Spring piston rifle vermin control with Si Pittaway and Davy Thomas

[andyz 30]

Tip top, cracking video...... you guys have come on a long way since the first few you put together!!! The editing and footage are both very professional. I really enjoy watching them and the quality of both your marksmanships.

 

You shoot at the distances you do because as rightly said you both have a combined experience of nearly 50 years and are more than capable of it! This is proven time and time again.....

 

Keep up the cracking work, and I agree with Mawders the tutorial at the end was very interesting. Well worth including in my opinion!

 

Hopefully rather than encouraging less experienced/skilled shooters to take the long shot who may not be able to humanly hit their target, it will raise there awareness to what is achievable with practice, practice, practice!

 

Keep doing what you're doing, because it's just right!!

 

ATVB,

 

Andy

[andyfr1968 772]

Lads, if you can do it then do it

[Danny R-10 16]

Very, very good demonstration precise marksmanship from you Davy and Si. Cracking video, as we have come to expect. What people have to realise is you use the very best in equipment, practice a lot putting pellet on pellet at different ranges, and always humanely despatch your quarry. For my two bob's worth carry on lads, loving the videos.

 

Danny

[Skot Ruthless Teale 1,701]

to add to my previous statement,

 

i think they say in the magazines that 35-40 yards is the maximum range, so that you dont get new/inexperienced shooters thinking that they could walk straight into a field with a rubbish rifle that isnt zeroed properly or powerfull enough, and start shooting at rabbits 60- yards away..

 

as a 'safety' type thing if you get my meaning...? to stop irrisponsible shooting before it can start ...and to stop/prevent needless suffering..

 

whereas you have top quality kit and you understand it and know it so you can humanely deliver your pelllets consistantly at the longer ranges.. after YEARS of practise.. like i said keep the vids coming lads..

 

RANT OVER LOL :whistling: :laugh:

 

[porkycrook 466]

You know that the two of you mean so much to me and what ever you want to do, you will have my backing. Any shot you two take, i know you would of made a calculated decision to pull the trigger and to end the life of a living creature.

 

You are taking flak from somebody that has realised that he will never be able to shoot as good as you. How many people has asked for your help in putting information into Chairgun Pro, if Ferritts Boller (or what ever the loser goes by. If he was that good surely the people would be asking him, but there are not.

 

People watch loads of sports every Saturday and think "i can do it better", but in truth 99.9% of us can't and Ferritts Boller is in the majority. So for as long as you are confident in taking the shot, i for one will be more than happy to see you expand everybodies shooting abilities. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUY'S.

[pianoman 3,587]

It amazes me how Si and Davy puts together a bloody good and informative hunting DVD and then, the bloody armchair critics turn up with the irresistable urge to start quoting the airgun press as a friggin' gospel that, woe betide anyone who tries to go beyond the frontier!!.

 

BOLLOCKS!

 

The stated 30 to 35-yard hunting range maxim is reasoned by the airgun press as a safe yet high enough hunting standard; as it is they who rightly, have a duty to promote safe, responsible shooting among its readership; all of who will have wildly varying levels of skill and quality of kit.

 

And so, 35 yards is the usual maximum range that the average intermediate level shooter can be reasonably expected to achieve to humanely shoot accurately all live airgun quarry.

 

Nothing wrong with that at all. We all needed a benchmark to start somewhere sometime.

 

 

But as long as there are air rifles and scopes and pellets available, that are capable of ever-greater range and accuracy performances there are going to be a number of us who will go on pushing the envelope these guns proffer up and develope a level of accuracy in our shooting where ranges well over twice the 35 yards/metres maxim are just as achievable.

 

The skills of both Si and Davy here are well up to this task and the rifles they are shooting with are among the finest spring rifles money can buy today.

 

It takes a great deal of dedication to practice and practice and experiment and MORE practice (Over years of work) to develope a natural shooting technique that will allow you to be able to confidently shoot with this level of skill.

 

Not many people are prepared for the level of dedication to hard work and practice it takes to reach this level of skill.

 

And it cannot be accomplished with a cheap, Chinese springer and a cheap-as-chips scope!

 

Buy a top quality rifle, a scope to match it and start putting the work in with it. You'll soon see what you are capable of.

 

But don't start denigrating the efforts of those who have, if you can't be arsed!

 

 

Simon

[davyt63 1,845]

hi Simon

to bloody true buddy

 

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!

 

i pick up the AATX200HC.177 Saturday,from Tony Wall at http://www.sandwellfieldsports.co.uk/ cant wait to see how it performs

going to meet up with Buster and Goldminer,for a cuppa,Simon if you are down this way Sunday simon fancy coming to the club? for a plink!

[BenjaminCadd 109]

hi Simon

to bloody true buddy

 

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!

 

i pick up the AATX200HC.177 Saturday,from Tony Wall at http://www.sandwellfieldsports.co.uk/ cant wait to see how it performs

going to meet up with Buster and Goldminer,for a cuppa,Simon if you are down this way Sunday simon fancy coming to the club? for a plink!

 

You will have to let us know what the tx200 is like, i took mine up last week to have the trigger set up mainly and to look at the power / accuracy, itching already!

[Deano122 1]

Hi guys do u know if h&n field target pellet are good in 177 in the hw 97k? as I've tried accupels and now on aa field both very similar but think accupels are slightly tighter at range.

 

 

Regards

 

Deano

 

[zini 1,939]

Haven't tried them mate but they are a good pellet so may well work.

[Buster321c 1,010]

Just want to add . If anyone goes to SFS , give me a shout , im only up the road and always willing to meet up with you guys and have a good natter with Tony , Bust .

[Lewis Ste 245]

Iv just started using the h&n ftt 5,53 in my hw97k and they are spot on well worth a try

[Mawders 595]

Yep using them ones in my 95k as well and spot on, hit like trucks as previously stated.

[pianoman 3,587]

Hi guys do u know if h&n field target pellet are good in 177 in the hw 97k? as I've tried accupels and now on aa field both very similar but think accupels are slightly tighter at range.

 

 

Regards

 

Deano

Hi Dean.

 

These are blisteringly accurate in .22cal and all my Weihrauch barrels love them so. I think H&N FTT in .177 should be just as accurate for your HW97K

 

Regards.

 

Simon.

[Deano122 1]

Thx again guys will give them try

 

Deano:)