Could you image the stir this rifle would have created in 1959. Your at you local shooting club happily shooting away with your traditional break barrel and someone walks in with this exotic.
It’s list of impressive “firsts”
1 Fixed barrel (barrel loading)
2 Sliding compression tube allowing direct access to the barrel for loading.
3 Recoil suppression via rear facing second piston.
4 A ramp that aids in guiding the pellet into the breach.
5 “Active spring guide”. The spring guide has 3 high tensile wire springs that run the length of the guide. As the spring is compressed and it’s inside diameter expands the spring guide keeps contact and follows it out.
You can see the springs in this photo.
could possibly be some other firsts. It has a synthetic piston seal which I would have thought could be a first?
The stock is the same shape as they famous model 54 rimfire target gun and they suggest in the 54 manual you might like to have the 220 for practice.
The 6700 & 6702 diopter sights were standard on the 54 and 220 so you would only need to buy one.
This one was made in 1963. It couldn’t push a pellet though the barrel when I got it. There is zero information on the web on how to strip the gun down and no replacement seals available (that I could find)
All worked out to be relatively straight forward to strip and very easy to reproduce the seal on the lathe. I could do it and I’m a very amateur machinist!
As I could find no help on line on how to replace the piston seal I’ll put some photos and explanations in the tuning section.
Michael
ps I’m on the look out for a Anschutz 6702 rear sight.
It’s list of impressive “firsts”
1 Fixed barrel (barrel loading)
2 Sliding compression tube allowing direct access to the barrel for loading.
3 Recoil suppression via rear facing second piston.
4 A ramp that aids in guiding the pellet into the breach.
5 “Active spring guide”. The spring guide has 3 high tensile wire springs that run the length of the guide. As the spring is compressed and it’s inside diameter expands the spring guide keeps contact and follows it out.
You can see the springs in this photo.
could possibly be some other firsts. It has a synthetic piston seal which I would have thought could be a first?
The stock is the same shape as they famous model 54 rimfire target gun and they suggest in the 54 manual you might like to have the 220 for practice.
The 6700 & 6702 diopter sights were standard on the 54 and 220 so you would only need to buy one.
This one was made in 1963. It couldn’t push a pellet though the barrel when I got it. There is zero information on the web on how to strip the gun down and no replacement seals available (that I could find)
All worked out to be relatively straight forward to strip and very easy to reproduce the seal on the lathe. I could do it and I’m a very amateur machinist!
As I could find no help on line on how to replace the piston seal I’ll put some photos and explanations in the tuning section.
Michael
ps I’m on the look out for a Anschutz 6702 rear sight.
