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  1. Coypu Hunter
    Hawke Sport HD 3-9X40. It's in the same sort of budget range as the AirKing. The mildot reticle's a bit blobby, but the glass is sharp, and the reticle seems to stay where it's supposed to. The turrets have a good, positive feel too. It's only been on my FAC Stoeger for a short while, but then the NS AirKing was only on there for a short while before it started wandering around, so I'm reasonably confident that it'll hold zero. I've heard good things about the Sport HD from other FAC springer/rammer shooters, especially Stoeger ATAC owners (the ATAC is a bit of a beast), which is why I
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    I have two Nikko Stirling AirKing 3-9X42 AOs. Had to send one back after my old FAC Cometa .22 shook it to pieces. The zero was jumping out by inches after every shot. The retailer replaced it, since it was under guarantee, although they had to wait for the manufacturer to OK the replacement. I put the replacement on my FAC Stoeger, and couldn't get it to zero. Replaced it with a Hawke Sport HD, and now it zeroes. If everything else is as it should be, then the reticle may have come loose. Is your TX200 running at FAC power?
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    Check out the Weihrauch Owners' Forum and YouTube for lots of how-to stuff. The V-Mach kit works well for me. I've also fitted a Rowan Engineering extra-setback trigger blade to improve the Rekord trigger unit -- it makes quite a difference. You can polish the piston and inside the compression chamber with very fine steel wool, if they need it -- I haven't bothered, they were pretty smooth anyway on mine. Check that the piston with the new piston seal in place slides smoothly and slowly down into the compression chamber when you point the rifle at the ground. It shouldn't drop straight
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    Nice shooting, and nice permission -- looks like you've got the makings of a good mixed-game menu there!
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    Mine was a 16fpe .22, and grouped like a sawn-off shotgun, hence why it was sold...
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    Got a shedload of fired .22LR cases, if you want to come and pick 'em up... I'd even chuck in a box each of fired 9mm, .357 Magnum and .38 Special!
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    Sounds a bit cheap. I sold a pretty new Fenix 400 Star in .22 plus Walther scope for double that, a little while ago. Have a look at the price for them new, then work back from that based on age and condition.
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    You should be OK with the 30mm tube on the Hawke. The one-inch Hawke scopes use a leaf spring in the erector tube assembly, which is less robust than the system in their 30mm scopes. I've broken three one-inch Airmax EVs with my FAC 97. "All-calibre rated" my ârse. Or go for a Nikko Stirling AirKing, which I now use. Pretty much unbreakable. Well, at least, I've only broken one so far... But the replacement is now sitting on a 16fpe gas-rammer and hasn't fallen apart yet.
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    Moly is fine for metal surfaces, because it bonds to them. Not sure about seals... Pelgun Oil maybe?
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    Dunno about the Monsters, but it will depend on the rifle -- they sound too heavy for a 12 fpe springer. The 10.34-grain JSB Exact Heavies are the most accurate pellet through my 13fpe HW97K. Sub-12fpe, it preferred AA Diabolo Fields and Weihrauch F&T Specials, both in the 8-grain sweet spot. I suspect you might be wasting your money, as is always the case with "novelty" pellets, in my experience.
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    I've found that too, particularly with wadcutters. Accurate at close range, crap further out.
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    Who said the French had a sense of humour? That was English humour, me old china!
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    The video's here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5qQktGvvz4 Tried it myself. Problem is, when you lift the rifle and tighten the scope screws, the scope tends to move slightly. Start again... Like I said, the thing that works for me is using a plumb line from the bench for set-up, on lowest mag so you can see a good length of the plumb line (string with a weight on the end will do). You can check vertical by shouldering the rifle. If the crosshair is still vertical when the rifle is in your normal shouldering position, you're good to go.
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    I would have to agree hear, tad heavy perhaps, so go for a 95 or as mentioned a 99, with a flake. The 98 is devastatingly accurate. Like beyond belief, it's takes a while to flirt with it to get it moist, but jesus, it puts in groups tighter than my birds little sister. Yup. That tight. Paedo...
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    Now put a spirit level against the dining room door frame and make sure it's plumb...
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    I use a spirit level across the back of the 97 (there's a flat bit of wood behind the action), settle the rifle on beanbags, and use a plumb line downrange. Normally get the vertical crosshair pretty close to vertical, although I sometimes have the same issue -- picking the rifle up and thinking "hang on..." Set it up right, then trust the set-up, and adjust your cheek weld to suit your set-up. Sounds like you may well have some cant going on there, if your vertical crosshair is leaning slightly to the left, that could produce the effect you're talking about.
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    Nice one!
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    Hope you had a safe backstop! Nice shooting though. What kind of range were you shooting at? I find the beggars never keep their heads still for long enough to get off a headshot, so tend to go for the upper chest.
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    You might want to post a direct link, since a Facebook search shows up no results.
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    I have a synthetic Baikal single-shot .410 magnum, as they call 'em over here (means it will chamber anything up to 3" cartridges). I put a sling on it, and tend to carry it when I'm out firkling about in our small patch of woodland, "just in case". It's so light, I forget I'm carrying it, most of the time. However, a No. 6 magnum load has been known to take out a coypu at 25 yards or so, so it does the necessary -- and coypus have thick, heavy skulls. Haven't tried a .410 slug on a coypu yet...
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    Oh, in for a penny, in for a pound. £55, can't say fairer than that.
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    I'd sell it, mate. It's ruined and it'll never be the same again, there'll always be that image nagging away in the back of your mind... Give you £50 quid for it just to save you from all the pain and heartache...
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    Cheers! I haven't quite worked my way up the calibres to where this guy is, though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QAfhzf9hY&feature=em-uploademail Watch the magpie shot -- made I larff...
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    Plucked, gutted and in the freezer, mate, ready for a bumper Christmas.
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