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  1. Thank you very much for your helpful reply. I suppose I shall just have to grind my teeth and bow to the system, galling though that is. I won't bother with the extra trouble and expense of coterminous certificates in 16 months time because at my age there will almost certainly be no long term saving.
  2. With my shotgun certificate due to expire soon and my firearm certificate due to expire in about 16 months time I applied for coterminous certificates, only to be told that I could do this only when the firearm certificate expires. That means I will have paid for a shotgun certificate lasting only 16 months and then have the cost of the coterminous certificates as well. Am I being correctly instructed by Hampshire Firearms Dept.? Is there any good reason for making the coterminous issue hinge on the firearm certificate renewal? I really don't understand the system. Enlightenment much appreciated.
  3. Price: £340 This air rifle is in truly excellent condition. I have owned it from new and taken great care of it. Although a few years old now, it is the newer model as can be seen in the chequering. Less than one tin of pellets through it, so it is just nicely run in. Very nice beech woodwork (apart from two small scratches)and impeccable bluing. Very powerful within its legal limit (no licence needed). I have used it successfully out to 35 yards on rabbits, squirrels, and magpies. Included is a Nikkon Stirling Mountmaster 3-9 x 40 with adjustable objective, which suits the rifle very well. The scope had an illuminated function but that is now broken and capped off. I believe that the asking price beats anything on Guntrader.
  4. CZ 453 £140 Rifle advertised just now. Additional photo (if the moderators permit)
  5. This is the fairly rare model with a set trigger, which goes off very crisply. The rifle has been hardly used and is pretty well as new. On the few occasions that I did use it, I cleaned he barrel scrupulously afterwards, as I would do for my small bore target rifles. I will include the bore guide if I can find it. The rifle has lovely dark walnut and perfect bluing. The photos have come out rather reddish, which gives a false impression of the dark brown woodwork. It is screw cut. Included (if you have a slot for it on your ticket) is a LEI moderator, which is very small and convenient but has a performance at least equal to any other rimfire moderator. There is no scope included, however. I will also include, if it is practicable to do so, over 500 HMR rounds, mostly 17 grain but some are 20 grain. Two other photos available by email (I can't upload more than one here). Or I will try to add them separately here. Price: £140, which I think beats any price that I have seen for one of these in immaculate condition. Must sell quickly as we are moving house. Might consider near offers. I live near Romsey, Hampshire. I could arrange RFD delivery at extra cost (including my petrol to Salisbury for a friendly gun dealer).
  6. Does anyone have a better tel. number than the one given on Richard Stork's website, please? It seems to be on permanent answer phone, and his email address doesn't work too well either. I have a theoretical appointment with him on Thursday but I can't get through to him to confirm it and I also lack his address. Thank you if you can help.
  7. Yes, that would be right. It was a house, with some rather nice panelling in the two rooms where he kept his guns. Very much one of a kind. Rotten luck to die at only 54.
  8. Then maybe you will remember Michael and his small, quaint gunshop close to the centre. He dealt mostly in shotguns, especially Winchesters if he could get them.
  9. Thank you. (My pseudonym relates to part of my family background, not to where I now live, I'm afraid.) I don't know the exact power of my HW97, but it is only run-in, as I understand the term as it relates to air rifles, i.e. about 300+ pellets through it. I bought it some years ago, second hand but virtually new from a dealer in Shaftesbury, lovely guy, now dead well before his time from cancer. Always seemed pretty powerful to me, but how do I know exactly. Maybe I will need to have the BSA properly checked if I suspect anything amiss. For now, I guess I had better just shoot it and see. When the time comes - if it does - I might send it to John Bowkett, rather than BSA, especially if out of warranty.
  10. Many thanks for your post. And may I thank all the others that have contributed in the few days since I stupidly neglected to continue checking for additional replies? All much appreciated. The power question is a bit awkward as I do not have a chronograph. Perhaps a pragmatic test with an old telephone directory or similar, or a thick plank of pine, and using my HW97 as the benchmark would be a satisfactory substitute? I know that my HW will make quite a mess of an inch of pine. It is nicely run in and I use only good quality pellets e.g. Diabolo Exact.
  11. That is not good news. I have omitted to look in on this forum since this was posted until now. Actually, I bought a new BSA .22 today. I gather that the cylinder is the weak point, so I will look out for that. I suppose that if it proves perpetually faulty I might be able to get a full refund. However, I am hoping for the best. The rifle is just the right weight and feels well balanced. It came with a fully charged cylinder, so I will keep a careful count of the shots I take and if the number falls well short of the 50-60 full power ones that I would expect from manufacturer's claim of 62, then I suppose I shall know that I have a dud. Just at the moment, the main problem is that I cannot obtain a Weihrauch silencer, so I am thinking of using a Swift (Richard Pope) moderator that I have on my CZ .22 rimfire. It works brilliantly well on the CZ. Can anyone tell me whether there is any reason why I should not use it on the BSA? Would the much slower pellet compared to a .22 rimfire bullet cause any problems? Grateful for advice.
  12. Many thanks to all who have so kindly responded. Lots of useful information and advice here. I like the sound of the BSA ultra or clx, not least for the weight. I have always admired the BSA Martini Internationals .22 LR for their engineering, so I would hope that their air rifle successors - still made in Birmingham, I'm glad to note - will not disappoint.
  13. Right, thank you, but don't the Weihrauchs come with their own silencer? And if they don't, which silencer would you recommend, please?
  14. Thank you. Very helpful and encouraging. Feels like more than 9lbs if I compare it to my Browning 325 at 7lb 11oz., but of course the latter is better balanced. Thank you. Very helpful, and good to hear about the accuracy and cycling, too.
  15. I have used a HW97 for quite a few years, and very good it is too. But I am finding it rather heavy to lift and hold at my age, plus the effort of cocking it with somewhat damaged wrists. Also, our dog gets very frightened of the noise of the spring and recoil. So, will a PCP be considerably lighter, obviously no cocking problem, and will it be almost silent compared to my current rifle? Grateful for your advice.
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