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  1. pianoman
    So did I Mike. Then this old classic pops up and your head fills with all the great things you've heard about them....And before you know what next.... You know the feeling!
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    Timmytree asked "How are you getting on with the Pro Sport Simon?" Getting on fantastic with the Pro Sport Timmy. Thanks mate, I love it to death and bits. Charlie caller here installed a Tinbum kit and fettled and polished her internals to perfection. She cocks smooth and sweet and not a bit of twang but a good sharp reportive crack at the muzzle. My HW77 .22 rifle's accuracy is legendary but the Pro Sport I have is every bit as accurate. One of the greatest air rifles ever built as far as I'm concerned.
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    Cheers Jamie Haven't a bloody clue what the second part of that all means. I would post pics of my new shit up if only I knew how. I'm a totally thick twat at this posting pics malarkey. It's all computer tech bollocks and I lose the will to live on a good day with all this computer shit.bollocks. Why don't you come over here sometime and give us a hand. My HW80 has been asking about you too!
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    Simon if she is any where near the raider then the rest of your rifles will be put to rest my old friend And i may just have another old lady (raider) soon a one that needs some TLC and if i do she will not be going any where and i can guarantee i will need a new bigger game bag lol Your one lucky man to have Helen my old friend she is a keeper bro and if you ever let her go ill be down to your ears AND IM NOT JOKING BY THE WAY LOVE YOU BOTH TO BITS ATVBJIMMY/NICOLA WELL I CAN SAVE YOU A JOURNEY FOR THAT THEN JIMMY........WE ARE PLANNING ON MARRYING NEX
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    I am a lucky sod that I have an ace girl who appreciates and understands my shooting hobby. We popped into the local gunshop in Woodhall Spa for a tin of ammo and there on the wall are two 2nd hand Webley FX2000s from way back. One was the full-size/length rifle in beautiful, mint condition in .22 calibre, the second is the .22 carbine version. I just happened to say what a cracking gun these were back in their day and they are getting a bit scarce now-a-days. And I wouldn't mind having that .22 long rifle version. Complete combo with a Tasco mildot scope and a decent looking silence
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    I'd have another Daystate Regal, but only if I was prepared to pay another £120 and a drive down to see Carl at Airtech to have a regulator made for it. I'm curious to see how it performs in .22. But I'm in no rush. I have a .22 Pro Sport and three Wiehrauch spring rifles that are all as accurate as my regulated .177 Daystate Regal PCP and that is an incredibly accurate rifle as it is now. It's a serious matter for any business, when major stockist retail outlets for it, stop stocking the products because of too many unresolved quality-control issues. If I was running the company I would h
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    You have inded Mitch. And had you had received a decent rifle and service for your money, you wouldn't have said a bad word about them. I won't be buying another daystate PCP ever, and then there's Brocock....It's a funny thing how Tony Belas is the man behind the Directorial management of both those airgun companies at a time when the silly problems with these guns became an expectation! ....
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    Can't complain about a thing about my Landrover Discovery II Series TD5. V-reg. Everything complete, original and in really good nick. Solid service History, sails through her MOT without an advisory so far. Solid underneath and reliable as the day is long. Previous owners have really looked after her well. She'll do for me, I love her to bits.
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    Certainly sounds like a perfect rifle, the HW100. It certainly seems to put an enormous degree of precision marksmanship into the hands of any decent shooter. and the not-so skilful shot can at least rely on it to deliver lethal accuracy where other rifles might not I agree with you Matt about the level of finish on Wiehrauch stocks, be it beech or walnut, as they leave the factory. I don't think I've seen a treated and oiled Weihrauch stock that started out looking a real "Plain Jane", that didn't look less than really beautiful after the likes of Jimmy and Co with the know-how here hav
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    From your PCP list here, I would go for the HW100 in whatever format/calibre you desire. Of all the rifles listed this one ticks more boxes of your requirements than the others. Straight out of the box reliability, phenominal accuracy, rugged durability and decent customer after-sales care are your most important factors. Second choice would go for Air Arms. FX guns are built like Swiss watches. Beautifully built but not as tough in the field as Weihrauch. I too have a Daystate Regal that needed another 120 quid spent on an Airtech regulator, a barrel-crop and re-threaded for a
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    Welcome back Matt it's good to see you here again old pal. Now then..HW100...The more I'm reading about HW100s with all you lads here who've got one, the more I'm coming to wanting one. Seems it has an awesome level of performance and reliabilty. But that's the Germans for you. When they make something good, it's built incredibly good! Only Jimmy here has a downside experience of one he has..or did have, until something happened and he clicked with it. It looks really lovely Matt this one of yours. But surely...it can't be any more accurate than what I already have....Can it? Wh
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    What problems are you having with shooting your HW95 Richard? Most springer/shooter issues are down to finding and using a correct hold technique. For any spring rifle you cannot hold it tight or grippy in anyway. But light and with finesse. First, get into a prone position using a beany seat bag as a supportive rest for your forearm while you support the fifle forestock. Use a sweetly gentle rest at your shoulder, just a rest of the forend on the palm of your leading hand and your controlling hand nice and light on the grip, thumb up the wrist or back of the grip and the ball of your finger
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    I love to get into a prone position and shoot from a static vantage point I'll have previously marked out with range markers. That's how I learned range estimation as a youngster just getting into seriously huntling with an air rifle. If you are shooting rabbits along a hedgerow line as they would pop out into the open space from, take a 5-metre tape measure and mark out 10-metre intervals along the length where the rabbits are most actively entering and exiting the field from, with stones or fallen twigs and bits of branch and use them to mark out the range distances you can actually see.
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    Might have to be a last minute thing for me. I'm up to my neck with work on, and the deadlines are getting tighter.
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    There's no-one on this forum that I don't like the sound of. And the lads here I've actually met or spoken to are really lovely lads, all of you. There's a big difference between good natured, humourous banter and taking the piss for its own sake. That isn't funny, it's insulting. And there's something peculiar about the British. We love to set up and create "Societies" out of pastimes in order to further them and promote fellowship of a shared interest, then, we love to ban people from them! (Golf clubs, ughh!) I hate piss artists with a passion. I cannot abide rudeness in people. I
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    Funny thing, the effect of temper. I just have to think of a certain person of my past professional aquaintance and my groups tighten-up like a duck's arse! Never known a sling to affect my accuracy but, I've often wondered about the possibility of it affecting the harmonics of an air rifle in some way. Military snipers rarely use a sling on their rifles for just this very reason.
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    I have both .22 and .177 in my armoury and I love them....But I prefer to hunt rabbits and squirrels with my .22 rifles. This is NOT TO KICK OFF THE OLD CALIBER DEBATE!!! .22 is what I'm much more used to, after more years of air rifle shooting than I want to be reminded of, and I have a thorough understanding of my rifles trajectories in .22 to enable me to confidently take long range as well as short to medium range shots. Basically 10 yards/metres out to 60 at a push. And .22 gives more of a knock down punch. Well, I think it does. But I've brought off some cracking shots and ma
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    I reckon you could do a nice job on one very easily Simon There's no special tools needed to take one apart - the TX, just take the action out of the sock, hold it by the barrel, put the trigger housing on a towel on a firm surface and push down, then unscrew the retaining bolt (may need an adjustable spanner first time). Then the whole thing just comes apart. .... the only fiddly bit is the circlip for the pin on the cocking lever. A drop-in kit is exactly as it sounds - it literally just drops in - no tools needed, it can all be done by hand Dismantling the ProSport, from memo
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    A .177 TX200HC has to be one of the THE most accurate spring air rifles I've ever shot with. I had two Mk. IIIs quite some years back now;, including one on my FAC and they were both incredible. I love the current stock with its sweetly curved forend. But now, I'm a dedicated Pro Sport man and for my money, deservedly the flag ship of the Air Arms spring gun range. Charlie Caller here worked on mine and he said how easy to strip and tune/fettle, and well made ir Arms guns are SO a second hand one as a tuning and improving project might make an excellent winter project noe the nights ar
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    Hi Archie. It came BACK FROM REPAIR like this??? Definitely looks like the guy has swapped your bolt and probe for a pile of broken tat he thinks will escape your attention old pal. :hmm:
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    I can't argue with Mitch's observations based on the hard experience he's had with his Regal or Daystate's shabby treatment of him. It was a disaster for him; and I totally agree with you both Jimmy as I've said long before. Any air rifle costing £800 quid should be free of anything holding it back or against it, without spending more money to get it to perform as it ought to. But then again. I don't own a single rifle that hasn't been tuned or fettled in some way. Only my HW77 .22 underlever is still as original parts-wise, but was fettled and honed and polished to a smoother firing and c
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    Seems all guns these days have some issue or other that needs finishing or fixing. It's the fact that my partner Helen has a brilliant Daystate Huntsman Classic and the looks of the Regal that won me over to buying one for myself. I can't speak for every Regal owner but mine is a stunning performance rifle with its Airtech regulator. Like Rabid says of his, mine too will punch the bullseye out all day long. If the HW510 is experiencing problems with magazine and pellet indexing then, I'd go back to your original question...Which of the two... AND BUY THE DAYSTATE REGAL.
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    Terrible news to read. I've lost a good friend from my RAF days to a bad smash on his bike seven years ago. I still miss his company and friendship and wonder....My sincerest condolences and sympathy. It's not the bikes so much, as too many blind and brainless pillocks allowed to drive cars, for my liking.
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    She looks a beautiful little dog Jimmy. I hope many happy years ahead for you all with her. She'll soon start taking her retrieving more seriously. Letting her grow up as a pup is the most important thing for now. She'll know when it's time to mean shooting business with you mate. Lovely to see Nicola up and enjoying the sea air too. Love from us to you both and Ethan. Simon and Helen.
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    Hi Hillbilly1975. Can't say anything much about BSA PCP guns except BSA are not the great British rifles they once were. Gamo of Spain owns and builds them and the standards generally are not all that great. But, get a good one and you'll have a really good one. from what some lads I know say of theirs. Daystate Regal is a very elegant and beautiful rifle but you'll find it needs a regulator to be nmde for one. Mine is a stunner and is .177 cal. It is a rabbit killer with JSB Heavies. Its Harper valve system is only good at 150-160 bar and above that, it comes in underpowered. Expec
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