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  1. pianoman
    More like he choked on all the problems they are having. Shame as some of the day states " look " at nice rifle but the workings leave a lot to be desired Somehow, I don't think we'll be hearing from that fellow again for these reasons and more above. There must be a great bloody wall of complaints and disatisfied customers ready to chuck their rifles back at Daystate. So the reality is, I have an £800 air rifle that only performs at its best when there's about half a cylinder of air left and NOBODY can do a thing to improve it, as it stands, without buying another outside-source reg
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    You learn something new every day with these bloody things. I'm glad, in a way to see this Regal is symptomatic of unregulated systems, not so for the fact that I'm starting to wonder where exactly, the £800 price tag can be justified if this is an unregulated rifle. You'd think, for this level price-point a better-than-normal regulator would come as standard. Once again in British business, it's something for nothing or as near as. Same old British Leyland load of crap. I'm not giving up on it though. Thanks Mitch for the heads-up on XTXair regulators for the Regal. I'll throw a bit more ca
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    Gentlemen. Well, today is a day of revelations. Let me start by saying I'm no way a techiie on PCP air rifles. I don't have a clue of how they work as compared to a spring rifle. I took my Daystate Regal for a chrono test at MGR GUNS of WOODHALL SPA, LINCS. Not far from my house. It began when I filled my REGAL with a new charge of air from a newly filled tank today. As the air pressure decreases with use in the tank, so I notice the fill-bar pressure in the rifle decreaes on the guage in the stock forend.. Simple enough. At around 150-160 bar pressure the rifle delivers a sweet, 11
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    You don't know what you've been missing Mitch. I love being up at dawn just before sunrise for a hunting trip to the permissions, like I'm about to do now. The fresh smells of wild plants, flowers and herbs in the hedgerows and fields and the mists and dew are really beautiful to me. And you see the most amazing wildlife about. Best of luck when you go. Simon
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    There are times on any shooting foray into the fields when a Hamlet Cigar would come in very handy... But well done on your more successful shots! Really enjoyed it. Simon
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    For £1,000 expenditure on a PCP rifle and kit I would agree with the choice of an HW100. Buy a Daystate HUNTSMAN REGAL and, unfortunately, chances are you will have to spend a bit of extra money with an independant gunsmith to tune it to full power and sort out a few loose-fitting bits like the barrel sleeve from rotating a quarter turn everytime you want to change your silencer, chrono-check it and plug the odd leak. If you do that, you end up with a really fine rifle. My Regal is proving a really superb performance hunter -now I've paid someone for all that work to finish off Daystate's
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    That's what makes so annoying bernie67. Daystate have a brilliantly good rifle here with their Regal. I've pulled off some great evening's rabbit shooting with mine this summer. But the company are making a bollocks of a job passing them out with flimsy fit of barrel sleeves, bolt issues and poor under-power performance. It wouldn't take anything from them to do the job right in the first place. As it is, you almost have to expect to pay for servicing and tuning one youirself if you really wamt one from new. Only the British can project-manage with that kind of incompetence. A great pr
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    Welcome to the Forum. As with other good advices here. It's also highly unlikely you'll get permission to carry and shoot your air rifle in the sort of landscape in the photo you provided. There is no such thing as un-owned remote land no matter how remote it may appear to be. Somebody or groups of bodies, trusts and commissions owns it or has control and management of it. Something like The National Trust, Scottish Wildlife Trust. National Parks commissions, The Forestry Commission, The Queen's Highland Estates and God knows who else will be responisble for it. It will likely have
  9. pianoman
    He doesn't like hawke scopes :no: :no: :laugh: In truth if this Wolverine is all it's cracked up to be, a supergun like this deserves something special to sight it with. A SCHMIDT & BENDER or ZIESS 3-9X50 AO is of the quality I'd be looking at. If you think it's a very expensive scope-option, then, think of adding-up ALL the cheaper scopes you will never need to buy again. Edit to add. That said, I cannot fault the little HAWKE PANORAMA 4-12X40 EV IR scope I have on my Daystate Regal .177 rifle at the moment. Keeps me going till it's too dark to see anyway. £!20 quid I
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    There isn't a top hat on this HW77 jonnie. An HW factory standard nylon spring guide and 'parachute flare' type piston seal. It was already a beautifully built HW77 from the factory before it received the TLC it took to make it a really outstandingly special rifle. Thanks for asking mate, I have a sneaky feeling you are tempted to buy one for yourself. DO IT! You'll be glad you did. I have yet to hear from anyone that genuinely regretted buying one. Best regards. Simon
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    This one was advertised last year mate http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/833/6f6d.jpg £2450 !! mind it had a leupold scope with it lol THAT'S IT!! That's the one I'm talking about. What a true, beautiful stunner of an air rifle. One day, I'm going to own one of these. Maybe two! Thanks for posting these up for me Gentlemen! Simon
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    I'm a military Aviation and Naval artist and illustrator and I own my own publishing business. My work covers all kinds of aviation and warship paintings for books, greetings cards, prints, mugs film and tv productions, historical aircraft museums, aircraft owners, airlines, air forces. In fact, just anyone who loves an oil painting on canvas of a fighter or bomber or warship on the wall. Especially Second World War air combat. I have to admit I have a particular liking for the DIANA 54 AIRKING too. Diana 52 sidelever is a beauty too. One rifle I cannot find much about was a very beautif
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    I love all my rifles but, my Weihrauch HW77 .22 is just a genuine treasure, PCP-level accuracy, consistent power, smooth and slick to cock, load and trigger fine-set light and virtually recoiless. It is match-accurate with H&N FTT 5.53mm headsize pellets. I zero it at 35 metres and it puts pellet on top of pellet all day long. It has won competition prizes and claimed thousands of vermin over the years for me What's more, for all you tuners and customizers..... It's ALL totally original Weihrach inside. And nothing else. No Tony Wall tuning gubbins or anyone elses. Just standard
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    Best scopes for air rifles I've ever had are; BUSHNELL SCOPECHIEF 4-14X50 AO 30/30 RETICLE with sunshade. Currently used on HW77 .22. Utterly dependable, stays right on the money all day and night and never let's me down. It has outlasted all other scopes on my air rifles over the last 15 years I've owned it. SIMMONS WHITETAIL CLASSIC 4.5-14 x 40mm SUPERNIGHTVIEW. AO 30/30 DUPLEX RETICLE. The only scope that has, until I bought the Nikon Fieldmaster, withstood the crack recoil from my FAC HW80 where it has sat since rifle was new 18 years ago NIKON FIELDMASTER 6-18X40 with side-focus
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    Come on now Simon we no the posh case is yours and i bet its pink atvbmac Aww mate, you got me!!!!
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    GUNSAFE CONTAINING HW80 .22 FAC. TINS OF AMMO. HW77 .22 HW97K .177 AIR ARMS TX200HC .177 DAYSTATE HUNTSMAN REGAL .177 DAYSTATE HUNTSMAN CLASSIC .177 (HELEN'S) TOOLBOX OF SCREWDRIVERS, GUN OILS. STOCK OIL ETC. INDIVIDUAL GUNSLIPS FOR EACH RIFLE. POSH DAYSTATE HARD-CASE FOR HELEN'S HUNTSMAN CLASSIC. DIVER'S TANK OF AIR FOR PCP'S THREE DAYSTATE MAGAZINES FOR PCPS 7 SCOPES CURRENTLY USED. BUSHNELL, SIMMONS, NIKON. HAWKE. 3 SUNSHADES. SHELF-FULLS OF PELLET TINS FOR ABOVE GUNS. TWO DPM CAMMO SHOOTING JACKETS SWEDISH ARMY PARKA. GERMAN ARMY FLECKTARN PA
  17. pianoman
    Most of this is the shooter ,not cleaning barrels or wrong pellets!! Or both....
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    Hi there Andy. To be sure. I'm using AIR ARMS FIELD .177 in the 4.51mm headsize. These are just the best for my Regal I've found so far. Absolute one-on-top-of-another one hole accurate at 40-metres zero. That pretty well enables me a killing shot on a rabbit at all ranges within reasonable bounds. All the best with your Regal Andy. Simon
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    You are not making a mistake with .22 as long as you are aware it has a more pronounced trajectory curve in flight to the target than the faster, thus flatter-flying .177. At a rabbit's head at 40 yards, from a zero of 25 yards you are looking at about 1.5 to 2 inches of holdover, approximately. With .177 at the same parameters you only need place the crosshair on the top of its skull to make a fatal brain shot. That's why I zero my .22 rifles at 30 metres (not yards) as I find this has reduced the amount of holdover I would normally use from 25 metres. It also makes shots out to 50-p
  20. pianoman
    Heyo there Mac. When things don't work out, there's always a reason and it usualy starts with getting used to a new rifle and its little foibles and idiosyncrasies....Including, as I have found to my teeth-gnashing frustration on past occasions, a tendancy with some rifles to group superbly well and tightly with a certain pellet brand/headsize...only to find it goes and scatters the bloody things all over the place AFTER you've spent about 50-60 quid on 5 bloody tins! I was ready for chucking away my Daystate Regal until I got it tuned and serviced and found, at last, the optimum pellet
  21. pianoman
    I zero my .177 rifles at 35 metres. I find that does pretty well for all my shooting. Very similar to Mark's findings with his I think. 40 yards is THE optimum range distance for .177. 30 yards Optimum for .22. I zero at 30 metres for this calibre which puts everything within reasonable killing ranges.
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    How about it's a case of BOTH rifle and scope with the right pellet....Oh and a decently improving shooter who's starting to "gel" with it all alright? Eh, VWman?! Give yourself a bit of credit here. Well done! Simon
  23. pianoman
    Thing is Mitch, if it's bad it should be called out.. If it's good it should be praised. There's nothing wrong with the Regal once you get it serviced and tuned properly. But you currently need an outside gunsmith to do it and, you should not have to pay for that after-market work with a rifle costing this much money, becdause the service and quality control people at Daystate are not doing what they should at the production and finishing stages. And I totally agree with you about the finish. I want to see rich, deep, lustrous blueing to contrast with the walnut Marinelli stocks. Not that sem
  24. pianoman
    I don't want to start a Daystate bashing thread random. I really am trying to speak up for what is proving a great rifle to own and shoot with. But the company has to really pull its socks up if it wants to stay in business. You should not have to spend time and money finishing off the job for them. But if you do, at least you get a top notch rifle working properly for you. It's the company that's the problem. Not the product. I waited over two months for my Regal to be repaired; until I sent an email to Daystate's customer service dept. That same day, they emailed back to say the rifle i
  25. pianoman
    Gentlemen. As we all well know, by now, Daystate have come in for a lot of critical schtick about their HUNTSMAN REGAL almost since it came out on the market. Apart from complaints about issues with loose barrel shrouds and stiff bolts, in almost every case it's been found to be leaving the factory woefully underpowered. These complaints are not without justification. A rifle costing the best part of £800 new in the box should not be performing way less than a Turkish Hatstand springer. Add a couple of hundred quid or so for a scope and an effective silencer (the A&M mod. I have is ama
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