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  1. I would say no standard black widow will suit 8mm steel . Black widow bands I would say are good for shooting rocks and heavy ammo . The pouch is to heavy and the bands have a heavy pull . You have to balance your bands with your ammo , to shoot 8mm you will have make your own bands for the best results and they will need to be a lot lighter weight than black widow bands . I will think all black widow bands will shoot 8mm at the same speed , 

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  2. I have one it seems fine , my friend got the cheapest cheapest one he could it never worked well and failed soon, he then got a second one at the usual price it seems to be working fine . I dont think threads will match the pump is npt  and the hw100 connector is bsp but they will connect with a foster connector 

     

  3. On 18/03/2023 at 12:16, tatsblisters said:

    Had a good walk around a big wood near me this morning that borders the large council estate i live that the council now own it was crawling with grey squirrels i shoot the odd one's with the catapult even 20 years ago i would shoot over a hundred a year with the airgun and other lads with airguns would put a dent in them .I wouldn't dare mooch about down their with an airgun these days in case a member of the public saw me and phoned the police or sneakily took pics and put them all over social media.

    my father in 1960s was driving around an outer london area called West Drayton with his friend and two shot guns in his car looking for somewhere to shoot . The police notice his suspicious behaviour and asked what he was doing . When he told the police what he was up to , they replied you cannot go shooting round here , the police then took my father and his friend a few miles away to an undeveloped area in a place called Gerrards Cross and directed them to go shooting there .

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  4. I have just got a tx 200 sr from a gun fair , it had a lot of faults that have all been sorted out . The gun is stupidly accurate shooting flat in my 13 yard indoor range at home , I was just wondering if anyone has had experience shooting this gun up or down hill at say a 45 deg angle . I have not had the chance to shoot the gun up or down hill yet ,  if there is any one who has shot this gun in these conditions and can tell me how this sledge system behaves that would be interesting . or I guess similarly the diana airking 

     

  5. 30 minutes ago, Johncheetham4121 said:

    I haven’t chronod it but only had a tbt kit fitted 2 weeks ago and the gun smith had and said it was running at 11.6 with jsb exact. It’s taken the twang out but not really improved the accuracy. If I shoot a 10 shot group I would say I ll get 5 together and probably 2 high and 3 low 

    you need to chrony the gut , not to check for max power but for shot to shot consistency . 

     

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  6. if the barrel locks up different from time to time .., do you get two different groups that may prove that . have you shot it over a chrono . Is the crown of the barrel ok . I had a gun once the breech bit of the barrel where you push in the pellet was done badly and there was a few burs left in the barrel at the start of the rifling , so each pellet got a few deep cuts on the side of the pellet  . I discovered this by pushing a pellet slowly down the barrel and looking at the rifling marks left on the pellet  .

  7. has anyone ever tested the ground water under historic shot gun shooting clubs , were tons of lead shot must have been shot over the years . This will give some information as to the possibility  of pollution by lead from shot , I would suggest it has been done already and no pollution has been found , if pollution was found every one would know . With the lead in tap water because of lead pipes I do wonder about but I do wonder more about the plastic in tap water to day .

  8. chronograph . it may seem like and expense but once you have one you think how did I do this shooting thing with out one , I will bet most people here have one . A chorno will show you exactly what is happening with your gun , if the pellet comes out of your gun at a constant speed you then know there is nothing wrong with your guns mechanism I would say that is something you should check if you think the sound of the gun is changing . If the guns action is fine accuracy is the problem you have a lot of possibilities . loose or damaged scope . air arms has a thin barrel and the barrel band can mess with accuracy if it's loose , the gun could be loose in the stock , also that gun has a power curve when filled to 190 the gun will have less power than when the pressure drops to 150 bar is when the gun will be at it's most powerful. and as stated the moderator could be the problem . When you shoot without the moderator your group may move a bit .   

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  9. if it,s working it will shoot pigeons no problem . I had a little experience with a gas strut brake barrel not this gun , the gas strut started to leak so the gun lost power . Saying that when the gun lost power it would have still had the power to knock off some pigeons from a roof if the gun holds zero . If it shoots at full power you may have a problem with where the pellet goes after you shoot the pigeon  . if you don't shoot spring air guns to shoot it accurately you hold the gun very loosely against your shoulder and let the gun move how it wants to after you pull the trigger there are lots of vids on this .

  10. just had a look at mine . mine has the empty grub screw looking hole . but mine doesn't have the larger alen bolt . mine is a mark one verminator and it doesn't have the power adjuster under the barrel it just shots at 12 ft lbs only . Years back there was a lot of strip down information , I cannot find any thing now .

     

  11. There is no new problems with sling shots , air guns  , crossbows ect , all the problems with these things are media driven .  Problems will happen with these things , they always have some people will be criminals and use something in a criminal way . The only new problems are what campaigners  and the media create to push their agender and wishes .

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  12. I don't think they are a good gun here in the UK , in America they must be fine a cheap powerful PCP but here in the UK not so cheap for a poorly made gun . the main problem I feel these guns have is because of their design the problem is keeping the guns power below 12 ft lbs . I messed about with one for quite some time and I found with the gun I had ,I had to set the power to  10.5 ft lbs with an average pellet because at some points of the power curve as the bottle emptied with a very heavy pellet the power would go well over 12 ft lbs .So to take advantage of 12 ft lbs I had to use a heavy pellet giving a stupid trajectory , my gun was 22 in 177 it may not be such a problem . I would say something like an AA s 400 would be a better gun . my gun was the stealth variant the longer barrel on a storm may change what I have just written it may be better or worse .

     

  13. 7 hours ago, Greyman said:

    for pouch’s just stop next time you see a leather sofa at the side of the road and cut a square out, or the sample books from furniture shops have miles of nice leather in ?

    you wont believe went out for a cycle after reading this and found a road side leather sofa . cut some leather out quick may go back tomorrow if its still and get more . in the dark I was not sure if it was leather but looking at home in better light  it is .

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