The Air Rifles & Pistols thread

Someone · 16 Aug 2011 at 12:15

I part exchanged my TX200 around 4 months ago for this Daystate MK3:

Sorry about pic quality but cant find my camera so had to use my phone.

It felt strange shooting it to start with after being using the TX200 for so long as I kept expecting their to be recoil, but there was nothing. The only feedback it gives is a bit of noise and the pellet punching a whole exactly where you aim. I manages to shoot 5 plastic tea stirrers in a row at 45m (indoors) which I would never have managed with the TX200.

I need to strip the stock at some point and oil is as it currently has a gloss varnish finish which I dont really like as much and doesn't show off the grain of the wood either, or I might try and get a MK4 thumbhole stock second hand as I think they look much nicer and fit the MK3s with a tiny bit of modification.

Captain Chaos · 16 Aug 2011 at 12:26

ive owned the lot lol

currently loving my Airarms EvII custom

its a beast!

Prophet · 22 Aug 2011 at 10:13

I managed to pick up my first air rifle at the weekend. I was with a mate who was looking for something quirky to add to his ever growing collection when we took a chance on a small shop in Ibstock just of J22 of the M1. They had a 3 Month old AirArms TX200 which was had been part exchanged for a PCP gun. I picked up the gun a 4x12-50 scope, bag and 500 pellets for £350. The gun is as new and I love it. We went straight back to my mates back garden range and fired a few shots. I was grouping a 1p piece size area at 20 yards handheld. Can't wait to get to the longer range tomorrow evening.

I'll get some pics uploaded when I have a few minutes.

jumpy · 22 Aug 2011 at 11:23

Ibstock? What was the shop called?
That's not far from my mum's place... for future reference for any kit and supplies, you understand. £350 all in seems like a good deal, Orange Peel (hah! that rhymes

)

Ta.

Prophet · 22 Aug 2011 at 11:59

jumpy said:
Ibstock? What was the shop called?
That's not far from my mum's place... for future reference for any kit and supplies, you understand. £350 all in seems like a good deal, Orange Peel (hah! that rhymes )

Ta.

Here ya go.

http://www.ibstocktackle.co.uk/

Really friendly and helpful staff.

steveo · 28 Aug 2011 at 10:12

well that was an interesting night, i was on one of my permissions lambing for some rabbits red filter on my tactical light which has a range on it of 100m, got to just after 11 last night and a bloody police helicopter put there search light on me lol i could here the thing coming up to the land and hover it was still pretty hi up and saw some police blues on the road about a mile away roughly were i parked my car, walked back to my car and the bloody police are there waiting,

turns out some one reported me and called the police who like the fuzz they are having nothing better to do in north yorkshire duly responded, though i have to say they were pretty good about it they let me pack my rifle away and i called the land owner to come down to confirm my permission and after a couple of signatures they left lol just came back from the land to clean up the wabbits this morning

lewism · 28 Aug 2011 at 11:22

Looking to sell my BSA Meteor. Love it but it's now just collecting dust. Where's the best place to sell?

Richie · 28 Aug 2011 at 12:04

steveo said:
turns out some one reported me and called the police who like the fuzz they are having nothing better to do in north yorkshire duly responded

You feel the police over-reacted when given a report of a person with a rifle roaming around the countryside in the dark given the recent Raul Moat and Derrick Bird events? :confused:

The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't in this country

Angst · 28 Aug 2011 at 12:38

Richie said:
You feel the police over-reacted when given a report of a person with a rifle roaming around the countryside in the dark given the recent Raul Moat and Derrick Bird events?

The police are damned if they do and damned if they don't in this country

Oh noes guy spottted in middle of farmland with rifle, the massacre he could commit wont somebody think of the bunnies. But seriously how unusual is it to see someone on farmland with a firearm? not at all.

Frozennova · 28 Aug 2011 at 12:51

This is quickly getting expensive. Over the last 3 weeks I've bought

Stoeger x20
BSA 3-9x40 Scope
Hawks Laser Sight

and I already want to get rid of the Stoeger and buy an S410 after using a friends Saturday.

Prophet · 28 Aug 2011 at 12:59

frozennova said:
This is quickly getting expensive. Over the last 3 weeks I've bought

Stoeger x20
BSA 3-9x40 Scope
Hawks Laser Sight

and I already want to get rid of the Stoeger and buy an S410 after using a friends Saturday.

One of the reasons I didn't buy and X21 was because my friends WH77 was so much better. Bought an Air Arms TX200 which I prefer to the WH77 and the WH97 I tried.

Skepticx · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:03

I might have to look into joing some sort of club would love to do abit of shooting and war

Frozennova · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:17

Orange Peel said:
One of the reasons I didn't buy and X21 was because my friends WH77 was so much better. Bought an Air Arms TX200 which I prefer to the WH77 and the WH97 I tried.

It'll be getting a new trigger and a debur and internal polish which apparently transforms the way they shoot.

It chrono'd at 11.02ft/lbs yesterday as well.

Prophet · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:24

frozennova said:
It'll be getting a new trigger and a debur and internal polish which apparently transforms the way they shoot.

It chrono'd at 11.02ft/lbs yesterday as well.

The trigger was a main factor. Very stiff and clunky but if you can sort that it's a decent budget rifle.

I can't recommend the TX200 enough though. The trigger and accuracy over 50 yards are amazing.

Frozennova · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:33

Orange Peel said:
The trigger was a main factor. Very stiff and clunky but if you can sort that it's a decent budget rifle.

I can't recommend the TX200 enough though. The trigger and accuracy over 50 yards are amazing.

welshwilly from the uk Chinese air gun forum linked above supplies them for £20 roughly which is supposed to be as good as the big boys.

I'm grouping fairly tightly over 50 yards and have hit on target at 150 yards so it's accuracy doesn't seem to be a problem.

Snaggle · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:48

frozennova said:
welshwilly from the uk Chinese air gun forum linked above supplies them for £20 roughly which is supposed to be as good as the big boys.

I'm grouping fairly tightly over 50 yards and have hit on target at 150 yards so it's accuracy doesn't seem to be a problem.

Do you mean feet? Because there is now way some cheapo chinese tat will group properly at 50 yards and you wont be hitting stuff at 150 yards . Most of the decent guns in this thread wont do it so a spring based single stage plinker sure as hell wont .

Richie · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:58

Angst said:
Oh noes guy spottted in middle of farmland with rifle, the massacre he could commit wont somebody think of the bunnies. But seriously how unusual is it to see someone on farmland with a firearm? not at all.

Did I say it was unusual? er... No, I can't see where I said anything remotely like that. What I said was anyone thinking that the police over reacted are being a bit naive when, most likely, all they had was an initial report from some fool of a civilian saying there is someone running around with a big rifle....

Feel free to mis-read this post as well and reply with nonsense...

Snaggle · 28 Aug 2011 at 14:02

Richie said:
Did I say it was unusual? er... No, I can't see where I said anything remotely like that. What I said was anyone thinking that the police over reacted are being a bit naive when, most likely, all they had was an initial report from some fool of a civilian saying there is someone running around with a big rifle....

Feel free to mis-read this post as well and reply with nonsense...

I had the same issue but worse . Police chopper 2 x arv's and a traffic car . All ready to rock and roll guns drawn pistols unlipped and chopper giving me directions (walk 100 yards lay gun down...lay on the ground with arms infront etc ) lasted nearly 2 hours and all i was doing was zeroing the 243

This is the trouble with letting townies in the countryside

Persil

panyan · 28 Aug 2011 at 14:08

i bought a BSA Comet a year or two ago - really beautiful gun - wish i had more space to shoot with two cats and a baby running around

Prophet · 28 Aug 2011 at 14:11

panyan said:
i bought a BSA Comet a year or two ago - really beautiful gun - wish i had more space to shoot with two cats and a baby running around

They are quite big targets so understand why you wants some distance between you and them