Great pistols. I’ve had mine since the early 80s. Even have the factory scope mount. I made walnut grips for it in wood shop class, couldn’t afford the factory ones, I was a kid back than.

 

I am not much into air rifles or pistols, but do own a few. We hit a local show this morning and I ran across a few I had never seen before. One being this pistol, looked well built and the price was right, so I didn't go home empty handed. Now to go shoot it and see how it does, seems fairly strong just from doing a dry fire. So we will give it a test and she how it goes.

Looks like they came out around 1977 and ran to the mid 80's to use as indoor target pistols.

Nothing to fancy, but just enough glare to get my attention.

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DO NOT DRY FIRE A PISTON AIR GUN.
That's the sure way to destroy it. Yes they made two the Tempest and the Hurricane they followed the Webley tradition these were great guns but low powered. these two shot at around 410 FPS and pretty accurate but you have to do your part cause they got a bit of recoil.
Take care of it and don't use any firearm lube on them lube every 500 rounds with 20 weight silicone oil.
Again Do Not Dry Fire.

 

It wasn't intentional and yes I knew better. Also thanks for the info on the silicone oil.

 

I have one of those. Mine did come with smooth wood grips.

 

Cool looking air pistol !
Almost looks a little like something Buck Rogers carries around.......

 

Owned a tempest and a hurricane, also rebuilt a few of those, back in the 90's. Solid well built guns. They were offered in 177 and 22 cal. Good thing you found the 177, the power plant isn't sufficient for the heavier 22 pellets and only shot around 300fps. The older 22 british pellet guns also spec'd a larger bore for their guns, 22 being 5.6mm and those pellets are no longer available.
As S S/paw stated, do NOT dry fire, the piston power plant needs that pellet in place to decelerate the piston, so that it doesn't slam into the end of the compression tube.
Find some light weight pellets, say around 7grs, and you'll have a fun can plinker. A good running pistol should shoot close to 400fps.
Good luck and happy shooting.

 

Owned a tempest and a hurricane, also rebuilt a few of those, back in the 90's. Solid well built guns. They were offered in 177 and 22 cal. Good thing you found the 177, the power plant isn't sufficient for the heavier 22 pellets and only shot around 300fps. The older 22 british pellet guns also spec'd a larger bore for their guns, 22 being 5.6mm and those pellets are no longer available.
As S S/paw stated, do NOT dry fire, the piston power plant needs that pellet in place to decelerate the piston, so that it doesn't slam into the end of the compression tube.
Find some light weight pellets, say around 7grs, and you'll have a fun can plinker. A good running pistol should shoot close to 400fps.
Good luck and happy shooting.

Thanks for explaining, how the piston travels in the bore might make some of these folks understand.

 

Here is mine with the wood grips. I did forget that I modified the front sight to a fiber optic one! I do have the front sight hood but it blanks out the fiber optic so I have left it off. Did put a trigger over travel stop to improve the trigger a bit.

 

I'm left handed and the safety always seemed to get in the
way, I have two premiers 177 and 22 as well as a Senior
These were the predecessors to the aluminum plastic,roll pins.
These were all steel with the exception of the Bakelite grips
These were primo air pistols their failing was velocity about 310

 

The lower MV was mostly due to the leather seals of the day. Converting them to nylon seals would boost velocity substantially.
Nice collection BTW.

 

The lower MV was mostly due to the leather seals of the day. Converting them to nylon seals would boost velocity substantially.
Nice collection BTW.

Not these.
No leather in them the have steel sleeves with nylon bushing and they still shoot at around 310 FPS

 

The breech seal is a weak point on these designs also.
Still nice pistols though 😎

 

Not these.
No leather in them the have steel sleeves with nylon bushing and they still shoot at around 310 FPS

Never opened up any of the seniors or premiers, so an incorrect assumption on my part... you learn something new everyday.