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  1. pianoman
    This looks like a great night out. How far away is the pub from me in New York?...as in Lincolnshire. The village that never sleeps! It'll be great to pop over enjoy a pint or two with you Phil and Jamie and his good lady and indulge in a bit of target shooting. I could get into this. Would my Daystate Regal .177 be alright here. It's all legal sub 12 ft/lb power output?? You folks are always welcome to visit me here too. A nice drink or three and the garden range. It's all blooming great just now... How nice is that!
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    Ues em and see how you get on with them Dave. But, personally, I only use Sportsmatch mounts. You pays your money...
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    I have a 23.6 ft/lb HW80 .22 on my FAC that will put any number of .22/5.53mm H&N FTT's through a single pellet hole at 30 metres zeroing range, no sweat. This rifle is better than a few PCP's out there, I've shot with. So how is that inaccurate. Jimmy/Bigmac97KT here, has witnessed me shooting with it. He's one of a very rare few of excellent shooters I've allowed to shoot with it and try it for himself. It is one of the finest rifles I will ever own and it will never be for sale, no matter what.
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    Hi Dave. I have shot quite a few occasions along with Si Pittaway and Davy Thomas. Good lads who know their stuff! I think Si had done as much as anyone can to explore the fullest accuracy potential of an air rifle's worth as a hunting and sporting target rifle. In competition both lads are not an easy man to beat. I've done it, but, I can tell you honestly, not by an easy, long way-ahead score! Alright lads, let's have a few proper answers on the merits and setbacks of FAC air rifles. No, you cannot tell just from outward appearance, whether or not you average air rifle has been tune
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    On your question of MOUNTS- SINGLE, ONE PIECE. OR DOUBLE, 2-PIECE?? I use two-piece, double mounts every time. Always. Why? Because using two seperate mounts, means you can easily adjust your scope for the absolute optimum eye relief possible and the best possible balance of the scope's weight distribution over the rifle's centre of gravity by using mounts that can vary their contact position on the scope rails. And they impart a minimal amount of weight on the rifle. I use these on all my rifles and even on my recoiling FAC HW80 .22, I have yet to find anything of scope-cant or c
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    Looks like a spot of post-shooting shagging and effing is in the offing, from the look of the thick-set guy in the shades behind her. His hand low on her hip, his left hand is in the right place to adjust his stiffening, (ahem) 'dressage' Then, they photoshopped his rifle over the 'man-grab' spot. Seriously, I mean, who, other than Guardsmen, holds a rifle upright on the butt like that? He want's to be on her butt English style.... not that butt
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    FAC level Gas Rams and Spring rifles are pretty tough on scopes. You have to really take note of this into account when buying one of these rifles. I remember buying my Eliminator and how taken I was with its looks and performance in .22. It was superbly accurate but it took no pity on my scopes. If I was buying one now, I would have to find a decent 2nd hand Simmons Whitetail or Pro Air for it. Best scopes I have for my HW80 .22 that can take the whack from high performance spring and gas ram rifles.
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    Congratulations sincerely to you, Nicola and all the family Jimmy. Fondest love and best wishes dear friend for your new wee addition. Susie Jayne. Simon and Helen XXX
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    When I had my Daystate Regal fitted with one of Carl's Airtech regulators, he told me the rifle's pressure guage will no longer read variable-fill bar pressure in the cylinder. The needle now remains fixed in a position at about 120-bar regardless of how much you fill it and use it by. But the rifle's a bloody beauty in performance now, and that's good enough for me. Could this have something to do with yours Stoater?
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    Run the guns in with a couple of tinfuls of pellets (1,000 rounds each) then take them apart and see exactly for yourself, what they actually do need. Do nothing more than is absolutely necessary at this stage. Always go forward slowly and surely when you start polishing and honing internals. One bit too much and the gun's had it! I don't wish to rude in any way Dave, but, your posts would be a lot easier to read and understand the key question-points you wish to know, if you broke them up at least, like this. At the end of a sentence, hit the "Enter" key twice, like this... And you'l
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    I have to add my recommendation of H&N FIELD TARGET TROPHY for any Weihrauch spring rifle. Headsizes are an important factor in how accurate these are from your barrel and, you haven't told us what calibre you son's HW97 is. But to help you with a solution to either calibre. If it's .177, you can start at 4.50, 4.51. or 4.52 to 4,53. If it's .22, you can start at 5.50, 5.51, 5.52. 5.53. I shoot with a .177 HW97K in my collection and it loves these pellets in 4.50mm headsize. You can find which headsizes the pellets are by looking on the underside of the tin where youy will fi
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    Hi Dave. And welcome here mate. It's very easy to get suckered in to buying every bell and whistle of kit and kaboodle when you are just getting started again after long absences from this sport. Firearms dealers are not there to save you money, they want you spending in their shops! Reflex sights are not going to help you score much with a sub 12 ft/lb air rifle. You won't hit diddly to be honest because an air rifle, especially a spring rifle, has to be carefully aimed and with a precise trigger let-off to release the shot. Not throwing the rifle up into your shoulder and snap-sh
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    Thank you Matt most kindly for this. It really is a stunning example of the breed and it is a sheer joy to shoot with. I have no second thoughts about adding another Pro Sport or two again and reshaping them to fit me like this. I know a chap who collects nothing but Remington 700D cartridge rifles in all manner of calibres and stock options. I feel I could do the same with a few Pro Sports. And no two would ever be perfectly alike. But this one of mine is every bit as good an air rifle as I've read about and believed them to be. It's not that difficult a rifle to shoot really well wit
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    Thank you for the positive comments and likes fellas. That is a draught of the letter I wish to send. Jimmy. I reckon the woman in question, you tried to engage with on the Air Arms stand was either in no position to answer your questions or was just an ignorant cow with the manners of a chav and no bloody idea what to say to you. I can assure you she would not have turned from me! I get the feeling the people in suits were other reps and the others in posh country shooting clothes were likely to be people who are curious about air rifles but, happy to continue on with .223/.243 rifl
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    Come and pitch up David, you'll be as welcome as anyone mate. Plenty of nice soft grass.
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    This would be brilliant. Doncaster's not far from me here. Jimmy, you and Ethan could stay with us and we'll make a good time of it with Phil if he can make it to the show. And it's the back of the airshow season so, I might actually have a bit of spending cash too. Maybe even find a 2nd hand Pro Sport in good nick for my Beech stock. Or a nice shiny new one in .177....
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    DEAR AIR ARMS. Not that you'll be reading this, and even then, you'll just ignore it as always, anyway, but here goes. This thread and others here is displaying the result of what you have to do to your beautiful Pro Sport Flagship rifle, if, like me and many more admiring affectianados of this stunningly beautiful rifle out there, you happen to be gifted with being left handed and you want one for yourself. At present, it's either a case of you having to grit teeth and set to work on reshaping and adapting the grip and butt-stock after forking out over £550:00 or dream on! N
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    What a great read and it's great to see what a cracking good day out you all had. Jimmy, I wish you had gone up to the Air Arms Rep and gave her a proper critical comment or two about the Pro Sport not being available to us left handed shooters. I would have done, suit on or not and told her a dozen reasons why this really is, a disgraceful waste of a healthy market that demands it. But I'll save my rant for my own thread on the subject of Left Hand Pro Sports.... The main thing is good lads meeting together and enjoying the day among all the kit and kaboodle on offer. It was interesti
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    Proof of the pudding Jon. How does your new BSA hold up to hunting and stalking on your permission?! I had a dreadful worry my new Pro Sport would turn out to be like the TX200 Mk.III .22 rifle I had for over ten years. I could hit any number of card targets with it, with precision single hole groups at all air gun ranges. But, for a reason I never really found out, I couldn't hit a rabbit or pigeon save rats at 25 yards or less with it. Pellets would go zipping as much as 6 inches adrift of their heads and just hit the dirt. Wasn't a particularly hold-sensitive rifle either. Thankfu
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    Well, this is the Pro Sport as she now looks and shoots. From my usual prone position she is a tack driver with 5.52mm Air Arms Field Diablos. Scope is a beautiful Nikon Fieldmaster 6-18x40mm Side Focus. The pic of the pellet groups was shot at 35 metres range standing. My worst of all shooting position. I have never been able to achieve this level of accurate grouping from a standing position with my Weihrauch springers. Don't ask me why, the Pro Sport isn't a lightweight rifle either. But the balance with a light 40mm scope is spot on and comfortable to control, better than I found with my b
  22. pianoman
    WELL GENTLEMEN HERE IS THE FIRST SHOOTING REVIEW OF THE COMPLETED PRO SPORT CONVERSION. Right off I'm saying honestly, this is the finest air rifle you can buy. That is something to say if you owned three Weihrauch spring rifles that were absolutely superb and precision accurate in every way possible. I was for years a totally devoted Weihrauch spring rifle man. But the Air Arms Pro Sport is beyond an exceptional rifle from a shooting perspective.. It is so comfortable and so perfectly well-balanced, I was able to take standing shots, my worst, least stable shooting position of all and
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    Thanks John. And it is great to see you back here too mate. It was always the case of having to accept the rifle is both absolutely beautiful and absolutely not going to see my left hand and shoulder, as far as the stock is concerned Until now... A lot of work and more a few missed heartbeats but, finally I have a Pro Sport that is truly all mine, shaped at the grip and cheekrest to fit me like a glove. One other benefit is, removing the roll-over and reducing the height a little of the comb has produced perfect head alignment for reducing paralax error completely out of sighting t
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    I love that RWS Excalibur/Simmons Whitetail scope of Tom's. Pity about the prat at RWS who's appalling customer manner put me solidly off buying one. Does my HW80 .22 and long-out-of-production Simmons Whitetail 3.5-14x40 AO count for this group? She and her scope are both pushing 19-20 years old now...But still beautiful...
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    For a spring, go for a Titan. Ox are pure rubbish nowadays. Or, if you don't want to take your gun to bits, you could try Sandwell Field Sports. Tony Wall there does a cracking good tuning service.
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