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  1. pianoman
    I still say a well sorted and tuned HW77 is a world class underlever. The Prosport is certainly top drawer quality too. Both have accuracy in spades and more than the average shooter possesses. It's a case of which do you like the look of best. If they made the Prosport in Left Handed versions, I'd have one for its sheer fine classical looks alone. But, seriously, my HW77 .22 is the most accurate spring rifle I have ever owned. Way more than my last TX200 MkIII .22 ever was. It's consistant power and accurate shooting stability at my shoulder will match any PCP out there. No problem.
  2. pianoman
    If you have a permission where the rabbits are next to none, then it is a good idea, for your own shooting's sake, to let then recover in number and repopulate the environment. Then you have your sport back on and a pleased farmer sees what a good lad you are!
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    And yet, by further contrast Charlie caller, I have a busy permission, full of rabbits, that never had a single rabbit known to be on it till about three or four years ago when a few moved in and started breeding. I have a permission in West Yorkshire that was my father's. I learned my shooting with him there as a youngster and we shot tons of rabbits there every summer. I'd be lucky to see one or two in a month of day/evening shooing there now. Maybe they migrate from areas where their numbers get clobbered? I don't know.
  4. pianoman
    I have several great permissions here in Lincolnshire that are always full of rabbits. I've absolutely flattened the rabbit population on one of them and the other I shoot over when the farmer and his sons are not out with their rimfire rifles and shotguns until February. Already there are more rabbits coming back now. The farmers want them shot and it's either I do a good job or I will lose my permissions I've worked hard to keep numbers down.. The truth with me is, I really do not have a blood lust in me to kill everything nibbling above grass level, I don't like shooting rabbits to the
  5. pianoman
    In addition to above sound advices. And regardless of the specification of scope you have. 1.Set your current scope on its full magnification length. ( 9 X Mag). If you have an adjustable front focus ring try and get as clear a focused sightpicture as you can. 2.Focus your retiicle with the rear adjustable focus ring on the back of the eye-bell and occular lens. As you do this it is essential you concentrate on the image of your target distance and do not look directly at the reticle itself but, watch as it comes into sharp focus over the target/sightpicture. The ideal set-up for a
  6. pianoman
    Cheers Aaron. The main gripe, complaint No.1. seems to be one of these guns leaving the factory with a lack of power. Less than 9 ft/lbs it seems. Also a number of owners, like me, who got a report from Daystate's Chrono reading at 11.5 or so when, other chronographs were reading lower figures, which has been my experience. Airgun bbs has a fair bit of debate about pellet weights affecting FPE performance and accuracies of Chronographs there, with some of it descendiing into insults which are of no bloody use to anyone. To get my Regal shooting as it should, took no great effort. I'm
  7. pianoman
    You're welcome Steve. Have a look at the work of a fellow here called Johnbaz in a post where he has done a marvellous job in restoring a rusty old HW80 in this technical section and send him a PM about your rifle. He really knows his stuff when it comes to refurbishing and restoring Weihrauch HW80s of certain vintage. He'll be well placed to advise you of what you might need to do. Best wishes Steve. And looking forward to reading more posts about this rifle. Simon
  8. pianoman
    I do not wish to see you belittled or have the piss taken out of you laddie but, you've just blown any credible respect with this outburst couched in semi-literate, unpunctuated obscenity.... Take you own good advice about not having anything nice to say. If you want to go mooching about in a van in the wee hours of the night, shooting birds out of trees you will be arrested by the Police who will be tipped-off about some tit in a suspicious looking van, being seen driving up and down the lanes and byways shooting, on a road,, into trees. Use your loaf about how it looks to others.
  9. pianoman
    Oy, I live in Fenland, just leave us alone to our ways Yeah, it gets cold amd wet here most nights. this time of year an' all.
  10. pianoman
    Hi Aaron. Good to see you here mate. Well it's good to hear from a happily satisfied Daystate customer at last! The trouble here is the only time when something gets really talked about, is when things are not going right. Truly, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. But sometimes I wonder, how many complaints are actually genuine ones. But if there are other owners as happy to comment on how well their Daystate rifle is performing, and there must be; they should come forward and say so, too. If only to get some measure of balance. Well done and thanks for speaking up Simo
  11. pianoman
    Hello there Copperpot and welcome to the forum. First off well done on your purchase. You have a beauty of an HW80 here. There's no set price for servicing and reblueing. Different gunsmiths will charge different prices. Nobody can tell from your photos what issues internally there may be to put right. But spares for HW80s are not all that dear and they are plentiful. But from what you've got here, any reasonable service cost is worth the money spent. You've got a brilliant bargain really for the money it cost you. And as you say it cocks and shoots fine, chances are you need not worr
  12. pianoman
    This is the current situation as I see it. A ONE HOLE 5p GROUP AT 40 METRES IS EXCELLENT SHOOTING WITH AN EXCELLENT AIR RIFLE,. SPRING OR PCP IT MATTERS NOT. BOTH TYPES CAN DO THIS EASILY. So. If you buy an 11.5 ft/lbs spring air rifle for £250-£550 and hit a one hole pellet group at 40 metres with 10 shots, you will humanely kill any rabbit or other small vermin at reasonable range that pops out before you. You can accomplish all this with a new or second hand Weihrauch or Air Arms spring rifle at these prices. Even a well-fettled SMK copy can achieve this sort of accuracy. W
  13. pianoman
    Get a second or third hand HW80, HW97 or HW77 in complete but really poor external condition. What lies under all that neglect will amaze you!
  14. pianoman
    Also checking against scope-cant . If your scope reticle is not truly vertical on your rifle's action, you will find you can zero the barrel and scope nicely at one set-range but, the shots will then, hit out of zero and miss at greater distances.
  15. pianoman
    Thank you gentlemen. I want to make my observations as a genuine customer and my experience as such, recorded as soberly, justly and honestly as possible in the light of the level of complaint and criticism for Daystate currently abroad. It has clearly made an impression on the management and they are clearly, only wishing to do something positive about it. Gary is right about there being a percentage of idiots who've never owned a Daystate rifle, who jump on the bandwagon when they see what they think is blood in the water and start running with it. Untrue as it may be, these things
  16. pianoman
    Pellet on pellet, one-hole accuracy at 35 metres and over. I call that as good as it gets. and that's the pellet I stick with for a particular rifle. I have 6 air rifles here and not one of them uses the same brand and headsize of pellet.
  17. pianoman
    Well done and well said Gary. My thoughts on the current state of Daystate Ltd and your mission statement., I don't think the problems currently experienced are insumountable. The main and most difficult problem to identify and fix, is possibly, an attitude that has been all too prevelant before in British business, where there is a perceived contempt for the customer. It has always been thus and it's time it was eradicated from the workplace. The days of "Build it cheap as possible and sell it dear as we can" are long over now. How happy is the workforce building the rifles? What's t
  18. pianoman
    Always prefered shooting static from laid prone alongside hedgrows or in a hide of some sort, especially for woodland shooting. I love building dens and hides by making a frame from fallen branches and covering it with scrim netting and fern. Get laid up in prone position inside and enjoy picking off rabbits and squirrels and the odd pigeon that happen along. Been shooting this way all my life really. Works foir me!
  19. pianoman
    Try all three in turn till you find a headsize thar suits.
  20. pianoman
    Your question can only be answered by you alone, from taking your rifle outside onto your practice area, set up 14 to 35 yards target distance from your point of aim and making your own test shots. No one can estimate that for you with any useful accuracy. If your shot scatters at 35 yards, you need another brand of pellet.
  21. pianoman
    Not likely Hairy Biker. It's generally considered that a .22 pellet from an 11.5 ft/lb air rifle will hit 35 yards from a zero of 10 yards because of the trajectory arc rising and falling over that disitance. But because there are variations in power, pellet calbre and wind effect to counter for, to get a true zero pattern the only true picture is to see what happens for real when you take the rifle outside. I'm guessing that you have a .177 rifle by using the base zero of 14 yards? The lighter pellet is more affected by winds than a heavier .22. If you zero indoors at 14 yards you
  22. pianoman
    I'v'e not heard a bad thing said against these guns , Well-made and very accurate so, a mint example, I agree with the other chaps here, £300 for the gun in fine condition throughout. More if it comes with a scope and perhaps a sling of course.
  23. pianoman
    Dear Gary. I'm sure you will return to this thread soon. If this request to contact me is in connection with having my Regal serviced by Daystate, I warn you this is going to be a lengthy but an openly honest appraisal of my experience as a customer of Daystate Ltd. And I can only say truthfully, the customer service I received from Rebecca at the company was very helpful, courteous and efficient in getting the rifle collected from me and returned to me some two months or so later. I bought my Regal after buying my lady a Daystate .177 Huntsman Classic for her Christmas 2013. I w
  24. pianoman
    :whistling: :whistling:
  25. pianoman
    There's a lad called Mawders here who bought a Prosport and the rifle's underlever developed a creaking and squeaking sound when he cocked it. Couldn't be fixed apparently. Others I have read reported their underlevers as uncomfortably stiff or do not return properly But I have never heard of one actually breaking. Forums being what they are, a few apocraphal myths and stories get out about all manner of otherwise fine quality guns. I'm left handed and thus, I do not have the pleasure of owning a prosport, otherwse, I would have had two, in .177 and .22. Certainly, HW rifles all benef
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