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As you know only too well Jimmy, I have always loved the ones I have owned (mk1 and 2) but these mk3 are something else although mine is an FAC, they are just lovely to use, short and light as well as being very accurate. Phil
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I do like the Ultra, mine is a .22 Mark and accurate but I fancy a .177 although I would prefer an HW110 again, those rifles were fantastic, god only knows why on earth I sold them, so accurate with a good shot count even in the Compact version that I had, I am a fool for selling them. Phil
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Hi Mark. I have owned two of these original Brocock rifles which were fantastic ( brfore Daystate got their hands on the the company) but my only gripe was the low shot count to keep on POI. In fact I looked at one at a similar time to when I bought the Ultra but it was way more than I would pay for one however I did see a couple of years ago that someone had fitted another air cylinder to massively increase shot count which does appeal greatly and if I can get one cheap enough to be used as the base model before any work done, I would be interested. Absolutely lovely little guns. As a mat
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Pretty sure he is sorted now. Phil
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So where are you based.
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Well only a matter of a few hours to go and we let in 2025 so while I am both sober and on the laptop I will take the opportunity to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and lets hope it is a good one for shooting, stay safe guys and have a good one. Phil
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Flash old bugger, that makes my collection look a little weak but when I add my rimfire and shotguns................................................. Phil
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You just have tooooooooo many guns Jimmy, not that I am envious, not in the slightest, well perhaps a little for the Verminator............................. Phil
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The Edgun Leshy is I believe the shortest gun when folded going down to 299mm so less than a foot long. I would have the FX Verminator as a hunting gun if I were to buy again but when I was about to order one, I heard that FX were stopping production so I bought a Mk3 Wildcat fac. Brocock are now part of Daystate which is a very good reason not to buy one with that company's record for support when things go wrong and they often do. If my memory serves me correctly, Kral also make a fold down which will be a fraction of the cost of Daystate guns and the reputation of Kral and some
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Welcome aboard Liam, I think you are a little to late as the thread was March 2023 but you never know. Phil
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Ey up Mark, Merry Xmas my old friend, I hope you are enjoying the day and feeling much better now mate. Take good care of yourself. Phil
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You changed your mind and gone for near eye type, well enjoy and I hope it does what you want. Phil
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I really like the bottle conversion but a bit heavy for me. On my old FX Wildcats sub 12 rifles I could get over 200 shots per fill and it still only weighed in at 2.6kg. I have just got used to light weight guns and by far prefer them now but I do love that green HW of yours. It is a pity Weihrauch don't make a 110 in the green, super light and looks ace. Phil
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Have you sold the geen HW100 that you had BN. Phil
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Lovely fish and interestingly, I never used soft plastics however a couple of years ago i was fishing my local river using MH Custom lures (my go to lures) but no pike were showing at all so just as a random attempt to catch something I put on a softy and within two casts I caught my PB perch, 4lb 9oz. I also thought it was a pike, I was really excited and tried to get a photo of it while holding it to give scale but it was a real handful although I did manage a couple of poor photos. Next cast, 3lb 1oz followed by another 19 perch in just over an hour, madness, I went back the next day with
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I just looked and sales was missing but I clicked onto 'classified' at the top of the screen which seems to have done something as it is now back on as normal. Phil
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I was on the Humber sea wall yesterday for a couple of hours but the wind was cutting but worse than that, a dredger was working in the river, perhaps the reason why I never had a touch. I loaded some new braid on my fixed spool reels, J-Braid Grand, really nice and smooth, casting really well. I just might get another spool to put on one of my multiplier reels to see how well it runs, I did load some Whiplash earlier this year on a spare SLosh20 but I really do not like that stuff so perhaps this J-Braid Grand is a better proposition. Two weeks ago was the very first time I have caught
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Same to you and Nicola me ole dukzzz. Phil
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Welcome aboard Carl but you would be much better in the airgun section. I have sold mine. Phil
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Well I don't know what happened to THL for almost a week but it is good to be back, poor old Jimmy was pulling his hair out and theres not a lot of it.......................can't get on.............PHIL, I CAN'T GET ON. Calm down now me ole dukzzz, we are all here again ready for a bit of banter and tell lies as to how much we shot... Is it possible Ian that you can let us know when the forum is shutting down for maintainance Ianb but there again you can't if it crashes, whatever it nice to be back and I can wish you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year although I am not a bi
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You two old buggers at it ......................................
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Yes, I remembered later it was you that bought one BN ,pleased to hear it does the job because it looks really nice. I have come to the conclusion that near eye NV is simply not for me, I by far prefer to have both eyes open and the bonus is that I don't fall over or lose my balance which did happen on a couple of occassions with near eye systems Or you can't see anything with the intensity of having a bright image in your eye on a dark night but my buddy has no issues at all so it must be me........................... old tart. Phil
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As said before, try one if you can. The 'near eye' type is good for the rabbits while laid out in wait but I found when constantly scanning farm buildings etc for rats and feral pigeons they are a pain in the arse, far far easier to hold the gun on the hip or tripod and using two eyes scan the area and the bonus is at hip height, no flare back to your face from the screen, oh yes, you will get flare with near eye as well. I take far more shots at hip height with the nv than at eye level and far more stable than you might think but you can't do this on a 'near eye' nv. Try one...............
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Welcome aboard, blimey this is a 7 year old thread but never mind. My shooting pal bought one last year to help relive his youth. Phil
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Yes Mitch is no longer here but most of us are anyway what have you been up to in Germany. I love that country and before retiring I used to go over quite a bit, 2 or 3 times a year on business, great beer, great food, and great people I found. It's good to have you back mate. Phil
