Badly recoiling Webley pistols--------Or "Great Jumping Juniors!"

I'll add the Junior bit to the earlier Junior thread.  

If you have a Webley pistol that is recoiling badly and inaccurate. Here are a few things to check. 

With the Juniors, sometimes the mainsprings are tight in the piston and the spring cannot unwind when the gun is fired, so the gun jumps like hell and is really inaccurate.   I guess a badly finished spring end could cause a similar problem.  

Then, if you have a leather breech seal there is a chance that the brass insert is missing and the holes is closing up and obstructing the air from the transfer port. This can also happen if you have shimmed  the back of the seal. 

Thirdly --you have stripped the gun and cleaned it out and left a bit of kitchen roll down the cylinder.  Yes-I have done this more than once 😊 

Obviously, other things like someone trying to cram a monster spring in, the piston washer being knackered or a load of lube making the gun diesel can cause problems. 

With later pistols, the same things apply, and also you might have a leak from the transfer port screw, or someone has fitted a longer screw that obstructs the port.   I got given a Tempest in really good condition that someone had tried fitting a big mainspring in (BSA Magnum???) and as a result the piston jammed on the spring and they used force to try to cock it and pulled the pin hole on the barrel forging!   This was despite then attempting to "size" the spring with an angle grinder. 

 Apart from that, I've just taken the apples out of the batch of Apple Nouveau  that I put on 3 1/2 weeks ago. I know less about wine making than I do about Webley pistols ---but some of you have sampled it, so you know that 🙂