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About pianoman

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  • Birthday 10/10/1957

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    Bomber County. Lincolnshire.
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    A lifelong spring air rifle enthusiast and hunter since age 8 (in 1965)Starting with a Webley .22 given to me by my Aunt from Australia. Served 12 years in the RAF Regiment as a marksman and Senior NCO Precision Weapons and Tactical Warfare instructor and examiner. I've owned many spring air rifles over the decades but, PCPs are not my cup of tea. Ugly things with no soul! I love Weihrauch and Air Arms spring rifles and currently, I own a beautiful HW77 .22, an HW80 .22, A .177 HW97K which is an amazingly accurate rifle and a .177 TX200HC carbine. I love teaching and developing shooting skills in young people and fostering a better discipline to both this sport and as a life-skill. I work now as a professional aviation artist and painter. And as a professional sessions musician and live stage keyboards player.

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  1. Definitely kapur! Reticle has shifted off its gimble. But a new one. This has had it.
  2. Looks nice and tactical Jimmy. How's it going mate?! Love to you and Nicola. Simon and Helen.
  3. I cannot speak for the Huntsman Revere but,,,,After spending a chunk of cash on my Daystate Huntsman Regal .177 with a company called Airtech who made a superb regulator and tightened up the workings and cropped the barrel to perfection that PCP is a beautiful gun that should've been the case in the first place. I wrote to Tony Belas as head of Daystate as to my results from what work I had done on my Huntsman Regal and what I thought of the crap Harper Valve system that held the performance of the thing up poorly. Never got an answer back. Hmmm... But it's funny how
  4. Cheers Jjm. She's still shooting just brilliantly well. As accurate as any .22 PCP l have ever shot with. And no dive tank required! I haven't been tempted by another rifle to come even close to this one of mine. Best regards. Simon.
  5. I can vouch Villaman here had the sort of experience that would put anybody off Daystate for life. Including myself. I still have my Daystate Huntsman Regal .177 but that's because I had to get an AirTech regulator made for it before it performed as it should have from the factory. The guy at Airtech made a masterpiece of a job on my rifle but it cost money to do. God knows what the prices for such work would be now??! But, if you have bought a Daystate that is working out superbly for you, well done and congratulations on finding a great rifle. But Mitch and me were not so ha
  6. Hi Jimmy old pal. How have you been?? You never change mate. You buy a stunningly beautiful looking air rifle. It's the cat's whiskers on performance. Next thing..... you sell it! Then regret it. You never change! But then again, I sold my HW97K .22 plus a brilliant Hawke Endurance scope to Mark. And I really regret doing it. But hopefully Mark is still getting the spirt that rifle deserves. It's been ages since I had my beloved HW77 .22 out. My Pro Sport is getting the pest control on my permissions. But I miss my days and nights out with my HW77. Still one
  7. Thank you so much Tom. I spent ages fruitlessly writing to Air Arms asking why this flagship air rifle was not available to us lefties. I finally got a reply to the effect there was no commercial value in making it thus! Considering that, so I believe, the head of Air Arms was a left-hander and 1 in 3 are left handed I found that to be unsatisfactory. There followed a very brief run of left hand stock/right hand action rifles. But I say again. Only a brief period of production rifles. I didn't manage to snap one up before they were sold out. That should have told Air Arms something
  8. This is my Pro Sport as I reshaped it for my left hand shooting. It has been a faithful hunting companion for some years now and has the lost filigree and acanthus leaf scrolls redrawn and carved by me. There is nothing like owning and shooting with an astounding quality rifle that compliments your shooting as much as this gun does. I know Air Arms have finally released a new left hand production Pro Sport but , it's come somewhat too late. I'm more than happy with what I now have here.
  9. Some years ago when zinc tin pellets started to emerge and the talk was of a possible Happy alternative to lead ammo, there was a number of lads who were starting using them. My mate Andy Ruane here swore by the ones he was using. Fine. Then came the accuracy issues the other lads reported. The last finding was, that tin ammo doesn't conform to an air rifle with a choked muzzle. That means possible damage to the muzzle rifling which will scupper your rifle accuracy full stop. If this talk of banning lead pellets for zinc etc, gathers into reality I'm not going hunting anymore. Not wit
  10. Good to see you're still the good old Mitch I knew before! Still got that warm fuzzy thing for Daystate then Mitch lol!!!
  11. Phil, Jimmy, Mitch xraidersx and all you other good men here. Thank you so much indeed. I cannot tell you what kind of Hell we've been through, Helen and me. But anyway, that's behind us now. I'm having painful trouble with my left shoulder. All that cocking spring rifles the last 55 years! So, I'm wondering about using my beloved HW80 in the field. My HW77 .22 is as smooth and as PCP accurate as ever so, she will be in the write ups for sure. Then there is my 'modified-stock left-hand friendly Air Arms Pro Sport .22. So I'm not exactly strapped to go out and shoot with some q
  12. Gentlemen Good evening all Well after almost being killed by Covid and a long spell of rest and rebuilding my business and keeping us from being made homeless.... I finally have time to get mt permissions back, get out my trusty old guns and get shooting again. Looking forward to seeing old friends here and reading posts from the newer chaps. Well new to me anyway! Best regards lads. Simon the Pianoman.
  13. Try a Pro Sport in your favourite caliber. Utterly reliable, accurate as a top PCP and classic-rifle beautiful. And...Having got one of my own...... An LGU is calling me...... !
  14. I never use a single-piece mount on any of my air rifles. Certainly not my PCPs. A two-piece mount set allows you to position the scope perfectly for eye-relief and better weight distribution over the rifle with more freedom of positioning movement than any single piece I've used in the past. Just my view of these. Simon/Pianoman.
  15. Thanks for clearing that up Mitch. Have just had a Google search of this particular golden gun. Er..Nope! I'll hang on to what I already have thank you. Serves me more than well enough! Best wishes to those that want to spend on this one. Simon
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