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  1. They are NOT a hunting pellet - regardless of what it says on the box! You are correct, they are EXACTLY the same design as Logun Penetrators, Definats, Exterminators etc - they all come off the same pellet line. Defiants are LEAD and are superb when you can find the right head size for you barrel - BSA, use the 5.52 size in .22. It might take as amny 120 shots before they start to work properly. I used them in my Scorpion and it was 120 shots before the groups even started to reduce.By 200 shots they were creating clover leaf grous at 50 yards - would YOU give them that much of a test
  2. Nope, have my own range at home and plenty of fields and woods for anything else I fancy doing. Any club that would admit me as a member, I wouldn't want to be a member of!
  3. No they're not.They are excellent from a reliability aspect, very accurate too, unless you knock the barrel and set it askew in the stupid barrel band. REALLY GOOD rifles don't need a barrel band becaue they use a proper diameter barrel and a secure breech mounting for it that doesn't require support at the muzzle end. In all other aspects they are fine, but knock you barrel and it goes askew you then have to slacken off the barrel band, let the barrel go back to position (even 0.1mm will have your zero off - that means a slight knock against a tree as you duck through the woods) then rezero
  4. 2" group I wouldn't give a rifle that shot that badly house room. At 35 yards my Air Arms s410 would hit a Swan Vesta head. I could get 8 out of 10 most times. I didn't use targets anymore, just a blank sheet, fire a pellet at it, then use that pellet hole as the target and just enlage it a tiny bit. At 40 yards a 5p piece sized group is normal for most air rifles that are matched with a good pellet.
  5. Couldn't see over the Wolf or Ranger, too fat for my front hand too (the old Rapid you have to hold the bottle because I am too mean to buy a decent stock!) My Daystate is the Huntsman classic. One of only 20 built using Theoben 12/20 Anshutz barrels - so an unshrouded 20 calibre. You'll see it in the hunting section. I'm not sure if I can post "hunting" pics in here, so you'll have to go trawling to see it! Nothing special, just a piece of wood with some tubes in it. Oh and the Land Rover/ Range Rover analogy, is about right. 25 years down the line and the Rapid still cuts the mustard.
  6. You know nothing about guns if you wright crap like this Or just blinkered. Why are they cheap? Because there are so many up for sale. Supply and demand. Rapids hold their money. Mid to late 1980s Rapids still command £400+ a rifle that has stood the test of time. The HW100 will be another one. They are excellent, but the Rapid started it all (first production magazine fed PCP) and they are so reliable, so easy to fix, cheap to get spares for and will run up to 150ft-lbs with only a little alteration (I have a friend in Belgium with a Rapid in .25, specially buit for him by The
  7. Army surplus - go for natural materials rather than man made. I am a firm believer in UV signature being visible to many birds - think Jay wings, mallard and teal flashes, starling spots, MAGPIE PLUMAGE - THE IRIDESCENCE IS ALL UV SIGNATURE STUFF (yes I meant to use capitals, to emphasise the fact). Persil whiteners, will reflect UV and make you stand out like a neon light. Only wash your cotton hunting gear in plain water - rain is good! Stay in the shadows, back from whatever you are using to hide behind- if a window 9a hole in your hide) don't be up close to it, stay well back and shoot
  8. Very nice looking rifle - looks JUST like a Rapid now! You can see where Daystate copied the idea for their buddy bottle rifles from. Theoben Rapid, the original (and best - and I use a Daystate too! And a Rapid. . My Rapid is 1987 and they had been about a year or two by then already.)
  9. 4 or 5 magazines in a T10 = 40 - 50 shots. Give it 5 either end and there are your 60 good shots. You've found the sweet spot. 50 good shots. 60 if you squeeze it to the last drop! Don't forget, you only have a small volume cylinder on there. That is pretty good as it is. A regulator would give you more shots, yes, because the high pressure end of the fill can be used to full effect, an extra 30 shots perhaps?? For the cost of the regulator and fitting it (tuning the hammer spring and valve seating to suit) are those extra shots between a top up worth it to you? Personally I just keep her
  10. I thought at 14 you had to be accompanied by a person over 21.
  11. Like any unregged rifle, there will be a sweet spot. I had a Scorpion,it was superbly accurate for 60 shots, One of the most accurate air rifles I have had. One ragged hole at 50 yards with Defiants (!) Anyhow, we digress. I expect you over filled it and then zeroed on the filled pressure. If you fill it to 180 bar and NO MORE it will be spot on down to about 120 bar. The difference is minimal. A regulator will simply allow you to over pressurise (to 200bar) and shoot down to jst above regulator pressure (set at about 95bar ish) say 105 bar? Or 110 anyway. That is where the extra shots come fr
  12. As with all things you get what you pay for . Yes, with the nutshot it is BLING! Carbon pre-preg isn't cheap, not as rugged as as aluminium, lighter but it really boils down to aesthetics. Both are as efficient as each other.
  13. Designed by Roy Hutchinson. Excellent rifles, just a bit heavy - watch the chain drive!
  14. Nutshot is good, without a doubt, but it is TWICE the price of the Twink mk2, which is very, very good and you can rely on it not breaking. I have one on my Huntsman and it balances well.
  15. I sit on the fence with both spring and PCP - 20 calibre for me always now for hunting. The Grand Prix is for plinking at targets (.177) The SLR will be for the odd foray after squirrels (.22) it is just too nice to get rid of, so I'll have to find a use for it. The same for the break barrel 20 calibre. For all serious hunting it will be the Huntsman or Rapid (both in 20 calibre). 5mm makes so much sense. :tongue2: As regards your conversion- it would be cheaper to sell yours and buy one of the other calibre. That way it won't actually cost you anything and when you find out y
  16. GOOD lenses allow you to see where crap like MTC grains out. I had a friend up with his illuminated MTC. I was using a pretty basic Nikon Prostaff (only £150) yet I could still see to shoot th eroosting pigeons, in the trees, not even silhouetted against the sky, a good 40 minutes after he gave up because the scope wouldn't resolve the detail - oh you could see his bright red christmas tree in the scope though! While he was complaining he couldn't see i shot a crow and two pigons, with no fancy gdget required. The Lightstream is better again than the Nikon - same lenses as Bushnell Elite
  17. HATEFUL THINGS. I have deliberately gone in search of a NON illuminated reticle scope and ended up with a Lightstream 4.5-14x44 - it is superb in dingy areas, the contrast of the lenses is so good the black reticle stands out against the background. If it is so dark that you can't see to shoot with it, you NEED a lamp, which means you have the contrast to see the reticle against again!
  18. You need to get down there and start knocking on doors. It helps if your face is known in the area, so get down and offer to do some work to help out on a farm or two. That way you will get known and meet the right people. After a while you will get a bit of shooting. I believe there is a Northern saying: "you don't get owt for nowt".
  19. Thanks chaps, I enjoyed retelling it! Daz - I am a 20 calibre man through and through. Have been since 1996. I also have a Rapid 12/20 which is a great rifle. I just treated myself to the Daystate because it was one of only 20 built with Theoben (specially commissioned from Anschutz - Daystate bought a box off Ben Taylor when he sold his stake in Theoben) barrels, I didn't need it! I love Theoben rifles, I also have a Taunus break barrel gas ram in 20 calibre that has been knocking stuff over perfectly. The Rapid is a great rifle, but ugly as sin. I don't mind, I ride a BMW GS1150 - ugly i
  20. The farm my brother-in-law has taken on has an old yard and buildings which he used last year to house a few youngstock and store some wheat and oats. It had lain unused for years and the rats had really dug in their defences over the time it was unoccupied. There are several warrens, one in the banks of the slurry lagoon, another in the void between the silage clamp and one of the barns. Another lot have dug under the disuused cow cubicles, they are under the concrete floor and in the wooden walls. To give you an idea of how many there must be, they are even in the hedges along the roadside a
  21. If you are wanting long range accuracy, utter reliability, good shot count and in your budget of £500 - nobody has mentioned a Rapid 7 (or 12) yet. Fantatstic rifle that actually started the whole PCP thing, certainly for multi shot capability. You don't say what calibre you prefer, but the Rapid is available in ALL calibres. I have a custom AAs410, it is supremely accurate, fast to reload, mne is regulated so it gives 120 shots right on the nail, but an unregged version will only yield 60 good shots between 160 and 120 bar pressure. The other thing I don't like about the Air Arms is their
  22. Depends if it has been regged or not! With Tench regulator i fill to 210 and shoot to 110 - all the same, because the hammer spring is working in the same pressure air all the time. For a standard rifle with no regulator, from 180 bar for a good one (there are bound to be individual differences, they are things that have been made!) to 110 bar should provide good shooting with reasonable consistency. The best consistency will be from 160 - 120. Higher pressure= lower power! This is because the hammer is having to fight against the extra pressure before it can open the valve.
  23. Ady is top bloke and meticulous in how he works - good enough to build his own rifles from scratch, out of blocks of aluminium! Polish = hammer and trigger, or barrel bore? You don't say. Simon (Airgun Doctor) is a very good airgunsmith too, he used ot work for Webley, but Ady is just round the corner from you and I actually travel from close to Airrgun Doctor (15 miles) to see Ady for my work (45 miles!) A&M not only produce the twink silencer (got one on my Daystate, not the prettiest thing in the world, but by God is it efficient) they are also the cheapest place I have found
  24. One of the reasons I got rid of my AA - when it is lined up it is awesome,but they are prone to even a small knock in the field and that means loosening the barrel band and then tightening them up evenly - a bit each side,not all on one, then the other...tighten the grub screws evenly. The rifle won't have been damaged by a knock, but it is mighty annoying - you will need to recheck your zero again. Mine was taking out Swan Vesta heads at 35 yards quite happily, but even so, this aspect is vexing. The reason for the barrel band is because AA barrels on the 400/500 series is thinned outside di
  25. Theobens are beautifuly built, especially the old ones. i have several! 1986 Grand prix, I was htting .177 pellet holes with it the other day, just leaning over the bike on its stand and using the tin panniers as a rest to lean on. Brilliant rifle, a target rifle really. the first production FT rifle really. After all tis tim eit is still kicking out 11.2 ft-lbs with cloverleaf 5 shots at 30 yards. A bit long for shooting from a vehicle though. next up is the 1995 Olympus, again in .177. Just as accurate, but with a better walnut thumbhole stock and shorter barrel with HE ram. Glorious,
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