[Thoroughly Delighted With My Webley Fx2000 .22]

Let me get straight to the point. Jesus this rifle is SERIOUSLY amazingly good. I mean it is magnificent. It handles and shoots absolutely beautiful. Despite being left handed and this is a right-handed gun. There are no problems with the grip.

 

And Christ, what accuracy! I've read on the net that these old Webleys were good guns but, I had no idea they were THIS good!

 

Helen being Helen wouldn't let me have the bloody thing out of the Gunshop in Woodhall Spa till my 60th Birthday had passed. But today, despite the high winds over my garden, I've bought another charging bottle with the adaptor fitted and that's that. I can't be arsed changing from Daystate to Webley and all that faff, so it's a complete kit.

 

Rifle, Tasco 6-24x40 scope, Whisper silencer and charging bottle and adaptor = £475 squid the lot.

 

I had the rifle out in my hands for the first time and set to work. It came with a Tasco 6-24X40mm target scope and I set up with that. The rifle itself is in really lovely nick for its age.

 

Webley air rifles were always superbly well finished and this PCP lives up to that reputation. It's Beech with a lovely fully mellowed and aged rich deep figure of grain and very nice diamond chequering to grip and the rather pleasingly-rounded and chunky forestock. There's just a few minor nicks and light scrapes on the cheek-rest side (how come, if your mush is resting there??? Oh well) but the rifle as a whole is really lovely.

Someone has really looked after it and is probably bitterly regretting selling it right now. I'm never going to part with this beauty!

 

Filled it up to 190-bar and out for a pellet test and zero up.

 

It's putting Air Arms Field 5.52mm pellets (first pellet choice for test) clean through the hole of the first pellet at 25 metres range. An eight shot string from the magazine just bangs through the hole and leaves a slightly larger pellet hole! Then I was knocking out the last few apples left on my trees at 45 metres away. Trigger is set-up perfectly.

 

And it's full on-the-dot powerful.

 

It's going to be brilliant on roosting and feeding Woodpigeons and corvids in the woods and fields on my shoot.

 

There's another .22 shorter carbine-version FX2000 going for sale at MGR Guns of Woodhall Spa for about £350. I'd go bag it if I had the money for two!

 

Jamie/Rez, you'd be more than welcome to pop over to my cottage and see what you think and help me post some pics of it up here. The lads would like to see this rifle and an unbiased review of its performance I'm sure.

 

Philpot, Jimmy you can roll down here whenever you like too!

 

Seriously I think this one might tune up beautifully on my FAC. And I'd love an RWS Excalibur version to go with it!

 

Cheers chaps.

Simon

I have literally just traded in the RWS Excalibre. If your quick take a look at SJ Fawcetts he wont have sold it on yet

[New Air Gun Member]

nowt wrong with the beech stocks Degsey.. theres a bloke on here called bigmac aka jimmy

who can walk you through re finishing beech stocks, they come up loads better than the factory finish

just been looking at my local shop online tonight and he's got a good s/h 510 in beech for good money

 

atb si

Think I shall get to grips with it first before I look at re finishing it . Think I got a good deal with the trade in anyways as I didn't pay very much for the Excalibre in the first place

[Saving The Winter Greens]

Just seen him do this and its made me really hungry. Really got to try this one https://youtu.be/RwQcv-JamvM

[New Air Gun Member]

Well the RWS has gone as trade in on the 510S. Could only afford the beech stock but I don't mind. Just playing the waiting game for it to come in now

[New Air Gun Member]

Keep the Excalibur

 

Welcome aboard mukka...

Don't seem to be able to get on with it but love the 510

[New Air Gun Member]

Aye up Degsey,

 

Welcome aboard to you - are you from Leigh/ Leigh east by any chance ?

No mate I'm from sunny Morecambe

[New Air Gun Member]

 

Welcome aboard matey

 

How things have changed, yes, I thought that a few years ago after coming back into airguns after many many years away.

 

The art of getting land to shoot on is in my humble opinion, ask EVERY person you know for ratting or crow problems etc etc and ask if THEY know any land owners, be creative in the search. You may well be surprised at some of the places some of the guys on here shoot or used to, from churches to industrial estates to allotments to manor houses to large farm estates, just keep at it.

 

Phil

I CAN SECOND THAT

 

ONE OF MY BEST IS FACTORY'S AND ALL THE FARM LAND AROUND IT

 

WELCOME TO THE NUT HOUSE

 

MIND I DONT KNOW WHY YOU CAME ON HERE

 

WE ALL KNOW FECK ALL

 

ATVBMAC :thumbs:

 

[New Air Gun Member]

Welcome aboard matey

 

How things have changed, yes, I thought that a few years ago after coming back into airguns after many many years away.

 

The art of getting land to shoot on is in my humble opinion, ask EVERY person you know for ratting or crow problems etc etc and ask if THEY know any land owners, be creative in the search. You may well be surprised at some of the places some of the guys on here shoot or used to, from churches to industrial estates to allotments to manor houses to large farm estates, just keep at it.

 

Phil

Thanks for the advice. I have been annoying everyone I know about getting permissions but no luck so far. Am in the process of making a list of all the farms locally and going to try them first fingers crossed I can sort something local

[New Air Gun Member]

Hi folks just a quick introduction. Im from the North West of England enjoying finding my way back to airguns after a long time away from it. How things have changed I currently own an Air Arms Galahad in .177 and just in the process of trading an old RWS Excalibre .22 in for an Air Arms 510. I only manage to do target shooting at the moment but am starting to look around my area for some land to do a bit of pest control so any advice would be welcome. I know I said a quick intro but I tend to waffle anyway thanks in advance