webley nimbus review

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Average Ratings

Accuracy	6.6/10
Handling	7.6/10
Value for Money	6.8/10
Reviewer Rating	6.1/10
Overall Rating	6.6/10

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By nicholasdownes on 12th Nov 2004

nicholasdownes's Ratings

Accuracy	5/10
Handling	7/10
Value for money	9/10
Overall value	7/10
nicholasdownes's recommendation

Good Points

Light weight.
Easy to handle.
Automatic safety.
Trigger can be worked on.
Value for money
Well made

Bad Points

You have to remember that this is a Chinese airgun, best shot and serviced at the same time!

General Comments

The Webley Nimbus is a good little gun, based on a cometa 5 and identical in every way to the SMK XS B12. You see as any designs age Chinese companies buy up the plans and then produce products identical to items that would have been available as branded a year or so before. Webley are no stranger to this process and are now quite closely linked with a factory in China who produce them two ranges of guns. There are the sub £40 guns that are absolutely rubbish and then things like the Nimbus, which is a quality little platform from which to build.

I say quality not in the way you might expect. It is reasonably well made, but the screws in the stock will all rattle loose, the barrel catch bearing may jam in, the bluing is lighter in some areas, the barrel to spring link rattles, the trigger is heavy, it diesels slightly continuously, rifling starts too early in the barrel so pellets are difficult to load, and the open sights are useless out of the box. But the thing does have a good feel, and does have potential.

The first thing to do is put 1000 good heavy pellets through it. This will loosen up the trigger sear, settle down the barrel and dieseling, and enable you to get some performance from the open sights, which are good up to perhaps twenty yards. I have been using mine to teach young adults to shoot and they love it. I've just put a 4 x 40 scope on it and plan to file the sear a bit more, then i think this will be a cracking little gun.

Recommended, not if this is going to be your only gun. If you know what your doing its a fun little platform to expand upon, for £100 you should be able to get gun, scope, mounts, bag and pellets. Within 2-4 hours of shooting, tweaking, tightening and filing I would quite happily hunt with it at 20-30yds.

Total Respect: -1