bruno22rf

Yes Ken.....right on both counts

How are you going to stop the loud thud as the pellet hits Roland - tiny padded jackets?

Before you buy a .22 you might consider that not many pellets of good quality are made in 5.6 anymore - the Stutzen .22 that I had was very fussy and worked best with old Wasps but these are no longer made to the same standard - the .177 gives you a far greater choice - not trying to push my gun at all, I could sell it easily as the smaller calibre is rarer and there is a healthy demand

"Grey hair.....false teeth.....bad hips" have you been stalking me? I started with a Relum T200 and I could only dream of old Diana's! In my day it took 2 weeks to save up for a tin of Milbro Caledonian pellets and it would be 7 years with the Relum b4 my first months wages bought me a HW35 (with a scope-virtually unheard of in those days) and I can recall drooling over the catalogue from the Sussex Armoury, makers of your gun. I have since used, pretty much, just about every Spring powered gun out there and have enjoyed, mostly, every minute - there have been highs, Original45, Annie335 and my HW80 and lows Daystate mk3 Diana G80 and every Gammo that I ever met. So I do know where you are coming from - I was bought up the hard (right?) way and still refuse to spend money on Bell's and Whistles, in fact I am lucky enough to be able to buy any gun that I choose and not worry about the cost but I buy like I am still a teenager back in the days gone by and buy using every ounce of experience I have gained and , by and large, stick with Air Arms - not the dearest by any means but , in my opinion, the best. The AAS410 does everything you will ever ask of it simples, and saves you money by making any other gun you might fall for superfluous. BTW have a near mint Mercury S in .177 if you cannot find a rough one.

Mine is practically inaudible 10 yards away - how quiet do you want? The pellet flying thru the Air is about the only sound after the tiny clunk of the hammer, what are you shooting at , Menwith Hill

Anyone wishing to drag out ancient Airguns from the depths of their cellars might be advised to purchase a pair of Rose Tinted Specs - gonna come in handy

If you spend time on any forum with like minded folk you are likely to make "virtual" friends ( and enemies) as you spend idle time discussing the things that you are passionate about, just because you never put a face to a username does not make them any less capable of sharing the highs and lows of your life with you. When an illness strikes, such as in this case, I would consider it the honourable thing to do to allow members, who wish to do so, to express their concern and best wishes to any member past or present who is in trouble, it's all about respect and without that we may as well pack it all in.

Try Cylinder and Skeet db135 - breaks clays at impressive ranges, Important to remember that a clay can break with a single pellet and that you don't need to "kill" it. BTW - on the subject of older Miroku's, I bought one about 2 months back for £200 and had the nasty stock oil finished - it's a 3000 and I had intended to move it on and make a couple of quid but the thing is so nice to shoot that it now sits at the front of my O/U rack.

Out on the Squizzers today and 1pm found me sitting in the shade not 20 yards from the busiest Hopper on my "hit list". A txt this very morning (normally only get them on Fridays but heyho) informed me that the Hopper had been filled and the footplate duly smothered with Peanut butter and that several of the blighters were seen in the area. Within the first hour 2 Squizzers were no longer worried about what to buy each other for Christmas this year but as the second one fell I saw one that had come with him shoot up into the tree tops where, for the next 30 minutes or so, he sat cursing me. Try as I might I simply could not see him and moving would mean breaking cover and then facing the inevitable long wait till things calmed down again. After getting more and more annoyed at his verbal abuse I had to stand up for a while to relieve my rear end from the pain of sitting on a pound shop special fold up chair and as I did a movement caught my eye and, lo and behold, the Singing Squizzer was less than 10 feet away on a low branch still shouting away. Now for the crazy bit - instead of going vertical and disappearing, the eejit jumped onto the floor and ran like the Clappers only then to leap, rather impressively, about 3 metres up the trunk of the tree where the Hopper is fixed. Sitting down slowly, heartbeat racing, he disappeared from view and I resigned myself to the fact that I had lost him. About to pack up and go home I checked the tree thru the scope only to find Sinatra Squizzers head and part of his shoulder staring at me down the side of the trunk. The naughty thing is that I am not supposed to shoot unless the target is on the Hopper but this little pest had gone too far so, after taking careful aim and easing the trigger back, Sinatra and 16 grains of Air Arms finest lead finally met. Try as he might I very much doubt that ,without considerable coaching, Sinatra Squizzer would have ever produced such a wonderful sound as his head did at that moment. Silence at last and that's 5 now off the same Hopper and not a single survivor since switching to the .22....Happy Days

Right or wrong I have done it many times this way over the last 2 years. Seller takes gun to his RFD, this RFD then sends the gun to your RFD, you then check the gun over and ,if all is well, your RFD puts said gun onto your Cert, payment is then made by whatever means was agreed in the first place. You should agree with the seller before the gun is "posted" who pays for return costs if the gun is not suitable and the sale doesn't go ahead. Pretty sure, reading some of the posts on here, that my way is wrong but I have done it this way many times.

Don't believe a word the Doc says - I'm afraid your condition is terminal and you must send me your Guns (and a picky of the Wife) asap. CJC Vd, BO GP (google practitioner)

How peculiar....just been given a bottle of Glenlivet12 and I don't rate it at all, below, in fact, a bottle of Aldi Glen Marnoch (think that's what it's called) I have.

Easy - try them all then do the sensible thing and buy the S510, stunning looking and performance end of.

Not sure about the being stupid and not reading the small print bit.....there's no mention of PPI in one of our loans from about 10 years ago but when the Manager of the branch tells you that you will NOT get the loan without protecting the repayments (HFC Bank) you have little choice. Luckily, as times became harder, we paid the loan off using a zero % card so we only paid for a couple of years but I'm kinda glad that we did fall for it at the time because the refund has been in the thousands and we claimed ourselves so no costs were incurred. BTW - if you really are sick of sales calls I think I have found the solution - look on the Bay for a BT8600 - you can get them new for under £30, after suffering from several calls a day for years I bought one 2 weeks ago and not a single sales call has come thru since so far - worth it's weight in gold.

Just been to find the feeder that I'm shooting on tomorrow, will be dark when I arrive in the morning and it's a Hopper I have never been assigned to before.

How long did you have the gun before you noticed the stock was damaged?

I like to have a laugh with them when I have the time. Being an Atheist I listen intently while they twitter on about the certain existence of God and his almighty powers before I ask if he ever has a day off, I then explain that I have been wondering where he was all the time that the Jews were being led into the Gas Chambers or while James Bulger was being led down the Railway tracks. While they stutter and stammer between themselves to find an answer I simply tell them to **** off and peddle their poo elsewhere.

Aldi are also selling Aberdeen Angus 30 day matured Top Rump joints at £7.99/kg and it's spot on, normally pay 3 times that for our Christmas meat from our local Butcher and last years was rubbish. Aldi's large joint works out around the £17 mark and fed 5 on Sunday and enough left over to make a Stew on Monday, it's not the best Beef that I have tasted but it is up there and darned cheap.

ZKM 452 or Mod2 - pretty much the same gun, cheap as chips but every bit as tasty, had mine 20+ years and still looks/shoots like new.

Not saying I'm afraid as we are not allowed to publicise the locations due to possible complaints - the land is run by a Trust but council owned (actually - both my squirrel perms are) and the Trust have the task of vermin control. There is a manager who controls the shooting and interviews each potential "member" of the team, if accepted you then have to sign documents relating to H&S regs as well as behaviour expected. A map is given of all locations with the positions of each feeder being numbered and on a Friday we get a txt indicating the busiest feeders and which ones we have been designated. This manager fills the feeders during the week and now also, as UKPoacher has mentioned, spreads peanut butter on the platform of the feeder. We all have to produce proof of insurance and each outing has to be reported to the Police beforehand and a URN recorded.

Corvids are off the menu where I am shooting at the moment, unless they land on the feeder. Public woodland with people wandering around means that shots can only be taken from one position at each feeder and quarry must be shot on the actual feeder itself to utilise the steel backstop, every aspect has been H&S checked and I have to sign a form each year agreeing to the restrictions.

Opened the Batting with 2 this morning...up at 5:50 but it didn't get light till 7 ...first one came in while it was too dark to see it clearly and I had to wait for a side on silhouette before I could spoil his day, second one ...no thud!! just the pellet hitting the steel backstop but dropped like a stone.

Put a drop of thick oil on it or even a dab of grease - should stop it rattling around.

Wads are cheap enough and empties cost nothing, shot is cheap as well if you shop around. IF you were considering reloading with a machine I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that you need specialist parts as any static that might build up and cause the tiniest spark in a normal machine would be entertaining to say the least. Might be cheaper to get her nitro proofed?

On the other hand....had it been in this country they would have had permanent housing built and a Benefits office onsite to help them claim, bus service, Doctors surgery, free food ....the list is endless.