The Air Rifles & Pistols thread

Makhaira · 17 Feb 2013 at 15:38

That tray definitely doesn't sound right, I'd sort that first and then reshoot. In the meantime you could manually load the pellets to avoid any head damage.

On your comment with the Defiants, personally I prefer a pellet that will survive the odd knock. If I'm out hunting, I'll be using magazines, etc, and as such I want pellets that don't need to be mollycoddled too much. At the other end of the spectrum you've got the FT guys who will tell you that magazines are evil, and all pellets should be individually weighed, sized and lubed...

SimonCHere · 17 Feb 2013 at 17:45

As I know it happens, I am very careful when loading single shot. I did wonder if I'd got a .22 tray instead but I don't think so.

I don't want to have to be too careful with my pellets either so they may be out on that point alone.

ianh · 17 Feb 2013 at 20:00

My MCT tray was a rock solid fit (and tight to get it fitted too) and didn't even need the inbuilt magnets to hold it in place so, as you know, a wobbly tray is a poop tray

ianh · 17 Feb 2013 at 21:01

Makhaira said:
At the other end of the spectrum you've got the FT guys who will tell you that magazines are evil, and all pellets should be individually weighed, sized and lubed...

FT'ers worry me with all their lubing up and knob fiddling

kwerk · 17 Feb 2013 at 22:40

check this out theoben rapid pistol

ianh · 17 Feb 2013 at 22:53

I'm guessing thats Holland as that'd be massively illegal in the UK, although it looks fun to shoot!

Mark A · 18 Feb 2013 at 01:13

That is one ugly looking pistol, and that's coming from a HW45 owner

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Looks like the other guy was shooting a HW97.

Spanker · 18 Feb 2013 at 19:11

I have a BSA Scorpian pistol in bits, i will have to have a look at rebuilding it at some point. These were meant to be at the 6 ft lbs limit back in the day.

BF-Bert · 18 Feb 2013 at 19:57

Was down at Tayside HFT club yesterday for a competition, and was sure I knew of someone that shot there. Wasn't until I logged on here that I remembered that Jamief was a Tayside shooter.

Was the perfect day for shooting but unfortunately I was far from the perfect shot....... still brought home a silver tho.

Kobi · 18 Feb 2013 at 20:08

Oh im gonna have to google that club, tried to find one before but it was out the back of dundee

BF-Bert · 18 Feb 2013 at 20:11

Kobi said:
Oh im gonna have to google that club, tried to find one before but it was out the back of dundee

Thats the one, out at Auchterhouse.

haaammit · 19 Feb 2013 at 14:12

arekgreenman888 said:
Yes I do Quink. I am a good shot and can hit the bulls eye many times.

I'm very interested to know what scope you use as I'm not aware of any scope that can have the parallax adjusted down to 3 meters

Perywinkle · 19 Feb 2013 at 18:04

My latest guns are all airsoft! 6mm plastic goodness lol

JRJ · 19 Feb 2013 at 18:25

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-proposals-to-licence-air-weapons-in-scotland just in case somebody hasn't signed this

Mark A · 19 Feb 2013 at 18:40

JRJ said:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-proposals-to-licence-air-weapons-in-scotland just in case somebody hasn't signed this

Signed. 380 to go.

SimonCHere · 20 Feb 2013 at 12:24

After the lovely weather yesterday I finally got annoyed enough with only being able to shoot on Sunday mornings to actually go and see one of the local farmers to ask if I could use a bit of his land to zero/plink on.

What do you know, he said yes!

So I'm getting my paperwork signed today then I should be able to shoot 7 days a week.

Really excited, didn't ask for hunting permission as he told me he has a couple of people who already do that, as well as him and his son, but I only really wanted a strip of land.

haaammit · 20 Feb 2013 at 15:25

SimonCHere said:
After the lovely weather yesterday I finally got annoyed enough with only being able to shoot on Sunday mornings to actually go and see one of the local farmers to ask if I could use a bit of his land to zero/plink on.

What do you know, he said yes!

So I'm getting my paperwork signed today then I should be able to shoot 7 days a week.

Really excited, didn't ask for hunting permission as he told me he has a couple of people who already do that, as well as him and his son, but I only really wanted a strip of land.

Nice one!

When you were testing pellets, did you give the barrel several shots when you swapped pellets? It can take a few shot for the barrel to be conditioned to the new pellets

SimonCHere · 20 Feb 2013 at 15:38

Testing was like this:

Clean barrel with pull through when I started. The plan was to do it between different pellets but it was too cold!

5 shots at anything, (from mag)
5 shots through chrono (from Mag)
5 shots at 35 yards (single shot)
2x 5 shots at 45 yards. (Single shot)

So basically 15 shots before trying at 45 yards.

I've got some full tins coming so I will clean the barrel then lead up with 30-40 shots then go for the groups.

arekgreenman888 · 20 Feb 2013 at 22:03

Found good looking club near me but opening times are very short: "The club is open every Sunday between 9:30am to 1:30pm."

http://www.freewebs.com/stumpy1966/

SimonCHere · 21 Feb 2013 at 09:12

arekgreenman888 said:
Found good looking club near me but opening times are very short: "The club is open every Sunday between 9:30am to 1:30pm."

http://www.freewebs.com/stumpy1966/

that's all my club is open for. Mind you in this weather you are frozen by then end of it anyway.

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