41 Years Old

[villaman 9,982]

Yesterday I decided to dust of my BSA Meteor .22 and have a shoot with it . The first thing I noticed with it was the trigger ,my god so hard to pull compared to the triggers of today .

Went to my 30 yard marker knelt down , took aim ,pulled trigger and pellet hit dead on bull ,i thought must be a lucky shot , so did exactly the same the next shot ,in the end put 10 pellets in side of a 10 pence bit , not bad for a gun which is 41 years old and my first gun didnt have to adjust the sight either

Brought back some great times shooting the meteor again , that gun will go to my grave with me ,when ever that may be

[Durham John 693]

Memories mate they truly are great.

Thats why you have a fondness for bsa

[villaman 9,982]

That was in the days when they made good guns

[stealthy1 3,964]

My first rifle too.

[toby63 1,236]

i have and old bsa airsporter in the cupboard

[Durham John 693]

That was in the days when they made good guns

And you could just run outside and play with your mates along the old railway lines/ waste ground with the air rifle and a few cans or stones!!

 

Bloody roll back the years

[villaman 9,982]

Mate ,you are not far wrong, be great to get those years back ,in more ways than one

[Rimfireboy! 1,463]

I dug my old .177 Vulcan out last year, had a few shots and put it back away. Never shot it since because it is so snappy and harsh to fire it makes me wonder how I ever used to hit anything with it, and it's shot loads back in the day. I wouldn't part with it though. Had it new in 1979. My memories of it are somehow better than the reality.

[mark williams 7,568]

From 9 to 25 yrs old we all used to shoot on the huge open tip and very large lake. I`ve never forgot that summer of 1976,- we were taking turns shooting a massive oak sitty tree, me with my deadly .22 mercury (or so i used to think), Big Bird with his Diana G , and Garf` with his brand new .22 Mercury. All afternoon potting starlings as they were vermin then.

On Garf`s turn an enormous carrion crow landed ( fathered a ter, terow, terry, - fecking flying dinosaur ) and he went and missed ! from 15 yards !

Poor lad spent many a ruined night in the village pub for years after that when we got pissed .

We used to collect scrap metal also and on leaving school i was earning less money as an apprentice.

I saved up for a FWB Sport 127, and shot that exclusively until buying the HW 100`s 2 yrs ago. Wonderful guns FWB.

 

Memories

Edited September 16, 2015 by mark williams

[Rimfireboy! 1,463]

Nice rifles Mark, the 127's. I'd buy one tomorrow at the right money.

[VWman 232]

My first rifle too.

Me too I had a super in .22