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The scope looks identical to one I have had for 30+ years
Should be a 3x to 7x zoom operated by the ring just ahead of the eyebell.
Integral clamp to fix the scope to the receiver.
20mm diameter objective lens
Sits quite low (due to the small objective lens) so tends to to hold it's zero over a reasonable range of ditances.
Integral clamp on mine is worn, so too over-prone to scope creep to ever be useable again & retained only for sentimental reasons
There are better optics around these days for only £30 (new) so whilst you have a competent piece of glass (subject to the zoom actually working) it's not quite cutting edge technology & the feild of view is quite limited due to the small objective lense.
Sorry to say, it wouldn't have been my first choice.
I've no reason to suppose it to be a fake, just quite an old model that probably has quite a thick 3 bar gate reticle (German reticle?)
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Just upgraded the scope on mine a bit, to a brand new Walther 3x9x40 AO/IR coutessy of a Fleabay auction.
Didn't think £35 was too much to spend.LOL
OOOOH Nelly! them squirrels got it coming to 'em now. he he
As per earlier post, decent spring & a lube job is all it needs to make a reasonable quality, bargain shooter.
Nothing "twangy" about mine & like our American cousins, who go a bundle on this model, I'm always much happier when I've seen & fettled the internals for myself
At the end of the day, the sport can be pursued on many levels & budgets, but I think you get a bit more for your money than you might expect with this one.
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Short answer is yes, you might find it a bit cheaper (say£5.00) if you hunt round on t'interweb.
Trouble is, since the VCR bill, a silencer has to be bought on a face-to-face transaction, so you'll either spend the money you saved, on petrol, or if you have it sent to your local RFD there's postage & possibly an admin charge by the RFD.
£48 isn't that bad a price BTW.
Don't bother to tell me how stupid it is about having to buy a silencer fac-to-face, been there & done it
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At the risk of pointin' out the obvious, 800 fps as a muzzle velocity, would be likely to be a legal .177, whereas the max velocity in .22 might be nearer 600fps.
Original poster said he was after a .22
Pay more heed to muzzle energy than pellet velocity as the latter depends on the weight of the pellet.
On your budget a second hand springer with scope is probably a better bet.
Look out for:
Weihrauch HW80 or more likely a HW95 (a bit cheaper)
Air Arms TX200 or TX200HC
BSA Lightening XL or XL Tactical
The TX is an underlever but very worth considering
All the above are well made strong shooters & will be favoured by the majority on here.
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I decided to give Fleabay a whirl a day or 3 ago for some scopes & bid on a Walther 3x9x40 AO/IR scope.
Got it for £35.00 plus P&P, brand new & should be arriving for the weekend from a UK retailer.
I think the regular shop price is around £55.00 so there are savings to be had, in this case about 36% on the shop price.
Yes, I appreciate it's not exactly "top class glass" but then it still is sufficient for my purposes
Just don't get carried away & put in a maximum bid that's more than you want to pay & make sure you know what you're looking for as well as having an idea of it's usual retail price
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Of course, you don't have to put in an aftermarket spring, nothing wrong with the springs BSA make.
V-Match kits at round about £65 aren't cheap but will probably produce the best result & may be easier to fit as the springs don't rely on much preload.
Not a fan of the square spring, if they were that flippin' wonderful why don't the manufacturers fit them from the start?
If money is tight a Titan XS sping ordered direct from John Knibbs in Shustoke could be a cheaper solution.
Their website seems to be permanently "under construction" so be prepared to phone them. It may cost you as little as £17 quid delivered.
Titans are round-section, Swedish, chrome-vanadium steel with a PTFE coating. Both my springers have them & as far as I'm concerned (& I have tried a square section spring) they are the dog's danglies of the spring world.
As Mr Knibbs Senior is a former BSA man he will know the inside leg measurement of the bloke who made your gun & anything else worth knowing,
The replacement springs tend to be a bit longer than the original particularly before they've taken on a "set" so 2 words of caution:-
1) Check the power afterwards.
2) Use a spring compressor, unless you've already got a season ticket for the local A&E Department or think that you already have too many fingers or one eye too many.
If in doubt pay a gunsmith to fit it.
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The problem for the government is that there are an estimated 4 million (perfectly legal) airguns held in the UK & no one has a clue who's got any of them.
Blimey, production of the BSA Meteor alone has gone over 4 million (so you must all have got one. LOL)
That's a lot of voters who, come a general election, might just vote with their hearts, if Gordon Brown suggests a ban rather than some tighter regulation. I just hope he realizes that he's too unpopular at the moment to risk p-ssing off any more of the electorate than he already has.
It was easier to ban handguns, which had to be licensed, so they knew where all the legally held one's were.
My hope is that he'll either do nothing for fear of being voted out or will do some form of registration system in the same way we do now on a new purchase, which is fine by me
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It's probably a bit obvious, but if you drill the stock to fit a QD stud *** don't drill a hole in your buddy bottle!
Harris bipods are good but pricey have a look at J S Ramsbottoms
http://www.jsramsbottom.com/cgi-bin/jsr.cg...PD/A_bipods.HTM
Copy & paste the link into your browser if you can't click on it.
Then what you save on a JSR, you can spend down the pub or get some pellets. LOL
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5.56 is the Nato standard & used in preference to 7.62 for 2 reasons
1) Logistically you can carry / transport more bullets if they're smaller & lighter & take up less room
2) More bullets = more rounds downrange = more chance of a kill.
Still penty of non-Nato countries like their Kalashnikov's in 7.62 but that's alot more to do with who your country happens to be friends with.
However, 5.56 is not used, for example, for hunting large dear because it's not considered humane.
So shoot people yes, animals no. Figure that?!
Still, 5.56 has a nasty habbit in that it will tumble & fragment on impact, so it doesmake a little more of a mess than you might expect.
Find some video of the Barrat .50 cal in action in Afghanistan on Youtube, & you'll see what shock value is about.
They don't make a half inch hole.... whole torso's get vapourised & arms get blown clean off at a useful range of.................wait for it ....................1 & a quarter miles.
That's what I call energy transfer!
At the smaller end of the calibre scale it's all about hitting a vital organ. There are plenty of places in both human & animal bodies where a hit won't dissable let alone kill outright & the likes of 9mm means more bullets in the mag=more shots downrange=more chance of a shot on target=dead
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Id love to post a picture but can't see how it's done
Any help?
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Yup
For that it was just a bare gun, but leaves a few quid spare (say an extra £20 quid) to put a good spring in it. Can't beat a good bit of swedish vanadium chrome steel with a bonded PTFE coating from those chaps at John Knibbs.
Just happened to be in the right place when an online seller decided he couldnt get or didn't want to be a RFD & had to unload some stock at cost before the VCR act came in.
Some will rubbish it just for being Chinese, but for the cost of a good spring & a bit of extra TLC you get a solid shooter at a bargain price.
Sold in America as the B26 where there's a bit more of a cult following for tuning bargain basement Chinese springers & considered to be good bang for your buck
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It's a Chinese copy of the Weihrauch HW95K right down to the Rekord trigger.
The original mainspring is the part that lets it down & is poorly finished, but put a Titan XS spring in it, hone a few parts & with a lube job & an hour or 2 of your time spent on it, you've got something that shoots pretty darn well.
I picked one up, brand new, for the bargain price of £80 quid just before the VCR act came in when an online retailer was unloading stock. Bought it as a project gun, but truth be told it didn't take a lot to put it in fine fettle, though you sure need a spring compresser to get that Titan in there.
The stock is made from a rare hardwood called Qui (spelling?) found only in the Mountains of China.
A much better gun than it gets credit for, with mine being responsible for a local squirrel shortage.
It's made by BAM rather than Industry Brand both being Chinese airgun manufacturers which SMK import & rebrand under their own label.The BAM guns are the better quality of the two
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My personal theory is that there has got to be an optimum weight for a pellet
Too light & it will expell too easily without creating a cushion of air to stop the piston slamming into the end of the compression chamber
Too heavy & it will take some expelling thus taking it's toll on the spring.
American chap "Charlie Da Tuna" reckons the optimum is around 15 grains for a .22
Personally, I think there's a sensible range from say Accupels at 14.3g to AA fields at 16.0g which covers most situations just fine.
I view Bis' Mag's as unneccessarily heavy unless you're FAC but then I'm a "no such thing as over penetration" kind of guy.
Why settle for one hole when you can have an exit wound as well?
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Add a shakeproof washer.
Available at all good DIY stores
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I'm over at Dronfield, if you need help on the weekends.... have gun will travel.
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27.432 meters
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I've had the remains of a can of Milbro TR's for the last 2 years as they won't even fit in the breach of 2 of my rifles.
Fit well in the Webley Hurricane pistol (circa 1984) which is stamped as a 5.6mm barrel, but not much used these days.
Was having a little play yesterday & noticed the Accupels are a tighter fit than say AA Fields & depite being lighter (than the AA's) produced a more discernable kick when fired.
Relivingmyouth did some extensive testing & posted his results but never mentioned any getting stuck.
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A longer barrel won't make any difference to accuracy on a springer.
Springer barrels need to be a minimum of about a foot long to get enough spin off the rifeling for pellet stability, any extra length is to provide a longer lever to help with the cocking stroke.
If you think about it, the longer the barrel, the harder it is to shoot straight.
Imagine how the lines radiate out & open up on a protractor.
A longer the barrel, is just more opportunity to exaggerate any unwanted movement at the muzzle.
XL, nice bit of kit & your accuracy sounds more than good enough for a springer.
If you want more accuracy you'll need to move over to a PCP with no recoil to worry about.
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The serial number is likely to be on the underside of the breach block & that will tell you for sure which MK it is though I've no reason to doubt Stuart. You can check with John Knibbs & Co (http://www.airgunspares.com/) if you order spares from them.
You'll need to renovate the internals to make it usable, as it's probably 35+ years old & been a bit neglected.
Piston seal, buffer-washer, mainspring & a breach seal plus lubricants will be your minimum kit. Probably about £30 quids worth of parts assuming nothing more major is found worn / defective on stripping.
Production of the Meteor runs into the millions, so given the estimated 4 million airguns in the UK, everybody who has an airgun must have one of these.LOL
Usual caveats apply; if you don't know what you're doing, don't mess with it, a high powered spring is involved.
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No reason why you can't put them in with other metal recycling.
Bound to be a recycling centre somewhere nearby.
Good grief, if you lived near me you'd HAVE to recycle
bottles / glass jars
paper / newspaper
cans
cardboard
garden waste
plastic bottles
Regular black bin gets emptied just once a fortnight & it's rarely more than half full.
I'm not an eco-nut, this stuff is imposed on us, but then neither is it a problem
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With optics at the budget end of the spectum, the tendency is to find that near objects are out of focus at the high magnifications.
You may find at 9x magnification you can focus the scope but only at something 30+ yards away. Whereas at 3x mag' you might focus as near as 10 yards. It's just the limitations of the optics.
If you think you need 9x magnification at close distances, you should probably switch the scope.............................................. for a dog & a white stick & give up shooting altogether as a danger to yourself & all those around you, you blind sod. LOL
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Interesting stuff.
Particularly the insignificant difference betwean the Accupels & Premiers in terms of price versus performance i.e one being double the price of the other & nothing to tell betwean them.
Those AA Hunters seem to have the right balance of accuracy & power for some general varmint dispatching. Mind you, I don't view them as a true pointed pellet on account of being a bit blunt-nosed.
Must have cost you a small fortune, but now you can make an informed choice based on price, performance & purpose.
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if you like the looks of the 80, have a look at the 95K as well.
The 95 is a bit lighter, still full power & generally a tad cheaper than the 80 (if cost is an object)
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I've replied to you Stefan on another well known forum, where you,ve put the same post. LOL
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I'd just mail it