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  1. pianoman
    I have to agree with that last statement. You have to do a sort of ' rolling grapple' with the Pro Sport to cock and load it from prone position. Especially when you happen to be left handed! (I have a beautiful beech Pro Sport stock that Bigmac97K converted successfully to left hand friendly for me.)
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    Yes she has! I fitted the action into a Beech stock that Jimmy/Bigmac97K has converted to left hand friendly for me. The walnut stock mine came with is absolutely beautiful in its figures and grain and getting 'converted' at the minute to left-hand status.. A few stiff creaks from the underlever and a fair number of fliers with Air Arms Field 5.52mm but, by the end of the session, she was bedding-in nicely and putting pellet on pellet at my Maximum 35-metre garden range. And in a stiff wind too. I'm starting to gel with her. I have to say, when she's finished and running as smoothly as
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    A very Happy Birthday to two of the good lads here. Renos and Mark. Cheers.
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    Aww you're bloody joking Matt! I'm so sorry mate to read this about your Pro Sport. It looked so lovely too. BUT...This why I bought mine new. You never know what bad luck you might have until you get her home, what sort of shape she's in on the inside. The Air Arms manual for the Pro Sport warns against overtightening the stockbolts, especially about the trigger guard unit and other screw fixings. But there you go. Someone didn't read the bloody manual! But, as a devout HW80 .22 owner and utterly proud of my 18 year old 'musket' well done on the one you now own and I'm absolutely cer
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    It's only the internet Mitch. What else do you expect?
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    Oh you can bore me with all the test groups you can shoot Matt. all the best with it mate and thanks for good wishes for mine. (I've barely slept a wink to be honest!)
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    Just an incredibly beautiful work of air rifle art to me. Everything about it just rings my bells. Yearned and longed for a Pro Sport as soon as it came onto the market. As accurate as it is beautiful to look at. In my book there is only one other group of spring rifles that are as accurate, if not more so, but not quite so stunningly beautiful. HW77, HW80 and HW97. With my own Pro Sport arriving today, it means I will possibly never buy another air rifle. That makes owning four of the very best you can buy. Or six if I were to add in a TX200 and a TX200HC...... No, the Pro Spo
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    What companionship this must be. He's a beautiful lad young Kaiser here!
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    Lovely looking rifle that Matt. It must be Pro Sport Week! My Pro Sport .22 arrives tomorrow. Brand new from Air Arms. If it's as nice as this one I will be in raptures...!
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    I think you are right actually Mark. A lot of people seem to buy them as a cheap entry level gun to get started with. And now I'm thinking, I've been spoilt rotten with the rifles I've had and currently own for years on end. I've never in my life owned a cheap and cheerful air rifle like this one. It means, to come to shoot with something as simple and basic, as rough and ready as these Chinese guns, my spring rifle techniques might not work so well and I turn out to be a poor shot with one? Hmm I wonder...
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    You don't have to have an HW or Air Arms to have a good rifle............ .............................(But it helps...............) :tongue2: :tongue2:
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    Christ, it looks like an Alien's skin!
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    Fair play that looks to be a pretty good condition example. These air rifles set a high standard of excellence for hunting accuracy and power. I had one of the first Feinwerkbau Sport .22 rifles in the UK and it was a revelation after shooting and owning a number of solidly-built Webleys for some years before. The quality of these FWB Sport rifles is amazingly high for a rifle from the late 1970s.
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    Blimey what a thread! The thing with salesmen is, they are on a commission as well as salary so, they want sales figures in to make up their wages. They don't give a frig about your opinions of the guns they represent. The boss says to sell more TX200s than Pro Sports at all costs? The TX200 becomes the greatest rifle on the planet and Pro Sports are a poor second. I once visited a shooting show where RWS had a stand. They had brought out their Excalibur-type, two shot rifle and I thought it looked beautiful. I offered my compliments to the salesman on how well it looked. I was seriou
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    Hi Jamie. Yep! Brand spanking new, finest walnut stock and I'm going to have it set upon with Jimmy's grinder and sandpapers! It's gotta be done. A great gunsmith I once knew said "Never be afraid to modify, alter, reshape and refit a stock, until it fits and suits you perfectly!" So, if Air Arms will not make a stock to fit me, I'll work on theirs it till it does! It's the butt stock that needs to change a fair bit. Looking at photos of the Pro Sport's butt-stock, I think the roll-over comb can be rounded back to a point where it will no longer push into my cheek and let me co
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    That looks really nice Mike, are these R-10s as good as they look?
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    That would be perfect Jimmy mate. Thank you. I've got three nice perms going down in this part of Lincolnshire. We'll have a right weekend of it! Bless you bro. Simon
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    God bless you too Renos. And thank you my dear friend. We must meet up for a drink when possible. I'll be down in London at some point I think. I'll let you know. A very happy day for your Birthday tomorrow with love and best wishes from me and Helen x
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    Y'hear that Jamie? Phil? Let's have a day on the garden and a shoot with .....Roll on Drums..... The James Rifle (a James Rifle? "I've got a James Rifle" "I own four James Rifles"...It's kinda catchy...!) I can see me calling that or some other name in honour of our Jimmy!
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    Dear all, and especially Jimmy / Bigmac97k. This year, October 10th, I will hit my 60th Birthday. That means 52 years of spring air rifle shooting behind me. So, something special for my Birthday is in order. And so..... Today I have decided to take a bull by its horns and take a stance for myself with what may now be the only air rifle I will ever buy. (Unless something sheer beautiful and utterly amazing comes along). I HAVE ORDERED AN AIR ARMS PRO SPORT .22 RIFLE IN WALNUT.....BRAND NEW! £555.from MGR Guns in Woodhall Spa. It arrives here this week. It's got to be do
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    What a cracking read! Well done, well shot and well written Mark . Your dog Kaiser looks a champion! Beautiful dog to watch at his work. I love to be out for decoying woodpigeon when the corn and barley starts coming through and especially at the end of harvest time. One of my very favourite times of the shooting year. A dog like him would make a wonderful companion to be out all day till nightfall with. As a simple chef, I love a simple breakfast my dad used to make after a dawn/first light shooting session. A couple of rabbit legs and woodpigeon breast, rolled in a little flour and
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    Gentlemen all. Greetings. After what has been an airgunner's oddysey with trying to get my Daystate Regal performing as a rifle should ( new Airtech regulator, cropped barrel and all) I found the next problem to solve was a puzzling lack of hard-hitting performance from the rifle's preferred 8.4 grain AA field. These penetrate well enough but are lightweight - in the hunting field there was no real hard hitting knock-down performance from the rifle which now chronos out at a healthy 11.5 FPE with the Airtech regulator I had Carl there make and fitted for it last year. Unless you are hitti
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    Welcome back here old pal! As I told you on the phone Andy, Carl at Airtech is notoriously bad at customer communications but he's a bloody marvel with PCP regulators and an encyclopaedic knowledge of pneumatic systems for air rifles. But looks like sound advice from the lads here, eh?!
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    Hi Mitch. As I'v said times before, on the subjest of FAC air,, my approach to having an on-licence air rifle is purely the advantage of pellet velocity of shot over normal air gun ranges. An almost instantaneous hit gives even the wary-est rabbit little time to bolt away at the sound of the action being fired. The further you are from your target, the more chance it has of hearing the alarm of the shot being fired and bolting for cover. I originally went the FAC route to hit mink hard from ranges of about 20 to 30 metres or so. These are incredibly aware and switched-on, nervously twi
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    DUH!!! Carl!
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