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I'm interested in Co2 pistols. What make and models are reliable and still have parts availability ? After talking to Pardini USA they are hit or miss on parts, they say they don't carry parts for those anymore. That's too bad.
Thanks, Stan

porkchop wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 7:10 pm I'm interested in Co2 . . . that's too bad.
Thanks, Stan

Stick with air: 78% Nitrogen, 20.8% oxygen. Why pay for "gas in a can"?

I believe Feinwerkbau has about the best reputation in terms of parts for older pistols. Others may be able to verify if that is true for their CO2 pistols.

Walther made a number of excellent CO2 pistols, but they are also not known for supporting older pistols.

Steyr may be another option. They at least have a conversion to PCP kit if you decided CO2 is too much of a hassle.

I have been collecting and shooting C02 pistols of late.

Skanaker parts, virtually impossible unless you find one of the custom airgun shops to make you stuff by the hour. MAC1 and MAGIC 9 are useful at times like these.

Walther parts are fairly easy. The guns are simple and quite robust. My CP2 trigger came to me overtightened and when I touched the screw to move it, it broke. PROTEK SUPPLIES to the rescue, I bought 2 stock triggers and air tank o rings. My CPM1 leaked and I fot 2 sets of seals and bolt o rings from Pilkington....

My FEG is so simple I can make get cobble together something reasonably easily. It uses metric o rings, easy peasy....

I can't speak to FWBs yet but in general, nothing in these little creatures seems to be beyond the skills of somebody with a passing understanding of machining simple little things and measuring decomposing o rings and dumpster diving McMaster Carr for replacements.... Shooting these is fun, and not too different than PCP guns. They are amazingly accurate, as they should be, nothing there is different. They all have different personalities and they will speak to people differently and answers will be all across the board, just as they are with newer ones today..... I enjoy mine tremendously, shoot them a lot and generally dont let others shoot them because the real danger to hurting them badly is dropping them and bending/ breaking stuff that way.

If you have a FWB safe queen looking for a home where it will actually be shot, look me up.......

I like the CO2 guns. You can buy them cheap because so many folks think the newer PCPs are better. They are fussy at extreme temperatures, though.

At one time, Pilk rebuilt and sold a pile of Pardini K60s, so they may have parts for those.

I like the Walther CP series and have had no trouble getting Walther parts.

Did I mention "cheap"?

About Walther AP parts -- I had no difficulty getting all the springs and seals I needed to renew my Walther CP2 from Harvey Lavigne at AirgunsPlus in Canada (official Walther dealer) who also did the work. They were also readily available from Judith Billharz at scheissport-billarz.de in Germany. I don't know about US availability, but in case of need it shouldn't be difficult to get German AP parts across the border from Canada or Germany. The pistol itself could also be sent to Harvey --- being under 500 fps it's not a "firearm" in Canada, and it doesn't look like an "imitation firearm", so wouldn't be affected by Canadian firearms laws.

Things have clearly improved over the decades. I gave up on both an LP3 in the 1980's and later, a CP2 because I couldn't get parts. I bought a Morini 162EI in the mid-1990's and never looked back.