Sussex Armoury

[open season 21]

Does any one remember this company ???????

 

i was looking through my crap in the bedroom the other day as you do when your bored and opened up a folder i had.

 

Started looking though it and found a catalogue from 1981 from Sussex Armoury which i thought i had lost years ago.

its real nice to look through the old military style rifles (The Jackels).

 

Me old school buddy had one of these catalogues at school

and i spent many a dinner time on the school field drewling over the rifles

so i sent for the catalouge my self and kept it all those years.

 

Does any one else remember this company ??

 

will try and get some pics up next week of the pages.

 

Openseason

 

[Phantom 631]

Yeah, I remember them

 

Sussex, Pheonix, Battle Ordrer, remember em all

 

A friend of mine in Coventry has a Shrine to Sussex Armouries in his house, got a fair few Jackles as well, he uses them in local HFT Comps!

He even has an S200 in a Jackal stock. I made his day by sending him some of my rare SA paper Targets a year or two back.

 

Tony

[paulus 26]

In 1982, when the Sussex Armory folded, NSP Engineering went on to build and sell Jackal style rifles,NSP made the jackal for Sussex Armoury. initially from the parts that they had left and later after some re-engineering under their own name Air Arms.

 

Sussex Armoury models had the word 'Jackal' engraved on the top of the cylinder housing, Air Arms models had 'Air Arms' in the same place.

 

there other models included.

the hi-power,the firepower.the rapide.the combat, the s-a/l. the woodsman, the bora, the misteral, the carmague, the khamsin, the se90 and the ex88

[jasper65 6]

a pal had a Jackal Parabelum in .177 in the 's. the steel work and blueing was solid but the plastic M16 stock wasn't to my tastes .

 

remember it was a sidelever which made a cracking noise when the safety catch was engaged, we soon had it to bits and removed it so it was quiet, also remember filling the plastic butt up with Polystyrene to quieten it down and remove the noise traveling through the hollow plastic stock.

 

Have to say my .177 BSA Mercury S knocked spots off it back then ....

[paulus 26]

a pal had a Jackal Parabelum in .177 in the 's. the steel work and blueing was solid but the plastic M16 stock wasn't to my tastes .

 

remember it was a sidelever which made a cracking noise when the safety catch was engaged, we soon had it to bits and removed it so it was quiet, also remember filling the plastic butt up with Polystyrene to quieten it down and remove the noise traveling through the hollow plastic stock.

 

Have to say my .177 BSA Mercury S knocked spots off it back then ....

not as good as the ASI paratrooper i can remember drooling over the airsporter s when it came out

[jasper65 6]

not as good as the ASI paratrooper i can remember drooling over the airsporter s when it came out

 

hehehehehehehehehehe!! now there's a gun that brings back some memories, remember they had a sticker on the top of the cyclinder which said "High Power" .

 

I had a Airsporter S too for a while which I brough from a old company who advertised in airgun world called "The Mart At Lowerstoft", think they was about £85 back then. lovely gun but weighed a ton plus dropping pellets in the tap hole in the middle of the night was awkward .

 

do you remember another gun they said was a real power house but was a pea shooter called a "Diana G80"?

[paulus 26]

this one

[jasper65 6]

this one

 

wow paulus not seen one of them for many years . brings back some memories ...

 

remember the advert "Long Range Rabbit Pie"

[paulus 26]

this one

 

wow paulus not seen one of them for many years . brings back some memories ...

 

remember the advert "Long Range Rabbit Pie"

no mate the first gun i had was an original 25

[open season 21]

Them paratroopers woooooooow what a great looking rifle wasnt there a repeater too. I always wanted one of those they looked mint,spending hours looking through airgun world Dreaming of when i get older and get some money.

i even tried to sell sand to the neighbours to raise cash lol in paper bags ha ha ha ha hence i never got one what a surprise lol.

 

I remember my jackel i felt like action man with it.

come to think of it, it was a bit noisy.

 

Also remember Battle orders that was some years ago phantom.

 

Hell paulus that rifle looks in mint condition mate.

 

openseason

[spanj 11]

a pal had a Jackal Parabelum in .177 in the 's. the steel work and blueing was solid but the plastic M16 stock wasn't to my tastes .

 

remember it was a sidelever which made a cracking noise when the safety catch was engaged, we soon had it to bits and removed it so it was quiet, also remember filling the plastic butt up with Polystyrene to quieten it down and remove the noise traveling through the hollow plastic stock.

 

Have to say my .177 BSA Mercury S knocked spots off it back then ....

not as good as the ASI paratrooper i can remember drooling over the airsporter s when it came out

 

Remeber you could buy em in Grattans catalogue......... and AyA shotguns !!! They were the days

[paulus 26]

a pal had a Jackal Parabelum in .177 in the 's. the steel work and blueing was solid but the plastic M16 stock wasn't to my tastes .

 

remember it was a sidelever which made a cracking noise when the safety catch was engaged, we soon had it to bits and removed it so it was quiet, also remember filling the plastic butt up with Polystyrene to quieten it down and remove the noise traveling through the hollow plastic stock.

 

Have to say my .177 BSA Mercury S knocked spots off it back then ....

not as good as the ASI paratrooper i can remember drooling over the airsporter s when it came out

 

Remeber you could buy em in Grattans catalogue......... and AyA shotguns !!! They were the days

now that does bring back memories

[jasper65 6]

Remeber you could buy em in Grattans catalogue......... and AyA shotguns !!! They were the days

 

Wow that rocks some memories...

 

I was always handed down Guns from my brother as a kid, first off was a Milbro of some sorts and then a Webley Hawk MKII.

 

finally one birthday they ordered me a Webley Vulcan MK1 fitted with a 4 x 15 scope in that girly .22 calibe from the Grattan Catalogure . remember Grattan also had another gun in there called a "ASI Statical" another great gun from the ASI academy .....

[bunny hunter 0]

I have an early sussex arms jackal for sale if anybody is interested, it fires well but has a bit of rusting on the barrel which can be fixed,

 

thanks.

jack.

[pianoman 3,587]

Blimey this is a real walk down Memory Lane!

 

Diana, ASI and Relum Air rifles, Gat and Webley Tempest air pistols in Grattan's, Littlewoods and Great Universal catologues!! (Great days and a lot of fun then)

 

I remember Sussex Armoury and Battle Orders for all the reasons given above. They were big on repro Jap Samurai swords and replica firearms and the ban on them must have hit them hard.

 

My brother had a Jackal for about two weeks before it was swapped for something.

 

I had an ASI Paratrooper from my mum's catologue when I was about 14-15 (early 1972-ish) which looked really something to us kids at the time; but wasn't the most comfortable-handling plinker. It had a combat pistol grip, but no forestock furniture and your leading hand rested on the breech-block/cocking linkage. The trigger on mine always gave problems with breaking or not engaging the sear, unless you kept the trigger pushed forward when you cocked it, I seem to remember

 

A much better rifle was the ASI Sniper,(Remember that one?) It was a cracking little plinking air rifle in .177. And I still have it!

 

Kids today? Don't know they're born!

Edited August 24, 2012 by pianoman