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Once the right pellet choice is made and granted a more consistent and tighter grouping is achieved, this Spring Piston Pellet Rifle could make a decent small pest control airgun! Again I was disappointed in the accuracy but I honestly believe a different pellet choice could fix that problem as I have seen often with other Pellet Rifles. In terms of power the Webley Valuemax 22 Caliber Spring Piston Break Barrel Pellet Rifle is about has high as you can go before it becomes a regulated firearm here in Canada so no complaints in that department. I would like to try a different pellet choice to see if I can do better as I believe this rifle has way more potential. I did see several pellets land in a tighter sub group but some came out of this group enlarging the grouping. To be honest I was expecting a better grouping, something close to half an inch but on this day with this ammo choice I was closer to 1.5 to even 2 inches. I was using the open fiver optic sights on the Webley Valuemax 22 Caliber Spring Piston Break Barrel Rifle rather than a scope even thought there is a dovetail rail with included scope stop. As always I placed a brand new paper target 30 feet downrange and proceeded to shoot ten 14.3 grain lead pellets from a rested and seated shooting position to allow for best possible results with as little human error but I am imperfect so some human error is always present. Moving on to the accuracy portion of my Indoor Field Test in the Replica Airguns Sea Can. Even so I managed to hit 478 fps which produced a nice 7.26 foot pounds of energy which by the way is almost 10 Joules! If you are wondering about Canadian legalities, as long as I do not go over 500 fps AND go over 4.2 foot pounds (both thresholds must be exceeded), then this Airgun is considered a non-regulated firearm and does not require a firearms license. Starting off with my real world velocity test for the Webley Valuemax 22 Caliber Spring Piston Break Barrel Rifle, I went with 14.3 grain lead pellets which are I would say on the heavier side. If you have not already watched my Table Top Video for this Break Barrel Spring Piston Pellet Rifle then make sure to do so for more details, specifications and close up video. I then setup a fresh paper target 30 feet downrange and place 10 pellets into it to see what type of grouping I can get. I hope all that was helpful and factually accurate.In this Field Test Shooting Video I put the Webley Valuemax 22 Caliber Spring Piston Break Barrel Rifle through my standard Replica Airguns Indoor Field Test protocol by first testing out the velocity and placing 5 rounds through my Chronograph to see what the actual real world fps is using 14.3 grain lead pellets. If you do pick up one of those Drozds, let us know how it goes, I'd kinda like one too! I hope all that was helpful and factually accurate. So, optimistically, I think these things are slowly becoming available again although may still be a bit hard to get stateside. (super stoked about that) And this website claims to have new production Drozds: I know the IZH-46m just recently popped back up on the market. I believe they've slowly started rolling out some of their old product lines. This was probably one of the factors that caused Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and some associated companies to fall on hard times, which ultimately lead to their merger with Kalashnikov Concern.
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Around then, a lot of the IZH/Baikal toys we all know and love disappeared. So don't trust anything I'm about to say as I may be completely talking out my ass here, however I think the trouble started as part of the whole Russian imports ban.