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  1. pianoman
    My HW80 .22 has been of an absolutely beautiful quality from the day I bought it new. In fact, all my three HW spring rifles have been thoroughly satisfying to own and shoot. My HW77 is a sub-12 ft/lb .22 that is every bit as accurate as any PCP I've come across. Then I bought a Daystate Regal .177. Brand new out-of-the-box it was a flimsy-built, underpowered disappointment. Carl at Airtech put that all right with a regulator and serviced the rifle properly. And now, it's a beautiful rifle in every way. An Air Arms Pro Sport .22 would be my pride and joy as a rifle to own. I've heard
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    There's not a lot of skull under that plumage of feathers. Thought I'd hit a woodie in the head off a barn roof with the Regal .177 the other day. A bunch of feathers flew off it and the bird followed em..clean away to a distant tree!
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    Summer days coming Jamie! We'll sort something out for a meet up.
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    I'd love a shot or two with that Airsporter Phil. Jimmy you are a bloody genious. This rifle looks just fantastic. Does she shoot as well as she looks? All the best lads; it's a marvelous looking job once again Jimmy Simon
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    Best spring underlever air rifle I've ever known is my verdict on the HW77 .22 I own. H&N FIELD TARGET TROPHY is a great pellet to start with. They seem to suit HW spring rifle barrels perfectly. Headsize is an important factor in precision accuracy. My HW77 loves H&N FTTs in 5.53mm headsize. So does my HW80 .22 FAC rifle. With these I can zero pellet on pellet out to 35 metres and use a little hold-under for closer range headshots. Just an inch holdoever and I can hit confidently out to 50 metres and that's with my sub-12 ft/lbs HW77. My HW80 only needs a fractional adjustment fo
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    Hi Andreas. Welcome here mate. If you are happy with weighting your ammo and sizing it accordingly, then you stick with it my friend. I find it a chore for hunting and work on a simple principle of averages. If my shots at distance are zeroed to a spot-on precise 35 metres range I know by experience where the trajectory lies to increase or decrease my ranges by holdover or holdunder as required, achieving an average line of sight for hunting. I miss a few of course, but I hit very accurately, mostly what I can see within sensible ranges. If I was out for target shooting to world class
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    Bless you Jimmy for the selfless kindnesses you do by people. It won't go un-noticed laddie you'll see.
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    An interesting question Jamie. I think a springer should "talk" to you via it's felt recoil. My HW80 .22 cracks off her shots with predictable recoil and I find it not difficult to control. Hence I have a rifle that is powerful, accurate as I can be and feels right at home with me when I'm out with it. For some perhaps, it would be a bit too much wallop but for me, it's perfect. My HW77 .22 is all factory standard internals but fettled really well. It made a marked difference in performance when this was done. It went from being a superb field hunter to an outstanding one with a smooth
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    Thank you for the compliments Phil. That TX200HC of yours is a truly beautiful rifle. I loved shooting with it but, alas, it's a right hander. Whoever buys it, if not already sold, will own a true supergun. Better than PCP accurate and if Charlie Caller has been at work on it, God knows how magnificent a shooting engine it must be now. ATB Simon/ Pianoman.
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    Happy Birthday Mike. Good to see Mary still spoils you!
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    You would think with one- in -three people being left handed there would be a lot more choices for left-handed or ambidextrous sporting air rifles (and full-bore cartridge come to that!) around. I'm left-handed and left eye dominant and it's been a pain in the arse to find a really desirable rifle like the Air Arms Prosport is off-limits to lefties like us! Well, anyway.... If you are interested in a Weihrauch spring rifle, there is the HW98 which is a very accurate break-barrel and ambidextrous with an adjustable butt-stock cheek piece.. The HW97 underlever is a beauty too and i
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    It's a truly remarkable collection you have Jon. Well done for amassing such an array of air pistols and rifles.
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    Hi there Renos! I melt them down into ingots as nose weights for my model aircraft kits. I often use models in my aviation paintings as far as possible. Aircraft models which have a nose wheel, need a counter weight!
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    Lovely work, Jimmy. You really won't regret it mate!
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    Hey that's not a bad idea or suggestion Mark. ..A classic hunting club. Spring air rifles of vintage and character, Refurbished or just loved and well maintained examples, still out there putting the vermin down as well as any other modern PCP rifle today. Write-ups in the hunting section! Or a vintage section? What would the mods have to say?
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    Here we fcuking go again! Is that guy with the muff around his mouth wearing a Royal Marines Badge on the wrong green-shade beret? I love these walts with the ebay quartermasters stores badges and MoD surplus togs. Fancy dress I call it. Why don't they join up? Seriously, why not do this for real and get paid? SA80 A2's not that bad now since they've straightened a few of it's bugs out. I would in a bloody flash again. They are going off to these meets and talking shit and bollocks about these toys as if they were carrying the real thing going into action. :doh:I'd love to hea
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    I sort of view the restoration of classic air rifles a bit like restoring classic cars. They look so much more beautiful if they are restored to their absolute glorious best. No customising or silly bits added-on. Just returned to the way it was originally made. Back to its best the day it was built as much as possible. Just my taste you understand Jimmy. To me, as a shooter who enjoys the craftsmanship finish of his guns this rifle with a rich, deep, lustrous blueing and a beautifully restored stock (as only our Jimmy can refurbish it) with smoothly working internals would be a
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    The trouble nowadays is, this is not a gun-culture country. When I was a youngster growing up, we made machine guns like stens, brens and MP40 schmiessers out of bits of scrap wood timber and went playing war games ( Imagine kids doing that now?). Then we got an air rifle for plinking at tin cans and then, "progressed" to something with a bit more poke for rabbits. You could get a shotgun certificate from the post office for ten bob. And a .410 shotgun was considered a "Garden Gun". Not any more. Now, in 21st century Britain, people faint and swoon with the panic and shits if any
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    Welcome here friisarin! One thing to point out, you say you like to have a spring rifle with lots of accesories. What did you have in mind? The only things you need with a spring rifle, apart from the precisely suitable pellet is an optional scope (instead of the usual open sights) and a sling to carry it on the shoot and a gunbag or slip to keep it covered-in when you are in transit with it. You do not need to add a bipod, they are useless with the felt recoil springers have, nor do you need silly piccatinny scope rails or other gubbins to make it any heavier than it already is.
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    Great article Rez, very thought-provoking! I cannot remember their names now but, JD's HW80 .22 was sold in the 1990s, on to a young chap who formed a hunting/writing partnership with another chap who shot with a rather nice BSA Goldstar underlever. They were actively hunting and writing of their exploits for either AIRGUNNER or AIRGUN WORLD. Then, they just stopped, or were dropped from the editorial team. There was no more from them by about 2002/3 time. That HW80 was a beautiful looking rifle. Walnut classical hunting rifle stock by (I think) Gary Cane. It was that simple, yet, hig
  21. pianoman
    I think the Airgun hunting press has, over the last twenty odd years, created a sort of "Politically Correct" range distance where 35 yards is the absolute maximum a "responsible" air rifle hunter must not shoot beyond. One current writer likes to insist he never shoots at a rabbit at more than 20 yards. (yeah rght!). In the interests of promoting a responsible attitude to its readerships the press has created the 35-yard maximum as a range at which, the poorest average standard shooter, taking into account that he will more likely have an inferior rifle and scope and a pellet of dubio
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    I don't really have the words to express our relief that cancer is not on the cards for Nicola, Jimmy. The fall was hard enough to hear of and she was very badly injured, no getting round the fact. She could have really ended up worse than she did but, thank God, she's made of tougher stuff! I've lost two good women friends to breast cancer and a third survived with a double mastectomy. She's a brilliant lass too. Only 46 years old. Please God, these three fine women will be the only ones I will ever know, who were stricken by this evil b*****d thing! All our love and thoughts and
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    The only way the barrel will bend, is if you let the underlever slam back into the detent block under full tension of the spring. I've had both my HW77 and HW97K for some good numbers of years now and neither have suffered anything remotely like you could call a bent barrel. Both perfectly straight and true.
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    Got a pair of Jack Pike waterproof cammo pants. They don't breath so well and you can bloody boil in them! Great on a really cold, wet day though.
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    I used to buy them all and the articles by John Darling and his generation of airgun hunters/writers was invaluable, commonsense and really absorbing. Nowadays that quality has largely gone alas. Though I do quite like Matthew Manning's articles now and again. But generally, the magazines just regurgitate the same old stuff and are more reliant on ads for sales income these days and the gun/kit writing is heavily biased towards getting you to part with money you don't need to spend on kit that is bullshitted for performance when in fact, it is mostly poor and needless and keep businesses adver
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