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    That's the one Steve!
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    Hi Adam. Yes they do! A decent 25-30 metre outdoor lawn shooting range/ground next to the shop. Good to see you mate. Simon
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    In West Yorkshire, give REDBECK shooting shop a look-over. Great shop and good, helpful lads running it. Worth your custom. Always sad to read of a gunshop going out of business. Guns International at Barnsley, sold up and gone. Dead On Target was a good and friendly little place out at South Kirkby. Now gone under; but, Euroguns were a rather pricey, large store which cost you a fair wedge in petrol getting there. And they could be a bit bloody arrogant to their customers. If they were not prepared to get competetive on prices and treat the customer with a bit more respect, in a recession
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    Malt you are probably right and I'm perhaps being a bit over-cautious as to a possible reaction as a whole. But you know how over-reactionary the antis can be and I don't want to see a harmless bit of fun among ourselves turned into something it was never intended to be! Davy. I will certainly have a go at designing air rifle shooting badges that could be easily made for us by various badge making businesses. The Pellet over crossed rifles could be a proficiency series. ONE PELLET. = NOVICE or COMPETITION RUNNER UP . (Bronze) TWO PELLET =( pellets side by side) = INTERMEDIATE OR CL
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    That's a truly lovely stock. Well worth the TLC to restore and refurb it! Pianoman
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    I really like the idea of a T.H.L. HFT badge we can show on caps/hoodies/gunslips etc but, after a lot of studying the proposed design I honestly do not believe it wise to use the rabbit motif. 1.It doesn't convey a formal respectability. 2.It conveys a negative, pirate-like image overall that is not about HFT. 3.It makes light of killing wild animals. Even if they are pests. 4.It looks deliberately provoking to the anti-hunting/shooting lobby who will see it as fuel to their assumptions that we revel in bloodsports. Why not have a pellet motif with two rifles crossed, one sprin
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    Hi Daz. I've thought on the lines of commissioning Custom Stock to make a left handed sporting one for a Prosport of my own but, it defeats the object in that, the factory Air Arms stock is what attracts me to the rifle in the first place. It's still a posh TX200 with a redesigned underlever system and to shoot it off my left shoulder is too much of a compromise, as I think you are experiencing. I enjoy some great shooting with my own .22 TX200 rifle as it is, especially since Andy tuned and tweaked it so, a .177 TX Mk.III with the current stock design in walnut would make more sense for
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    I have to say I still love my old 30-30 reticles. I have a Hawke Airmax 6-18x44 SR12 ret. scope on my .22cal. HW77. It helped win the recoiling class HFT trophy and other prizes at the Nottingham Meet. But, there is a wonderful simplicity and phenominal accuracy to be gleaned from a quality scope with a straightforward 30-30 Duplex reticle. Simon
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    Do you think there would be a case of discrimination against lefthanded shooters levelled at AIR ARMS? Without any intentional big-headed bullshit, l reckon l could make a Prosport sing downrange to one-hole groups at 50-metres. But, I'm unable to, thanks to it being unavailable and unusable to me. Fabulous rifle. The finest looking air rifle there is. Simon
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    Springers crossed!
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    14.5 with my Hawke 6-18x44 SR12 reticle scope when calibrating the shotfall on my HW77 .22 over different ranges. That enables me to shoot at differing ranges accurately and comfortably through the changing light. ATB. Simon
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    Talk this with your local Police first Hugh. Never leave a legal matter to hard experience to decide when the police show up after someone has reported you. You never know what ancient By-laws exist to land you in trouble if you start shooting. It could be that only local Council pest controllers have the all-clear to use air rifles in such environments. Or the time you are allowed to shoot is specific. The police will at least be concerned about where your pellet could end up in a missed shot situation and the safety of the public in the area. Pianoman.
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    For a scope, don't be taken in by great big impressive front lenses but instead, choose a scope and quality mounts that allows you plenty of adjustment on the available scope-rail on the top of the rifle's cylinder or what-have-you where the scope is mounted to your rifle's top surface. This will allow at least something of a proper fit of your air rifle to your specific reach and eye-relief measurements and thus, help you achieve greater accuracy from your shooting with your combo. Time taken to at least get a comfortable fit of your rifle and scope to your dimensions is time well spe
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    I've seen kitts bounce violently about in nervous death spasms for what seemed almost a minute, despite being shot clean through the brain. I've shot rabbits straight through the head with .177 FAC and it still didn't guarantee an instantly clean kill. The rabbit moved a little at just the instant of shot fired and the pellet struck either through the orbit of the eyes or into the lobe at the base of the ear. Those sent the animal either screaming into the woods or down holes and a slow death in agony. That's why I feel a lot better about sub .12ft/lb .22 for rabbit/squirrel/rat shooting.
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    I've often heard said by my mate Andy here, a very capable airgun tuner and techbod, that the TX200 was so good it didn't need tuning or anything else to improve its smooth-from-the-box performance. I don't honestly think I would have mine tuned. It's a 12-year old MkIII .22 rifle, still on it's original spring and it's as consistent and shoots like silk since the day I bought her from new. I think perhaps. these things work out for some, but not every time.. All the best with yours.. Pianoman
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    Your Prosport looks absolutely lovely Flow! A proper rifle all round. Well done on getting it. Simon/Pianoman
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    Sorry for double post. Apparently I had a block by the Admins on the number of posts I could make in a certain time and when I tried to backspace and reapply...this happened! Sorry!
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    Now then dear Davy and Wurz. I've got airshows and exhibitions to work on for October but, if I can keep to my committments and fit happily with these dates......Aye, I'll come have another go at the darts and the spring gun class! Can't promise right now but, I'll make every effort to wangle the dates. So....Get your nobblin' tactics working then laddies! The rest of you should make every effort to attend. These meets are time spent with the best shooters and the nicest lads you will ever know. Love Simon the Pianoman!
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    Now then dear Davy and Wurz. I've got airshows and exhibitions to work on for October but, if I can keep to my committments and fit happily with these dates......Aye, I'll come have another go at the darts and the spring gun class! Can't promise right now but, I'll make every effort to wangle the dates. So....Get your nobblin' tactics working then laddies! The rest of you should make every effort to attend. These meets are time spent with the best shooters and the nicest lads you will ever know. Love Simon the Pianoman!
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    Now then dear Davy and Wurz. I've got airshows and exhibitions to work on for October but, if I can keep to my committments and fit happily with these dates......Aye, I'll come have another go at the darts and the spring gun class! Can't promise right now but, I'll make every effort to wangle the dates. So....Get your nobblin' tactics working then laddies! The rest of you should make every effort to attend. These meets are time spent with the best shooters and the nicest lads you will ever know. Love Simon the Pianoman!
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    Well, I have a .177 TX200HC and a .22 TX200 standard rifle and they are both superb to shoot with, beautifully built and accurate in the extreme. The .177 is a bit more "snappy" in characteristic on firing. My TX200 .22 is very smooth a rifle gets and took 3 squirrels and a rabbit the other night, all at decent ranges and all clean through the head and brain spot. If I was going for a Prosport, I would go for both .22 and .177 cal. I love this particular air rifle for its looks and performance. As it is I'm a left hooker and Air Arms won't make a dedicated left handed Prosport version. It
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    Hi Robwelsh. Generally speaking, yes. But, the police seem, to me, a bit better disposed towards granting an FAC for air rifles than rim/centrefire cartridge rifles. You will have to prove and fulfil the same level of competence in handling, safety and your permission will have to cleared by the police as suitable ground for FAC shooting with regard to boundary distances and likely ranges you'll be shooting to. Plus you will need to show the same level home security requirements for storing your air rifle/s, I.E a steel gunsafe bolted to a supporting wall in your home and preferably out
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    Thanks John and everyone for their kind input and comments. Just need some nicer, dry weather and I reckon we'll be pulling down bags like some of the other lads get here. I'll leave image?picture posting to Andy as I have neither a camera nor the know-how to post pics here. It's a cracking shoot and needs a deeper explore with these spring contraptions I prefer to shoot with! All the best to you all here and thank you Gentlemen. Simon
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    The EXCEL was often considered as Webley's junior, entry level air rifle for medium range hunting. But it was much better than that. Well made with beautiful deep blueing, as were all Webley air rifles back in their day, The only thing poor against it was that the trigger was unadjustable for let-off I had one, in .22 flavour for some years and I still regret the day I let it go. I had mine fitted with a .22 Theoben gasram and it cocked and shot like a little dream, that really improved the trigger release characteristic. It was amazingly accurate and consistent. all the days I hu
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    Hi Flow. Both have their advantages over eachother from my experience of using both calibres to hunt with. .22 being larger in frontal mass area, has the greater knock-down power thus, there is less chance of inflicting a fatal wound where the animal escapes, unretrievably, into undergrowth. .22 is as blisteringly accurate as .177 if you put the time in to learn its steeper trajectory curve from your rifle. .177 is lighter thus flies faster, thus flatter, than .22. Making it very accurate and easier to shoot accurately with. 177 being smaller and lighter has greater penetration
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