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  1. pianoman
    Ahaaa! The pics have arrived from Mole's Intelligence HQ! PIC No.1. The rifles of the day. Weihrauch HW77 .22 rifle with Simmons Whitetail Classic 4.5-14x40. Andy's Weihrauch HW90 with the Simmons Pro Air 6-18x40 that kept him shooting. Pics 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5. Good shots showing how the slopes of this forest generally are. It gets steeper in places with little flat ground down to the river. Andy's position looking up to the top tree-line where I was more or less positioned further to left of here. And the lad himself! Pic 6 and 7 My air rifles. Top to bottom: Air Arms TX200HC .177
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    Thanks Markha. It's a lovely, haunted place I've grown up with all my life as my playground to shooting ground. It's a fantastic place to be alone or share with a good shooting mate. The ground in these pictures is soft with diggings and centuries old warrens and holes. Cheers Steve. Very kind of you to say mate! Thanks Gary. Aye, it's a sod when things like this happen but, we managed to overcome the set-back as well as we could. Thing is, these Dynamic pellets cost around 16 quid a tin of 500! Not exactly cheap-as-chips but, the last batch were really sound and, when I shot with And
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    WTF??? They look like bloody SABOT Tank rounds. For an air rifle? Do me a favour!
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    Phew where to start. Well, it's monday and the best cure for the monday blues is to go shooting! So, with Andy free for the afternoon and the sunlight breaking the overcast, we met up at mine to go visit the fields and see whats about. After a great chat with Si and Laura on the phone and a brew up, we off under the cloudless, brilliant blue skies and sunshine over my permission, to field number 1 and a zero-cum-target shoot session. Out of the gunslips came Andy's Weihrauch HW90 gas ram .20 cal. rifle and Walther scope. For me, my beloved HW77 .22 rifle with, on this occasion, my Nikko Sti
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    What's tuning got to do with anything Steve? I once shot an un-tuned .22 S400 single-shot rifle and put ten .22 AA Fields through a 5p sized group at 60 metres. It's cracking good rifle. Your .177 should flay the arse off a gnat! It's the man who's shoulder a rifle sits in that's the governing force mate. With no recoil to manage you should be marksman enough to be able to look Si's R10 in the eye and compete fair and square. Now get on your horse and face the challenge! And may the best shot win!
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    Hi Matt. Sounds like you have pronounced breathing and heart-rate. You have to learn to control your heart and pulse rate by learning to breath comfortably, lightly and gently. The whole science of accuracy in shooting is based entirely on being and doing everything as comfortable and relaxed as possible. I cannot stress that importantly enough. Start by dispelling the myth that you have to hold your breath at the point of releasing the trigger. Close your mouth and allow air to filter through your nose till you can breath without making your chest rise and fall. This will keep your heart and
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    Now then Andy play nicely! Secret agent 6 and three quarters Mole has bought himself a rifle called Tarzan.... For feck's sake Moley you came up with a Gay as f**k name there old mate. All you need now is an air pistol called Cheetah!
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    Hmmm If you had 2 lumps of lead, one in .177, one in .22 moving at the same speed.... Either you'd have one rather underpowered .177 rifle and they could hardly weigh the same now surely, in these two markedly different sizes. OR the .22 has been fired by an FAC level of air energy in order to match the speed of the sub 12 ft/lb .177 So.. in either scenario the .22 will retain more kinetic energy. No matter what the bloody colour of the tin!
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    I'm really looking forward to this, however the shooting turns out for me. I'm travelling down with Andy and it's gonna be great to meet the lads over some beers and a spell of shooting with them. Gotta be a big vote of thanks to you and Chaz for getting this organised Davy! Never mind Si there'll be penty of funny stories and photographs to read and see and, you can console yourself with a good day's shooting with us on my permission when you are home Simon
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    Hi Paul. If you have to move your head up to an uncomfortable position to allow your eye align with the scope you have, you have very poor Gunfit. Not good! Ditch the 50mm scope and go for a 40mm on the lowest mounts available. If you need a bit more raiser on your head alignment, go to medium. But I honestly do not think you'll need mediums. I thoroughly recommend you have a look at what Bushnell have in the way of 4-14x40mm or 6-18x40mm AO; the perfect scope specs for these rifles; in keeping the reticle as close to the bore-centre and maximising accuracy. I don't recommend Hawke for you at
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    What's your make and model of rifle Matt? If you shoot with a German rifle like a Weihrauch spring rifle, you should be fine with H&N Field and Target Trophy. For instance I shoot with a Weihrauch HW77 and two HW80s in my collection and they all love the H&N FTTs. My 77 particularly, can put any number of them through the hole of the first. However, spring rifle accuracy is only achieved by correctly holding it lightly at the shoulder. The most accurate rifle in the world will be just so much dead metal and wood if you do not know how to handle her in the aim, and control your brea
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    Hi Matt. Welcome to the section. The honest answer is NO! Both are just as accurate as each other. Both have qualities that are both useful equally. It really is more of a shooter's personal preference and how he prefers to hunt than actual advantage of pellet properties. You need to shoot .177 with greater accuracy precision to place that shot clean into the brain of your quarry. Anywhere else will likely result in a slower lingering death as, this calibre carries less concussive shockwave energy but a higher degree of penetration than .22' Personal experience has taught me th
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    You know, the Queen officially "owns" every Swan in Britain. And some fishermen regard them as a pest to their sport. Either the reason lies between those two fact or, it's the work of another mindless b*****d who sees Swans the way he sees anything nice and gentle and unthreatening; as fair game for his vicious little mind. More than likely it was a cheap piece of chinky crap he used. Never heard of someone with a serious money, quality rifle doing this kind of thing. But who knows! Simon
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    Awww thanks buddy! Yeah I loved this rifle to bits. Accurate as a bloody lazer beam! Some great memories with some really top lads woven into this rifle Si. Cheers Buddy
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    Great to see this Gary and top marks for Shannon's shooting. It's great to see youngsters coming on like this. All the best to you Simon
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    OK. Look at the diagram. (and ignore the pile of Russian shite Dragunov WTF! Si you could have used an L96!..whatever!) You can see that the pellet rises and falls in an arc or curve. Like Matt says with throwing a ball. All thrown projectiles, however propelled need to fly in a curved arc to have any degree of distance. The steeper the curve is increased the greater the range distance achieved (until you reach the point of reverse-trajectory oscillation and the range of impact decreases back towrds you again, the steeper to vertical angle the barrel is presented!) Without any form o
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    Hi Bud. What a beauty you have here! Looks to be in remarkable condition for a rifle of around 25 years of age. I'm an absolute disciple of Weihrauch spring rifles and the HW77 is a masterpiece of precision accurate shooting with tough durability. Considering how superbly well some really poorly looked-after examples can still shoot, this one you have here must be an absolute beauty. Certainly looks it. Other than a bit of wear on the cocking lever and a few visible dinks in the stock, it looks a lot younger than it actually is. Doesn't look like it's had a lot of use or, the original owner
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    Crap lager Andy? What's the man talking about sir?! Davy you've tumbled us mate! I'm trying to minimise the risk of looking like a complete twat in front of such distinguished shooters that will be there at the meet. I haven't, even once, walked around an HFT course -let alone shot over one... AND let alone competitively into the bargain. Still.... the Weihrauch HW77 .22 spring rifle and scope I'm bringing up against all them .177 pcp bike-pumps is an absolute beauty of a rig It's lovely to have Andy over and share the sport with a fellow spirit. We haven't even scratched the su
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    Now I have to say... That looks seriously shootable. Si, I can see why you must absolutely love this rifle. Looks very compact and purposeful. I guess this has a roll-over comb from what I can see here? Still, should be able to fire a round or two off at a target when you bring her up to my permission. Scope looks like a Hawke 6-18x44 Sr12 model. Nice one mate. She'll make a nice addition to MY gun cabinet with a proper lefty stock! :laugh: ATB Simon
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    Blimey Scott...Did you type all this out??!
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    In all honesty Moley, I'd tread very carefully with Tasco nowadays. They were once a giant company that did a lot of good in making great quality scopes affordable to air rifle shooters. And they did it at a time when the alternatives were serious money telescopic sights designed for rimfire/centrefire rifles. Those days are long gone, and the stuff they made under various managements has veered from great to crap. I've been shooting for over 40 years man and boy; and the only way to get real value for money is look more carefully at what you are buying. Not how much it costs on the ticket. C
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    I have actually found a scope, so good I bought it twice Mark. I have two SIMMONS WHITETAIL CLASSIC 4.5-14X40mm AO scopes for my FAC .22 Weihrauch HW80 rifle and sub 12 ft/lb Weihrauch HW77. No longer made by Simmons alas. I was damm lucky to find another, second hand mint condition one for my HW77 just before Christmas last, and that cost me a hundred quid. They were priced at £232 eleven years ago when I bought my first. In my opinion these Simmons Whitetails were the finest scope you could bolt onto a Weihrauch spring rifle. Beautifully finished, superbly well made, durable as old boots
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    Y'know. I just might have an Epiphany, Road-To-Damascus moment with that R10 of yours Si. When I was picking up my HW77 at my mate's gunshop, there was a guy picking up a left-handed R10. It's bolt sounds like a bolt should (just the right level of clunk click. oooo I love that!) and it was filled and charged up in a jiffy. I don't mind telling you I had a little salivating in my mouth when I saw it. Really nice walnut stock on it too.... ...And you've had all this lovely Tench tuning work on yours... NO!! I'M NOT SELLING ME ! Might let a very tasty TX200 .22 rifle go for
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    Hi Si. It's my ugly mug mate! And yeah they would look great in your gun cabinet buddy.... balance out them ugly PCPs!!! :laugh: :laugh: Cheers pal Simon
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    Das Jaeger! Now Gentlemen. How's this for a place to shoot? This field corner is where I do all my testing, zeroing and warm up shooting prior to hunting into the woodland beyond or into the fields around here. Or just self training when I'm on my own and need a bloody good work out. To be able to shoot extremely accurately is a God-given gift but it needs attention to keep it sharp. I'm facing into the breezes which almost always reliably blow from this direction. In the summer this spot will teem with rabbits and the trees will be full of woodies as the corn crop grows through. My r
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