Eagleman

Try the following site: http://www.gunspares.co.uk/shoperror.asp Should be able to supply a spring for you.

Probably thinking of DM80 njc? I have one on my HMR and most of us who do reckon they are the best going. They are calibre specific - that is, made for .17 HMR and not generic .17 / 22 like the SAK. Do a search for DM80 (Dave Mercer). He is very, very busy but will get back to you in the end. Cost is about £65 or so and well worth it.

The HW60J trigger is superb. Best trigger I have come across on a cartridge rifle. It sets the standard by which other triggers are measured - for me it does anyway.

My advice would be "don't do it". The Fenman wasn't really designed as an FAC rifle (short stroke and small air chamber) and at best you will get 18ft lb and may well damage the piston at that level. Give Ben Taylor a ring and ask his advice is what I strongly suggest. The other thing to bear in mind is that many Licencing Authorities will not allow a gun once FAC to be taken off - once on and always on. The Fenman is no longer made and its S/H resale value would be much restricted by FAC. Further, most people when looking for FAC air look for at least 18 - 20ft lb and usually a good bit more further restricting your resale market. I would suggest getting an Eliminator.

It is worth bearing in mind that a break barrel Theoben FAC Eliminator .22 shooting at about 26ft lbs is still hitting with 12ft lbs (more than 3 times the force needed to kill a rabbit) at 100 yards and with a 16grain pellet. The distance isn't the issue it is wind drift given the light weight of the pellets - even a Bisley Mag is only about 21 grains compared to 40 grain of .22LR. Of course, the HMR is only 17g (or 20g) but you have twice the speed of sound velocity to compensate but even then it wind drifts. But in normal use any FAC airgun is eminently usable out to 60 - 70 yards and more on windless days.

Welcome viper1. But why do you say "fac seems impossible" and especially when you seem to indicate that you have SGC?

Sorry, you'll have to speak up as a nasty noisy .270 nearlly deafened me, and mind my sore shoulder while your at it ft No! What a bunch of wussies! I admit that without a moderator it is loud (but so are all of 'em) and I admit that it jumps a bit but it isn't that bad. Last range day I did I shot 60 off before lunch and no bad shoulder effects at all. Not even a mark.

For a good quality and yet relatively cheap gun I would go Cometa (Spanish).

The Guidance to Police re calibre and quarry options will allow fox and deer on .243 but some Licencing Authorities will start to object for calibres over .243 for fox to be anything other than "opportunistic" which means that if you see one while out hunting deer you can shoot it but that you can't go out "foxing". For example, I have this condition with my .270 which I did get intentionally as a "one deer rifle" which will take any deer even at range. I know several people who shoot more foxes than deer and prefer .243 as a compromise calibre which will put down even red deer ok given moderate range and yet is also accepted as an everyday fox rifle. I think it a pity that the new deer regulations didn't allow .223 for Roe (as in Scotland) which means that .243 remains the main compromise calibre

DM80 gets my vote

I've worked in the mental health field and as many have said so far both depression and anxiety are complex areas. As a matter of fact the vast (and I mean VAST) majority of people who suffer mental ill health are no danger to anyone. One major problem is that most people do not understand mental ill health and lump all "mental illness" from mild anxiety or depression through to major psychosis in one bag. This generates a fear of mental ill health as mentally ill people are perceived as "different" and thus provoke anxiety in others. Anxiety is of several types. How many members on here suffer some sort of phobia? More than a few I would expect. Well, if you do, technically you are a neurotic. You are suffering a focused form of anxiety - the object of the phobic response. As has been mentioned, Claustrophobia is an example, Agoraphobia is another. There are a great many. Another, more debilitating anxiety is "generalised anxiety" when a person feels anxious but cannot readily recognise the cause. A yet more serious form of this is called depersonalisation where the person starts to feel "fuzzy" and disorientated. Both generalised anxiety and the more serious depersonalisation tend to respond well to drug treatment and usually can be easily controlled on drugs. Depression takes many forms. All of us at sometime during our lives suffer the reactive depression brought about by loss of a loved one. It doesn't have to be a person lost to life, a deeply loved pet and even inanimate objects can engender such depression. Loss reactions are natural and inevitable and we get over them. Not so easy to treat is a depressive illness that is often referred to as endogenous depression which is deep seated and the cause of which lies deep in the past and is often inaccessible to the person afflicted. This type is very hard to treat (all forms of treatment) and some cases do end in suicide. Conditions that result in psychosis are many. However, the main forms are the various types of schizophrenia, bi-polar (manic) depression and schizo-affective disorder. These conditions usually result in psychotic episodes from time-to-time where the person loses contact with reality to some greater and lesser degree. Most people suffering these conditions are more a danger to self than others (although some are a danger to others - most often paranoid schizophrenia) and the suicide rate for schizophrenics generally is very high at 1 in 6 approximately. I am, of course, unsure what the situation is in this case and the Police will naturally and reasonably err on the side of caution. Medical opinion is the key.

Oh yes, great big hole! No "squirrel dance" with an HMR!

Nice example - nicely finished stock. I have one of these guns as well but not used much I have to confess.

You can almost bet your life that they won't grant you centrefire on first application Tom unless you have exceptional mitigating circumstances like vast and evidenced experience from abroad etc. And your age may also count against you but not necessarily. Put in for .22 rimfire and HMR and ask for fox (some Licencing Authorities give fox for HMR and / or LR) and next variation you could go up to centrefire. On the other hand, there are those who say "don't ask, don't get" and there is merit in what they say too.

The gun control freaks are everywhere. Liberals on your side of the pond and NuLabour and Liberals on our side. Many of them solidly anti-gun and with our left wing controlled BBC and conniving media the British Public are conned into going along with it. The ONLY people who gain are criminals.