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  1. pianoman
    Blimey Chris! What went wrong with the seven Regals you had?
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    Aww you dear guys....Thank you, all of you, for such kind compliments about what I'm about. I always wanted to be an artist painting aircraft and ships right from when I was a very young lad but, I had piano lessons foisted on me as well. My dad was a brilliant painist and it rubbed off on me and my two younger brothers, who are themselves professional musicians. Music is an equally big part of my life as well as art. Hence the "Pianoman" handle I'm very lucky I can earn my living from doing what I love to do. It's taken a lifetime to be able to get there but, here I am, painting aircraft a
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    I don't wish to offend anyone here. But... After reading how this chap regards everything he's tried as crap, this sounds like a case of lack of patience to learn to shoot properly. unwilling to make mistakes and see them as part ol the experience of shooting and improving on personal shooting discipline. A knowledge of how to cure scopecreep is easy when you use a decent set of mounts with an arrester bar to do that job for you. Scope Cant is a matter for careful alignment of the scope vertically and horrizontally to the rifle's action. Accuracy lies in a carefully practiced hold technique
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    Hi Mitch. I can only add that, after some hair-pulling frustrations with the .177 Regal I have, I now have it pretty well sussed-out where its sweet spot lies and I fill the rifle to about 170 bar pressure which returns 11.3 ft/lbs energy. Any more and it just doesn't work so well. It's going to XTX Air for a proper regulator which it really needs, as soon as funds permit. With that on board, it will be an absolutely fantastic rifle. It is an incredibly accurate rifle no question and it has already provided me with some fantastic bags of rabbits which, I have to conceed, I could not achieve
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    Why were there never any girls around like this when I was 25 ?????
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    What a gorgeous stock! Beautiful look to your HW97 now Mitch. All the very best for your shooting with it Simon
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    Great memories here Gentlemen. The things we knew that would never be allowed today! My dad first took me shooting when I was about 8 years old. I well remember seeing all manner of air rifles and shotguns in my mum's Great Universal catologues. I had an aunt who was living in Australia and she sent me my cousin's Webley .22 junior air rifle through the post. It packed a hell of a wallop and could knock down a rabbit very well. It was possibly way over 12 ft/lbs power but nobody seemed to care about that, or the fact that you could wander about the village and the lanes with an uncased shotgu
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    I had one years ago and it didn't last the summer. Got it from a fishing tackle shop. The seat material stitching is weak and tears apart eventually....Before the seat-frame tubes break! Fine if you happen to be about 5ft tall and weigh 8 stone!
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    That sounds absolutely delicious Mark Blimey! This is all making me famished. Sounds really wonderful Mike. Cheers gentlemen Simon
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    Great to see an HW80 being properly cared for and set up. Mine is a full-length .22 FAC on my ticket and has the same silencer as this one. Makes it a long rifle but, a beautiful one to shoot with. This rifle is a credit to you Andy, I like the stock too. Many yeas of happy shooting with it! All the best. Simon
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    I remember coming home with my dad from dawn shooting trips in the school holidays. He'd paunch the rabbits for mum to make a stew later for dinner but, he made what he called a Hunter's Breakfast, where he used to skin some of the thighs and roll them in flour like chicken drumsticks and fry them in bacon fat. Serve up with fried eggs, bacon, black pud, tomatoes and field mushrooms, with thick toast from mum's home-baked bread. Cuppa tea! Beautiful breakfast that!
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    I absolutely agree with you Charlie caller there are far more important issues facing us here, but the topic of this post called for an opinion on the fate of Cecil the lion, and that's what has been rendered be it for, against, or just don't give a f**k. Opinion is a personal value and deserves to be heard whether we agree with it or not. "I may not agree with what you say, but, I defend to the death, your right to say it" is my motto. But, paki sex gangs were/are a matter for a police force that frankly, was/is too bloody spineless and hide-bound with politically correct fears of bei
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    There are untold numbers of rabbits, millions of them in this country and billions throughout the world; and we go out and shoot them because.... A. We legally can. B. They can decimate crops if left unchecked. C. They make a very cheap, tasty meal D. Mixy is a bloody cruel disease and no animal should suffer like this. Even if it is classed as a pest. E. They reproduce in high numbers and replenish their numbers constantly. Compare and contrast this with the fact that, 20 years ago there were over 70,000 Lions in the African continent. Today there are fewer than 25 thousand. And the n
  14. pianoman
    I can only echo the views above.
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    Welcome to the Forum here For £500 you'll get a superb spring rifle that'll do all you want and more. You won't get much in the way of a PCP for that amouint unless you go second hand. The best thing to do is like Neil says and visit a club and have a chat with the members and see what they are using. They'll let you have a shot or two and tell you all you need to know for now. If you see a rifle or two you like the look of and want to know more about it, just ask here.
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    That would be nice if your pension allowed you the time to go shooting whenever the fancy took you Mitch. For me it's going to be work on as much as I can and shoot when I can get time out for an evening or dawn hunt. I have an RAF pension coming in when I'm 65 but, that isn't going to keep me in lavish times of ease. Still, mustn't grumble with what I do have. I'm a luckier bloke than some, not as much as others and that's it. I'm genuinely thinking my Regal will be a lovely rifle to own when I get it regulated and serviced by Darren at XTXAir! Cheers mate. Simon
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    .303 Wolverine is something else but, as far as lawfully being allowed to shoot with one on UK land under UK firearms laws the real answer to all these points raised, lies with what the Police say is legally possible or not. Does anyone here shoot with one or, know of someone who does with the blessing of the Law? I know they tend to look kinder on applications for an FAC air rifle but a .303 job might be a bigger ask! A 30-40 ft/lb 22 air rifle will certainly be enough at 30 yards or so, but how often do you get that close to a fox to make it worthwhile? Not to mention whether or not it i
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    Mink, Rat, Rabbit, Crow, Jackdaw, Jay, Ferral pigeon, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Squirrel. We have enough vermin as it is to shoot as such surely? I don't honestly know if it's actually illegal to shoot a fox with an air rifle but there is certainly a moral limit to this question? Certainly the RSPCA will have a case of animal cruelty against this as, there can be no solid evidence of a clean humane kill with every shot from an air rifle and, in any case you would have to get close to be effective and that's not likely to happen very much. Seriously, if you can get a firearms licence from the p
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    Are you filling your rifle from an air tank? It's possibly due to lower fill pressure in the tank as it reduces, it shows a reduction on your rifle's air guage. It happens with my Daystate Regal guage.
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    A 21.5 ft/lbs HW80 is what I have legally at my disposal and I use it like any normal air rifle. The reason for it being in my armoury is, it is perfect for hunting Mink which fidget and move like hell and I was missing more shots on them with sub 12 ft/lb rifles. It is not so wise for barn shooting ferral pigeons. The pellet will go right through certain types of prefabricated roof panels and knock a chunk out of wooden beams. But my Regal is perfect for that job. However... At 10.3 ft/lbs with my Daystate Regal, I can clearly see the pellet arc into the target in the scope I zero at, at
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    That's fine man, but I've clearly shown 9.7 is enough. 10 ft/lbs is enough for shooting game. What is it that extra 1 ft/lb does then v'man? Assuming you like yours around 11 of course. It doesn't give you any further distance within normal ranges. It'll kill with ease. Reading my post back, it's sounds like an debate starter, it's not really as you right say imo at the end. I think, by my experience Rez, it's not so much a power issue but the actual speed at which the pellet reaches a rabbit at reasonable hunting distance. There's enough lethal muzzle-energy in a pellet fired from
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    Y'know Mitch I was out at dawn this morning with the Regal and it didn't miss a beat. Eight rabbits with eight shots some over 40 yards distant -and one of those was from a standing position. This is a genuinely superb rifle. I'm absolutely certain, this is a genuine supergun. I take back what I said against it before. It's not the Regal that's at fault, it's the way it's being made. For the £800 price tag it should have a far better regulator than it's got here. It just needs a proper heart. Just a more efficient regulator to make more efficient use of the air in the cylinder. On your
  23. pianoman
    Hi Lewis. It would help the guys give you better answers if you let us know what, exactly, is the make and model type of air rifle and scope you are shooting with. Simon
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    As a basic starting point. For .177 calibre zero at 40 yards on about 7 mag or what you are able to comfortably see through your reticle at. and try your scope's zoom settings from there to see if it shifts POI off the crosshair. For .22 calbre zero at 30 yards for same test. You should focus your scope so that, the image of the target is sharply focused at your desired range distance, with the reticle focused in sharp superimposure over the target image. You should be able to shoulder the rifle and come on aim with reticle and scope composing the sightpicture clearly to your eye in one
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    Thanks zandy01 and Mitch for the links to XTXAir. Not quite as dear as I anticipated (I thought 250-300 quid.) I like the look of this fellow's workmanship. Definitely the way to go. Thanks again Gentlemen. Simon.
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