The Air Rifles & Pistols thread

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Anyone ever go shooting? Just recently joined the local HFT club (biggest in Scotland I believe), and will hopefully be getting an AA S400 next month. Aiming to do a little vermin control on the family farm too (rabbits, crows & rats!). Would be interested to hear if others here do any kind of shooting :)
 
Yeah, done a lot of shooting in my time (mainly rabbits).

I have a nice .22 BSA Lightning locked in my uncle's cabinet, i really would like to find the time to go shooting again but i just CBA to go through the chew of gaining permission to shoot etc etc.

Nothing better than an early morning sniper session though!
 
Do air guns require a permit? I have had a .22 hand gun in my cupboard for years now and never got a permit or permission from anywhere. They are very fun. If you chew up some paper and fit it into the barrel you can give people a mighty bruise :P

I remember when I was about 12 we had them out and we would go to a local building site and shoot the builders cans of juice and random things off of walls and stuff.......seems very stupid and dangerous now though :S
 
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Airrifles over 12ft/lbs in power require a Firearms certificate (FAC). Air pistols over 6ft/lbs require a FAC. If you don't have a FAC and your pistol is over 6ft/lbs power, the penalty is quite serious - 9 months in jail!
 
The AAS400 is a good gun. I used to have the AAS410, the 10 shot mag version of it. I had the Tasco Custom Shop 8-40x56 and it would shoot pellet on pellet at 50yards. I wish I still had the time for it!
 
The only problem I'm finding is that the guns hold their value so well - second hand prices are pretty much the same as new! Ach well, new it is then :)
 
I sell Air rifles (amongst other things) for a living :D

Going shooting soon with a mate very soon, probably just plink a few tin cans though. Nothing too serious this time of year.

I prefer to hunt in the autumn season, too many younguns need feeding around this time.
 
Used to own a lovely powerful Weihrauch HW80k with a whopping big silencer on, my dads got it now - the barrel ended up getting bent through the silencer giving too much leverage onto it.

Lovely piece of kit - when the barrel was straight I could hit empty shotgun shell cases at 25-30 yards regularly, and when I had chance bunnies at slightly longer range :)

I miss shooting random pest species... might have to have a look around for somewhere to shoot and get a nice quiet pre-charged.
 
Tom0 said:
I sell Air rifles (amongst other things) for a living :D

Going shooting soon with a mate very soon, probably just plink a few tin cans though. Nothing too serious this time of year.

I prefer to hunt in the autumn season, too many younguns need feeding around this time.
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Can you do me a deal on an S400? ;)
 
I have a few air rifles. Got a HW97k (stage 1 venom tuned), BSA Lightning (with a custom stock i made myself) and a Cometa 300. I used to have a really nice Webley Venom Sidewinder with a walnut stock but i sold it and really regret it now. Can post pics if anyone interested.

I don't go to any clubs but have a 45 meter range in my garden that i occasionally have a shoot out on. Going to look into joining a club this summer and getting a PCP.
 
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i've got a trusty old BSA Meteor, recentley serviced with new spring etc for pennies. accurate little bugger but not much power as i would like.

Would love a HWK but the cost is a bit off putting for the amount of time i have to go shooting at the moment :(
 
i have a chinese QB78 (in .22) pellet gun that runs on Co2. despite the disapproving looks it gets from other airgunners, i can shoot a match-head off it's stem at 12.5 yards every time :D

not had the oppotunity to run it through the Chrono, but i think it's shooting at about 10ft/lb - it was shooting 6 when new, but it was leaky and inefficient. it's been well tuned now ;)
 
hothatchnut said:
can't believe anyone would shoot a crow, they are one of the most intelligent wild birds in the UK.
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So why, in my previous house, did they spent about 30 minutes each day attacking my neighbours car?

Stupid, dirty, annoying little *******. Looking forward to clearing the farm of them :cool:
 
My family own some land, about 11 or 13 acres, it has a public footpath through it, would I be able to shoot there or would I get in trouble?

We have a few old rifles sitting round and my cousin just bought 1 a week ago.
 
I've got a lovely Falcon Raptor mkII (FN19-RB) topped with a Simmons Whitetail Classic 3.5-10 X 50

Don't get to shoot it much any more as I've moved out of the countryside :(
It's a bit depressing shooting rats@8m off the bird table after being able to shoot bottle caps@40m
 
I used to have an air rilfle as a teenager, no wilflife was safe on my dads farm:) But that was 30 year ago, would love to join a club but would never find the time.
 
SimonCHere said:
I've got a lovely Falcon Raptor mkII (FN19-RB) topped with a Simmons Whitetail Classic 3.5-10 X 50

Don't get to shoot it much any more as I've moved out of the countryside :(
It's a bit depressing shooting rats@8m off the bird table after being able to shoot bottle caps@40m
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I wanted that gun so bad before I got the S410. It looks so damn good (the lightweight version). Nice clear scope too.
 
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