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I posted yesterday about how my first gun was an air rifle out of my mum's catalogue and it got me thinking. I'm pretty sure it was a Webley but I traded it a few years later with a mate of mine and I can't think what I traded it for, I've been googling, but nothing seems to ring a bell.

 

I'll try to describe it but I'm not sure if that will help in identifying it. It was toward the end of the 80s, but it certainly wasn't a new gun even then. I'm more sure than not it was American made. It was .22 cal and underlever, but the lever wasn't under the barrel like a HW97, it came out of the underside of the forend and I THINK you might have been able to pump it more than once (wouldn't swear to that though.) Where the barrel met the forend, there was a kind of lever like a tap that was laying horizontally. When you turned this lever 90 degrees so it was vertical, you could see a hole to put the pellet in. When you turned it back again the pellet was ready to fire.

 

Doing my head in. If any of that makes any sense, please let me know.

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was it a crossman ?

 

I've just looked at a few pics of crossmans and can't see anything that looks similar. Maybe I'm wrong and it wasn't American, and didn't pump more than once. :hmm: Apart from that.... The nearest pic I can see to what it looked like is a BSA Airsporter, but it still doesn't look quite right.

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Thanks for the ideas gentlemen. I've looked at the suggestions and none of them seem to be what I'm thinking of. The first gun was almost definitely a Webley and a regular break barrel. (That's the one I got from the catalogue and paid weekly for.) :yes: I'm pretty sure the gun I traded it for was American as the bloke I traded it with had recently moved here from America and i think he brought it with him.

 

The cocking lever was inside the forend so when it was closed it just had the single barrel. The nearest pic i have seen is a BSA airsporter but it's still not right. The one I had had a much more tapered forend, really pronounced chequering, a single blade sight up front and didn't have that notch out of the rear of the stock.

 

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I know I'm not going daft. Next time we go to see my mother I'll have a peek in the loft to see if it's still there.

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I posted yesterday about how my first gun was an air rifle out of my mum's catalogue and it got me thinking. I'm pretty sure it was a Webley but I traded it a few years later with a mate of mine and I can't think what I traded it for, I've been googling, but nothing seems to ring a bell.

 

I'll try to describe it but I'm not sure if that will help in identifying it. It was toward the end of the 80s, but it certainly wasn't a new gun even then. I'm more sure than not it was American made. It was .22 cal and underlever, but the lever wasn't under the barrel like a HW97, it came out of the underside of the forend and I THINK you might have been able to pump it more than once (wouldn't swear to that though.) Where the barrel met the forend, there was a kind of lever like a tap that was laying horizontally. When you turned this lever 90 degrees so it was vertical, you could see a hole to put the pellet in. When you turned it back again the pellet was ready to fire.

 

Doing my head in. If any of that makes any sense, please let me know.

 

I posted yesterday about how my first gun was an air rifle out of my mum's catalogue and it got me thinking. I'm pretty sure it was a Webley but I traded it a few years later with a mate of mine and I can't think what I traded it for, I've been googling, but nothing seems to ring a bell.

 

I'll try to describe it but I'm not sure if that will help in identifying it. It was toward the end of the 80s, but it certainly wasn't a new gun even then. I'm more sure than not it was American made. It was .22 cal and underlever, but the lever wasn't under the barrel like a HW97, it came out of the underside of the forend and I THINK you might have been able to pump it more than once (wouldn't swear to that though.) Where the barrel met the forend, there was a kind of lever like a tap that was laying horizontally. When you turned this lever 90 degrees so it was vertical, you could see a hole to put the pellet in. When you turned it back again the pellet was ready to fire.

 

Doing my head in. If any of that makes any sense, please let me know.

by your description it would of been a Webley Falcon.

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