The Air Rifles & Pistols thread

HW 30s are lovely little guns and capable of been very accurate.

Old 10 metre target springers such as walther LG55 / LGV (not to be mixed up with current LGV) HW55 or recoiless spring guns like the FWB300s are all great choices. As they are getting on in years there is often a good chance you would need to do a reseal on them. egun (German site) is a great place to look.
 
Thats a great site, shame my german is none exsistant. Although google translate makes for some entertaining translations.

Anyone tried the walther lgu master? I'm aware its not a true walther (made by umarex from what I can gather) but it has a few reviews comparing it favourably to the tx200 and hw97.
 

Who could resist after seeing their advert :p

It does look like a decent rifle. Worth searching on the airgun forums as I remember hearing about a few niggles with the underlever catch and trigger, but nothing too serious. I think its more personal preference between all 3, rather than one being better than the others. Out of the box the Air Arms and Walther will be smoother due to the delrin bands on the piston, but the weihrauch can be made to be just as smooth with a Vmach kit.
 
Glaucus said:
Anyone know a list of rifle shooting ranges in england
Can only find two and they near each other in wales. But over 2hrs drive. Although it is up to 3km :eek:
Always fancied giving longer range shooting a try, tried normal shooting range when in America and tbh it was easy and pretty boring.
Rifle at long range must be a lot harder.

http://www.orionfirearmstraining.co.uk/index.html
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Are you anywhere near Nottingham?
 
Glaucus said:
Anyone know a list of rifle shooting ranges in england
Can only find two and they near each other in wales. But over 2hrs drive. Although it is up to 3km :eek:
Always fancied giving longer range shooting a try, tried normal shooting range when in America and tbh it was easy and pretty boring.
Rifle at long range must be a lot harder.

http://www.orionfirearmstraining.co.uk/index.html
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Bisley is probably the most well known. But for that sort of long range, you need to be looking at the NRA uk website for clubs.
 
TheHitMan-1973 said:
Have to say the best airgun i`ve ever owned is Weihrauch HW77 . 22 really powerful :D
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Is that "really powerful" up to the legal 12ft/lb UK limit making it no more powerful than any other uk rifle, or "really powerful" on a FAC or illegal?

Generally people who make that claim get filed in the same pigeonhole as my colleague who raved about his really powerful .22 that could shoot through steel sheet and ended up being a tatty SMK b2 that could barely punch through cardboard.
 
Musing over taking up pistol or rifle.

Only have at best 10m range and thats by firing from inside into garden.

Can look at localish ranges.

Any idea what to start with to see if I like it?
 
Hotwired said:
Musing over taking up pistol or rifle.

Only have at best 10m range and thats by firing from inside into garden.

Can look at localish ranges.

Any idea what to start with to see if I like it?
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Do you want a springer, PCP or CO2? I think the SMK XS78 is a nice starter rifle (CO2). I think you can pick them up for ~£100.
 
slick rick said:
Do you want a springer, PCP or CO2? I think the SMK XS78 is a nice starter rifle (CO2). I think you can pick them up for ~£100.
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I don't really know :o

I'm roughly aware of the pros and cons but never had to live with any of them let alone use them.

Closest air/gun club to me seems to be about 30 miles away might or might not be easier to go to one and see.
 
My New HW100 KTLA :)

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Always had .22 air rifles but this time decided to have a go with .177
 
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Glaucus said:
Anyone know a list of rifle shooting ranges in england
Can only find two and they near each other in wales. But over 2hrs drive. Although it is up to 3km :eek:
Always fancied giving longer range shooting a try, tried normal shooting range when in America and tbh it was easy and pretty boring.
Rifle at long range must be a lot harder.

http://www.orionfirearmstraining.co.uk/index.html
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I can highly recommend orion, I do a lot of shooting but booked a day on the range there. It was freezing cold and snowing so range was limited to 1000yds due to visibility but with cross winds etc that was challenging enough. .338lap mag was fantastic though still prefer the .30-06 :cool:
People do shoot there out to 3km though with .338, .50cal
 
topshot said:
I can highly recommend orion, I do a lot of shooting but booked a day on the range there. It was freezing cold and snowing so range was limited to 1000yds due to visibility but with cross winds etc that was challenging enough. .338lap mag was fantastic though still prefer the .30-06 :cool:
People do shoot there out to 3km though with .338, .50cal
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that's good to know, think ill go one their experience day in the spring. pretty expensive but find out if i like it.
 
Amidar said:
No it's the standard stock that comes with the laminate version of the HW100, think the earlier laminate stocked models didn't have the adjustable cheek piece.
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Very nice, I have the standard KT with the walnut stock, very quiet. The rabbits can't even hear it, but i find mine very pellet fussy.
 
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