Airgun repair or diagnosis? - Walther pistol/ OLD Daisy rifle

chinacave

Its Like a Jungle Sometimes; It makes me Wonder
#1) Family members Old Daisy pump bb rifle model #25- issue is bb's simply ROLL or dribble out of the barrel- not being held by the magazine tube?
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#2)- Audio Guru Jerry loaned me his Walther P88 semi-auto with a red dot scope - 2 issues: scope mount is missing a part on the rail, so. Scope is not aligned with the barrel, and the internal mechanism is no longer Semi-auto- the round magazine/clip does not advance; it has to be manually advanced.

?- any sites, businesses, or experts here with a clue?

None of the many local gun stores and FFL's have been able to help.
 
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@chinacave
There are a couple of sites that I've gleaned a lot of info from lately; Pyramyd Air and https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/

Pyramid Air has a gent who is reknowned for his knowledge of all things air gun. His screen name is B.B. Pelletier, aka, Tom Gaylord. He moderates/writes for a blog on PyramidAir web site.
https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/
You can search his blog articles, and who knows,... maybe something? He is definitely the man when it comes to what you're asking.
 
Wow - Thanks -

will sign up @ Pyramid air - just the referral I was looking for.
 
This is from a comparative study between a modern Chinese Model 25, and the old original model 25. Some interesting points were made that might be applicable:

https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2012/02/a-tale-of-two-daisy-25-bb-gun/

Let’s start shooting

OK, tour’s over. If I’m gonna shoot these things, I need to shoot something through them — and they do have different appetites. The old one is strictly for lead shot only. If I load it, steel shot will probably come out the other end — but the feed and holding mechanism relies on the softness of the lead, and using steel shot will likely booger things up. Specifically, this rifle was made for the old .175″ air rifle shot that Daisy used to market.

It seems like steel BB's are not what it wants?

lead BB's:
https://www.amazon.com/Gamo-177-Rou...ords=lead+bb&qid=1536713539&sr=8-4&ref=sr_1_4


Lets see if I can fit in another edit, shall we?

I just tried loading a BB into my
Crosman 2100 Classic .177. The BB is steel. I dropped it into the receiver, and tilted the gun forward, and the BB rolled straight thru to the ground.
Two types tried - same results:
> Copperhead, copper plated steel
> Daisy, chromed steel
I do not have any lead BB shot
 
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Uh. Makes perfect sense, and completly news to me, obviously

Thanks!

// mr. Spock voice: "fascinating"//
 
On the bb rolling out, shouldn’t the bolt have a magnet on the end to hold the bb? My Crosman 2100 does.
 
On the bb rolling out, shouldn’t the bolt have a magnet on the end to hold the bb? My Crosman 2100 does.

You're absolutely right. I had started to close the bolt, then reopened it, which freed the bb, when the bolt probe retracted all the way in. I was mostly looking to see if it seated at all in the barrel, and then rolled the bb forward into the barrel. The magnetic bolt eluded me, as I last shot BB with my old 760, when I was a kid, and got spooked by ricocheting steel BB's. At that point, I went to lead pellets.
The only reason I have any BB's right now is that my neighbor loaned me his pellet selection/kit, in order to try out some different .22cal pellets. He had the two BB types in his kit.

I just rebuilt my 2100 about 10 days ago. It regained some solid pop.
 
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If I'm not mistaken, our own Grumpy has some knowledge of air guns. Maybe he'll chime in.
 
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