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  1. wombat165
    Sounds like another sound piece of advice Blackbriar, cheers. Agree with your point about recoil. Been interesting seeing how much there is to take in. Google's been busy - hold over, hold under, reticles, mil dots, parallax, fac, feo... All good stuff!!
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    Hi j j m Hi Shamo - cheers for the responses. I know, I need to get my hands on both. I'm mid probationary period at my local club - hopefully some of the members down there might be willing to let me have a plink. Another factor that's down to personal pref is the grip - thumbhole or not. My most treasured 'possession' years ago was my SLR (even though it lived in the armoury when it wasn't being used), and the pistol grip just felt right. Non-thumbhole feels like the wrist is cocked forward a bit. Thumbhole's that bit closer to a pistol grip. What you get used to I guess.
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    Hi all, just introducing myself. Owned an air rifle 20+ years ago, and now I'm looking to get back into it in my mid 40s. Buying an air rifle seems be a lot less straightforward than when I bought my BSA Meteor way back when! At the risk of dragging up a much asked subject, I'm now going through the springer/pcp dilemma (a common subject looking at other newbies posts). Understandably loyalties to both run deep, so I'm just going to have to try both and decide. Same goes for the AirArms/Weihrauch question... I've narrowed it down to those two to try make the process easier! Must admit at th
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