Multi shot springer

[PJWmids 35]

Is there a modern equivalent to the BSA gold star which had a ten shot mag?

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Theoben SLR?

[Mawders 595]

What he said.

[PJWmids 35]

between the theoben slr 98 and bsa goldstar which would you put your money on?

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Both seem to be somewhat rarer than rocking horse manure or hen's teeth! I think there maybe more SLR 98 and SLR88s out there!

[Grayling 56]

Not what you had in mind but deffo multi shot. The ASI Paratrooper, the absolute dogs danglies to young Scousers when I was a kid or the slightly later Air Arms Firepower, both tube fed mags but one a break barrel and one a side lever. The Paratrooper is circa mid 70's and the Firepower late 70's to mid 's. More collectors items (part of my collection) by todays standards but still great rapid fire fun while slaughtering wind fall apples in the back garden.

 

 

 

Air Arms Firepower .22

 

 

 

ASI Paratrooper repeater .22

Edited January 2, 2013 by Grayling

[pianoman 3,587]

Gosh I never thought I'd see an ASI Paratrooper again. I had one when I was a schoolboy of about 14. It was a fun plinker for the garden and it shot up the Airfix Luftwaffe and sank my Airfix navy!

 

I'd kill for those model kits back too!

 

Pianoman

[PJWmids 35]

unusual guns there, before my time a little lol 90's kid here

[Grayling 56]

unusual guns there, before my time a little lol 90's kid here

 

I pity you if you missed the 70's that was a bleedin great decade to be a teenager, the world was a very different and much bettr place then. I could carry my FWB 124 Sport to my pest control permission on the local allotment gardens without being surrounded by armed bobbies. In fact I do not think there were armed bobbies back then. Petrol was 60p a gallon and I could take my young lady on an excellent night out in Liverpool town for a under £5. My first car a 1967 Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe cost me £100 and became a cracking passion wagon .

[Grayling 56]

Gosh I never thought I'd see an ASI Paratrooper again. I had one when I was a schoolboy of about 14. It was a fun plinker for the garden and it shot up the Airfix Luftwaffe and sank my Airfix navy!

 

I'd kill for those model kits back too!

 

Pianoman

 

Have you seen the prices those old Airfix kits are fetching on Ebay nowadays .

[Acuspell 329]

The Goldstar wasn't a true repeater, the magazine was simply a place to store 10 pellets, you had to turn the magazine drum by hand between shots - cock lever, turn drum, close lever.

 

The SLR88 and later 98 (same rifle but CNC machine made rather than hand turned) you loaded the 7 shot magazine (the magazine used on the later Rapid 7!) and dropped it into the top loading port, it sits flush with the piston cylinder. As you use the cocking lever the magazine AUTOMATICALLY indexes to the next shot, so it is a true auto loader.

 

Which would I go for? The Theoben in a heartbeat. Iconic rifles in their day and ground breaking. Still very sought after - there is one in Dolphin in Stoke-on-Trent now. Snap it up at £550.

[villaman 9,983]

unusual guns there, before my time a little lol 90's kid here

 

I pity you if you missed the 70's that was a bleedin great decade to be a teenager, the world was a very different and much bettr place then. I could carry my FWB 124 Sport to my pest control permission on the local allotment gardens without being surrounded by armed bobbies. In fact I do not think there were armed bobbies back then. Petrol was 60p a gallon and I could take my young lady on an excellent night out in Liverpool town for a under £5. My first car a 1967 Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe cost me £100 and became a cracking passion wagon .

 

You are dead right ,What a era , My fist car was the same ford anglia , earning £16.50 a week going out every night of the week .

Went through the skinhead times on to punk then the mods, what a great time to be a teenager

[PJWmids 35]

The Goldstar wasn't a true repeater, the magazine was simply a place to store 10 pellets, you had to turn the magazine drum by hand between shots - cock lever, turn drum, close lever.

 

The SLR88 and later 98 (same rifle but CNC machine made rather than hand turned) you loaded the 7 shot magazine (the magazine used on the later Rapid 7!) and dropped it into the top loading port, it sits flush with the piston cylinder. As you use the cocking lever the magazine AUTOMATICALLY indexes to the next shot, so it is a true auto loader.

 

Which would I go for? The Theoben in a heartbeat. Iconic rifles in their day and ground breaking. Still very sought after - there is one in Dolphin in Stoke-on-Trent now. Snap it up at £550.

 

Thanks for the info I didn't realise you turned the drum manually. My friends dad had one in the 90's I always liked the thought of a repeater, it's obviously not something that took off in, or called for in spring rifles. I just like the style of pcp rifles keeping your point of aim and reloading, but I think it's a lot of faffing about using tanks and filling the gun, I like the simplicity of a springer cock and shoot.

[Mawders 595]

Even if you manually turn the mag it's a damn site easier than fumbling around for a pellet. Still worth a purchase if you can find one, probably be a lot cheaper than the theoban as well.