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Sorry, One is enough. I just wanted to encourage anyone thinking about it to go ahead. Love mine. Great simple and historically interesting type of gun. Can't seem to miss with mine. Good luck

I have Greener Martini Action. Love it.

Great photos there Feltwad. I'm having one of my periodic hankerings for a pedersoli sbs muzzle loader..... Just looked at my old repro powder flask and the old longings came back on me. I think I'd be a bit scared of a genuine old girl. I've read of the old barrels bursting in real old guns. I'm partial to my eyesight and fingers. I was once standing about a meter from a gun that burst. It wasn't funny.

A great tale there Bruno. Excellent luck that. It's nice when it happens. I had a stroke of luck like that when I was helping a mate with some lambing in 2016. He rents 88 acres from an old guy of 89 who has retired. I got in happily shooting jackdaws and the odd pigeon and come October last, he rang me up and said, 'Come up here and shoot some pheasants. They are all over my chicken feed.' 'How many do you want shot? says I.' 'Oh - I don't know. Half a dozen? Come every week and take some.' I went twice some weeks in the winter and had a total of 36 pheasants. My only problem is that he is very old and is trying to sell the farm. I hope he lives to a 110.

Loved this thread. Great reading. Never seen it before. I spotted a grey last week near my favourite shooting permission. I look forward to seeing more of them. Funny thing is they are easily seen in the town where I live, but I can't get at those ones. I read some great accounts of squirrel shooting in the States with a 28 gauge flintlock. Check out the links below for that. http://home.insightbb.com/~bspen/thrill.html http://home.insightbb.com/~bspen/squirrel.html My favourite shooting place.

Can you run Chairgun on Linux platforms? My windows laptop messed itself up and I couldn't restore it and I went over to Ubuntu. If it is written in Java which the link above says, it may well work for me. I used it years ago when I was concerned about a rifle I had being a bit too flat shooting. I was right. It was and I got it on a ticket quick. EDIT: I downloaded it for my android phone. Works well. This airgun calculator is pretty good too and will run on any web browser whatever operating system. This is set up for my FAC .22 http://www.shooterscalculator.com/ballistic-trajectory-chart.php?pl=%5BPreset+Name%5D&presets=&df=G1&bc=0.032&bw=16&vi=830&zr=40&sh=1.5&sa=0&ws=10&wa=90&ssb=on&cr=75&ss=5&chartColumns=Range~yd%3BElevation~in%3BElevation~MOA~FBFFF5%3BElevation~MIL%3BWindage~in%3BWindage~MOA~FBFFF5%3BWindage~MIL%3BTime~s%3BEnergy~ft.lbf%3BVel%5Bx%2By%5D~ft%2Fs&lbl=&submitst=+Create+Chart+ Scroll down for graphs etc.

I've never used those very low power .22rf rounds. I used to use Eley subsonic and they were great as long as you could cater for the curvy trajectory. They would easily group about an inch at 50 yards - they might have done better if I'd been up too shooting better.

Thanks for the info. Stonepark. Horses for courses and each man to his own really seems to cover it. I value as flat a trajectory as I can get as long as the caliber will flatten the vermin without cruel woundings and such like. I take the point about heavier impact. Personally, and this is just one man's opinion, if you are going to go for as much as 45ft/pounds, you might as well go for a .22rf and load subsonics. They will hit even harder if you need that. Having said that, there may be special circumstances I haven't thought about. I recently started using 25 ft pounds in .22 and that will kill effectively with shots to the chest - no argument, at 40 yards or thereabouts. What makes it useful in some situations is that I can use it around buildings and inside certain kinds of buildings without the risks of damage and ricocheting around inside and risk to me. Always have to be careful of course. Up until the last few weeks I used .22rf and .17hmr. The cost of the latter is mad though for young rabbits or a crow in a field. The airgun does well on cost.

Morris dancing is obviously the way forward then.

I'd have thought some decent furniture polish would do it. Lather it on, leave a bit, and wipe off again. repeat as needed. Chris - re those AA Fields - are they 5.51 or 5.52mm? They seem to come in two sizes and I don't want 500 of the wrong ones given the ones you sent work so well. Cheers Tony

I'm 66 and find it a chore to pump my Axsor up, but it is perfectly doable. I go to 200 bar and that usually takes me about 130 strokes with the pump I have. If I get out of breath, I jusst top for a spell and then go at it again. Out of about five or seven minutes of pumping, I get 35 shots at 25 ft pounds. Before I put the gun on my FAC and made the power adjustment, I used to get about 80 shots at <12 ft pounds. I didn't have to pump it that much then and I was younger If the bottle just needs testing it sound a much cheaper and more convenient way to pressurise the gun. You won't get a pump for £50 or so, but you can probably get your bottle tested and filled for about that.

The buyer won't regret it. If not used to this gun, let me save him some time. Use AA Field .22. I had some right palarver when I adjusted mine for FAC. I had previously used Crossman Accupels of which I had a lot in store, but they were suddenly inaccurate at high power. BRNO.22rf sorted me out with some AA fields and they work brilliantly. All on a sixpence. Happy days

Just a comment on the frying pan -I've been de-breasting pigeon for a good while when I shot the odd one, but last time, I put the bird in a plastic shopping bag and plucked, beheaded and de-legged it inside the bag - oh - and gutted it. This took only a couple of minutes tops and I had a nice whole bird and all of the rubbish was easily tied up and thrown in the bin. Now the bit I wanted to get to.... I made a home made quick stuffing with some fried onions (two small ones about the size of a billiard ball, and I squidged these into some wholemeal bread, just crumbling and squashing the whole mass together - oil from the pan, onion and bread and I also liberally sprinkled black pepper onto it and mixed it in. I stuffed the bird with this and roasted the bird, wrapped in foil in an oven at 180c for twenty minutes. It was absolutely stunningly good. One of the best game meals I have had in ages. I'll never just de-breast a pigeon again.

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If you didn't make it yourself and fasten the end plug in place with a self tapper... It ain't gonna let go. The video I watched was astoundingly stupid. The fools who had altered a Crossman 2240 co2 rifle ACTUALLY try to blame the makers when one of them had his thigh shot right through by the exploding gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hrms0i2LU