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  1. pianoman
    So not exactly relevant to an air rifle then Mark; this need to deflect exploding, position-revealing powder-fused cordite ignition gasses And viewing the vid. I see a small measure of air charging out ahead of the pellet and a blue dieselling smoke blast out of this rifle's muzzle..AFTER the pellet has left it behind. That sort of confounds the idea that the air moves faster than the pellet and causes a physical turbulence problem for which a muzzle brake is intended to diffuse. Clearly a bit of the charge does, but nothing you'd think would cause the pellet to deflect in a turbule
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    The best, surest thing you can do is mark out a range area with a tape measure in metres or yards (personally, I prefer metres) and focus your scope on these and mark the precise focused range. You'll see imediately, just how far or not your scope is within error. Your starting point should be as close to where your scope's turrets lie, as this is where all adjustments are made. Then measure out 5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50 metres, or further still and note the focused ranges. Between 20-25-35 and 40-50 metres and further on, you should learn to read your sightpicture by the degree of
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    Hi mate and welcome to the best air rifle shooting forum on the net

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    Let's have a revue of your HW95 .20 cal when you get it shooting Andy. Thanks for posting this up though. I like these Paul Capello revues from YouTube. Simon
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    Hi mate. They told you WHAT?!!! How can air, that is supposedly going faster than the pellet, get past it down the barrel and cause any degree of disruptive turbulence, when the skirt has been instantly blown into expansion and both it and the head is railing to commence spin on the rifling lands down the barrel? Does the air fly ahead of the pellet and then, lie in wait to "Mug" it like a villain in an alleyway of turbulence as it finally wheezes out of the muzzle? Is PC Muzzle-Brake there to arrest the burly ruffian of turbulent air and let poor little pellet safely continue it'
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    I think the Lightning springer and Super Ten PCP were the very last home produced rifles from BSA that passed into Gamo's hands, who then killed off the Super Ten and produced the R-10 and Ultra in it's place. To be fair, Gamo have maintained a good degree of standard with BSA-branded rifles, but, if you know your guns, you'll will have seen a noticeable drop from what once they were. Before the Lightning, the Goldstar underlever and the venerable Meteor were in full British production. The Goldstar was a great underlever flagship rifle that was a creditable answer to the Weihrauch HW77. B
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    Hi Tony, I sincerely hope so fella. My first air rifle, ever, was a webley and I've grown with the company over many years of my shooting. I've owned tempest air pistols as a schoolboy, a Vulcan carbine and Osprey rifle, a little Excel which was absolutely superb on rats and ferral pidgeons, an Omega rifle which was a phenominally accurate .22 rifle for rabbit. and an FAC Patriot that was an awesome powerhouse and my first FAC air rifle after getting my FAC. All of them had the most beautifully rich, deep blueing and the overall build quality of all these rifles were amazingly high. O
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    With Webley I think it was the Tommahawk break barrel around 2000. BSA are owned by GAMO of Spain and their spring rifles from here are just not what they were. The whole Webley BSA saga is a very sad one really. Thanks to poor managements and bottom line bean counters, two great air rifle makers are over and out in all but name now. You can have the recipe for the perfect shepherd's pie, but, you can't make it with dogmeat. That's what the last board of directors at Webley tried to do.
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    Sounds to me like this shop has sold a second hand repaired rifle as a new-from-the-factory model. I'd get the Police in on that for a starter. Refund would be the start of it. Makes you wonder what other scams with firearms sales this guy has been up to.
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    Hmmm. On military self-loading assault, battle and bolt action sniping rifles of all calbres, it is not a muzzle brake you see on the muzzles of these weapons, but a flash eliminator. It's designed to reduce the amount of ignition flash for nightfighting. Sniping rifles have very effective flash suppression shrouds. Remington 700 M40A1 has a very effective flash suppresion unit within its bull-barrel shroud. The air muzzle turbulence story is a pile of shit. It doesn't exist. Not for air rifles or sniper weapons Bet it was AIRGUNNER or AIRGUN WORLD magazine that came up with that bollo
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    They look nicer than a plain muzzle end for a scope-only rifle but, Turbulence reduction? I know about muzzle flip with a recoiling spring rifle but, what does muzzle air turbulence actually feel like? I've been shooting air rifles more years than some of you have been on the planet and I don't know yet what air rifle muzzle turbulence could possibly be. Someone care to explain what I cannot say I've ever felt? Puzzled Simon
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    I have a 60 metre range for zeroing and practice sessions with each 5-metre target point carefully measured out. Using Chairgun, my HW77 is zeroed at 25 metres and, using 15 mag, the mildots and tiebar crosshairs are bang on 30-35-40-45-50-55 metres. With 60 metres at the tip of the bottom post. I tighten up my grouping to one hole accuracy by shooting on the 3rd mildot at 35 metres and the fifth mildot tiebar at 45 metres. That brings everything within lethal range to 60 metres. It's all a matter of accurate range estimation after that. Moley, I reckon with your rangefinder and
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    Great read Andy And sounds like an idyllic evening's shooting for you and your friend. Some nights out in the fields are such pure magic; I wouldn't miss them for anything; even if I came home without so much as a cotton tail scut. I love to watch low sunlight play over and across the landscape, lighting it against a dark grey sky of thunder and rain, and whatever wildlife comes your way, even if you are forbidden to shoot it or, you have the full go-ahead. Don't spare details mate, people like to read of a good hunting foray; with or, without a bag of bunnies. If there's some dissenting vo
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    Great bag mike despite the weather. It's been the same for Andy and me today with the rain showers. But this evening, after dinner, we went back out and I managed to bag three rabbits on my location with the tightest breech-fitting H&N FTT pellets I've ever known. Nicely shot mate. Simon
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    Welcome Tree rat buster!
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    Beautiful. Thats as good as it gets John. A walnut Prosport it is to be. Hope it brings you many years of good shooting Simon
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    Aww bloody hell, NO, John. That's just not on! I'm so sorry for you mate, I know full well how you've hankered, dreamed and wished and saved for that Diana Stutzen rifle. Well, as a Weihrauch spring rifle man yourself, and having viewed your alternative list of underlevers, I cannot recommend a .22 HW77 enough. I'm just absolutely thrilled and delighted with mine and I wouldn't trade it for any number of Dianas; as nice though they undoubtedly are. If the Stutzen is a lost cause, the next Diana I would be tempted with would be the 54 AIRKING sidelever. I really like the look and f
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    Two ways with rust spots. 1. TIN FOIL. Use a bit of tin foil and a little gun oil and rub it off. 2. WIRE WOOL AND GUN OIL. Take a piece of fine wire wool with a drop or two of gun oil on it and gently wipe the affected area. In both methods it'll take away the rust and restore the blueing, no problem. Simon
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    That would be lovely Mike, thank you. The Blue Bell Inn is a delightful old place, good pint, good grub and just around the corner and down the road from Field No1 where I have my hunting target range set up. It would be nice to see you shoot here with these fine guns. Does the Huntsman come in left hand flavour? My compliments on your shooting Mary. Hope the wrist injury is not impeding too much and is getting better. Simon
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    Well shot to you both Mike and Mary. I'm really warming to the look of the Daystate Huntsman. it's got a lot of traditional sporting rifle lines which I prefer the look of. What are they like to shoot/live with? Simon
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    A man's rifle weight Daz. An ounce or two short of my beloved L96, SLR and HW77. I'm not keen on it's looks though. Too much like a 1960s scuba spear gun.
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    Honestly moley!! It weighs 9.8 lbs unscoped so that's way too heavy for most noodle armed UK shooters . In the swampland of the US southern states they have a problem with an animal called a Nutria. Sort of like a giant rat crossed with a beaver and about as big and it's a herbivore. It would be a good rifle for that I think. The shooters use powerful air guns to shoot them. Typically for US Bureaucracy, they are only allowed to shoot five per shooter, per day, yet this animal is eating up the swampland vegatation at an alarming rate. .357 calibre at 700-1,000 FPS won't give you
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    Hi Sean/Yorkshirehunter. I can only repeat what you've been told already. Best way to stuff up a good barrel is to put that prometheus nylon coated crap down it. I never take the shooting monthly press seriously now. They give great reviews and thumbs-ups to all manner of junk because they want the manufacturers of this tosh to keep spending their advertising revenue with the publishers and keep all the nice freebies they get sent. On the subject of permission. I've spoken with Ian, my mate who owns the farming estate I shoot over. He's told me that no further permission for huntin
  24. pianoman
    TX200HC is the carbine version gwill. Yes mate, Air Arms provide it in .22 calibre but, in .177 it's a magnificent work of air rifle art. After almost 11 years of continual shooting, the spring in mine has finally collapsed and I'm about to have it replaced. That's the only maintainance work it's needed since I bough her brand new in Summer 2000. The .22 TX200 rifle version I also have is still shooting well on her original spring and was bought the same day as the .177 was. Simon
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    That is terrible to read of Jasdon. My Jo has come through Kidney cancer just a couple of years ago. She's made a good recovery but, she's still not off the all-clear list quite yet. So, I know only too well what your friend is going through. You'll soon find a willing shooting partner to help you out and, my sincerest best wishes for your friend and his wife. Simon
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