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  1. pianoman
    Good morning and all good greetings to you and yours too Renos
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    I can't seem to edit my signature block. My website and air rifle collection details are all bloody skew-whiff!
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    Took me a little bit of Effin' and jeffin to get this. But I'm a total computer noob so what do I know....
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    With everyone else, that is a superb group at 47 yards on X4 Mag. Well done and well shot Matt.
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    Can't say I've noticed that big a difference in precision accuracy between .177 and .22.....Springer or PCP in my experience... Both go right through the same pellet hole at 35-metres range as the first, all day, I find... But these days, with my eyesight, and without my specs, the bigger the hole...you know!
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    Well, Bunny Bandit has sent me pics of what is a very nice left handed Mk.I HW97K stock... but I will decline from this swap offer. Had it been exactly as my right handed Mk.II version is, with that sweet skip-chequering on the forestock and grip, I wouldn't have hesitated. But, as nice as this one is, it is not what I would want, so, I must withdraw. But Rez, this might suit you to a tee. Thank you very much Bunny Bandit for giving me first chance. All the very best. Simon
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    To be honest Jamie, you are quite right about this .177 HW97K of mine, it hasn't been used enough. It's a Sandwell Field Sports tuned rifle and it's powerful and accurate as you like and I had one good summer about 5 years ago, of winning a springer comp with it and a load of bunnies on my hotel gardens permission and that's the most it's done in one season. My HW80 and HW77 .22 rifles get the serious hunting jobs. Then I got my Regal tuned and regged up, and finally my Pro Sport,,now this FX2000 comes along. A new stock in my hand might give this lovely girl a new lease of useful life
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    Cheers Phil, you'll be most welcome anytime really. Sorry I haven't gotten back to respond sooner than this but, I'm in a really busy phase with a new painting project. A weekend with some decent weather in the offing would be nice. And it would be good to have Jamie,/Rez over to ours too, to join us for a shoot together. All the best mate. Simon
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    I don't want to get in the way of a swap you might have going on with Rez but, if you want the earlier, dedicated right-hand version, I've got a right handed HW97K Sporter stock with skip chequering and it's the previous stock design to the one shown in Rez's pic. If you wanna swap? It's nice, in beautiful condition and no dings or dents etc. PM me details of yours Bunny Bandit! All the best. Simon
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    Hawke Sidewinder 30mm body tube scope series. Fantastic scopes in my humble opinion!
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    Great to see your fine-bodied Harem is back in your avatar Archie! I missed the lasses you have stashed away there, lately. GET YOUR SELFS A LIKE BUTTON FOR FECK SAKE WHY DONT YOU LOT HAVE ONE ANY WAY ALL WAYS WONDERED WHY YOU DONT :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:Should have a twat button for them Think they had one, it wore out in a week......
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    Dear Jimmy. Now what have you landed yourself with??? ASI Paratrooper among that lot. There was a repeater version of this springer too. Rather you than I with sorting out what belongs to which. I thought the doc told you no more of this refurbishing lark! No, you'd never listen would ya old chum LOL!!!! A very Happy Birthday with all our love too dear pal. Love, best wishes and Fondest regards. Simon and Helen.
  13. pianoman
    Use lead pellets like normal and keep a tin of steel/zinc or whatever none lead pellets handy in your jacket pocket. If anyone in officialdom MoDPlods, RAF Snowdrops etc. askes you what ammo you are using, show him/her the tin of none-lead. None lead ammo is a waste of time and money, I find. Live in peace with your rifle, I say!
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    Where is SJ Fawcett's, Degsey?
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    Thanks Jimmy and everyone of you good lads for your responses. Aye Jimmy, I'm coming round to PCPs with a renewed interest. But I am forever a spring rifle man first and foremost. Or more accurately, a classical hunting rifle man. And Helen's been enjoying shooting it today too. She's a bloody natural shot, honestly. Never fired a gun in her life and she sets to work, lying prone down and hitting some very tight groups within a 2p size disc at 25 metres. And she's enjoying herself doing it. Now she says, "Hmm, why don't you get one of these for yourself"! She sends her love to you
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    Let me get straight to the point. Jesus this rifle is SERIOUSLY amazingly good. I mean it is magnificent. It handles and shoots absolutely beautiful. Despite being left handed and this is a right-handed gun. There are no problems with the grip. And Christ, what accuracy! I've read on the net that these old Webleys were good guns but, I had no idea they were THIS good! Helen being Helen wouldn't let me have the bloody thing out of the Gunshop in Woodhall Spa till my 60th Birthday had passed. But today, despite the high winds over my garden, I've bought another charging bottle with th
  17. pianoman
    I would respectfully suggest you try supporting your local gunshop for kit like accesories, cleaning material and pellets etc. You can always rely on the internet of course, but, I'm keen on supporting good old fashioned gunshops. There are one or two poor robbing sods in the trade that aren't worth your custom of course, but that's their look-out in the end. If the people in your local gunshop are good, friendly and decent and helpful, it's worth supporting their business and they can often return the compliment by helping you out with kit, put a rifle or a scope aside to help you pay
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    Si Pittaway was a senior NCO in the Royal Horse Artillery. Not a sniper, or Special Forces SAS or anything like. But I suppose, if your job is knowing how to lob huge artillery shells from a 155 mm Howitzer over twenty miles onto a target, then it's another form of long range precision shooting in its own way.
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    The Journalist in question here is Scott Campbell for Mailonline. Must be a slow-news week at the Mail whoever he is... This is the risk to putting your vermin shooting on the net. And why I do not... Si Pittaway is actually a thoroughly decent man in my estimation, having been a friend of his some years ago now. He doesn't communicate with me anymore but that's for him to decide. As was is his decision to leave this forum. It's how it is with some people. Fair enough and good luck to him. It is interesting to see the faces of everyone else pixalated and blurred out of focus yet
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    Blimey what a tale. But glad you settled on your choice of the HW95 in the end Ste. These really are beautiful little guns and do the job they are supposed to. I'd heed Charlie's advice and consider a Vortek kit for a Weihrauch spring rifle. They seem to mate with an HW rifle very well. But I've absolutely no regrets about Charlie's work on putting a basic TBT drop in kit into my Pro Sport. More "Which should I get??" to think about
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    LAST WEEK...A young lady was set free from her trial hearing in Crown Court for stabbing her boyfriend with a knife during a bloody tiff!. The reason being, the Judge said, was that she was a bright student at University and imposing any form of prison sentence or restrictive punishment would put an end to her career chances. But you and I, who are innocent of any criminal wrong-doing are now going to be burdened with further restriction and regulation because a low-life, useless b@stard with a pea for a brain shot a child with his air rifle. The question now, is. How do the police en
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    The fact is an air rifle pistol or a bleadin' great 50cal BMG is just an inert collection metal parts and absolutely incapable of self-activation.....until someone picks them up, loads them and starts pointing..... I'm fed up of hearing people calling to ban air guns and firearms where, only the law abiding and innocent users of sprting arms will once again carry the bloody can for the scum and dross who mis-treat and abuse the right to own and use one. If some toerag aims and fires an air weapon at a child or anyone else, God help him with the police and the courts who should be deali
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    I think this is a MkIII TX200 as currently available, with a non-factory standard Bisley butt-pad and a TX200HC-style cocking lever handle and ball-detent latch up. A much better unit than the one fitted, or at least, used to be fitted to the TX200 rifle as standard.. The Mk.II had a slightly different butt-stock profile that carried on from the Mk.I which had a similar barrel and underlever-arrangement and had a similar profile-appearance to the HW97K. Slender, unshrouded barrel and underlever with a muzzleweight latch-up device. The Mk.I forend was rather different too, with a stepped s
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    They don't make these anymore sadly. Original was a well established German company rather like our BSA and made some superbly good rifles for their time. They were in business making air rifles before the second world war and continued throughout the 1970s but, for one reason or another, the company just faded from the list of makers,. Original 45 Break barrel was really nice I remember.
  25. pianoman
    It really is Mitch. Nothing like being able to live in peace with your hobbies and passions. I've known other times when it was not such a happy one and most of the women of my past are just bad memories of bad mistakes.... Still, I have all my rifles, a whopping garden to practice in, great permissions to shoot them over, and a fine lass to live with now, so, I mustn't look back.
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