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  1. pianoman
    Open sights! With a head that big, who needs a scope?! :11:
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    Hi brian. I don't own one mate but, as with all Diana air rifles, the 38 is a beautifully built rifle from what I've seen of them, but, they are a very expensive range of spring rifles in an era of popular pre charged air rifles and Diana's prices are approaching decent PCP money. And they don't make a dedicated left-handed version of their guns so, that put's me right off, especially when Weihrauch build some durable, supremely accurate spring powered masterpieces like the HW80, HW77, HW95K, HW97K and for considerably less cost and available to lefties like me! BIG brownie points for that
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    I must say, I was somewhat puzzled by the appearence or reasoning of these mounts. The circumferance of the average 40mm/44mm/50mm scope's objective lens, mounted to a spring rifle, usually bottoms-out below the set backsight, either effectively obscurring it, or, requires you to remove your open backsight to accomodate the scope properly. What's the point of mounts that permit you to see your open sights but, then obscures them with the mounted scope they are presumably there to carry?? ...I'm confused dot com. Simon
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    And 5 *****
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    Well done for taking the decision to shoot this way pest hunter151. I returned a few years ago to shoot open sights on one of my .22 HW80s' as well as with it mounted with a scope. 25 yards is a decent enough open-sight zero range and, with practice, you'll soon shrink your groups very tightly to confidently shoot another 10 or 15, though that's really pushing it and for target only, I don't risk it on live quarry and keep to around 15-20 yards for rabbits, God knows they look small enough at that range! It's a shooting skill many of us learned in our boyhoods when usable scopes for airguns ju
  6. pianoman
    H there kx100 Well mate, if the back of the package of an Ox spring does not list a rifle you have, it's safe to assume it won't suitably fit. In practice, Ox springs are a bloody awful gunspring in a lot of cases. For your Uncle's Diana G69 (not a Diana spring rifle I'm familiar with to be honest) I suggest you get in touch with a company called RUAG AMMOTECH who are Diana's UK importers and distributors. They will advise you exactly on the spring you need and may even be able to supply it, or tell you where to go for one. Same advice for your brother's Stoeger X20 rifle. I don't shoot with
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    Good in- depth post Si which has got me thinking. I've shot a heck of a lot with both .22 and .177 calibres as they peer out, head-on from their holes. This means the round hits them facially and travels deep into the body. That's as fatal as it gets. The other situations. Shooting them at side-on profiles. FAC .22 head shot makes quite a mess that, quite frankly, I don't exactly spend a lot of time examining! It's instantly dead and didn't suffer and that's all there needs to be. Sub-12ft/lb .22 is just as lethal in the same place. .177 is just as lethal in the same place. Nothing wrong
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    For a large outdoor Sugarbeet store that get's an unhealthy amount of rat-infestation on one of my permissions, I have 2 FAC tuned Weihrauch HW80 .22 rifles, either one of which, at 18-19 ft/lbs power, can really thwack a rat dead through the head at decent 25-metre ranges or closer. That's the range from a cover of nice, thick hedgerow to the store and a bated area I set up. The pellet does not over-penetrate, even at this level of power and the animal is instantly killed with a hit anywhere squarely in the head. I have an FAC tuned Air Arms TX200HC .177. That rifle puts a round straigh
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    Andy have you got a link for venom or Ivan Hancock mate? I'd like to give venom tuning a look-over but all I find are obsolete Webley sitelinks, if anything. There's no breakneck rush for the HW77 so we'll have a close look at your HW90. Not to try is not to know, eh! ATB Simon
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    Great to see young lads getting good sport . Well done on getting the permission and a decent bag Gentlemen. The bunnies have been a bit thin on the ground in my neck of West Yorkshire this season. ATB Simon
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    Thank You Si buddy Hi Beddy mate. There's good, sound reasons why you have opted to give your rifle a cammo-up. But, it's just the way you've gone at it that has left a couple of impracticals with completely covering it this way, as we've already highlighted. At this time of year the sun, if it's clear weather, is low, sharply bright and casts a long shadow; such as it's doing here now at 14:40 p.m. Use your fieldcraft know-how to get you into positions that are inside or under shade and shadow-fall and that will eliminate glint and glare from your rifle's metals; plus, you have sub
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    Very good point about moisture, and therefore rust forming beneath the cammotape. There is also the possibility of having to surgically cut it to seperate the stock from the metalwork when a bit of maintainance is due. Sorry mate, it's not the best idea of rifle cammo. I never bother personally, I like my beech and walnut and blueing together. But, you could strip off the stuff from the metalwork and just cammo the stock. That would be really all you need, if cammo be needed. The Mummy comment.... That made my Saturday lunchtime! Simon
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    That's a brilliant job on the stock Andy. Really good condition metals, other than the light surface rust we know about. From what I can see of the stock and metal component condition, this rifle seems to have been generally, reasonably well used, and looked after. Not subjected to prolonged, intensive years of hunting in all weathers, but the weekend session in good weather. The incident with the slipped barrel and split stock brought that to an end. It would be nice to see some closer views of the barrel and cylinder condition Andy, and an overall view both sides of her fully assembled a
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    If these quality issues are still ongoing, then it's goodbye to the good old Wasp. I picked a batch that was just mis-shapen balls and skirted lumps of lead. Horrible rubbish. Not in my barrels.. No way
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    I'd love to see the reply you'd get if you wrote to Bill Oddy via his publishers and thanked him for helping fill your game bag
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    None taken Si mate. But he seems not to acknowledge any decent answer he's been given and up comes something else. I guess my patience gets a bit thin and got the better of my reasoning and I'm sorry for getting short with him. In hindsight I agree, it's better he's here asking anything, than being out vandalising property with his rifle or doing his brains on drugs or God knows what else. Collie my sincere appologies lad. I was bang out of order there Simon
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    Hi welkadan. For £350 you could either get yourself a really superb spring rifle or maybe, a reasonable second hand Pre Charged Pneumatic rifle but you'll probably need extra for charging gear. Your money is your business mate but, if it was mine, I would be looking at....(in no particular order) Weihrauch HW97K or 97KT. Weihrauch HW80 or HW80K. Weihrauch HW77 or HW77K. Weihrauch HW95 or 95K. Air Arms TX200 or TX200HC. Air Arms ProSport. For a bit of effort and practice the correct hold technique, you have a rifle among this list that will match ANY pcp for accuracy, with far gr
  18. pianoman
    Well, Si. He's from someplace in Wales by the flag on his profile. He's a 14 year old lad and has been given to ridiculous flights of fancy and fantasy about shooting and kit. Someone has vouched for him and says he's a good lad, keen as mustard. But he's not too literate in getting a point over clearly and dithers about in all directions over gear. He's got an Air Arms S400. But instead of taking the bull by the horns and getting out, do some serious practice rangework and ask questions based on logical shooting situations, he asks petty questions on silly bits of kit then answers it
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    Hi mate. I'll second Phantom's answer. Look for a second hand Weihrauch HW80 or HW77. Or Air Arms TX200 spring rifle. Utterly reliable and supreme accuracy and build quality that will last you a lifetime. Or you are back to a cheap, nasty, poor quality rifle in PCP format this time around. Two hundred quid will not get you a reliable, quality PCP rifle PLUS charging gear. Simon
  20. pianoman
    Looks ok Collie. Where did you find this bagbelt mate?
  21. pianoman
    Thanks Gary. It was a kind gesture of you to open this thread mate . ATB Simon
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    This is a real problem Ade. They always were a brilliant pellet for spring piston rifles and I loved em. I had a Webley Excel .22 that shot superbly with them and my higher powered FAC HW80s shot them extremely long ranges very accurately. Now they are just so poor I would never allow them near my rifle barrels. H&N Field And Target Trophy are the real pellet of choice for my Weihrauch springers but for your older British rifles (I assume you have a Webley or a BSA or two?) there will be one or two pellet brands that will be very good indeed. But the good old Wasp was a reliable friend.
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    Blimey Si, they seem an awful lot of scope for not a lot of dosh. Do you rate them for higher powered spring piston rifles? I have a couple of on-ticket HW80s that use Simmons scopes superbly well without problems but, I'm always keen to find others for them. I also have a pair of TX200s and they are beautifully smooth to shoot and phenominally accurate as I'm sure you'd appreciate. I'm sure they'd be fine for these too? ATB Simon
  24. pianoman
    Andy, Markha Thank you kindly very much indeed gentlemen. ATB Simon
  25. pianoman
    Hard to say. I've been a big fan of Eley Wasps as they perform very well in my HW80s barrel, but recently I bought a batch that was utterly terrible in quality. I understand the company that makes them has been sold into new ownership and there have been some definate quality issues and problems.
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