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  1. pianoman
    Best spring rifles money can buy off the shelf. Fixed-barrel underlevers are: WEIHRAUCH HW77, HW97, AIR ARMS TX200/TX200HC. PROSPORT. Best Break Barrel spring rifle. WEIHRAUCH HW80. HW80K. HW95. BEST GAS RAM. WEIHRAUCH HW90. THEOBEN EVOLUTION. Don't bother with Theoben FAC Eliminator. It looks good but, shoots like a dog. Simon
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    Stefaan...Hi There!
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    AGREED! Brilliat stuff Davy. Hats off to you and Paul both for getting out and involved. Great to see young folks enjoying archery too! Compliments to both of you. Simon.
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    Can't beat SPORTSMATCH! I recommend two-piece mounts. You can use them to set up an infinate variety of positions on the scoperail to mount your scope to perfect ballance on the rifle and eye relief. With single piece mounts, there's generally no problems but, you are limited to how they mount and fix to the rifle. Simon
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    A genuine pleasure to meet you both too and thanks for your hospitality again. Let me know when you'll be up again at the Featherstone. Always up for tasty tuck in good company! If the weather is kindly, we'll sort out some shooting for you. Andy is keen to meet you both too! All the best. Simon.
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    Check it for lube pest Hunter. I had the same twangy, vibratory feeling condition with my .22 TX200. AndyFR1968 here is my mate and shooting pal and he knows spring rifles backwards. He did a service on mine and found the trigger was bone dry and the rifle needed a general internal re-lube. Since that was done, the gun shoots amazingly well again.
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    Just want to make an open thank-you to Secretagent Moley Mike and his lovely sidekick Mary for a really nice couple of hours meeting over lunch and a visit to Redbeck shooting supplies at Wakefield. Lovely to meet you both and thanks for feeding me before my gig at Yorkshire Television this afternoon/evening. Next time, make it on my day off and I'll take you out onto my shooting ground. I know Andy is dying to meet you both too. Hope the new HW95 you bought works out for you Mary. If it doesn't, let me have first dibs on it! Thanks again folks. It was very kind of you both. S
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    By the way Rake. The stock on the HW77 is the classic beech design with white butt and grip spacers. Mine is a neutral, ambidextrous version and I love it. But, as the action of the HW97 and HW77 is the same, the stocks for the 97 will fit the 77! After that, Custom Stock of Sheffield make some truly marvellous stocks in rich Walnuts. I'm very tempted to buy a .177cal HW77 and try a little mix and match myself...after I get myself a Left-handed Air Arms Pro Sport! All the best mate. Simon
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    Gentlemen all. Thankyou so very much for all your kind responses. Considering the company of such solid shooting talent and experience I am among, with you lads here, it is very satisfying to read your kind and generous compliments. I've loved spring air rifle shooting since I was a nipper with me dad. And I've owned and shot some amazing classic air rifles I'd love to own and shoot with again. The PCP action has come on massively better since it's first shaky commercial appearance in the 1980s. Today, it will put precision accuracy into the hands of anyone with a modicum of shooting
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    Greetings Gentlemen. I was out shooting this afternoon/evening with my mate Andy (AndyFR1968 here) after a fair old lay off from the permission due to work. However, he had brought along his usual, trusty WEIHRAUCH HW90 while I had both my HW77 and TX200 .22 rifles and we set to for a zeroing session. Well, he'd also brought along his Crossman King Ratcatcher .22 Co2 toy pop gun! You know what it looks like. It's a short, plastic-looking air pistol with a tiny barrel, a skeletal rifle stock (that's just enough of a stock to get it round the 6ft/lb limit ruling on pistols!) and a
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    Hi Tony. The ABCD acale is a rangefinding device. For example of use, if you have sight of a rabbit and you are on 15xMag with an SR12 reticle scope, if you put the tip of it's ears on the top post and its lobes on the base of post A, you will have your rabbit at so many yards or metres distant. B, C and D mean they are a little closer in range as the the posts get longer or deeper from A. Check out Hawke's website or YouTube where Nick Jenkinson has a vid explaining this device in detail. All the best. Simon
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    JESUS! What a haul! It's always someone else who drops on these bargains isn't it!
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    Great post that Bill and some serious bagging! I'm really pleased for you to be out and about getting some great sport in, after the hassles you've had with your eyesight. 58 yarder rabbits is...... The mark of us left handers Hahahahahahah! All the best mate! Simon
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    Now...at last... you'll get some idea of why I rave about top quality spring rifles Mike..and why Hatstands are.. Never mind. Top quality is great kit to be used in the field, not as snobby yardstick about the size of you wallet, knob, whatever........! Happy shooting with it mate. Bring it with you when you come up to visit my shoot and show us how well you shoot it at the mental distance targets me and Andy warm up on! All the best Simon
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    Sounds like a paranoid mind Mike. So what if it is that scamming, illiterate numpty and his brother. This is a shooting forum mate. Not a detective agency!
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    Thanks Fry mate. To be honest I just give the PCP lads a bit of a ribbing over the high prices they seem to have had to shell out for a rifle that is no more accurate than a top quality spring rifle. There are some amazing rifles in PCP action but, a top springer handles and feels better to me. After over 40 years of shooting spring air rifles and being an absolute nut for Air Arms TX200s and FAC HW80s, I finally bought myself an HW77 in December last year. It's accuracy straight out of the box is astonishing. AndyFR1968 on here is a close mate and regular shooting pal. He also happe
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    Hi John. I just knew you would be right at home with the pro sport, even though that Diana Stutzen is a delightful rifle in every way. If it's got accuracy in the order you are getting from shooting with it, you mustr be a very proud and satisfied owner. Certainly get that impression from reading your posts and threads. Si's right! I'm definately going to add a Walnut stock Pro Sport to my collection now that Air Arms finally, make it available to left-handed shooters like me. My HW77 is just keeping on proving itself as a serious hunting rifle John. I can easily see why it ruled the
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    I'd seriously give the Pro Sport a good once over. It's all that Si and Gurtwurz will tell you for it's superbly tuned accuracy straight out of the box. I my humble opinion, it is unquestionably the most beautiful looking sporting air rifle of the lot. I'm definately having one before too long!
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    I have a .177 TX200 HC in my collection. Blistering little rifle. Definately a highly recommended addition to your list.
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    I tip my hat with great respect to you two lads, I really do. There's always a great shot and a moment of something or two you both have on your hunting trips out. Long may it continue you fellas. Always a cracking post from you both. All the very best Gentlemen. Simon
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    Parma Violets..Blimey I haven't seen those since I was about 10. They tasted like flowery, fabric conditioner and plaster if I remember. Better used as a target really!
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    Hi Andy. A .25 HW Barrel via Hull Cartridge might get the job done Andy. Might be a bit of a wait though. It's not exactly common is it!
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    Good read that Si and very interesting. From your post it's not perhaps best as a long range hunting round or a lamping round where a far greater trajectory curve and "bullet-drop" effect might cause accuracy problems But, it's a killer on vermin at around the 25-metre mark and it's not too upset flying in moderate winds. Any view on using it in a spring rifle? I imagine a Weihrauch HW80K Karbine in .25 would be a really devastating rat and ferral pidgeon killer at medium ranges. Perhaps putting it on FAC would be the way to bring it on a par with .22 performance? Grea
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    There you go. Quite right John. If you are getting superlative accuracy from your Pro Sport, then that too is the most accurate rifle of all....In your hands. Hope it goes on getting you great shooting mate! Simon (Still hankering after that Diana Stutzen?)
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    I believe there was an old by-law about hunting on the Sabbath that banned it in some parishes. The Church played a far more important moral as well as spiritual role in people's lives than it does now and was outspoken about bloodsports on the day of worship. in the 1953 movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" The Reverend Weach reprimands his engine fireman for "poaching on Sunday" to which his man replies "Never shot a pheasant on a Sunday, may I drop down dead!" I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for shooting on a Sunday and I've been shooting for over 40 years. Much of it on Sunda
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