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    Do the maths. You can get 20p for a pigeon if you arelucky. Our butcher will take them, but only pays 10p each! So i would rather put them in the freezer for home consumption, or eat them straightaway. Rabbits are too rare to shoot! Anyway, say you could get £1 for a rabbit, head shot and 20p for a pigeon. Your rifle outfit costs £350 (because we have to have a figue to work with). So, forget the pigeons, because it would take you 5 pigeons to equal 1 rabbit. 350 rabbits would take you a tin of pellets - so £10. Call it quits. 350 rabbits and pigeons eaten to save the cost of meat
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    It should be marked on it, in white, on the cylinder. If not, early Daystates were 230 bar max.
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    If you like the design, try the Defiants, same shape pellet but made of lead. In my Scorpion the large head size was absolutely perfect for accuracy - 50 yards groups no bigger than a 5p - butthe next head size down were useless, rattling up the barrel I suppose. It was all down to head size and the BSA barrels seem to prefer the large head size of 5.52. I love Defiants, but can't get on with the super fast, super wind affected, lightweight Thunderbolts - ok for indoor shooting where there is no wind. A light pellet is going to get substantial wind drift, even at higher velocity.
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    Sold - thanks.
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    As it says. An FX air rifle pump, comes with guage and hose with fitting to screw your fast fill adaptor into. Perfect working order. £75 + post, or can deliver when travelling your way. It has a water trap feature on it that I forgot to mention. They are £140 (cheapest I could find on 'net). £75 is a bargain!
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    The actual dimensions of the scope won't actually make you see any better unless the lenses are better. A lower magnification scope with glorious lenses will often allow you to see things that a more powerful magnification with poor lenses won't. Simply changing the numbers isn't enough - to get better vision, you have to actually get better optics, not just bigger numbers. A spotting scope will be your cheapest option if you are happy with your scope. I could see the fall of shot at 150 yards with my standard 6x42 Nova, so you should be able to see the holes with 9x.
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    Go and see the good folks at Blackpool Air Rifles. They are great fokks to deal with - they must, they have sent rifles to all over the world. I travelled up to buy a rifle myself the other day - came out with a different one I went in for, simply because hey have some exquisite stuff in there that you won't know about until you go.
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    Rifle is now sold. Many thanks Dave, pleasure to do business with you. I hope you get plenty for the pot with it.
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    s200 - a good used one for around £200 - £250. Stock is easy to mod to suit him, light, pointable and very, very accurate. Will maintain it value, oris a gun that he can still be proud to use when he is 21 or over. Remember, it is not HIS gun, it can't be by law....it is yours that he is using!
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    If it is an old one it will have (might still have) a leather seal, PTFE seals are available. A complete rebuild shouldn't cost more than about £25 for new spring, seals and lubes.
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    Holding for Dave until tomorrow.
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    I think it goes to 100g! It is a stiff beast, but very light and for the money incredible. the reel foot is a bit plasticky, but you know what they say about gift horses and mouths! I know they work well in freshwater situations, but not sure how corrosion proof the rings are.
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    Irish,. as I heard someone say once - "they may be protected, but they're no bullet proof!"
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    Message with mobile number sent.
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    Pictures of the whole kit and caboodle. Instruction sheet, CD and spares - O rings, grub screw, allen key, lens cloth. Silencer, air stripper and 2x magazines, one original type, one new type. The rifle with silencer fitted. Silencer off Air stripper (BSA standard one that the rifle comes with) Muzzle end of silencer The magazines: Oversize, after market bolt handle Scope is a bit old, but lenses are pristine. Marks on stock, just light scratches, some from the zip of the gun bag. There you have it. A great packagethat
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    I won one, in the predator grand slam at Esthwaite last October. I used fly against all methods and won! Anyway, it is a nice rod, but a bit heavy for bass. I think the one you are looking at is abit lighter than the weight one I got. The other thing I would say about it for bass is it is a bit short, you want a longer rod for line management over weed, rocks and waves. The short rod doesn't give you as much control as a longer rod. It is more direct, for working lures, but for steering a longer rod provides more options. For bass I have an Abu Suveran, 10 footer - or Mike Ladles Sure spin sti
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    When you have finished 2.8s stoats,how about the next one - a shooting theme. Again, like him I was trying to get a friend of mine, Simon Gudgeon, to do it fo rme years ago, when he was just getting started. he did me a pencil drawing of a wistful looking lurcher. I am looking at it now! He is far too big in the sculpture world (self taught too) to bother with my idea. Imagine two contrasting scenes. Scene one a formal shooting scene, grumpy old men all lined up in their tweeds and fancy guns with serious looking faces and a tableau of birds set out before them. The caption underneath "For
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    I am not in the least bit surprised. I find shooting, hunting in particular, with the air rifle is so much more satisfying than hunting with the shotgun. Even driven shooting, whilst very nice on invites every now and then, pales in comparison tositting in the woods ambushing pigeons! It won't take away from my woodcock days though! Good luck in your quest for an air rifle, but it would be worth you taking your time and trying a few. If you can get to a meet somewhere and try a few that would give you more idea of what to go for. GOOD spring guns are very reliable, very accurate and will
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    Good old Tony. Great place to go and do business - Sandwell fieldsports get a thumbs up from me. I am taking my old HW77 down to him to have it completely refurbished. i know they will make a perfect job of it.
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    Just over the hill from you! Uttoxeter, other side of Stoke - I come your way on Thursday! Heading to Blackpool for work for one day. Or you welcome to pop down and try it - if you have a permission you could try it on Thursday, I don't mind putting it in the car and bringing it with me.
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    Owned from new. Scorpion T10 tactical,synthetic stock. Virtually mint. Just a couple of marks on the stock, but not gouges, just light marks on the underside. Metalwork totally unmarked and ACF50 protected from new. John Bowkett blueprinted 2x magazines,one original and one of the new type. Both index perfectly. John Bowkett special large bolt handle. Special BSA silencer too - lighter and more efficient than standard one.,not in production. The original air stripper. Comes in a BSA black, tactical rifle bag with rucksack type shoulder straps and handles. CD of instructions, spare seals
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    Is a Theoben gas ram any good to you? I have one of the last Scirocco Grand Prix made, in .177. Totally original, running sweet as a nut. AA Fields grouping at 5p size at 35 yards (with me shooting, so it could be a lot better!) I am selling several of my guns. Going down to just two, one for hunting and one for targets.
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    The words CHEAP and BEST are mutually exclusive. I haven't clicked th elink, but an Air Arms 400 series is a good buy, provided it hasn't been butchered and messed with. They are extremely accurate when set up correctly, like 8mm groups at 35 yards. If there is one going within your budget, then it is a goo dchoice. the BSA is an under rated rifle too, VERY accurate barrels, so much so that people do use them for custom building. I have a Scorpion t10 in .22, blueprinted by John Bowkett and it is a 50 yard one holer. It is fantastic, but low on shot count, only about 50 shots in the s
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    Dave, that HW silencer is great, but they are dear. Have a word with Ady at A&M Custom Gunsmiths - phone. They are Notts side, but worth the effort to get there. He'll put you right regards silencers - he makes the TWINK which is supplied to Daystate for their FAC rifles for export. Another thing - if you had the rifle given to you, what power is it at? Have you checked, or had it checked? If a "mate" gave it to you, was he of the kind to tune it up a bt? If so, get ti sorted before you do anything else, or you will find yourself in trouble for having an over powered air rifle. Again,
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    Barry, "the soul singer", White - you are absolutely correct. I have FOUR Theoben gas rams, they are that rubbish! A 1986 Scirroco Grand Prix, a 1995 Olympus, a 1996 Taunus and a 2001 SLR (I might have a Rapid yet, I am thinking about it still!) Anyway, yes the power does drop in the cold a bit. This is because the air in the ram is "captive" so if you pump it up on a hot day, the gas you put in has expanded to that temperature and takes up a volume accroding to the rm volume - lets call the volume 100ccs (it makes the maths easier). If the temperature then drops, that 100cc of air in yo
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