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The old model with the stupid double cocking mechanism? I thought they were reliable rifles.

 

It kept leaking, and kept leaking and kept leaking despite repeated efforts by the RFD and BSA, I'm sure they had it longer than I had it.

 

Oh yes, then you needed a degree in engineering to work it! :lol::good:

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no its not a daft idea,its good cos u can uncock said rifle,without having to fire it,u cant do that with the normal bolt action ones.

 

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It is/was a daft idea! If it was any good everyone would have adopted it, but it has faded away.

 

You can un cock my Falcon Bolt Action without having to fire it, and I suspect many others as well!

 

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no its not a daft idea,its good cos u can uncock said rifle,without having to fire it,u cant do that with the normal bolt action ones.

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It is/was a daft idea! If it was any good everyone would have adopted it, but it has faded away.

 

You can un cock my Falcon Bolt Action without having to fire it, and I suspect many others as well!

 

:good:

Can de-cock an AA S410 without firing it as well.

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"You can always tell if a person had a Gat or model 2 Diana .... They will have ring mark in the palm of their right or left hand."

Or in my mate's big brother's case, in the middle of the forehead from the spring flying out when he tried to dismantle it
(Later in life he had half a hand removed by a guillotine in the paper mill where he worked - just accident prone I guess...)

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Can de-cock an AA S410 without firing it as well.

Yeah but can you do it without putting a second pellet in the barrel .

Or recock it without pushing a 3rd in there too .

 

The mmc was and is a great system I still have 2 of them and prefere it to my bolt only bsas

The people who can't work it are the type who get stuck in revolving doors .

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Pull the bolt all the way back then slip the Mag out....hold the bolt and ease it forward as you pull the trigger...Hey Presto it's un cocked.....click the Mag back one click then cock the bolt and pop the Mag back in and she's ready to dance - where's the difficulty in that?

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Pull the bolt all the way back then slip the Mag out....hold the bolt and ease it forward as you pull the trigger...Hey Presto it's un cocked.....click the Mag back one click then cock the bolt and pop the Mag back in and she's ready to dance - where's the difficulty in that?

 

That's the way it works with Falcon and no doubt others!

 

...... where's the difficulty in that? :good:

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Yeah but can you do it without putting a second pellet in the barrel .

Or recock it without pushing a 3rd in there too .

The mmc was and is a great system I still have 2 of them and prefere it to my bolt only bsas

The people who can't work it are the type who get stuck in revolving doors .

Pull the bolt all the way back then slip the Mag out....hold the bolt and ease it forward as you pull the trigger...Hey Presto it's un cocked.....click the Mag back one click then cock the bolt and pop the Mag back in and she's ready to dance - where's the difficulty in that?

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From memory bounced off but the little darts used to stick in "just" the gat was accurate at two yards if clamped in a vice. At five yards as depicted in pic the grouping was a good 30"

I remember the same by Diana, I had no pellets, so used wet loo roll balls to kill flies, "stalked " a bluebottle on a window, closed in for the kill ,fired & took the window out, too close, probably the only window broken by one of these.

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I had a G10 air pistol as a lad which was a laugh but utterly hopelessly feeble & inaccurate.



Later a Gamo R77 revolver when CO2 became legal - some of the pellets lined up with the barrel & gave an accurate shot, some didn't & I never worked out which ones did. JS Ramsbottom refused to take it back. Going back 20 years now !



Trying to think of any duffer rifles and the only one I can think of is a BSA Supersport I had at Christmas when I was 14 after reading the review in Airgun World when they first came out.



As I was in the habit of getting through a tin of pellets every fortnight, I burnt out several piston washers in succession, it went back to BSA about four times for repair and they ended up fitting a better (export spec they said) piston washer and giving it a 2-stage trigger off the Supersport custom by way of apology. It then behaved itself very well and I regret parting with it.

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"You can always tell if a person had a Gat or model 2 Diana .... They will have ring mark in the palm of their right or left hand."

 

Or in my mate's big brother's case, in the middle of the forehead from the spring flying out when he tried to dismantle it

(Later in life he had half a hand removed by a guillotine in the paper mill where he worked - just accident prone I guess...)

Oh yes. You knew you had reached manhood when you could cock your gat by hand instead of using the floor or a wall. They were in effect dual purpose.....a gun and a bullworker...remember those 😁

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The gats may have been ****, but did we have some fun with them as kids? Great memories for me anyway. I remember walking through the woods and hearing that tell tale fizzing sound of a pellet coming through the air and then 'whack' connecting with my butt cheek. Followed shortly by one of my so called mates emerging from behind the roots of a fallen tree,gat in hand,laughing his **** off.....halcyon days.....

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My best memory of a Gat - my pal brought his new Gat gun round for some plinking - we were about 13. I was obsessed with airguns.

 

I put up a stack of tin cans with a little evaporated milk tin on the top.

 

We stood about 8 yards away blatting away with this Gat gun for what felt like ages & barely hit the old barn door backstop with the stupid thing.

 

My Dad popped outside to see what we were doing. "Oh," he said, "I used to have one of these when I was a boy - can I have a go?"

 

He picked it up, loaded it, and with one single shot, knocked the little evap tin clean off the top of the tin can stack leaving the rest standing. He gave the gun back to my mate as we both stood utterly agog.

 

I had never been so proud of my Dad.

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Ags pcr-1. I really had high hopes for it. I mean I bought it new for the extortionate price of £300. Inaccurate cheap nasty leaking junk. And I mean this - my smk b2 which cost £20 from the fair when it came to town was better built, more accurate and lasted longer.

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Edgar brothers mod 60 (hatsan) grouped like my escort I had!

Just bought a secondhand g10 at the Wiltshire game/country show. I can see now as kids why we didn't run too fast, the bb wouldn't catch up and hit us

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