Tx200 Version Id

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Hello, I bought a nice but worn .177 TX200 some months ago.

I am well happy with it but I wondered which version it is.

 

It is housed in a MK3 stock but has a different muzzle.

You can ignore the grip as that is a later fit.

Can anyone advise?

 

The serial number is 0781??

 

Thank you

[bigmac 97kt 13,796]

Looks like a mk2

 

the mk3 has 3 notches in the bear trap so it makes three clicks when cocked

 

the mk2 only has two so 2 clicks

 

some thing like that lol

 

some one will be along soon if im wrong

 

atvbjimmy :thumbs:

[Jonjon79 13,358]

Put up a picture of the breech area - as Jimmy said, that should show what it is

[Rez 4,961]

Mk2 me old China like the knowledge above has said

 

The 3 has 3 small horizontal ridges on the underlever catch housing, the mk1 obvs had muzzle weight or whatever at the end on the muzzellll

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Well...

Maybe this is a crossover model, or has been made up from other models.

 

The bloke I got it from said the original owner was big in HFT

 

It shoots really well. It has an aluminium trigger which I think spoils it a bit but other than a (too long) adjusting screw that catches my finger, it is really crisp and predictable so I am putting off changing it.

 

 

[Jonjon79 13,358]

That is indeed a Mk2

[pianoman 3,587]

I think this is a MkIII TX200 as currently available, with a non-factory standard Bisley butt-pad and a TX200HC-style cocking lever handle and ball-detent latch up. A much better unit than the one fitted, or at least, used to be fitted to the TX200 rifle as standard..

 

The Mk.II had a slightly different butt-stock profile that carried on from the Mk.I which had a similar barrel and underlever-arrangement and had a similar profile-appearance to the HW97K. Slender, unshrouded barrel and underlever with a muzzleweight latch-up device. The Mk.I forend was rather different too, with a stepped section forward of the trigger and shallower forend profile. I think it was abit of a compromise to give you a sort of 'Hamster' palm rest, rather than a conventionally simple ramped forend tapering from the trigger guard..

 

The stock is the current version with an elegantly contour-tapered forend and fish-scale chequering panels, after the boxier-looking, previous version of the Mk.III stock (I've had two of these) was a simpler, but practical affair with diamond cut chequer panels and a straight-ramped forend. The earlier Mk.III also featured a ribbed ball-detent block which was inadequately fitted with a stud and cemented into place, which after a while of use, annoyingly kept coming off when you cocked it. The butt-pad looks like the usual Bisley job and cocking the lever grip-handle in the photos is not a standard part-fit for TX200 rifle versions but, is the type of handle-grip on the shorter TX200HC cocking underlever.

[mark williams 7,557]

Here`s the TX 200 HC MK3.

 

 

 

 

Hope this helps any.

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Thank you for all the replies.

The version doesn't really affect how I use it, I was just curious as it seemed an anomaly.

These are very nice weapons, whichever version.

[just-A-snap 1,269]

Enjoy it for many a good day PeskyWabbits.

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Edited October 20, 2017 by just-A-snap