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  1. pianoman
    My HW97K loves H&N FTT 4.51mm. Give 'em a go; you might find them perfect too! Simon
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    Hi Rez. My .177 HW97K is amazingly accurate with H&N FIELD TARGET TROPHY 4.51. Put them on your 'to-try' list mate, they might be absolutely perfect for your HW100 too! Best regards. Simon
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    Hi Timmy. The car analogy is spot on. I thought I was buying a seriously top performance, British-made "Bentley" of an air rifle when I bought my Daystate Regal. It had all the grunt and torque of a Reliant Robin! Underpowered to just above an air pistol's output. It was useless to try and shoot Rabbits to acceptably decent air rifle ranges with any hope of a humane kill. 30 yards was about the best max-effective range. Over that and the poor animal was getting injured. I have just had to spend a bit more money getting my Daystate Regal up to an acceptable performance standard. It'
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    Hello Sarah and welcome here. It sounds like you are looking at a $184 rifle stock; not the whole rifle. $184 dollars equates to about £90;00 or so and you cannot really buy a rifle worth anything of quality for that money. Not even second hand. It might get you a worn-out rust-bucket to restore but little else. Also you state you are a beginner but you want a new weapon. So you might have experience with the one you currently have, or had, and wish to replace it with something better? Or are you looking to buy your first rifle and this stock is what you have seen? What kind of sh
  5. pianoman
    Hi Chris good to see you back here mate. These are very fine stocks from what I've seen of them. Knowing what you've put into this rifle, I'd say buy one. It's the cherry on a very finely made cake! Or..stick with the factory stock. It may look a plain-jane but, it works! Cheers Chris. Regards to you and your lads. Simon
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    Ouch!
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    I see no reason why not? It is a pest and a dangerously-verminous, disease-ridden one at that. Or has this nation of dumb-arsed hippy antis finally reached a point where brown rats are now their furry friends?
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    TX200 .22 rifle. The one and only spring rifle I just couldn't get along with it but, I wish I had persisted and found out why.
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    Top advice from Tim here. One to follow. As you are a wild west enthusiast, I'd seriously go for an HW77 .22. This rifle looks and handles a little bit like a Walker Henry .44 or Winchester 73 with its underlever action folded up under the barrel and, what's more, it is a seriously superb spring hunting air rifle with phenominal accuracy and knock-down power. Best of all, it falls within your budget if you hunt for one around the 2nd hand sections. There are some real bargains out there with this rifle. Best regards. Simon
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    You just wait till Little Hunter gets his hands on your new rifle grandad and that's the last time you'll be able to shoot it over a session! Nice one Mac, There's a nice collection of rifles you have photographed here. I hope she lives up to her promise for you mate.... Best regards to you both for you shooting. Simon
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    I don't know what ballistic quotients and mathmatics apply to air rifle barrel lengths. But I do know that the full length and carbine length barrels of my air rifles, past and present, have all been good and accurate. TX200HC Carbine and the HW97K are both wicked accurate, especially in .177 calibre. Full length HW80 and HW77 .22 is phenominally accurate. It all comes down to what you like the look of and how comfortable you are with your choices, I think really. In my experience, if you see a nice looking air rifle and its size, weight and length appeals to your instincts in a way that,
  12. pianoman
    "Before We Go", my celebrated 7-peeing Bomber aircrew! Yes Rez it would be a print as I keep the original drawing. Glad you saw it mate . I've yet to visit The Ivy.
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    I once had a .22 Air Arms TX200 rifle that loved Air Arms Hunters over Air Arms Fields Rez. It's a semi-pointed (semi-Diablo?) pellet in reality. Not a full-sharp pellet which, I've yet to find, are anything near as reliably accurate. Definitely worth a try at least Simon Edited to add. I'm certain they are available in 5.52mm headsize.
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    I started shooting with my dad when I was six years old. He was a cracking shot with a .22LR on open sights and I learened with that rifle and his help 'til an aunt in Australia sent me a Webley .22 air rifle for my 7th birthday and I've been spring air rifle shooting ever since! Then, last year, I went out with a friend's two young lads and we had a brilliant first-time shooting session one afternoon, teaching the boys to shoot properly and responsibly. They now have their own air rifles and have already proved capable hunters; though we never let them wander off by themselves. They are a
  15. pianoman
    I've been shooting and hunting for almost 50 years with air rifles. I believe what both arguments have been saying. Tony is a great shot. I've seen him shoot and competed next to him. But for myself, all I know about power is, 11+ft/lbs with superb, consistent accuracy uppermost, is a very effective and, above all, humane killing combination. A lack of power can severely limit what you can effectively do. I sent my Daystate Regal .177 back to them after its low power, sub-10 ft/lbs output was doing more to injure rabbits heads at 30 metres range or more, than punch the shot home hard and k
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    I don't own an HW100 but any sub-12ft/lb .22 calibre rifle is as effective as the next. It depends on a number of factors, largely to do with consistency. How well can you repeat your best shooting posture, hold, breathing, holdover etc. All of which become an ever-increasing, influencing factor that increases with further and further ranges. Then there's consistency of pellet from one to another. Consistency of air charge behind each and every shot. Consistent air, wind and breeze speeds. scope properly set and centered to your rifle's action without a whisker of cant over to one sid
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    Heyo Rez. I have a left Hand TX200HC Mk.III but no Pic to show you. But I can describe it quite clearly as it is for you. There is a bear trap the same exactly as with the right hand version. The Bear-Trap release lever-button is on the right of the cylinder. But the loading port is now on the left of this rifle, as opposed to the usual right; and so, those notches on the silver sliding breach cover you normally see on a right hand version, are now hidden beneath the blued outer-face on the right of the cylinder tube. So the bear-Trap remains as a right hand unit. That's the only really
  18. pianoman
    He's really coming on now isn't he Mac. Well done dear Grand pa!
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    A good picture paints a thousand words....This is a good picture!
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    Hi Springer 89. The Tartan/diamond form chequering on the last HW97K stock hasbeen out for some years now. It is really nice and deep and the stock overall is very nice. I'd go for that, just for its good looks. I only have one critical comment to make and, I think the comb is a wee bit too high and makes using a 40mm scope on low mounts difficult to use. At least with my fat mush! Just noted the point about the smooth forend version you're wondering about. This is an older gun by the sound of it. Possibly second hand. That smooth forend stock was used on the original Mk.1 HW97 which
  21. pianoman
    Harris make the best. Use it only on a PCP Dyl. NEVER on a springer!
  22. pianoman
    Which of your many, innumerable, fine-fleshed ladies told you this, Archie?! :laugh:
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    Hi John. Depends on how well you can shoot to these ranges with a full understanding of your pellet's trajectory path. The additional fact is, the further you push the ranges out, the more even light winds and breezes take a more positive effect in deflecting the pellet. I've shot my HW77 .22 with AA Field 5.51mm ammo out to 70 yards and killed rabbits cleanly. But I only attempt long range shots where the winds are little or not enough to deflect the pellet and I know exactly on my scope reticle where the shot is going to fall with reasonable predictions. If your two-inch group @60 yar
  24. pianoman
    The original Mk.I to Mk.III stocks are just fine as they were and makes the rifle the legend it is. The forestock only rests on your palm so, the appearance of either plain or chequered is cosmetic and purely academic really. If you like one or other it doesn't really matter The HW77 series rifles themselves are the best spring piston air rifles of all. Nothing beats the HW77 for accuracy or reliability. Nothing. I've tried testing against other underlever spring rifles to seriously see if it can be out performed but nothing, so far has done that. Pro Sport need a dedicated left-hand s
  25. pianoman
    The HW35 was always a great rifle and still is. Simmons are one of the very best makes of scopes you can clamp onto a Weihrauch air rifle in my experience. Sounds like you have a potentially awesome shooting rig. Go out and give it a thorough range session over several days and see what you have then. If you aren't producing tight, one hole or cloverleaf groups with it, at 30-metres range then, either you need to sort out a better pellet or you need to adjust the trigger a little. Or you need to get more practice with shooting a spring rifle. Don't flog it yet or you'll regret it!
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