, when it became clear that the piston buffer had rotted. Not having hea...