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Here's my air rifle, only used for target practise, .22 non FAC. I am told they are good for bunnies, but I don't like shooting animals, I'm too soft and not confident enough so I would get the local lampers in if I had a bunny problem. I think Logun went bust? I use the pump as I use it infrequently. It is a bit of a work outI probably need to sort out the desiccant as I feel a target practise session coming on
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It is a Simmonds Whitetail Classic and the optics were always great on them. Always easy to sell on as they are desirable but look out for crystal growth inside the tube. The Logun sweet 16 was a great gun but they are a challenge to reseal. If it ever leaks drop me a line and I will tell you how to get it apart, which can be tricky if you have never done one.
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went to to elevenerife on holiday?
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@northwest currently borrowing a weirauch hw35 which has a sloppy barrel when the breach is closed is there a cure for this?
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keep one of mine in the utility room bog
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I keep my airsoft Webley on the kitchen window sill for the squirrels feeding off the bird table as my lurcher seems to have come to an non aggression agreement with them, haven't hit one yet but they do get the message,
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Girly .177 eh 
I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat. Wish I hadn’t sold it
keep one of mine in the utility room bog
I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat
. Wish I hadn’t sold it
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Well I've missed completely this thread..
But taking out a rampant rabbit with an air gun?
Just remove the batteries surely...
Sorry, late, had a few, coat, door!
But taking out a rampant rabbit with an air gun?
Just remove the batteries surely...
Sorry, late, had a few, coat, door!
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Or, you could just leave the rabbits alone and enjoy the pastoral scene.
"I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat. Wish I hadn’t sold it"
I thought they were meant to have a pressure relief that stopped them exceeding the air rifle limit, something like 4 pumps?
"I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat
. Wish I hadn’t sold it"I thought they were meant to have a pressure relief that stopped them exceeding the air rifle limit, something like 4 pumps?
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I like the rabbits, let the dogs chase them, and fail to catch them.
We've all got to survive...
We've all got to survive...
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Girly .177 eh
I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat
Yeah girly, ya big girls blouse
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How about 7 in one shot with an FAC air rifle?
They were all lined up neatly nicking food from a duck trough so the opportunity was too good to miss.
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Depends on a number of factors, distance, location, light, angle, backstop and so on. I know quite a few good shots and a couple of exceptional ones. I shoot every day and I am not as good as some really good shots. Speed and accuracy, the two seldom go together. I shoot with a friend of mine who is an armed response cop and a good shot, it is always interesting watching him set up for the shot. Very deliberate and you can see him taking stock of every risk and angle. It's wired into them, if anything goes wrong they need to be able to recount the different scenarios and repeat them (I wouldn't have the job for a gold plated pension by the way) in case anything goes sideways. I shoot with another guy who is fast and would consider it a failure if he didn't get five shots in the bull, at almost any distance.
Depends, if the scene involves horses and you like to watch them put a hoof down a rabbit hole or if the rabbits have mixie. I have seen with my own eyes Railtrack dropping rabbits infected with Mixie out the back of a train at three in the morning. Railtrack don't like their embankments collapsing you see.
"I bought a Sharps Innova in .22 from Dave at Bulmers in York when they first came out 28quid rings a bell.
Great little rifle, 8 pumps was just too much for anything but leant up the side of the pig sty door loaded ready for the odd rat
I thought they were meant to have a pressure relief that stopped them exceeding the air rifle limit, something like 4 pumps?
It's not exactly a number of pumps. They have a relief valve that lets go when the pressure is high enough to give the rifle about a 9ft lb capability.
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my partners niece is a copper and her fella is armed response he said unless there called to a known person with firearms history 95% of the time they just drive around supporting other officers.
when William was flying the chopper out of Cambridge they would do a sweep of the route, then sit back as he insisted on driving himself (he had 4 armed guards in a Range Rover behind him as well as 2 armed please all marked up) they would then sit on top of a bridge taking it in turns to sleep then when he landed anything from 4 hours to 12 they would sweep the route and then follow him home all on over time too
when he explained the downside of you can’t pull the trigger unless your 100% confident it took the rose tinted sweeney feel away for me
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you'll need surgical accuracy for rabbits with a 12lb-ft airgun. Personally I wouldn't have what it takes with a spring gun, I'd only ever look at PCPs now.
I have a Air Arms s410, had it a few months now and LOVE it, coupled with a mil dot scope it makes clean kills really easy.
if you really want to keep cost down you can buy a pump instead of a bottle. in .177 I can get around 80-100 shots out of a single fill from 190bar down to 100bar, enough for a decent target practice session.
I have a Air Arms s410, had it a few months now and LOVE it, coupled with a mil dot scope it makes clean kills really easy.
if you really want to keep cost down you can buy a pump instead of a bottle. in .177 I can get around 80-100 shots out of a single fill from 190bar down to 100bar, enough for a decent target practice session.
The relief valve was set at the factory, max power was usually achieved with just 4 pumps & once that valve lifted you could put twenty more in & it would do diddly squat. Mine did 11.5 on the four pumps. The worst thing about these was the trigger got heavier the more you put in. If you screwed that valve shut for more power the trigger pull got so heavy you couldnt hit owt anyway.
It was heavy enough set just under the limit. Sharp ace was the better built more expensive version, wish i still had mine!
