After years of looking, I finally got one. And it's a SHOOTER:
Beeman HW97k .177 cal with a Venom Lazaglide FAC High Power kit fitted (blackened and buttoned compression tube with widened transfer port, custom machined long stroke piston with sleeve and Powr Pulse piston seal, stout Venom mainspring with fitted guides, metal washers and delrin spacer.) 25mm Venom internals-wow!
Weight comparison of 25mm Venom piston with seal (sleeve fitted with 4 metal washers and one delrin spacer inside), OEM 97 26mm piston with seal and Air Arms TX200 MK1 piston with seal:
Venom 25mm piston:
OEM 97 26mm piston:
Air Arms TX200 MK1 piston:
OEM 26mm left, Venom right:
It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to see the design influences Venom had on Air Arms.
This is an early Lazaglide with buttons on the blackened compression tube fore and aft as well as on the rear piston band. I replaced the standard Rekord trigger unit with a V-Mach Rekord trigger unit (Dave Pope and Ivan Hancock would be proud) with straight blade trigger, breaking at 3 ounces. I also installed a resettable safety.
It's shooting AA 10.3's at 807-811 fps.
5 shot bughole group on the left. Larger group on the right was shot from a different gun earlier in the day.
10 shots completely covered with a dime. 30 yards seated.
Stock is a custom Dave G fully adjustable FT stock which has some seriously nice features that were well thought out. The screw cups are threaded and flush with the stock on the inside. Think about that for a minute
. Metal to metal. The fwd trigger guard bolt hole is pillar bedded and also threaded. Custom trigger guard machined to match contours/profile of the stock. The adjustable foreend and cheek riser locking mechanism is one of the best if not the best I've seen/used. Brilliant design, very tight tolerances and solid once secured. That Dave G knew a thing or two about stock design.
Today the Bushy Elite 4200 6-24X40 MD in a BKL double strap rings got replaced with a custom picatinny riser rail by Mr. Matos topped with a Bushnell Engage 4-16 cradled in Burris XTR Signature 30mm rings. I added 6 ounces of weight underneath the cheek piece to improve the balance; the weights fit conveniently and snugly between the two posts.
While settling in and fine tuning my 30 yard zero with the new adjustments, a housefly landed near the top of my target box. Magnification cranked up to 16X
and I touched off an AA 10.3 with crosshairs superimposed over the fly. I knew I connected because of the dark irregular blur that appeared 
.
Bug juice surrounding the pellet hole and the upper half of the fly was all that remained. Deadly Venom's first kill. Greusome
.
A few more pics:
The seller told me "it's a good one", "it's a SHOOTER", and it is.
Every now and then we get lucky.
Thanks for letting me share Deadly Venom with you springer fanatics! (I had another nickname for the rig but the moderators likely wouldn't have approved, LOL!)
J
Beeman HW97k .177 cal with a Venom Lazaglide FAC High Power kit fitted (blackened and buttoned compression tube with widened transfer port, custom machined long stroke piston with sleeve and Powr Pulse piston seal, stout Venom mainspring with fitted guides, metal washers and delrin spacer.) 25mm Venom internals-wow!
Weight comparison of 25mm Venom piston with seal (sleeve fitted with 4 metal washers and one delrin spacer inside), OEM 97 26mm piston with seal and Air Arms TX200 MK1 piston with seal:
Venom 25mm piston:
OEM 97 26mm piston:
Air Arms TX200 MK1 piston:
OEM 26mm left, Venom right:
It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to see the design influences Venom had on Air Arms.
This is an early Lazaglide with buttons on the blackened compression tube fore and aft as well as on the rear piston band. I replaced the standard Rekord trigger unit with a V-Mach Rekord trigger unit (Dave Pope and Ivan Hancock would be proud) with straight blade trigger, breaking at 3 ounces. I also installed a resettable safety.
It's shooting AA 10.3's at 807-811 fps.
5 shot bughole group on the left. Larger group on the right was shot from a different gun earlier in the day.
10 shots completely covered with a dime. 30 yards seated.
Stock is a custom Dave G fully adjustable FT stock which has some seriously nice features that were well thought out. The screw cups are threaded and flush with the stock on the inside. Think about that for a minute
. Metal to metal. The fwd trigger guard bolt hole is pillar bedded and also threaded. Custom trigger guard machined to match contours/profile of the stock. The adjustable foreend and cheek riser locking mechanism is one of the best if not the best I've seen/used. Brilliant design, very tight tolerances and solid once secured. That Dave G knew a thing or two about stock design.Today the Bushy Elite 4200 6-24X40 MD in a BKL double strap rings got replaced with a custom picatinny riser rail by Mr. Matos topped with a Bushnell Engage 4-16 cradled in Burris XTR Signature 30mm rings. I added 6 ounces of weight underneath the cheek piece to improve the balance; the weights fit conveniently and snugly between the two posts.
While settling in and fine tuning my 30 yard zero with the new adjustments, a housefly landed near the top of my target box. Magnification cranked up to 16X
and I touched off an AA 10.3 with crosshairs superimposed over the fly. I knew I connected because of the dark irregular blur that appeared .Bug juice surrounding the pellet hole and the upper half of the fly was all that remained. Deadly Venom's first kill. Greusome
.A few more pics:
The seller told me "it's a good one", "it's a SHOOTER", and it is.
Every now and then we get lucky.
Thanks for letting me share Deadly Venom with you springer fanatics! (I had another nickname for the rig but the moderators likely wouldn't have approved, LOL!)
J
.