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  1. pianoman
    Lovely grouping with a lovely rifle Mark. And the old Tasco 4x40 scope really suits the look of your set-up. Really nice to look at, lovely to shoot with. Get's the job done in a very satisfying manner. How better should that be? Compliments mate. Simon
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    All I can speak of Charlie's work on my Pro Sport .22 is, he has made an absolutely fantastic job of tuning the rifle and I greatly value and appreciate his work on my behalf. A genuine gentleman of the first order to engage with, in work like this on a very treasured rifle. I sat next to him watching him work on my gun and listening to his explanations of what he was doing and why, the do's and dont's of his approach to spring rifle tuning. His work is very thorough, very professional and I cannot sing the man's praises high enough for what he's done with my Pro Sport. His advice on cho
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    For my spring rifles it has to be... NUMBER ONE. AIR ARMS PRO SPORT .22 Nothing beats it for looks or accuracy. Stunning all-round performance TWO. WEIHRAUCH HW80 .22 FAC power and single-hole accuracy at 30 meters. A rifle for sorting out Mink, rats and rabbits at all ranges. THREE. WEIHRAUCH HW77 .22 This was my No. 1 rifle. But she still is an awesome rifle for pigeons, crows and magpies. MY PCPs No. One. DAYSTATE REGAL WITH AIRTECH REGULATOR. .177. Beautiful, lightweight and incredibly accurate. But you need to have a regulator made for one. No.Two. WEBLEY
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    A very Happy New Year and I hope you had a Wonderful Christmas Renos, with all your family. Love from us both. Simon and Helenxx
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    :)

    pianoman replied to Rez's topic in General Airgun Discussion

    A very Merry and Happy Christmas to you all here, lads. I hope you get the guns and kit you want and nothing of what you don't. Down with dull pressies like bloody socks! Best wishes. Simon and Helen.
  6. pianoman
    If it's really condensing wet, or indeed we've been out in the rain, then I take the stock off and dry the action with paper towels/kitchen roll and let it rest at room temperature. Then a wipe over with gun-oily rag and back into the dry stock. Never had a smidgen of rust on any of my guns after a cold day out like this.
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    HA!! And that was an edited version!
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    Always a source of amusement to me how, one chap asks a perfectly innocent question and once answered, it runs on and on into some other place..Usually peppered with Mark's pictures of utter pigeon warfare!!!... I love it!
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    No. Complete waste of time and money buying and fitting. You cannot silence the crack of the spring piston action in the cylinder for a start and any reduction of muzzle blast is minimal.
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    Not all the same really Jamie. You just carry on as before laddie!
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    Don't touch your scope setting from your zero, when moments of opportunity at different range distances occur. Otherwise, you will have reset your paralax for distance only and left out your new position and relative angle solution from your original zero. That will change your POI significantly. Zero on low mag, say 5 or 6 times mag, and zero your .22 at 25 yards. Or .177 at 35. You will find your focus is much better without having to make such dramatic changes, other than as a simple range estimation and adjust your trajectory accordingly. Much better if you can see
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    Keeping this as basic and simple as I can. Paralax is about THE ANGLE AT WHICH YOU SEE AN OBJECT (IE. YOUR TARGET), RELATIVE TO YOUR POSITION AND DISTANCE TO IT.. Or in this case, the position and the precise angle of sight alignement of your eye, on your reticle, as you position it on aim over your target. With paralax error in shooting through a riflescope, it basically comes down to the angle your eye is mis-aligned on your reticle, when looking at the reticle, when you sight down the scope tube as it has been focused to a specific distance. The error is the amo
  13. pianoman
    I went to see a farmer about a new permission on his fields the other day, and he said he had no problem as I have a good rep with other farmers who recommended me before. A good reputation and a good word travels around. I have another 1,000-odd acres of farmland and woods to shoot over. Sorted. Any other lad trying to get permission on this one, he said he would turn away. All because of his bad experiences with people who, he's let come on and bugger it all up with damage to his fences, gates, and strewn carcases of vermin left to rot. The more this century rolls on, the more dishe
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    No problem dayglowfrog and I quite understand! Had no real idea myself where abouts you are from here. Jimmy, if you go to Derby to pick these rifles up, you can always swing east to us and have a decent rest-stop before continuing back north. It'll save you on accomodations mate?
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    How far away are you from Lincolnshire Dayglofrog? I live in New York next door to RAF Coningsby. If this is nearer to you, Jimmy Knows where we live and maybe we can sort out delivery or collection from here? Jimmy you could stay here and pick up your guns safely and get a good dinner and breakfast with us. Just a thought.
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    That SMK XS19 in the pics above from Jimmy's response looks a sweet little break barrel rifle to my eyes. If you can lighten the trigger load and sweeten up the internals, I reckon it'll make a decent hunting rifle. What are these like for accuracy? Got that nice handle-ability look about its stock I like in a break-barrel springer. I love the sweep-angle of the grip.. Wouldn't mind taking one out for a few hours in a woodland stalk-about and see what it would bag. But take it over an HW77? Especially knowing what my HW77 .22 can produce? No. The weight of the HW77 is t
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    Thanks for this Jimmy. Well, you've seen it for yourself. Helen just didn't get the shooting bug! And Daystate should have continued building the Huntsman and Regal exactly like this. Everything screwed together proper and none of that silly Harper valve thing they came up with for the Regal. It is a genuine, full power, superb rifle in walnut that's been almost untouched. Brand new the whole rig was over a thousand quid. £800 rifle. £60 silencer. £230 scope. £1,290 in total. It's going for a tad under half that total. Someone is going to be lucky bagging this for what it's goi
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    PS. SCOPE Is a fixed-Mag HAWKE ENDURANCE 3-9x42 30cm bodytube. Reticle is a European or German Post-and-four with illuminated centre dot. Extremely accurate and holds precision zero all the day long. Premium quality scope for a premium quality rifle.
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    I've put Helen's .177 Daystate Huntsman up for sale in the classifieds here, along with a Hawke Endurance 30, 3-9x42 scope, 30cm mounts and Airstream silencer; plus a near-tinful of Air Arms Diablo Express 4.52mm pellets it seems to like! Helen doesn't bother with it, it's too bloody good a rifle to be stuck in a cabinet. It absolutely outclasses the Daystate Regal supposed to replace it. And it hasn't yet shot a full tinful of pellets through it. I shot on my garden range to test it at 35 metres and it's a bloody awesome little gun. Full-power consistent on a 160-bar fill. I fired abou
  20. pianoman
    DAYSTATE HUNTSMAN CLASSIC .177 Right Hand stock. View Advert Magnificent Daystate Huntsman Classic in .177 calibre. This rifle hasn't even fired a half a tinful of pellets yet. It was bought for my partner Helen for Christmas 2015 but, she's not really gotten into shooting like the rest of us! Consequently this rifle has been hardly ever used and is an absolute mint condition beauty. Not a mark or a scratch on it. Never hunted. Just shot at targets on my garden range. I'm left handed and so, it's not one I can justifiably keep for myself. It's too bloody
  21. pianoman
    Okay. But if you have better or best tollerances, what does that ultimately give you? I have an excellent Simmons Pro Air 6-18x40 scope. Mounting it on low mounts to my HW77 .22 rifle, it is superbly accurate in zero. Pretty much a raggy single hole group with 10 pellets at 30 metres. But mounting it to the same rifle, with high mounts, the zero was not so hot. Over an inch spread at 30 metres. And I could not improve it by technique. So perhaps, tolerences do affect accuracy if they are so altered? I'm not saying you are wrong in any way Deker and I do respect what you have wr
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    Knowing what you are talking about is one thing...Knowing what you are doing? Ahh..He's lucky to be alive really.
  23. pianoman
    You don't need a big whack-off 50+mm front lens and a long body tube. A decent quality 3-9x40 and a mildot reticle will do the job perfect. What counts with a spring rifle, is the closer the reticle lies tom the bore-centre of your barrel, the better the accuracy you'll get. If you are going for an upgrade over your Nite Eye, Hawke Sidewinder 30mm body tube series are brilliant on a recoiling spring rifle. Got a 4-12x44 half-mildot model on my Pro Sport and the rifle loves it. Well worth considering. Hawke Varmint series seem like a nice scope for a springer too. Just
  24. pianoman
    I still say Archie Hood has the best looking ladies hanging on to his every ....word! Just never seem to see enough of the dear pretty things.
  25. pianoman
    When I've been able to get out, it's still pretty much leafy in the trees. Had a few good bags of Squirrels with the .22 Pro Sport so far, during this winter onset, mind.
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