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Dear Mac, hi mate. I've currently fitted my HW77 to the same HW97K Stock in your pic above Mac. I found it has no problems for left hand shooting as it is from the factory. The HW77 .22 full length is my absolute favourite rifle. The accuracy is nothing short of incredible. She's a hefty rifle but not unmanageable and for a long day shooting from a hide or ambush position it is in a league of her own. Honestly, I think this is the best spring rifle I have ever owned. And I've had a lot in my time. Ironically, I also have my HW97K in an early Mk.1 HW77 stock..and the accuracy is aga
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Thanks very much for these pics of your Prosport Peskywabbits. I can see the cheek weld has a flow-line into the grip or "wrist" that can be sanded down and smoothed away to make a left hand palm-swell. But would you kindly show more pics of how the left side of the butt-stock has been filed and smoothed away please? I'm now seriously contemplating buying a Prosport and modifying the stock, if it can be filed down to make a comfortable left-cheek rest I can shoot comfortably with. Another benefit of removing the roll-over and lowering the comb of the butt-stock is that I can maximise a sm
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I've not heard anything bad or off-putting about Stoeger rifles. Can you adjust the trigger-pull? Handling? You tell us Jok when you get back from shooting with it
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I've shot with a few Prosports when the opportunity arose and I think it's one of the very best air rifles I have ever encountered. I love it's handling and balance. It's got lovely full-bore classic looks, the walnut used is beautiful and the fluted forend is a lovely touch of classic stockmaking. Even though the stocks were dished for right-cheek weld, I was hitting some decent range spinners and knock-down targets and the overall experience of shooting it was very satisfying indeed. Why the bloody hell is this rifle not available as a left hand version is beyond my comprehension. Air Ar
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I'm definitely old school for Simmons Whitetail Classic scopes with the granite finish and 30/30 reticle. Hawke scopes are lovely on PCPs I've got a nice Sidewinder sitting on my Regal at the moment. But, my HW80 FAC .22s recoil will wreck any one of them in a single zeroing session. I just couldn't risk a decent Hawke on this 21 ft/lb spring rifle. Not so my old Simmons Whitetail 3/5-14x40 that has been its sighting system since day one brand new. I can zero that out to 30 metres and shoot with a little instinctively-judged holdover to some very decent long ranges. And it never loses zero
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On the subject of left-handed shooting Rez. Left handed TX200 and TX200HC are available in dedicated left hand versions with the loading ports on the left. But you are right about paying more. It is a fact of a left-handed shooter's life that we pay on average, around 40% more for a left handed version of a rifle. Why so much? Does it cost more to reverse computer machining of stocks from a pattern stock model? Or is there more to it than that? It's really a mirror image of a right handed model after all? Weihrauch spring rifle actions are neutral for left or right handers so the sto
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It did have slight play which causes a rattle Andy. But at least, Daystate tightened that up when I sent the Regal back to them to put right. .And thus, there isn't the play in the shroud there was when the rifle was brand new. I think it's the barrel band too. I don't think it makes a precise enough fit around the shrouded barrel. A loose barrel shroud will not help that situation either. I still find the barrel shroud makes an annoying little rotation when I screw on/off the silencer I use on mine. But it's not making any loose-sounding rattles or anything to worry about there.
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Ii's just what these Huntsman Regals need Mitch. It'll mean not having to watch the pressure guage and all that faff and a better, predictable power and pellet trajectory. If Daystate did this in-house themselves as standard production fit for these rifles, they could absolutely rival anything out there for performance..
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Thanks very much for this Andy. All the best. Simon
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Carl sir, can you PM me your contact details and price/s for your regulator work, please? I have a Daystate Regal in .177 which, at a desired and consistant 11.6 Ft/lbs power like Andy's would make mine an absolutely beautiful hunting rifle. Thank you. With best regards. Simon
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DAZ 7 WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LADDIE?!! Hello there dear fellow! . It's wierd as I was only just thinking about you today and wondering why I haven't heard from you in ages. And here you are, back with a new gun. Did you sell the .25 rifle you had? I really enjoyed your hunting posts about using it at sub-12 power. it's great to see you back shooting again mate. That Panther looks really nicely set-up. Was the regulator it has, an after-market choice or factory built as part of the production rifle? Never heard anyone speak so low of the Airwolf as you do here. Daystate really have to sort
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I have three permissions. Two are farms but the third is the spacious grounds of a very large, very grand hotel with a lot of lawn and flower gardens, bounded by copses of trees where a lot of warrens are hidden away. These lawns and garden areas are being scoffed and dug-up by rabbits. There are rabbits out at all times of the day and a good dawn and dusk walk round the grounds produces a lot of bunnies in the bag. The only snag is you need to be aware of guests strolling about. But I've not had a problem with anyone objecting to the bunnies being bagged. Try asking the manager/owner if
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Just been outthis early evening for a couple of hours before nightfall with my .177 Regal and knocked down three rabbits and woodpigeon with it. Absolutely fantastic rifle as she is when you have the sweetspot and power-curve understood. Very interested to see how the Regal performs with a proper regulator fitted to it Andy!
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As with philpot's answer, you will need to clarify the legal position on this seriously. Golfers and Club Officials are not noted for being sage wise men of the laws that protect wildlife that happens to land or stray onto the greens and fairways. What if it turns out you cannot use an air rifle on them? There may be other methods which are only allowed to be used. A protected species is an absolute NO-NO! Unless, they are proven to be clearly the culprits in causing notable crop damage as pests. Does a Golf club's greenery come into the same catagory as food crops? You cannot simply roll
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I'm not familiar with this model of Daystate PCP so, I can't really comment in depth. But to be brutally honest, unless you really REALLY want this rifle, there are better-built PCP rifles out there for reasonable money. Huntsmans and Regals are found with build quality issues, unreliable magazines that fail after a short while. Loose-fitting barrel shrouds. And a whole 1=ft/lb power-curve are all issues experienced by myself and other fellows here. Silly little things that shouldn't be found on guns costing this sort of money. All the best. Simon
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Nice one Steg. At least 5 pellets in the same hole. If that's a picture of a multi-shot hole at decent hunting range, you've answered your own question. You've achieved a high standard of hold and trigger control you've reproduced identically as close as possible between shots, your rifle is superbly accurate and you are using the best possible pellet for its barrel. Superb shooting with superb kit and the very best pellet I'd say! Buy a dozen tins and enjoy your shooting with it all. You don't need anything more than you have here
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There it is Random but yes, nostaglia is a powerful thing in many things but, particularly so with shooting ans hunting with a an air rifle. Remember how good that Vulcan and Lightning was, how good it felt when you were out in the fresh air and the scent of the fields and you were taking rabbits and pigeons with your Webley rifle? because it was a quality rifle and you were on top form with it? It's like the times I've had with my guns from the past and the German Weihrauchs I now have. My HW80 .22 alone, is 17-18 years old and utterly irreplaceable for the memories invested in it. T
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I know Air Arms are going strongly Random. And I have their beautiful Mk.III TX200HC .177 still going strong here. but it was the memories I have of fine air rifles from Webley and BSA that lead me to name those two companies. Webley particularly made some beautiful quality air rifles. You got quality Beech stocks that were elegantly proportioned, at least to my eyes. White spacers, grip caps and the blueing was absolutely gorgeous. Really deep and lustrous. Webley Osprey, Stingray, Vulcan, Excel. Omega, Tomahawk and their FAC Patriot were all excellent spring rifles for their time. Their
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GOOD GOD THAT'S ASTONISHING CHARLIE CALLER. Twenty odd years between two Daystate rifles and both produce exactly a 1-ft/lb power curve at the same figure energy levels. Perhaps Daystate have long since cottoned onto the fact of sending out their air rifles with a potential for running illegally hot and play safe with low-power settings. That I can understand. But why they don't do the job right and fit an efficient regulator, that keeps the power consistantly and safely at reasonable energy output? It is just penny pinching for maximum profit, it would seem. It's a crying shame because
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Thanks darkdd81 A cautionary tale of experience. If Redbeck want to challenge me on this, I will happily meet them with my lawyers in court, with the rifle and its anti tamper seals stickers in place over the fixed-in-place components and the receipt for the £26,00 I was charged by their employee for an apparent service and chrono. And they can explain to the magistrates how it was possible for him to physically alter the power this rifle without opening it up or draining the cylinder-pressure level from full. The Regal I have is a great PCP air rifle. It is elegant, sweetly balanced in
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Let me tell you a story about my experience of the Regal and why I have kept it, why I love it and the kind of treatment from the industry I've had. Let me also just say I'm not a gunsmith techie type. When/if something needs doing on my guns I get my Pal Andy to sort them out and he's bloody brilliant with my springers. Not so knowledgeable about PCPs but, we can't all be clever at everything. So, I was all set to buy an HW100 with a Bavarian sporter stock in left hand version. Then i was told, this is not available as a left hand option. That put me off. Though I have to admire the way the
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:no: Ahhh..... Like that is it?..
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The Daystate .303 above is 100 ft lbs and 935 fps, so doesn't suffer that issue. There's little point to them in the UK though. Well if that what a 100 ft/lb .303 PCP rifle performs like, I am further baffled why anyone would want such a dismal piece of junk. It was so poor I was convinced he was wasting his time with a sub 12 ft/lb version. I might go look again...if I can ever be bothered, just to be sure. 100 ft/lbs is not that great for a .303 cal. round. I think it would need a lot more than that to make it effective??
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Come on then Mac...wotchergot?
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That about sums it up, I seen a you tube where a rat had time to jump out the way before the pellet got there Lol. Can anyone, ANYONE give me a solid, convincing reason that there is any merit or worthy value in buying a .303 calibre air rifle for use in the UK? I doubt you'll be allowed to shoot deer with one? Tell me if I'm wrong? Or can you shoot Muntjac with one? Just what is the point of a .303 calibre air rifle. We don't have dangerous wild boar or wild pigs roaming free in the woods here?? A .303 pellet needs a massive air charge in hundreds of FPE to make it effective at reasonabl
