Title pretty much says it all. I have what I believe is a 1978 Powerline 922, which is a .22 cal. pump gun, that I tucked away over 40 years ago and forgot all about. Still pumps up fine, holds pressure and trigger operates smoothly, but it does have a few issues.
The first is the Bolt Handle Assembly, which has a few burrs on it, so it will cycle but won't quite completely return to its flush position after cocking and loading a round. Probably a casualty of being forced up against a misaligned strip magazine by my idiot room mate at that time. The sliding safety button is also hung up about midway through its path, just short of functionally engaging, but where it sits now it does not interfere with the trigger pull.
I haven't torn it down just yet thinking that I'd try and gather a few parts that I expected to have to replace first. Found the 5-shot clips and single shot adapter that were missing, but the bolt assembly has proven to be a tougher nut. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. The rest of the gun is in excellent shape, and its size is a nice 'tweener among my growing collection of other air guns.
And is it just me, or do these things breed in the dead of night when I'm not looking? I knew I had this, but also knew it needed some work, so about 13 or 14 years ago I bought a .177 Crosman springer/scope package at Dick's I think it was, and that was fine for the occasional rodent, but then we retired out to the farm (and more animals) which led to more things to shoot. Wife complained the springer was too hard to cock, so I bought a 1377 and jacked it up a bit. But of course that was still more work than she wanted to do, so then it was on to a 2240XL, but then I didn't like the trigger, and before ya know it I've got a stack of parts from Alchemy Airwerks, Buck Rail & Additive on my bench, and as long as I'm at it, new sights, a longer barrel... it was all beginning to get a little OCD and out'a control.
Then one day, as I was between the house and barn, I saw a rat that was scurrying along a distant fence line, just beyond the reach of the long barreled 2240. The springer in .177 was just too fast to maintain accuracy at that range I guess, so an Avenge X in .22 just appeared from out of the UPS truck one day, "I swear honey, I don't know why they sent this to me", (after 45 years together I don't know why I even bother). Oh, and a new scope.
Well, dear wife didn't immediately call the divorce lawyer, that she's kept on speed dial since cell phones were invented, so I pretended the Avenge X was for her, a kind of six month early birthday present if you will. Then I went and ordered a Western Airguns Rattler .30 for meself. Well I needed something so we could go shooting together (yeah, right, more like for self defense). Actually I think the rationalization went something like, "well, I had to buy an HP compressor for the Avenge X, and that needs to produce good clean dry air, so some filters would be nice, and oh well in for a penny in for a pound". Hmm, a pound of silver maybe.
Mind you, I've no buyer's remorse, I mean they're all fun to shoot, and the rats have pretty much gone extinct on our farm. It's just that now I need a new gun cabinet, and probably a new spotting scope to pack with the tripod and shooting bench...
I dunno, would this be considered a support group, or should I be looking at medication?
'Cuz I just realized that the new cabinet I'm building has a couple of empty slots, and that's just gonna look silly...
The first is the Bolt Handle Assembly, which has a few burrs on it, so it will cycle but won't quite completely return to its flush position after cocking and loading a round. Probably a casualty of being forced up against a misaligned strip magazine by my idiot room mate at that time. The sliding safety button is also hung up about midway through its path, just short of functionally engaging, but where it sits now it does not interfere with the trigger pull.
I haven't torn it down just yet thinking that I'd try and gather a few parts that I expected to have to replace first. Found the 5-shot clips and single shot adapter that were missing, but the bolt assembly has proven to be a tougher nut. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. The rest of the gun is in excellent shape, and its size is a nice 'tweener among my growing collection of other air guns.
And is it just me, or do these things breed in the dead of night when I'm not looking? I knew I had this, but also knew it needed some work, so about 13 or 14 years ago I bought a .177 Crosman springer/scope package at Dick's I think it was, and that was fine for the occasional rodent, but then we retired out to the farm (and more animals) which led to more things to shoot. Wife complained the springer was too hard to cock, so I bought a 1377 and jacked it up a bit. But of course that was still more work than she wanted to do, so then it was on to a 2240XL, but then I didn't like the trigger, and before ya know it I've got a stack of parts from Alchemy Airwerks, Buck Rail & Additive on my bench, and as long as I'm at it, new sights, a longer barrel... it was all beginning to get a little OCD and out'a control.
Then one day, as I was between the house and barn, I saw a rat that was scurrying along a distant fence line, just beyond the reach of the long barreled 2240. The springer in .177 was just too fast to maintain accuracy at that range I guess, so an Avenge X in .22 just appeared from out of the UPS truck one day, "I swear honey, I don't know why they sent this to me", (after 45 years together I don't know why I even bother). Oh, and a new scope.
Well, dear wife didn't immediately call the divorce lawyer, that she's kept on speed dial since cell phones were invented, so I pretended the Avenge X was for her, a kind of six month early birthday present if you will. Then I went and ordered a Western Airguns Rattler .30 for meself. Well I needed something so we could go shooting together (yeah, right, more like for self defense). Actually I think the rationalization went something like, "well, I had to buy an HP compressor for the Avenge X, and that needs to produce good clean dry air, so some filters would be nice, and oh well in for a penny in for a pound". Hmm, a pound of silver maybe.
Mind you, I've no buyer's remorse, I mean they're all fun to shoot, and the rats have pretty much gone extinct on our farm. It's just that now I need a new gun cabinet, and probably a new spotting scope to pack with the tripod and shooting bench...
I dunno, would this be considered a support group, or should I be looking at medication?
'Cuz I just realized that the new cabinet I'm building has a couple of empty slots, and that's just gonna look silly...
