AT YOUR SERVICE
Airgun shooters wanting to join a club have a pretty wide choice these days, and while some clubs are airgun-only, many like to mix airguns with rimfires, and occasionally even centrefires and black powder firearms as well.
My club falls into the latter category, and has a well-stocked armoury with which to train new shooters and let people shoot a particular discipline if they don’t already have a corresponding gun of their own. The club’s powder-burners are cleaned and serviced by a dedicated armourer, but the airguns are largely left to their own devices, so I offered to lend a hand.
The club operates a mix of PCPs and springers, but the first one handed to me for some TLC was a Weihrauch HW97 underlever. The 97 needs little in the way of introduction, being a more modern take on the German gunmaker’s HW77, this time being a scope-only rifle with a combined muzzle brake/underlever keeper up front. Some of the guns I’ve come across at various clubs and ranges over the years have been in a pretty woeful state, but this one appeared to be in very good overall condition.
No obvious problems had been reported by the club, but I thought I’d carry out a reasonably thorough analysis, clean and basic service. I hope you’ll find these steps helpful, especially
