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  • Air rifles
  • wysiwyg
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    20 yds to be useful. Just make sure you’ve got a pellet trap and back stop

    br
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    You can get low-powered rifles, and tbh as long as if there are folk around you don’t shoot – you’ll be fine.

    I built my son a range in one of our outbuildings. Its 10m and I got a couple of pellet traps, work really well. Plus have added lights now. We are lucky where we are, as behind us we’ve a burn in a deep gulley, has no access so pretty good for shooting – my neighbour has a 100m range for his rifles 🙂

    cranberry
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    Josh – may you soon get the maturity and common sense to work out that you should never point a weapon at another person, never mind shoot them with it.

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    rogg
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    *paces out garden, Google’s ‘pellet traps’*

    br
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    ebay item Number – 140574996812

    Delivered quickly and work real well.

    lazybike
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    Air Arms TX200hc .177 for me, I don’t hunt, just plinking and HFT comps. Find a local club and go along for a chat, you’ll get good advice and get to try some guns.

    sbob
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    wysiwyg – Member

    The Directors of Theoben Limited having reviewed the financial position of the Company have taken the decision to take the necessary steps to place the Company into Creditors Voluntary Liquidation.

    oh i…

    That is sad.
    Not only do (did!) they make exquisite rifles, they are local to me and I used to make parts for them. 🙁

    br
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    That is sad.
    Not only do (did!) they make exquisite rifles, they are local to me and I used to make parts for them.

    I wonder how much the restrictions on online/catalogue sales impacted them, and airgun sales in general?

    wysiwyg
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    I think there was a guy on here said he used to make rapid 7 parts. Unless that was you.

    flip
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    Ok so thanks for all the advice, been hanging around airgun forums too and bought an Air Arms s200 with multi shot conversion, Hawke 4-12×40 scope and Jack Pyke slip.

    Second hand bargin from Bates Stafford.

    sharkbait
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    Nice one Flip. I’ve got the same gun and it’s viciously accurate (and fugly too which is cool!).

    Clong
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    Nice piece of kit. You’ll need to look recharging stuff, either a diving bottle or a stirrup pump. I use a stirrup pump, but it takes a bit of effort at 200 odd bar.

    Scapegoat
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    Shibboleth – Member
    My HW100 is just below the FAC limit of 12ft/lb. It’s a very simple job to convert it so it shoots at around 20ft/lbs but I’ve never had any problems with it in standard form.
    When you start tinkering with them, there’s a payoff in terms of how many rounds between charges and I’m told they lose accuracy if you go too powerful.
    Awesome gun though. The Airarms mentioned above is a cracker too for a springer, heavy but nicely balanced.

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    Just a word of warning about being tempted to “easily convert it to 20 ft/lb. If you do without the necessary certificate you commit an offence with a mandatory prison sentence.

    On a lighter note, nice rifle flip.

    My lad has a .22 cal BSA lightning XL tactical. It’s a black plastic stocked carbine springer, with a thumbhole tactical stock. It has a built in moderator, and is so well made/balanced he could shoot it off the hand at age 12. Using RWS Superdomes I could group it in a 5p sized target at 20 metres.

    Last time we went out he shot a dozen bunnies with it, all head shots up to 35-40 metres. It went over the chrono at 11.5ft/lb last time I had it checked.

    I used to have a PCP /177 Daystate. Accurate, but heavy and expensive. Now I can’t justify anything more than his BSA.

    sharkbait
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    You’ll need to look recharging stuff, either a diving bottle or a stirrup pump

    i managed to get a couple of full diving bottles – makes life very much easier.

    flip
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    The guy gave me a dive bottle too £420 for the lot, well chuffed, it is accurate i’ve been in the garden with it.

    I’m loving the multi shot 8)

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    Ok guys, fire away
    targets are 6′, formulae for using the mil-dots are on the page

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