secretagentmole 1,701 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Had it out shooting just after Christmas and there was an almighty clack on firing! Alarmed I took the magazine out and cycled the bolt, no problem. Fired. Big problem! No air! Took buddy bottle off, air in bottle, put bottle back on, Cycled bolt, no air! The mechanism appeared to be OK. Luckily I had another gun with me so I could carry on hunting but I was broken hearted, my BSA was buggered! Now I had the blueprint service carried out on this over a year ago so I contacted Mr Bowkett, who immediately wanted to organise the collection of my rifle so he could fix the problem as he had an idea what it was! We had to go up to Tamworth to take a gun back so we went a bit further and dropped the S10 into Mr Bowkett and left it with him. About a week later it was ready to collect and given the damned awful weather, the fact that both she and me have not been in the best of health recently and the timescale involved in getting there and back, we only managed to get my gun back yesterday. Mr Bowkett has been a busy man! The original cause of the problem was the fact that the retaining bush valve stem seal circlip groove was badly machined, this allowed the circlip to come off and fall into the anti bounce mechanism, which meant you could not fire the gun! Mr B has replaced this with a nice nut instead! He also carried out a few more upgrades to the blueprint (which he has developed since my gun was done) and fitted all of these to the gun FOC! Now the gun is making 11.6 ft lb with it's pellet of choice (Defiant Ogive 4.52mm heads) and is much quieter on firing! Ogives are also the most efficient pellet in that gun so I am not worried about the closeness to 12 ft lb! How is that for service, it was not part of his upgrade that failed, but he still fixed it and then improved his existing work to make it even quieter and a shade more powerful! 1 Quote Link to post
villaman 9,982 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Did MR B charge you ? Quote Link to post
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Not a penny, not a bean, completely gratis, free of charge! BSA still use the circlip and bush arrangement on the R10, Scorpion SE and Ultra SE... Quote Link to post
villaman 9,982 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Very good of him ,I have spoken to MrB on a few occasions ,nice man 1 Quote Link to post
the big chief 3,099 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 mr b is a dam good man done a fair bit on my r10 and not bothered to charge me and upgrades and still not charged me he is a gent 1 Quote Link to post
secretagentmole 1,701 Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 I got a few upgrades for gratis as well, so much so we took him a nice bottle of English to say thanks! 2 Quote Link to post
treecreeper 1,136 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 cant ask for more than that, good to see there is still some gents about. My super10s already been fettled or it would of been off to see him. Quote Link to post
random 659 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 It is nice to hear such things,the little companies doing so much to help,they thoroughly deserve the good reputations they have,now your happy the problem,nothing to do with them,is solved and they get some good advertising which hopefully pulls in some custom... Quote Link to post
rodp 316 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 He's a good bloke. I've got a FAC S10 blueprinted by him, does 28lb ft. Bunnies just fall over when they see it Quote Link to post
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