I have two air rifles: a 43 year old Crosman 766 American Classic. I bought it new and it's never needed anything except 3 drops of light machine oil on the tiny felt patch that is easily accessible.
Recently I bought a HW30s. I read on this forum 30 to 45 minutes daily and although I started with no knowledge of airguns but I am learning here. I see post about a wide variety of topics: repair questions seem to be frequent. I bought this rifle for plinking - which I love to do. I don't hunt or target compete or anything but plinking. I learned here to keep check on the three screws that usually loosen from "springer" vibrations and sure enough mine were loose and the front sight as well - I tightened them but I will get blue loc-tite for them.
I don't enjoy working on things - including my air rifle so I saw a forum topic on this web-site, "How to Maintain An Airgun", so I clicked on it and it sent me to You Tube where I watched a moderator and three older men that are recognized for their expertise with AirGuns. They said they seldom clean their guns until they drop in performance. They had different thought on the different types of AirGuns but for Springers one of them says if his rifle is shooting good he never cleans it. I was really surprised at this!
Other than putting blue loc-tite on the three screws and shooting high quality pellets I will likely not do any maintenance until / if my HW30s developed a problem. I haveI only put about 400 pellets through it. I will likely shoot about 450 - 500 pellets a month. Do any of you choose to do no routine manintenance on your springer Air Rifle until it drops in performance?
PS - when I look down the bore of my rifle from either end it is shinny silver with the spiral rifling very clean, end to end.
Recently I bought a HW30s. I read on this forum 30 to 45 minutes daily and although I started with no knowledge of airguns but I am learning here. I see post about a wide variety of topics: repair questions seem to be frequent. I bought this rifle for plinking - which I love to do. I don't hunt or target compete or anything but plinking. I learned here to keep check on the three screws that usually loosen from "springer" vibrations and sure enough mine were loose and the front sight as well - I tightened them but I will get blue loc-tite for them.
I don't enjoy working on things - including my air rifle so I saw a forum topic on this web-site, "How to Maintain An Airgun", so I clicked on it and it sent me to You Tube where I watched a moderator and three older men that are recognized for their expertise with AirGuns. They said they seldom clean their guns until they drop in performance. They had different thought on the different types of AirGuns but for Springers one of them says if his rifle is shooting good he never cleans it. I was really surprised at this!
Other than putting blue loc-tite on the three screws and shooting high quality pellets I will likely not do any maintenance until / if my HW30s developed a problem. I haveI only put about 400 pellets through it. I will likely shoot about 450 - 500 pellets a month. Do any of you choose to do no routine manintenance on your springer Air Rifle until it drops in performance?
PS - when I look down the bore of my rifle from either end it is shinny silver with the spiral rifling very clean, end to end.
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