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  1. Elmerfudd
    Hi Mark, if the kit doesn't fit the titan spring you've bought just return it with your new spring for a free replacement bespoke one.
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    My overriding feeling about this is anger! I'm angry about the waste of,life. I'm angry about the stupidity of gullible people. I'm angry that we're now gonna get the same thing here and all the bleeding hearts will still be defending these poor people who are only trying to escape the awful conditions they have created for themselves. I've had several people ask if I'm regretting buying a house in France today. No I'm not! It's gonna happen everywhere, nowhere is safe until we find a cure for being a moron!
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    Woohoo! I'm off to Brittany next week to look at a house we hope to buy. My first priority is to get a TAC pistol from Germany, but once the novelty wears off it'll be club and rimfire time! Does the 20 joules rule apply to air pistols too? I reckon a falcon/brocock pcp running at that would be a hoot, albeit short lived between charges! Fortunately my rifle is adjustable so I can make the most of it when in France. I may be a little overexcited!
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    That looks like .177 stamped on the side to me!
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    I just bought a 500g tub from a local auto spares place for £4.99..............
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    That sounds more like the spring guide and top hat meeting than spring binding. The guide is 80mm iirc with only 100mm available in the piston. The piston weight is a fair chunk of what's left. I reduce the spring guide length to 70mm, remove the weight and use a 25mm tophat. Although you lose mass in the piston, the increased acceleration makes up for quite a chunk of that. Added preload takes it further and you end up with around 10.5 with less felt recoil.
  7. Elmerfudd
    They fit over the spring guide at the rear and add preload. You can work out how much you can add by counting the coils on your spring. A Titan spring will increase the power, but may be a bit harsh for such a light gun. A tophat with slip washer is a good idea too as that will make it more efficient.
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    My wife came to the range this weekend. After trying a pcp she decided she wanted one. (She's had two before) I agreed and we've been looking for an hw100k, but yesterday she changed her mnd and now she wants a springer. She said it just wasn't a challenge and would get boring pretty quickly.
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    In .177 you ideally want it at around 10.5fpe. I you send me your address I'll send you some power bands to put on the rear spring guide. You'll also find that there's not much room for the tophat with the standard spring guide, reducing it to 70mm gives you more scope in the piston.
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    I ordered one of these last night and I'm pretty excited now, even though it'll probably be next week before it arrives. I've just been through a TX phase, but thes something about the HW that makes me smile. Also, this will be the first time I've owned both at the same time, so I can properly compare them without the rose tinted glasses. Hurry up postie!
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    I'd be tempted to reduce the stroke a tad before shortening the spring. A 10mm piston extension should reduce the power to a safer sub 11fpe while reducing overall internal movement without making the cycle lazy. You could even go for 12-13mm and add more preload for an even faster lock time. But then, that'd be ok on the TX, but will possibly increase the cocking effort on the prosport too much.
  12. Elmerfudd
    Anyone know of a Cornish shoot who could use a beater and black lab? Pm me
  13. Elmerfudd
    Well, thought I'd respond to this one. I have a Bretton Gaucher .410 moderated. Last winter I fitted it with a red filtered Clubman CB2 lamp clamped onto the barrel. The clamp is designed to fit on a 30mm scope, but with a little patience and abrasive paper, I got a good fit on the moderated barrel. On one side of the clamp I filed a rudimentary dovetail and then fitted a Hawke laser sight. I have it zeroed at about 10yds and it's fantastic against rats around the chicken sheds with 2" shells. I have tried it for rabbits with limited success, but nothing really beats a 12g pump for that. I
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    Hi all. We have the very smallest of smallholdings here in Cornwall and have kept pigs for a couple of years. This started with our 2 kune kunes, Princess Beatrice and Lady Gertrude Squealington-Grunthog. After falling in love with these, we got some Glos old spot weaners to rear for food. We've sent 3 lots off now and will never buy another chop from a shop. The last boys were more adventurous than most, and used to delight in breaking out of their pen and raiding the polytunnel, the kitchen and one at least one occassion, the Kunes! Last night Beatrice had 6 beautiful babies. Ac
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    Yeah, thats what I thought. Apparently Remington have a new model about to come out and there are some bargains to be had on the remaining 870's if you look. I'm not sure what the new one will be like, but at this price, I couldn't turn down a thoroughly tried and tested gun so easily!
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    Hi, I have a Fabarm 12g single for sale. It's pretty much like new with 3/4 choked, unmarked barrel and good woodwork. I'm getting rid to get a 20g for my daughter, if you have one available, let me know. I'd like £50, but am open to offers as it has to go. Pref face to face and sgc holders only. I'll put pics on in a bit
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    Help me out here, do you or anyone else actually use SG or even SSG on fox or deer (or anything)??? I'm curious to know if anyone does, and in just what situations, I have to say I am yet to find any sensible hunting use for SG! Close is right, humane despatch or slaughtering close range I'd say, (what a mess), 20 yards away a fox could walk clean through the pattern of a SG. Cheers I bought a box of SG shells cheap a year or so back. I'd usually use no.1's for Fox, but at close range, about 20-25 yds, thru improved or true cylinder they are simply devestating! You are effect
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    Just to buck the trend.... I went off, wallet in hand for a semi last weekend and came out with a Brand new Remington 870 supermag 3 1/2" in camo. It came with 3 chokes and other odds and sods in the box. Having had a Mossberg trombone gun in the past, I am a fan of the totally trouble free use that pumps provide. They just don't jam. Ever! No matter what ammo you use, whatever you drop it in, they just keep going. With a little practice, these are every bit as quick as a semi and the kerchunk-kerchunk is embarrasingly satisfying. Oh, and the cost? £435!
  19. Elmerfudd
    It is the same as fishing weights, SG, AAA, AA, BB, No's 1,4,5,6,7 etc. with SG for fox, close range roe deer (in close range vermin control obviously) 4's usually for pheasant, 5's and 6's for rabbits and 7's and smaller for pigeon and clays. Hope this helps
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    I've got a Mossberg 500 12g with a fully moderated barrel. It gives the best of bothh worlds, all the fun of shotty lamping with the noise of moderated rifles. I have a new G12 PHantom moderated .410 due tomorrow and can't wait to get out with it.
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    I took one a coupla weeks ago at 30yds with 3" SG carts. It finished it 1st shot, but I had 2 more in the tube if needed. They don't pattern all that well, but you only need 1 to hit and it's down. It hit with 7 of the 9, and all went right thru, leaving massive trauma. I don't usually use shotties for fox, but it feels good getting close enough to do it.
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    They're often called windy or witches eggs down here. We had a spate of them as our pullets came into lay a few weeks back. They're all white with no yolk, but the kids blew them for the novelty.
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    Webley Patriot or Theoben Eliminator both go 40ft/lbs as springers. .177 will be kack tho as putting pellets supersonic causes no end of accuracy issues. My Career 707 went 75ft/lbs with 30grn Eley Magnums in .22 and was as flat as you like out to 70- yds.
  24. Elmerfudd
    Vast majority were in 2 1/2", but a few were done in 3", and fewer still in 3" 3 shot! If you find one, buy it!!
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    Lower Teesdale? Or possibly Weardale? I thinks Swaledale's too far south to be north pennines. Moved down from that way a coupla years back. Miss the rivers, the dales and the easy access to the Scottish highlands on the motorbike!
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