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    This is great. I really love my pidgeon shooting over stubble at this time of the year and this is one of your best films Si. There's an art to decoying woodpidgeon effectively that can't be demonstrated enough. They are very smart birds and very aware of their environment and any threat in their area. This is one of the best How-To-Do-It videos I've seen in a long time since the late and much-missed John Darling. Easily adaptable information for effective hide shooting with an air rifle, from a well prepared point of cover and concealment. Superbly filmed and explained mate. And g
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    Beautiful rifle and very accurate in all calibres. Alas not made in a left hand version (they must be mad!) so, I won't be adding one to my collection.
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    Sorry this didn't work Bernard. I think with some kit, it just doesn't gel so well with some lads, as it does for others. Might be a similar case for you. Sorry to hear it. Regards. Simon
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    That's alright then.. Skot, Elliott you'd be welcome to come spend a day shooting over on my permission with me when the weathers' nicer and the potato crops are harvested from Field No 1. (My training area) Andy (FR1968) should be around too. Be nice to meet you both and make a sporting day of it. Simon
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    Cheers Mawders, My girl lives in Chippenham, Wilts. Maybe I'll get over whenever I'm down there again soon!
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    Work through weighing the whole tin first and seperate the consistent from the odd mongrel that crops up. With H&N FTT it's always a case of a few either a bit loose or a few a bit too stiff in the breech. Use the odds for warming the rifle up and zero and hunt/shoot with the consistent ammo. Simon
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    I'd be well up for that Si! Where is this place? Simon
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    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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    Hi Mawders. Well, I'm an old school spring rifle shooter and I've lubed my air rifle ammo with WD40 for decades. I swear by it. As I wrote above, you spray it onto a thick paper towel or rag. Not so it's soaking, just get it oily. Then roll the pellets a dozen or so at a time to get the thinnest coating (not wet) onto the pellet's surfaces. This prevents getting the lube inside the skirt and keeps the ammo lubed enough to perform without being so wet they will ignite. Try it and see what you think! Regards. Simon Edit to add. That film of yours Si is a spot on d
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    I second Si's response. A clean and spotless rifle is an efficient, accurate rifle. And shooting 50 washed/lubed and 50 unwashed is no indicator of pellet performance. I've shot alongside my mate Andy (AndyFR1968 here) and he is a REALLY gifted spring and gasram shooter. He doesn't wash and lube his ammo, nor actually thought there was any merit in cleaning a barrel, as I do...Until.... Funnily enough, he has been having accuracy issues recently with his (normally) superbly accurate HW90 .20cal gasram. A scrub and clean of his rifle's barrel and he's shooting brilliantly with i
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    Hi Bernard. It could be you might have a problem with a poor fit of your rifle and this particular scope to your natural posture. We all have to get along with rifles made off-the-peg that are built to rigid specifications and dimensions. But we are not! Yet, you must have your scope set and mounted so it comes straight onto aim with correct eye relief as you bring the rifle to your shoulder; without having to jerk and fidgit your head about the butt-stock to find it. A 4-16x50 scope by any standard, should not have a problem fitting correctly and thus, operating correctly for you
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    Given that you are for real then Lewis. I refer you to the real answer/questions I gave you previously above, intended to inform you wisely, in the light of your questions. Not in any way to belittle you. Alright? What you choose to do to your rifle in the end, is entirely your affair laddie. There is no "Heyho here we go again" with me on this one Lewis. Best wishes. Pianoman
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    Then why do you want to change it from the rifle that clearly means something to you? For what it would cost to convert, you might as well get a decent 2nd user .22 TX and keep this .177 one with all sentimental value intact. Power upgrades? Have you got an FAC? Is this a wind-up? Pianoman
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    Blimey Daz five or six weeks without a shot fired would have me chewing the walls. Seems you've made up for it though mate. Great shooting to read of, from both your rifles! Well done!! I like the look of your scope on your Rapid here Daz, y'mind if I ask what's the make/model? Regards and compliments mate. Simon
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    From reading your post here Stuart, it does appears you do pest control and therefore, a degree of shooting, for a living Stuart. That's good. A farmer generally expects that you will be simply wanting to go shoot and hunt on his land, in exchange for culling the pests that blight his business. Thus, he gives you and me and the other lads here permission to do so. Seems you have offered him favours in unpaid skilled labour, above and beyond anyone else's reasonable expectation, to secure shooting rights here mate?! That's probably why he's wondering, you see old lad! Simon
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    From the sound of it, Richard, I think you must have a shorter TX200HC carbine? That rifle has a threaded muzzle to take a screw-in moderator or adaptor. The standard length TX MkIII rifle muzzle is not designed to have any type of silencer fitted. You can get a two-way threaded adaptor which screws into the threaded muzzle alright and, if a silencer is what you absolutely must have, Parker Hale make one that's nicely proportioned to just the right length and width for the TX's Bull-Barrel without much over-bias on the weight to fore. I had one fitted to mine for years till one day, I too
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    :laugh: :laugh: Spot on correct Davy. TX200's really don't need them.
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    Hi Samboy. Not really. Simmons Aetech are a lovely scope. Especially for rimfire .22 and 17HMR; and if yours are paralaxed suitably for use at the shorter air rifle ranges, you should be a happy chappy using the two you have. Built with way much better precision and tougher than Hawke in my experience. Don't get me wrong, Hawke make a decent scope for reasonable money. A lot of chaps buy them and swear by them on PCP rifles. But, in my experience as a spring rifle man, of owning several Hawkes, they are certainly not as tough and durable as the much older Simmons scopes I still h
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    Money no object?. You absolutely sure?? Take a look at the range offered by the finest precision optics in the business. SCHMIDT & BENDER Nothing else I shot with and used as a military marksman and Tactical weapons Instructor/examiner for 12 years could match their Military spec scopes and I'd have nothing else but their sporting scopes on my air rifles, if I had the money to spare for them. Military snipers the world over use their Mil-scopes costing around £5,000 upwards. (You don't want to know what their NV costs!) You can spend well over £1,000 to £2000-plus
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    Over a Bull- Barrel and latch-block Lewis? I don't think there is one that will fit a TX200.
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    Is yours an HC Carbine Richard? That has a threaded sleeve to fit an adaptor and silencer. I have a .177 TX200HC and prefer it without. It makes very little difference as the rifle is almost silent at 30 yards and soundless thereafter. The standard MkIII rifle I also have, has no threaded end and cannot take one. Unless there's another method I've not heard of. I think you do not need one. Regards. Simon
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    Well Skot, I'm a dedicated Weihrauch spring gun fan, saddo, disciple, full stop! I absolutely love their rifles to the end of my days and the HW95 is a genuine little beauty. Try one, and you'll love it. All the best for your choice mate. Simon
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    Looks like we have a serious talent in our midst with Elliott here. Thank you very much for such great shooting shared with us Elliott. Fast fading light makes rangefinding tricky as you try to cover as much ground as possible in the time you have left. So shooting at these long ranges successfully in such poor light is no small thing. Well done mate. Roger (porkycrook) You don't have to apologise for joining in m'lad? It's what this forum is for, isn't it?! Keep it coming Elliott.! Best regards to you both Gentlemen. Simon
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    Cheers John that's really kind of you to say . I'll have a word with Nigel at Wighill Park Guns out at Tadcaster. He usually gets all the nice kit in his shop quick. If he has one or two in, I'll have a run up this week and report back what I find out downrange. Hope all goes right for your HW80. Still the undefeated heavyweight champion of break-barrel spring rifles in my book! Best wishes John. Simon
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    I really do not like the look of the new LGV sporters, with, or without synthetic stocks. I hate unfluted, flat stock forends that will not lend elevation to your high shots from a low prone position, such as pidgeons and crows in trees. However, Walther's all-new LGV Competition Ultra spring break barrel rifle is the new flagship model. And I think it looks really sweet. With an ambidexterous adjustable butt-stock, fluted forend, barrel locking release button and an all-new box of refined gubbins internally. It sounds as though Walther have re-invented the break barrel spring rifle from
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