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    Gentlemen. This post is overdue but, needs to be shown to everyone. Because, in the light of too many threads pointing fingers at the all-too frequently mentioned Graham scum (which, to be honest, is getting infuriating!) I know two lads here who are two of life's true gentlemen. and something should said to commend them. I bought an HW97KT .177 just before Christmas as a potential target and competition rifle. However, I have a reservation about the thumbhole stock. Nothing wrong with it at all, great hunting and general purpose stock. But I wanted a slimmer, lighter stock to impro
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    Thanks Simon, I didnt know i looked that young Present company excepted Si old chum!
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    Take it back to them smecky and demand they detune it to 11.5 or thereabouts. Pete was absolutely correct in what he said mate. They have actually broken the law in a major way and a word to the police would bring them up before a criminal court, bloody sharp!
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    Walk away Craig. You can buy a new HW95 for £300 or less. And there are decent scopes about for less than eighty quid nowadays. This one you've been offered is tampered-with and probably next to useless with an Ox spring. You'll need to spend good money to get it back to where it ought to be. Good advices here. Heed the warnings mate. Pianoman.
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    You might need to fill that with a wood filler Hudson. A See your local B&Q, Wickes etc. Works a bit like a car body repair filler. Fill the chip proud. Let dry. Sand it to shape as you work on the rest of the stock. Stain and blend. Job done. Alternatively, ask a French Polisher who repairs dings and chips in furniture for his advice. He would probably use a wood filler and will let you know what would be the best to use. ATB. Pianoman
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    Come on Craig, give us a clue laddie! How much would you pay for something you cannot see, have no accurate description of condition. No description of scope specs, no mention of calibre??? Simon.
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    Have to say I agree with Chris/pipa, I love the SR12 reticle Hawke have for my HW77. I have a Hawke Panorama EV IR 4-12x50 mildot on my HW97KT and it's a beauty. The only reservation I have about Hawke is they do not seem to last as long as Simmons or Bushnell on my spring rifles. Lovely scopes for the money, but, somehow, they seem just not that tough and long lasting. And I really, REALLY look after and cherish my rifles, scopes kit with pedantic TLC!
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    HW77. HW80 or HW80K .22 That's what you want Porky if it's to be £200 for second hand mate. Man's guns that will piss all over a PCP! Anything else is for noodle armed poofters and children under 16. Pianoman!
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    John Darling wrote for Airgun World at a time where his personal views and honest opinions,- the result of his actual experiences, made him a great example to follow and emulate. He wrote about air rifle hunting as it was experienced by him and his Weihrauch HW35E and later HW80K .22. He didn't go mooching off with some other rifle to write bullshit about. Just good honest facts about how to hunt rabbits and pigeons around his farmland shoots with his trusted rifles through the change of the seasons. That always made a great read. There was a couple of lads who followed JD for a brief spe
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    Charming! Really nice coming from a Brazillian - who lives in country where the solution to the problems of homeless, unwanted, abandoned feral children ruining developing, affluent areas is to cull them by hunting them out to be beaten and shot dead by their own police!
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    Hope you had a great afternoon chaps. Think of us poor buggers, your fellow shooters and pals working this windswept rainy Monday!
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    These movies I watch more than others. THE DAMBUSTERS. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. PATTON. ZULU. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. THE LEGEND OF 1900. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.
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    Moxy you are a legend man! I've got tears rolling down my eyes with laughing at what you give to poor old Phil! I need a giggle-pee!
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    I can appreciate that thought Miles, but it is more of a nicety than a necessity with top drawer spring rifles. TX200 and Prosports certainly don't need tuning. Weihrauch are fine out of the box. But tuning turns their performances into sweeter, smoother actions and it does improve their accuracy as the effects of vibration and recoil are refined and lessened. You really have to try shooting one to see how it benefits. ATB Simon
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    Yeah but Mike, that's because they are worth it mate!
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    Hi Tony. I can think an auto repair shop would help you well there. They deal with scuffs and scratches on vinyl bumpers and trim so they'll know how to deal with something like this surely? All the best. Simon
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    Stuart. Barnze. Thank you kindly gentlemen. There is still, a widely held misconception that PCPs are more accurate than spring rifles and this is really not true. PCPs are the easier of the two actions to achieve very accurate shooting but, thanks to their recoiless and vibration-free firing, they have virtually reduced the shooter to almost a supportive aim-and-fire functionary, with all his/her basic errors and mistakes in hold technique largely removed from the process. Thus, they will make more of a skilled operator than an honestly skilful marksman out of the shooter. The spring
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    Righto, there's half your problem answered Pappy. Now use variable-range sessions on your 10xmag to solve the other half! Pianoman
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    What the bloody hell did we do before computers, i-Phones and bloody Apps! Pappy why don't you just take your rifle and scope and .177 pellet and get out onto your permission and zero it at 30 metres as a starting point? Then shoot a series of targets from 5 to 50 metres on,,,say 6 mag and see where your zero'd shot falls on each. Or start with zeroing at on the maximum mag power of the scope and work through the various mag power settings down to the lowest. That way you will see what is the optimum setting on your scope to calibrate the ladderscale reticle onto your shot trajectory
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    John's air rifle collection is possibly the best I've seen, at least in pictures. That 1979 model here is just as the one I had in .22 after reading John Darling's exploits with one in Airgun World. Very accurate and a great rifle to shoot. Wish I still had it. I really like the look of that carbine version too. Simon
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    Ahhh that changes the complexion of this somewhat Si. You should have said earlier mate! Fair play to the lady. You have to respect her need for quiet and not having to see anyone dressed in combats/cammo around with a rifle in his hand wandering about the place. I wouldn't take this personally mate. Simon
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    One thing with shooting experience of this DB4/Lion you have Aaron is, when you try a real quality rifle like an Air Arms or Weihrauch, you will see immediately what a hugely universal difference there is between this and those! Get practicing with it and a better scope and then move up. And you'll soon be boring every bugger here with tales of you HW80/"Dearly Beloved HW77"/TX200/Prosport as I do! Best wishes. Pianoman.
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    Brand new condition Webley Xocet for thirty quid? Bloody hell I wish I could find deals like that! The Xocet was the successor to the Excell; and that was a cracking little gun. Another one of my regretted 'wish-I-still-had-it' rifles from my past. If this is one of the original Birmingham-built Webleys, you have a steal of a bargain. Does it have the short barrel with the Whack-off sized moderator on? They were a brilliant little carbine! Envious Pianoman!
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    Nothing wrong with a sweet-running '35 saintsman. I've owned one in the past and had no regrets other than selling it on for another HW air rifle. If you love your shotgun though, an air rifle will seem pretty limited by comparison. Air rifles are traditionally seen as the 'poor man's lot' of shooting and as such, air rifles are not endowed with similar ascending financial values in the way fine shotguns and hunting rifles are. I've spent fortunes on shooting in the past with a couple of shotguns and a .22LR myself, but, my air rifles are just magical. These embue every shooting skill-vi
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    From reading Matt the Rat's response and all this, I reckon it's possible that, there's a son or two of these Allotment people who have got the air rifle hunting bug and they've asked their mums and dads to boot you off while he/they take over the permission and get the sport. Could this be mate? That happens with permissions and owners alas Si mate, and nowt' you can do beyond reason if they want you off. Still, on with the next! Best wishes Si. Simon
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