Played with a couple of BSA meteors
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:01 am
A fella I have got to know a little through one of the neighbouring rural fire brigades found out I tinker with guns and asked if I could have a look at his son's air rifle - apparently 'its sights are out'.
It turned out to be a BSA Super Meteor from the late sixties/early seventies. When he gave it to me the first thing I noticed was that the barrelled action was flopping around in the stock - the two front screws on either side of the stock were loose, as was the rear screw up through the rear of the trigger guard into the rear of the action. The breech seal was also completely shagged:
Before I tightened everything up a shot a few pellets with the he open sights at about 6m just to see what it was doing and to give an idea of 'before' performance:
Hmm, not too encouraging.
I nipped up the stock screws and while some improvement was evident still nothing to brag about. I had a look online and ordered a couple of breach seals from Custom air seals Australia: https://www.customairseals.com
While I was waiting for the seals to turn up I did a bit more sniffing around on the net and found a couple of useful threads on BSA Meteors:
https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2013/10 ... or-part-1/
http://anotherairgunblog.blogspot.com/2 ... chive.html
I also picked up my cousins BSA meteor from dad's place as I knew it needed a replacement breach seal as well. The seals turned up and fitted nicely in the earlier Super Meteor, not quite such a good fit in the later base model Meteor. This is the Super Meteor:
I also scrounged an old scope and rings out off my parts collection. Set it all up and zeroed at twenty metres:
Here are the two rifles - Super Meteor on the left and base Meteor on the right:
Much better. The pellets now would penetrate a paint tin at twenty whereas previously they only marked the light cardboard at that distance.
I left the scope and rings on the rifle and returned into to my friend - his young bloke was beside himself with excitement to have his very own scope
Marcus
It turned out to be a BSA Super Meteor from the late sixties/early seventies. When he gave it to me the first thing I noticed was that the barrelled action was flopping around in the stock - the two front screws on either side of the stock were loose, as was the rear screw up through the rear of the trigger guard into the rear of the action. The breech seal was also completely shagged:
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Hmm, not too encouraging.
I nipped up the stock screws and while some improvement was evident still nothing to brag about. I had a look online and ordered a couple of breach seals from Custom air seals Australia: https://www.customairseals.com
While I was waiting for the seals to turn up I did a bit more sniffing around on the net and found a couple of useful threads on BSA Meteors:
https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2013/10 ... or-part-1/
http://anotherairgunblog.blogspot.com/2 ... chive.html
I also picked up my cousins BSA meteor from dad's place as I knew it needed a replacement breach seal as well. The seals turned up and fitted nicely in the earlier Super Meteor, not quite such a good fit in the later base model Meteor. This is the Super Meteor:
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I left the scope and rings on the rifle and returned into to my friend - his young bloke was beside himself with excitement to have his very own scope
Marcus
