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    Not sure from your wording quite what you mean, mate. For cleaning the external suface of the barrel and rifle and protecting the blueing, just a squirt of gun oil on a rag and a wipe over, cleans up and protects a rifle after shooting, perfectly. Don't use oils down the barrel bore. This might cause dieselling, affect pellet vellocity and accuracy and cause a build-up of mushy, dirty leading in the lands or spiral grooves of the rifling. Never cleaned a barrel yet with oil alone. If your barrel needs a scrub clean, it should be done with great care, patience and a cleaning rod wi
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    Hi Dean. Bushnell Legend 5-15x40 and Simmons Whitetails are really cracking good scopes for HW Air Rifles. No question mate! I can personally testify with Bill and 77 Si from using these scopes myself. My Air Arms TX200 and HW80 FAC air rifles are still happily scoped-up and shooting as accurately as ever with these optics. However, I have a Hawke AIRMAX 6-18X44 SR12 reticle scope on my HW77 .22. Used/calibrated in conjunction with Chairgun. It's an amazingly accurate combo and gives me superb shooting in the field. I think, why break a winning formula? You should be able to buy
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    Try ... H&N FIELD TARGET TROPHY. (VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) RWS SUPERDOMES. BISLEY SUPERFIELD. All of the above have been known to perform superbly with HW80s. I have two HW80s and an HW77 -all.22 calibre and H&NFTT .22 is amazingly accurate. Simon.
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    Mike thou art indeed a noodle armed fellow. Get some excersise and work up your noodly spindlelimbs into weapon haulin', rock steady aiming systems! Seriously mate I'd love a shot with that 20-odd year old MkI you've just picked up. And Andy is right Mike. Don't clamp your mounts up against the turret saddle or you risk internal stress damage....Laddie! I have never found the weight to be an issue. I would not have an ounce taken off the TX200 MkIII rifle and HC carbine pair I own. I don't have a sling on my TX200 .22 rifle and I happily haul it around my shoot all day. MY TX
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    Best spring rifles money can buy off the shelf. Fixed-barrel underlevers are: WEIHRAUCH HW77, HW97, AIR ARMS TX200/TX200HC. PROSPORT. Best Break Barrel spring rifle. WEIHRAUCH HW80. HW80K. HW95. BEST GAS RAM. WEIHRAUCH HW90. THEOBEN EVOLUTION. Don't bother with Theoben FAC Eliminator. It looks good but, shoots like a dog. Simon
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    Stefaan...Hi There!
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    AGREED! Brilliat stuff Davy. Hats off to you and Paul both for getting out and involved. Great to see young folks enjoying archery too! Compliments to both of you. Simon.
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    Can't beat SPORTSMATCH! I recommend two-piece mounts. You can use them to set up an infinate variety of positions on the scoperail to mount your scope to perfect ballance on the rifle and eye relief. With single piece mounts, there's generally no problems but, you are limited to how they mount and fix to the rifle. Simon
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    A genuine pleasure to meet you both too and thanks for your hospitality again. Let me know when you'll be up again at the Featherstone. Always up for tasty tuck in good company! If the weather is kindly, we'll sort out some shooting for you. Andy is keen to meet you both too! All the best. Simon.
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    Check it for lube pest Hunter. I had the same twangy, vibratory feeling condition with my .22 TX200. AndyFR1968 here is my mate and shooting pal and he knows spring rifles backwards. He did a service on mine and found the trigger was bone dry and the rifle needed a general internal re-lube. Since that was done, the gun shoots amazingly well again.
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    Just want to make an open thank-you to Secretagent Moley Mike and his lovely sidekick Mary for a really nice couple of hours meeting over lunch and a visit to Redbeck shooting supplies at Wakefield. Lovely to meet you both and thanks for feeding me before my gig at Yorkshire Television this afternoon/evening. Next time, make it on my day off and I'll take you out onto my shooting ground. I know Andy is dying to meet you both too. Hope the new HW95 you bought works out for you Mary. If it doesn't, let me have first dibs on it! Thanks again folks. It was very kind of you both. S
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    By the way Rake. The stock on the HW77 is the classic beech design with white butt and grip spacers. Mine is a neutral, ambidextrous version and I love it. But, as the action of the HW97 and HW77 is the same, the stocks for the 97 will fit the 77! After that, Custom Stock of Sheffield make some truly marvellous stocks in rich Walnuts. I'm very tempted to buy a .177cal HW77 and try a little mix and match myself...after I get myself a Left-handed Air Arms Pro Sport! All the best mate. Simon
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    Gentlemen all. Thankyou so very much for all your kind responses. Considering the company of such solid shooting talent and experience I am among, with you lads here, it is very satisfying to read your kind and generous compliments. I've loved spring air rifle shooting since I was a nipper with me dad. And I've owned and shot some amazing classic air rifles I'd love to own and shoot with again. The PCP action has come on massively better since it's first shaky commercial appearance in the 1980s. Today, it will put precision accuracy into the hands of anyone with a modicum of shooting
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    Greetings Gentlemen. I was out shooting this afternoon/evening with my mate Andy (AndyFR1968 here) after a fair old lay off from the permission due to work. However, he had brought along his usual, trusty WEIHRAUCH HW90 while I had both my HW77 and TX200 .22 rifles and we set to for a zeroing session. Well, he'd also brought along his Crossman King Ratcatcher .22 Co2 toy pop gun! You know what it looks like. It's a short, plastic-looking air pistol with a tiny barrel, a skeletal rifle stock (that's just enough of a stock to get it round the 6ft/lb limit ruling on pistols!) and a
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    Hi Tony. The ABCD acale is a rangefinding device. For example of use, if you have sight of a rabbit and you are on 15xMag with an SR12 reticle scope, if you put the tip of it's ears on the top post and its lobes on the base of post A, you will have your rabbit at so many yards or metres distant. B, C and D mean they are a little closer in range as the the posts get longer or deeper from A. Check out Hawke's website or YouTube where Nick Jenkinson has a vid explaining this device in detail. All the best. Simon
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    JESUS! What a haul! It's always someone else who drops on these bargains isn't it!
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    Great post that Bill and some serious bagging! I'm really pleased for you to be out and about getting some great sport in, after the hassles you've had with your eyesight. 58 yarder rabbits is...... The mark of us left handers Hahahahahahah! All the best mate! Simon
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    Now...at last... you'll get some idea of why I rave about top quality spring rifles Mike..and why Hatstands are.. Never mind. Top quality is great kit to be used in the field, not as snobby yardstick about the size of you wallet, knob, whatever........! Happy shooting with it mate. Bring it with you when you come up to visit my shoot and show us how well you shoot it at the mental distance targets me and Andy warm up on! All the best Simon
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    Sounds like a paranoid mind Mike. So what if it is that scamming, illiterate numpty and his brother. This is a shooting forum mate. Not a detective agency!
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    Thanks Fry mate. To be honest I just give the PCP lads a bit of a ribbing over the high prices they seem to have had to shell out for a rifle that is no more accurate than a top quality spring rifle. There are some amazing rifles in PCP action but, a top springer handles and feels better to me. After over 40 years of shooting spring air rifles and being an absolute nut for Air Arms TX200s and FAC HW80s, I finally bought myself an HW77 in December last year. It's accuracy straight out of the box is astonishing. AndyFR1968 on here is a close mate and regular shooting pal. He also happe
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    Hi John. I just knew you would be right at home with the pro sport, even though that Diana Stutzen is a delightful rifle in every way. If it's got accuracy in the order you are getting from shooting with it, you mustr be a very proud and satisfied owner. Certainly get that impression from reading your posts and threads. Si's right! I'm definately going to add a Walnut stock Pro Sport to my collection now that Air Arms finally, make it available to left-handed shooters like me. My HW77 is just keeping on proving itself as a serious hunting rifle John. I can easily see why it ruled the
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    I'd seriously give the Pro Sport a good once over. It's all that Si and Gurtwurz will tell you for it's superbly tuned accuracy straight out of the box. I my humble opinion, it is unquestionably the most beautiful looking sporting air rifle of the lot. I'm definately having one before too long!
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    I have a .177 TX200 HC in my collection. Blistering little rifle. Definately a highly recommended addition to your list.
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    I tip my hat with great respect to you two lads, I really do. There's always a great shot and a moment of something or two you both have on your hunting trips out. Long may it continue you fellas. Always a cracking post from you both. All the very best Gentlemen. Simon
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    Parma Violets..Blimey I haven't seen those since I was about 10. They tasted like flowery, fabric conditioner and plaster if I remember. Better used as a target really!
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