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  1. pianoman
    Another trick you could try, is to use a drop of gun oil like Bisley oil onto a bit of fine wire wool and gently rub it over the rust spots. I found this removes light surface rust and brings back the sheen and shine without damaging the blueing.
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    You won't regret the TX200HC Lewis. I had one, an older Mk.III in .177 flavour and I loved it. I wish to God I never sold it... ... but, a .22 Pro Sport is what I truly desired and finally got! I shot with Phil's .177 TX200HC (Philpot) when he visited me at my home a while back and Man! It was a beautiful little rifle to shoot with. On Air Arms Express pellets it was putting pellet on pellet clean into a single hole at 35 metres range from my left shoulder and hand, and this was a right hander's gun! Can't fault it mate!
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    Pianoman. I played piano and keyboards professionally in a couple of touring rock 'n roll bands from the 1990s to the time I joined the forum, as well as being a professional military artist. Pianoman was a name I got from those days. And it sounded all right. I knew no one else would have a handle like that. So, there it is.
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    Don't buy any scope until you can put it to your eye and judge it for yourself. Just saying, but, there's a lot of rubbish on offer that whites' out, won't focus, won't paralax adjust and all manner of other issues with zero., the turrets, lenses. Everything.
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    I can't fault my Nikon Fieldmaster 6-18x40mm side focus. It's a hell of a dear price for an air rifle optic at £489.20 but, it stays on zero all day, to a quarter-inch @100 yards accuracy - more than enough fine zeroing for an air rifle and takes the mighty recoil thwack of an FAC HW80 .22. And when seated on my Pro Sport .22 it is as classically elegant-looking as it gets. It must be a real cracker to mount on a rimfire/centrefire rifle too! It really is money well spent for what you get; but you get the full monty with this one. It's recoil tough, clear as a bell sightpicture, super
  6. pianoman
    Aww ELEY WASPS!!! Used to be a legendary pellet the good old (and original) Eley Wasp in .22. They were tight in the breech but, I loved them, my HW80 .22 loved em and they were blisteringly hot for rat and rabbit shooting. Eley sold the moulds and everything about 15 years ago to another, smaller business and they've just ballsed them up batch after batch. Rubbish they are now. A genuine shame. I blame trying to do things on the cheap. No good ever in this sport.
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    Excellent group and something like decent power you have in this rifle Mitch. Looks like you gave this bit of melamine a bit of a thump at this range ! Nice one!
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    No! You may have to be a bit more specific about your intended air rifle and proposed power output. Tim. It's been a long old while for me now but, when I first applied for mine nearly 20 years ago, my application asked for a make and description of the air rifle and intended power output if it was known. For my HW80 I specified up to 30 foot pounds as I wasn't certain of a precise figure. If I was to add an air rifle up to that limit, I'd be okay to go on. But higher power above this, would have to be specified again I should think.. Make of airgun. what desired foot pound output 30, 50,
  9. pianoman
    JSB Diablo Heavies 5.52mm are brilliant in my Air Arms Pro Sport......Just sayin...
  10. pianoman
    It all looks really beautiful Jimmy. But then again, it isn't going to end up as something other than that, in your hands. But, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. So what does she shoot like?
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    I think it would've been devised as .177th of an inch barrel diameter with a specific projectile or bullet calibre of 4.5 mm. The diameter width and the required length of the round. Then weight of the round, energy by weight and so on is factored into the calibre maths. Whitworth was an obsessive perfectionist in everything he did. He wrote everything he did down in his journals which have become the bedrock of many practices in arms manufacture today. He was possibly, the first arms and ammunitions design engineer to have devised what is surely now the forunner of the 17HMR calibre bul
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    If I remember reading this rightly, it was something to do with how efficient the numbers of barrel lands or rifling spirals in small calibre firearms barrels that could be made, that determined the size calibre of ammo to be made commercially available. .22 was the only small vermin sporting round for many years and pellets followed the pattern for barrels for air rifles and air pistols. Then .177 followed as an air rifle specific calibre. It was envisaged as a smaller round that could be well-suited efficiency and accuracy just for air rifles and air pistols. and so it proved to be. Y
  13. pianoman
    Welcome here TriggerPlease! BigMac's answer has it pretty well covered but the main thing is persistance and a bit of luck. You could land a cracking permission on your first contact so don't be put off from going forwards. If there is a farm you like the look of and it has rabbits in the fields chances are the farmer will welcome a bit of extra help in keeping the numbers down. Often, once you establish a good relationship with the landowner, you'll be recommended to people he/she knows and add another permission. Just keep trying and you'll land something before long! All th
  14. pianoman
    You are very welcome Khimbar. Thank you.
  15. pianoman
    I bloody love that pic of Mark's day on the feathers with Kaiser and his T-Rex. Top class shooting by any standards.
  16. pianoman
    I would if I could stop reading your bloody ammo post my dear pal! Go bed
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    I can't edit my response here Jamie but, the best I can say further is use the heaviest ammo your rifle can shoot comfortably and accurately. Heavier pellets retain more velocity and foot/pounds energy downrange at the target-end than lighter pellets do. Lighter ammo leaves the muzzle faster but, over distance to target, they slow down significantly, can be influenced more by the winds and breezes and lose a fair bit of clout when they hit home.
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    ALL calibres have a trajectory my dear Jamie. They need a bit of range work for what I call "Trajectory Mapping"! to give yourself a true picture of how your pellets from your rifle are performing over distance. That is basically, doing what you've done here. Set up a series of targets from 10 metres ( I always work in metres.) set apart every 5-metre increments to 35 or 40 metres or whatever you can comfortably manage depending on what you have for a range to work with. Zero at your preferred range. And then shoot 5 or 10 shots at each target to see exactly, where your pellets are going
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    A home-made, badly-made, or maintained illegally powerful air rifle that would shoot by itself? Then allows it to fall, unsecured, into his 13 year-old's hands? What sort of Licence rules and regulations can account for that? It's a tragic accident all right, but, there it is. A tragic accident no less.
  20. pianoman
    Never known a finer bunch a guys to be honest Phil. Always someone looking out for another on this section.
  21. pianoman
    I love the simplicity of scopes like this. And they look good on a traditional looking spring rifle. What a really kind gesture. Well done Tom. Very kind of you sir.
  22. pianoman
    I had a similar seat/knapsack thing years ago and it fell to bits I used it so much. Not as well made as this one looks for £49.99 though. But you'll soon get to love it if you use it in a static hide/shooting spot on your shoot. Carries your hide net/cammo, packs it away quick, easy to carry and plenty of room for a decent snap and a flask.
  23. pianoman
    Bloody Hell it looks like a medieval Turkish war axe. Be honest Jimmy. You threw this 'thing' at those poor bloody animals dincha?!
  24. pianoman
    Can't make tonight's meeting Phil, but will be on for others!
  25. pianoman
    Does me good to see someone getting great sport from an HW80. A legendary air rifle for very good reasons. Built like a Tiger tank, powerful, superbly accurate, absolutely reliable. Last time I shot on my 35 metre range with my .22 HW80, , it put a beauty of a single hole group of ten pellets right on top of eachother. I'll never sell it on. And I would swap any of my guns for it!
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