Open sights?

[andy s410c 61]

As a teenager i had a mate who owned a Relum Tornado(i think??) well it was a underlever anyway.I had my trusty HW35 & he was forever "tuning" his Relum basically pouring loads of 3 in 1 oil into the cylinder to keep the leather washer in good order & when blue smoke was coming out of the barrel end he used to say"thats more powerful than my 35!!"Oh the joys of dieselling :11:

Oh Man ,The Relum Tornado was the posh one I could,nt afford!About twelve pounds I think.Actually the Relums were notoriously easy to tune a bit.Very accurate compared with the BSA's of the day. Now I know that the picture below shows the Relum with a telescopic sight aboard -a cheap "Mountie " -but it's in keeping with the spirit of the subject matter I think.I could take you to the exact spot where I shot that bunny even now. I was my first .

Quality photo Comanche im only 34 meself but its bringing a smile to my face thinking about the teenage years, shooting in places you cant even walk around now,only a handfull of cheap Milbro slugs& taking crazy shots at anything at any range On my Meteor i didnt have a rear sight only the bit of metal it was sat on & my foresight was a cut down nail it used to work tho....then i went all posh got meself a HW35 think i paid(well parents did)£40 in 1986 & i loved that gun,used it every minute of every day,used to hammer the ferals down the docks

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

chrono'd it recently at 3ft/lbs

 

 

:icon_eek: Scarey shit!!!

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

F*ck it! Time warped and double posted that!

[SteveieP 0]

Paid £14 quid for my Meteor Mk4 brand new!

Mind you, it was 1974 & that was the equivalent of about half a weeks wage for the average bloke back then.

.......... and I've still got it........... and it still works just fine.

[sam-jones69 0]

i have recently taken the scope off my hw77 and put the open sights back on because i felt like a little change, and its great fun shooting squirrels and magpies from about 20-30 yards away :] . but then i have good days when i feel like i can hit a fly from 100 yrds and then bad ones where i miss nearly everything, like a squirrel from about a meter away...... the dog gave me a look as if to say 'you twat' when i did that haha

[1996clive 0]

As a teenager i had a mate who owned a Relum Tornado(i think??) well it was a underlever anyway.I had my trusty HW35 & he was forever "tuning" his Relum basically pouring loads of 3 in 1 oil into the cylinder to keep the leather washer in good order & when blue smoke was coming out of the barrel end he used to say"thats more powerful than my 35!!"Oh the joys of dieselling :11:

Hi Ive got amongst my collection a Crossman co2 pump feed rifle which was made in the sixties I believe any how the sights on this are brilliant and very easy to use,the foresight is normal blade whilst rear has a notch set at the bottom of a U and itso accurate all who have fired this old lady comment on how good the sights are and so basic

[islayhawk 0]

I dont know why I went to tele. sights. Just for lamping I suppose. I have always in the past used open sights. I have had Relum tornados, webleys, BSA's,Weirach. My favourite gun was the fenwerbau sport - with the open sights it was deadly. I am now using the hw77. I am going to go back to the open sights but at the moment I do not have one for it as I lost it in moving house. I have looked on ebay etc but have not found one yet. If anyone has one for sale I would be interested. I think everybody should go back to open sights occasionally just to keep there options opens. and it is a lot more fun

 

islayhawk

[Jack NUFC 1]

i used to be able to hit cans at about 15-20yrds away with my mates old bsa cadet .177(open sights)