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Lads, I just cooked the legs up Peri peri style and they were lovely, so tender. All you have to do is marinade in peri Peri sauce, salt, pepper, cayenne and paprika over night (or for a few hours). Sear in a pan with some garlic, a little olive oil and some lemon juice. Then cover with chicken stock and simmer for an hour, or until the meat starts coming away from the bone. Remove and then mix up with more peri Peri and then whack them on the gridal pan or bbq (prob better on bbq) to char them. Bloody lovely.

Thanks. Out of the 13, I prepped 5 whole rabbits. All the rest were just too small but still need to be cleared. The hind legs are about all you can get off these ones. Rest of the carcasses will get devoured by Mr Fox and the kites. O and all the livers were taken too and frozen ready for my next batch of pate

Cheers lads. The scorpion is a great rifle. I bought it second-hand and it already had a trench reg fitted. It the went off to ratworks and has been transformed into an even better setup. I can't ask for anything more from a rifle tbh.

Thanks, I'll give that a try

I'll blame it on my phone. Should do now. Cheers

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Last night I went out for a bit of rabbit shooting with my ratworks BSA scorpion 177 and had a great night. There's a field on one of my permissions surrounded by woodland and its crop is being hammered this year by the bunnies. There's been a real explosion in the population. All these were shot before last light yesterday evening starting at about 7:45. Most were stalked and a few I lay out in wait for. All shots were between 15 and the longest was lazed at 48 yards. I then spent the next hour or so prepping them All big ones I've prepped whole and the little ones, I just removed their le

It's a draft bill at the moment. Still need time in parliament to be debated/amended and then needs to be voted on. There's still time for Scottish airgunners to fight against this!

Yeah that's true Villaman. Each to their own really. I like the position of the bolt, quicker for hand to come off the trigger, cock bolt, push forward I find. Suppose finding the right gun for you is all about what feels most comfortable and fits you right. Both great guns really. Now the longer days are here I should be using the hw100 more often so my opinions may change.

I think people are misunderstanding my previous post - I didn't say the BSA was the quieter gun overall, I was just comparing the sound of actioning the bolt compared with actioning the side lever when indexing the mag on both guns. Muzzle report with HW mod = HW100 is quieter. My Scorpion has been to XTX for the full tune so he must do something to the hammer mechanism if everyone is saying their BSAs are very noisy. When cocking, both are smooth, I just prefer the BSA bolt action. The BSA cocks quicker and pushing forward is very quick and quiet. The action of pulling the side

Took the hw100 apart today. The previous owner said he hadn't done anything to it and seeing as it's a 2012 model, I thought I'd change all the seals. Wow these are easy to take apart and service. I upgrade the main inlet valve seal to a polyurethane one and replaced the barrel seal, internal valve seals and breech block seals. The reg seal looked good. Shot a 14 shot mag with only a 4fps spread which I like and topped it up to 200 bar and all is seal tight. Next I'll be replacing the hammer spring and valve spring to get rid of that ping sound on firing and removing the anti tampe

This happened Thursday night. The night started off bad, dropped my rifle off the bed onto the floor before I left! My BSA scorpion was in its padded Bsa holdall but still I thought it might affect the zero and it did by about an inch up. Then I took ages resetting the zero because the cattle in the fields seemed intrigued by the sound of the pellet hitting my cardboard target :-( Next I kept spooking the rabbits, the floor was damp and my boots were squidging on the mud. After an hour and a half of pissing around with the zero, avoiding cattle and then spooking all the bunnies,

Nar its awkward I find it. When shooting off the bipod you've got to reach forward to reload the aide lever. The bsa bolt is in a better position so I can reload quicker. Maybe its just I've got used to the bsa bolt. Anyway after shooting it regularly, I might change my mind

Here's the positives and negatives I've noticed with the HW100. Positives Nice mag system - doesn't double load and 14 shots. Feels nice, solid and robust with a nice finish. Smooth trigger action. I like the balance - some people say it's too front heavy but I like it. I like the size and think it's very pointable. Very quiet with HW mod. Looks quite easy to work on - I'm defo fitting a new valve and hammer spring and removing the anti tamper. Only shot it over 25 yards but it seems damn accurate. Negatives I don't like the side lever - the BSA bolt is so much better - quicke