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Here they are - £38 to £40 depending on version you go for. Well worth it. http://rowanengineering.com/products9.htm
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My 177 BSA Scorpion is ridiculously accurate with JSB Exact heavies off the bipod -the rowan engineering trigger is great, highly recommend to all scorpion and ultra users out there. Had a target session on my permission yesterday afternoon. Sun was out, although so was the odd rain cloud so had a few passing showers. There was a breeze but these jsb 10.34gr heavies stood up to it well - only required a marginal adjustment for the wind. Checked my zero and off I went. Two shots - two rabbits. The bigger one was in long grass and it took some careful stalking to get to 49 yards. Ranged i
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Highly recommend them. Not only for their thump but if your barrel likes them, their accuracy is great.
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Went to a new permission of mine - an equestrian farm. I've wanted to try out my Scorpion T-10 with its newly fitted Webley Pro Tilt bipod and I also brought along my new Hawke LRF 600 range finder to help me out with these bunnies as they are quite hard to get within a sensible range of. Plus it was the first time using the new BSA blue mag in my T-10. I started out by testing some 177 bisley mags and jsb heavies for accuracy to see if I could get better than the 4.52 aa fields and crosman premiers I normally use. Well the jsb heavies outperformed the bis mags and were very impressive
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New Scorpion Help, Fps & Ftlbs.
danco1987 replied to (g80na1886)'s topic in Rifle Reviews, Technical Help and Tips
10.5 doesn't sound dodgy to me for an unregulated factory rifle. As said, it should bed in. Failing that getting it regged by xtx air will make it more consistent and Darrin will set it around 11fpe for you. -
SOLD NOW.
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SOLD: BSA Scorpion Tactical .177 Single Shot with Tench Regulator and just tuned by Darrin at XTX Air! SOLD I bought this standard length Scorpion as a multi shot rifle about 3 weeks ago and sent it off with my single shot carbine to XTX Air for a service and breech swap over. Now my carbine has it's multi shot breech on it and this standard length Scorpion has been changed to a single shot version. I'm keeping my multi shot carbine so this is surplus to my requirements now so it's up for sale at a cheap price because I need the space and cash tbh. Both rifles had a full XTX Air serv
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Sorry to hear that. Catching them and showing evidence to the farmer would be good but unless you can get the police out to really catch them in the act, the farmer's problem won't be solved. I recommend you knock on doors another permission in the mean time. Get on yell.com and search farms, equestrian farms, stables, livery, garden centres, dairy farms etc local to you as you can't always access to farms to knock on the doors or when you visit you might ask the wrong person. Send letters to the potential farms, email them if they have a website. I've sent out about 40 emails and a fe
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It's a Webley Xocet XS model which is the carbine version with the silencer. Webley's equivalent of the BSA Lightning but made with a much better trigger and generally a better springer overall I have found. They came ready fitted with the "black hole" silencer I heard it called somewhere. There were no internals in the silencer, completely empty inside, more of a cocking aid. I believe that was standard. So I measured the inside diameter and asked UKNeil from the airgunbbs forum to make some internals which he kindly did and its quietened it down nicely. Cracking little springers - ev
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The exacts look good. You should try some crosman accupels or premiers - BSA barrels seem to like crosman pellets I've found. Both the scorpions I have like them. The safest part of my garden I can shoot in is only 16 yards long and rested shots using crosman premiers go through the same ragged hole with both my scorpions. On my permission at 35 yards, the range I zero at, they're shooting clover leaf groups providing I pay my part so I would recommend you to test some against the exacts at longer distances. But barrels are strange things and each one, even on the same model of gun, is un
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I thought that might be the case. The peanut butter I put out last night was still there until around midday today, when I went out for a couple of hours, now its gone. Trouble is the squirrels and pigeons love the stuff too so they could be consuming it. Ar well I'll just keep popping the rats off that I see
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I bought a 2nd hand scorpion multi shot the other week for 320. You don't see many multi shots below 300 tbh. Could get a single shot below that price though. A BSA ultra single shot secondhand would be a good bet - you could add the multi shot upgrade from Rowan Engineering at a later date.
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Will do - I've got some more peanut butter out as we speak, thought I'd give them another try at night. Some of the neighbours have children so these rats could be a serious health hazard if they're urinating in play areas and on climbing frames etc. I'll see if I can get the other one and if I spot any more, then I'll have to go and talk to the neighbours about them suggest they get some poison/traps down to eradicate them.
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Did a bit of pest control today - I've noticed a couple of rats coming into our garden from underneath the shed of the garden oppose. They've been feeding on the seed that is falling from the bird feeders in our garden. Well both my BSA Scorpion pcps are being serviced by XTX Air at the moment so the task fell to my .22 Vmach Brit Webley Xocet springer. I have been smearing peanut butter and chicken paste at the foot of the tree near the feeders and put some cut logs behind the baited area to act as back stops. The two rats have been feeding on the bait for the past two
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i have bought 7 second hand guns with minor to be expected or no problems .happy to buy second hand but I would not recommend someone to do this .If the person got a problem after using my recommendation they may blame me. I can't be blamed for anything - I've simply suggested that buying secondhand is a route I've taken on many occasions although there is a risk buying secondhand, most of the time it's worth it. Better to go and collect if you can to minimise risk even further. Loads of people use airgun forums, gunstar, guntrader etc to buy secondhand by mail order and the number of sati
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I see you have yours reg'd? how much did this cost and is it worth the money mate? I have bought two scorpions and both came already regulated with a tench reg. XTX air charges £150 to tune and reg a scorpion with a Tench regulator. I have a carbine scorpion which will do about 70- full power shots in .177. I also have a standard length rifle which will do over 100 shots in .177 but I have not properly counted either tbh. The power consistency is great, no noticeable curve and makes it worth doing for that alone. You also get more shots per fill than a new out the box scorpion I under
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I've owned 12-14 air rifles and air pistols over the last 5 years and I have only ever bought secondhand. Never owned a new air rifle believe it or not! I've bought in the UK, USA and Canada (all sub 12fpe) and all have been fine - arrived fine and shot great. I've had most posted and collected one in UK. I look at the sellers previous dealings, get them to supply as many close ups as possible and then it's all down whether it feels right and trust. As I said, I have not had any problems yet (touch wood). Some great bargains to be had on the secondhand market and guns which have be
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I've just bought a second scorpion which is a multi shot. It's the standard length not the carbine. So I'm swapping the breech over to my carbine turning it from a ss into a multi shot and will have the single shot breech put on to the standard length rifle. Can't wait till its done and I can get out hunting again!
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I only use 177 for hunting, just my preference in sub 12fpe. I have a 22 but it never gets used. But if you know your ranges and trajectory of a particular calibre and are comfortable with the rifle, it doesn't matter whether its 177/20/22, it will do the job providing you do yours.
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Yeah its really good. Its a Saik SA-6 LED Cree torch with adjustable/zoomable focus. It runs on a 18650 rechargeable battery, has a pressure switch and only has one mode. It came with an Ultrafire 501b pressure switch which fits. Got it for a bargain £14 and as it has a 35mm torch head, I added a Deben GL2 red flip up filter which cost £8 - works a treat. I compared it with a GL2 torch and its far superior and much cheaper. Last ages, had it out for 4 hours one night and saw no change in the brightness. Get yourself a torch with adjustable focus - very important. Use a wide light t
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That is one drenched tree rat Well done.
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Yeah its a nice scope, very clear image and good field of view. Love the illuminated reticle, very fine and doesn't light up the whole scope tube so perfect for lamping. I have fitted a rubber scope extension which is the exact length of the eye relief required so it speeds up target acquisition in field.
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Got to love the scorpion. Mine has a tench reg in it, trust me, you will be very pleased with a regged one. Also recommend that Roman engineering 2 stage match trigger as well. Nice shooting
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Love my 177 scorpion. Its the ss tac version and it's very accurate. I bought it secondhand and its been customised so I've never owned a straight out the box one. Nevertheless, I'm sure a standard one would be just as accurate. Mine has a rowan engineering custom 2 stage trigger and a tench regulator fitted so it does or so shots at a consistent 11.6fpe with crosman premier heavies. Mine shoots aa fields and premiers lovely. I only use premiers in it though as I find them slightly more accurate, I know their trajectory well and they pack quite a whack. If I can find a multi shot
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Got this rabbit two weeks back on my permission at an equestrian farm. I used my tench regged BSA Scorpion SS .177 with HW silencer topped off with a hawke nite-eye 3-12x50AO scope shooting crosman premier heavies at 11.6fpe. This was a standing shot at 20 yards - right behind the eye. Most my shooting at night is done between 30-40 yards in the sitting position. I take the shot of my knee for stability. So I was proud of this one. I couldn't take this one in the sitting position though as it was behind a small log and on top of a mound so I had to stand. The scorpion is so pointable an
