Bornagainyorkshire

Ended up finding a MK3 tx200hc around my budget locally, picked it up this morning. Shoulders lovely and very impressed by the quality of it. Minimal twang compared to an untuned HW. Look forward to zeroing it this evening.

Thanks Mark,to muddy the waters even further i've found a 97k for sale locally within budget. I might just stick with what I know and get a replacement 97, this one has a wooden stock (the old one was plastic tactical job that I never particularly liked). I spoke to the gunshop holding the FWB 124, it's one of the early ones with a plastic trigger - the plastic trigger puts me off a bit if im honest. I've seen you can get machined aluminium replacements, but theyre £60 a go. Thanks for your advice, I'll figure out what i'm going to go with next week.

Thanks Phil, yes I remembered someone on here was an FWB fan. Cheers. Hope Mark gets well soon

Evening gents, Been a while. I had my beloved 97kt stolen on New year's eve from my yard and I'm yet to replace it. Looks like I might be taking on a bit of light pest control work, with the company hiring me paying for the rifle or at least contributing towards one. I have a budget of 300-400 at a stretch. I've seen an old FWB 124 being sold locally, and also a hw77, but am torn between the two. I loved my hw 97kt, had it vortek tuned and was an absolute joy to shoot... But the fwbs are beautiful things... I'm unsure which to make an offer on and all the advice and help iv

Good advice. Thanks Mark.

Freeads.co.uk seems to be generally cheaper than guntrader and gunstar, full of private sales (if you go the second hand route). Regularly see hw77's, 97's and tx200's on there at around your budget or slightly more with full kit included. Good luck.

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Tidy hound Jimmy, a mate that I work with has a young patterdale and it's a brilliant dog. Keen as mustard!

Cheers Rez, it's been really fun and satisfying getting back in to shooting and i've learnt a hell of a lot from this forum - both reading old posts and asking new questions. There are some very helpful lads on here. As a result I feel like I know the 97 pretty well inside and out and have properly got the bug for shooting back! Looking forward to my now very overdue baby to be born, then I can look at getting my tickets (a deal I struck with the missus) All the best, Guy

Evening all, When I was researching tuning kits for my 97 and stumbled across references to Vortek I noticed there wasn't a great deal of information out there online. The hunting life frequently appears when searching for air rifle or shooting queries on Google so I thought it was worth writing a short review of what I have found so far so that others that are interested have a bit more information. Firstly, I am not an air rifle expert (as people on the forum will know), I grew up shooting air rifles and shotguns on the north Welsh border but have returned to shooting only over the last fo

knew tom wold come through for you Guy... he's the good bloke in the Leeds area you'll be like a pig in sh1t with the 97 when you know its on the money atb si Was already like a pig in sh1t after Jimmy recommended reducing the trigger pull weight! Total game changer. The kit is taking it to the next level I reckon, just been doing some plinking out the back and she is a different animal. Now I just need to work on my shooting! All the best, Guy

Cheers mate, most kind, I may well give you a shout if I'm stuck. Ta, Guy

Bloody hell, that's quite an increase from just seals! I notice the spring had quite a bit more preload than the factory fitted one and the piston seal was incredibly tight - couldn't pull it back out of the compression chamber so I sized it back a tiny bit. It's still nice and tight but I can pull it through the chamber now. I've had friends take rifles that were unknowingly hot to rfds and had some bad experiences, there fault for not checking and adjusting, but that's exactly what I want to avoid. I'm capable of collapsing a coil if needs be. Ta, Guy

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