This included adding a 5/8" long copper sleeve spacer (cut from 1/2" copper pipe) to the spring guide to partially compress the plunger spring for more power. I also drilled out the inner air tube hole larger for more air volume. Compressing the spring after wards was a bear but wrapping a old tube sox around the spring made it allot more comfortable.
The model 10 standard fixed sights which left allot to be desired. I remembered I had a rear sight from a TC Contender so I tried a test fit, and curve on bottom of TC sight matched the curve of the model 10 receiver. I used 6/32" self tapping machine screws to attach the the sight. Shortest screw available was 1/2" but this was too long so after tapping the holes with the screw and backed them out then shortened them by less than half so as to clear mechanisms in the receiver.
There's an old plastic play castle in my backyard 30 feet from my back door. Previously the BBs would bounce off like bullets off Superman but this time my first shot went through both walls of the castle. SUCCESS in power department.
The higher power caused a drop in point of aim but my new adjustable TC contender rear sight took care of the zero.
Now the only problem left was the extremely short length of pull of about ten inches. I cut, shaped, sanded, and finished a new butt stock I made from a piece of 2x4x24" lumber from the lumberyard scrap bin I picked up for $2.00.
Finished product won't win a beauty contest but hey it works for me. The 14.5" LOP is great and the curved butt stays on my shoulder under full recoil while at full gallop chasing buffaloes. I'm a happy camper.
I have to sell the old homestead by the end of this year and move out. I think I'll have to thin my herd some to survive. Any suggestions on where to live comfortably on about $1400.00 a month not including rent on the continent? Somewhere where I won't find a burning cross on the front lawn the first week I'm there is preferred.
