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  1. Just read Mac's post. Well it's good news and congratulations on your promotion Daz. Bit rough you have to give up on your hobby for it. But all the best fella.
  2. :icon_eek: Shocked to hear this Daz. You were coming on so well with your shooting mate. Hope this is not because of troubles of some sort??
  3. What's a RAW Jamie....? I ask at risk of some blindingly obvious answer...! I note hes a left handed shot too,. And his son .. Edited to add. The stock on the HW77 in the article is the Mk.I early version I have on my HW97K. It makes a light and really pleasingly compact feel to this rifle and it makes for an amazingly accurate shooting system to have. With a 40mm Hawke Panorama on board, it is old school, basic and unsophisticated air rifle shooting but, my God it is good to get out and enjoy a bit of old fashioned rabbit shooting with it. Those little Hawke Panorama scopes
  4. Thanks for posting this up Pesky Always nice to find something to read about my beloved '77. Owning both an incredible HW77 .22 and HW97K .177 I'm really well and truly sorted for any kind of air rifle shooting I would reasonably want to do. Or ever likely to ATB. Simon
  5. It's not that you actually need an HW80 .22 in your shooting life Rez. It's just nice to have a collection going and switching from one rifle to another, from session to session..Some people collect classic cars (lucky things!) I know some who collect classic WW2 fighter aircraft (Even luckier things!) !! If I had the money to spare I'd collect air rifles. ""Not to have, is not to know"" Well, that's the excuse I always use. I think we are seldom content with just one rifle, no matter how good it is in our hands. It's a hopeless question to ask ""If you had to have only one..." MAC.
  6. An HW80 Jamie? Another airgun legend and not for nothing either! It's a man sized rabbit stopper of a break barrel. Honestly, the HW80 was the best break barrel spring rifle for decades from day 1 and still holds its own with whatever Johnnie-Come-Lately is out there now. I had one of the first HW80s to reach the shops here and it turned me into a devoted spring rifle shooting man, more than any air rifle I had before. Including a lovely Feinwerkbau Sport .22 I had at the same time. And it was the first dedicated left handed stock rifle I had so, that was a bonus. It got me shooting proper
  7. Aww I have you mixed up with another chap here Jonnie. Sorry fella I seem to be getting a little senile these days!
  8. Definitely you are right there random You can hit a group so tight you think you've missed but it is certainly possible with a really top line spring rifle from the likes of Air Arms and Weihrauch, Walther and Diana I have a shooting pal who uses a Diana 52 in .177 FAC and he can hit a really tight group with it. . I once read years ago of how the Weihrauch HW77 "had the potential to outshoot the man whose shoulder it rests upon". So after I finally get the one I have, I set out to find the very best pellet regardless and put it to the test. I found it grouped perfectly with both H&
  9. I answered that Mike Not to mention the shorter barrel length and the silencer/latch-up of the 97K Mike. But if you mean the internal finish? It wasn't perfect but not as bad as some have been reportedly found. The spring was poorly cut as usual! But it was all further improved and enhanced by Andy's workmanship in fitting the Sandwell Field Sports tuning kit and polishing and honing skills. He's made a fabulous job of all my spring rifles. Especially my HW77. That is all-original Weihrauch internals, spring and all and yet, he's turned it into a near recoiless supergun! He told me it
  10. Not to mention the shorter barrel length and the silencer/latch-up of the 97K Mike. But if you mean the internal finish? It wasn't perfect but not as bad as some have been reportedly found. The spring was poorly cut as usual! But it was all further improved and enhanced by Andy's workmanship in fitting the Sandwell Field Sports tuning kit and polishing and honing skills. He's made a fabulous job of all my spring rifles. Especially my HW77. That is all-original Weihrauch internals, spring and all and yet, he's turned it into a near recoiless supergun! He told me it was all perfect internally an
  11. You get an absolutly brilliant handling rifle that looks fabulous and shoots like a dream! First off let me say, my HW77 .22 is a genuine supergun. It is phenominally accurate and such is its performance in precision accurate hunting, I can only say that the HW77 per se, is the finest underlever spring air rifle you can still buy! Hands down. I'm amazed there are so few here who have even considered this rifle when looking at other spring guns. But that's another debate. I already own a .177 HW97K which is fitted in a Mk.I HW77 stock that was very kindly given to me by one of the memb
  12. BSA Goldstar! What a fabulous rifle for a young lady shooter to have. That is one of the last great rifles BSA spring rifles made as a home-grown British gunmaker. It is really very encouraging to read about the children of members here picking up where their dads and grandads are and have been in shooting sports. I've spent some magic hours with a my friend AndyFR1968 here and taking his two boys out to shoot with us and training them up to shoot as well as possible. They are growing up fast and enjoy their own shooting days and nights out now. Long may it be so and continue Jon, she
  13. Welcome Jonjon79 And to your daughter too if she happens along! Great to read how your daughter is gaining a healthy respect for game and the food she eats through your shooting. Very few of here are pro shooters and pest controllers. But there are chaps who are. There are a lot of really sound chaps who know an encyclopedia of shooting experience between them. Always good to read things like this when the youngsters are involved in dad's sport. Even if they don't do any shooting. ....Yet! Perhaps one day, she'll pick up your rifle and the bug will bite.... All the best Jon a
  14. Then WhiteN, it sounds to me like you are being asked questions by people who have no bloody real idea what they are questioning you about. And are really being overly-concerned about the welbeing of birds and whatever else as cuddly fluffy things that they don't really want shooting, given a choice, but have to! The fact you are employed by a nationally established pest control company is completely lost on them as a disrespectful regard of your professional competences to be there in the first place. If I was asked that one, I'd tell them I don't question their competence to do th
  15. abarrett it's alright chap, apology accepted. I really do derive a great deal of satisfaction from a really good shot well taken resulting in a clean and painless death for the small animal or bird I have to eradicate. I'm not there to give em a cuddle! . I just don't revel in the act of killing something for its own sake. But there is as you say, that definite satisfaction when you are on top form with your rifle. As you well know, the trouble with a lot of farmers is, where you or I or, anyone else here sees one rabbit, they see hundreds! So, I keep my shoot by keeping the numbers d
  16. Do these jobs require professional pest controller's qualifications WhiteN? Just forking out £170.+VAT seems a bit less qualification and more one-day fun shooting course with a 'stifficate at the end of it. Only to say you've attended a course in safe handling and shooting of an air rifle. Nobody's trying to take the piss out of you here laddie. But neither does anyone want to see someone else doing it to you either! Edited to add. What exactly, is the certificate these jobs require? Professional pest-controlling jobs will require more than something to say you can be trusted with a
  17. I wouldn't have written what I did if I didn't mean it abarrett. I can safely take it then for you, the countryside is really little other but a killing ground and you are only there to shoot everything you can see. I had a lovely walk out in some glorious countryside this Good Friday afternoon and tonight, bagged 8 rabbits and a couple of woodies with my Weihrach HW77 .22 spring rifle ( a proper rifle) and had a couple of pints with the farmer at a lovely old pub afterwards. Time to pack it in, by your use of the word jack? No, I really don't think so, not for a long while yet. As fo
  18. FACT No.1. There are currently, something like 3 million unlicensed, legal limit air rifles in UK ownership. FACT No.2. That represents a huge, untapped financially advantageaous, untaxed sector of the sporting leisure market. FACT No.3. The UK economy is in a terrible state and Osborne is blundering about looking for taxes to be levied.. Ergo...THERE HAS TO BE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE, WORKING OUT A WAY TO CAPITALISE AND MAKE MONEY OUT OF THAT LOT. Certificated courses and other bullshit are just the first example. Licensing will follow. You can be sure it will, one day. I have n
  19. So sorry to hear of your loss Mitch. My condolences dear fellow. For me it's not the kill that gets me out but the moments of solitude in beautiful country, fresh air and the things you see when you are still and quiet. I've had deer come within yards away. Badgers out and about. I found one fast asleep in afternoon sunshine once. He was just snoozing away peacefully just under a bush at the side of a Hawthorn hedgerow. He had a lovely stripe over his head. It's marvelous to see things like that when you are out. And it's the sun setting on the fields and forest, the scents and smells of
  20. Thats the difference, you hardly ever hear anyone reward a company when they get a good working product ( because thats how it should be, working that is) but fluck do you here when someone doesnt get a working one for what ever reason. Human nature I'm afraid Durham John. But nice to read Rake loves his Daystate Mk.2 is. For myself I must admit I almost broke down in tears when I found my brand new, out-of-the-box Regal was shooting; with such low power as you could visibly see the pellet wheezing its way to the target. The bolt was so stiff I had a blistered palm trying to
  21. I do actually Mark Dead pigeons well set-up as decoys can lure rabbits out if you make them appear to feed or at least stand naturally with no sense of threat from humans in respect of the prevailing winds and breezes. Static ambush and hide shooting is my absolute favourite MO when I'm out on my permissions. It's an interesting thread here Gentlemen but really, are we just trying a little too hard, filling our heads with information for it's own sake? Or am I a died-in -the-wool sort of chap who really, has used his experience to boil down his knowledge to exactly what he knows will put
  22. £170+VAT for a course you could google most of the info for free and a certificate for safe use of an air rifle? You could buy a useful scope for that money. I can only say I agree entirely with Moxy's assessment. Hello Mr Farmer sir, I wonder if I can ask your permission to control the rabbit pest problems you have. I am a pest controller with an air rifle. I have a certificate of competance. Look. Aye, right then. Have you done much shootin' afoor like? Errr No sir. But I've done a course and I have that certificate. I charge very reasonable rates. THA WHAT?!! I
  23. Thanks very much for what you have shown here peskywabbits. It looks like a beech wood stock version you have here? The main thing is, it shows that the roll-over comb can be reduced to a smooth, even comb that will allow a lefty like me to shoot this rifle without compromising handling. and because the comb is lower, I should be able fit a smaller, lightweight scope which is a nice bonus. This is very encouraging to buy a Prosport and set to work on the woodwork. Thank you once again Pesky! All the best. Simon.
  24. Looks and stying possibly Rez. There will be some advances in the efficiency of air cylinders. Perhaps there will be a smaller cylinder than cutrrently seen, Narrow enough to be completely hidden from view but with no loss of capaicity to provide -100 full-power shots. Spartan ISP rifles are stunnungly beautiful hand-built air rifles with classic full-bore sporter looks. The cylinder is completely hidden from view and the result is a sleek, graceful bolt action rifle. The walnut for their stocks is absolutely beautiful and these rifles are serious money. But that could be where things wi
  25. British Webleys and BSA were the staple air rifle makers that dominated the UK airgun market for decades and between them, they made some beautiful, if a little underpowered, rifles for medium range hunting. But the Germans were the masters of the art when it came to precision accurate hunting air rifles. The first time I saw a seriosly accurate air rifle take the field was from a German maker called ORIGINAL. I had their flagship hunter in the mid/late 1970s The Original 45 ,22 break-barrel. It had a beautiful sporter look and was a very accurate shooter with a variety of ammo. I don't kn
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