QUESTION

[whippetboy 2]

what does blue printed mean thanks

[RaiderBoy 19]

what does blue printed mean thanks

 

im interested to know the real answer to this aswell dont quote me on this but i think its when you take a gun apart and replace all the factory spec built to a budget parts and replace them with good quality custom parts. as i said i dont know the real answer.

 

Richard

[SouthernHunter 4]

Blue Printed: in motor racing circles, it means the manufacture of race tuned engines, where all parts are machined and mached up to incredibly fine tolerances. A decent race tuned bike engine could set you back circa 30-40'000

 

In airgun circles, it is a term that is mis-used in my opinion. The great John Bowkett, designer of such illustrious Airguns at the Titan range and mant BSA pcp rifles, offers a blueprint service: bare in mind that the majority of air rifles are mass produced and assembled on a production line, he strips and re-builds the rifle to a higher standard-not strictly blue-printed. The closest you will get in modern airgun production is a rifle like the ISP Airstream Series-Sean at ISP assembles the rifles individually and to an incredibly high standard. The Jim Hogan built Ripley Elite is also a well built rifle. I have owned a Blueprinted BSA Hornet and it was a massive improvement over the standard factory rifle.

Steve Pope at Venom, does great work too-a fully lazaglided HW77 is a thing of beauty.

So: is it worth spending 120.00 to get John Bowkett to blueprint a BSA? Hell, yes

Edited December 22, 2009 by SouthernHunter

[farmboy99 1]

ive been getting the impression its only 75 quid for john to do his thing on your bsa. not sure about venom. but yes in both instances people have come back very happy with results. ive been contempleting sending y 77k to venom and also my new s10 to john will have to wait until ive got a bit of extra cash me thinks!