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LandRoger:
--- Quote from: Frankie-Boy on June 02, 2012, 16:50:19 ---
My oldest gun is a springer, its a .177 German made Diana and dates to around 1935, it still shoots fine and is quite accurate but has no fittings for a scope so it has to be sighted the old fashioned way.
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I have a pair of BSA Standards from 1929 both still giving 10ft lbs but basicly wall hangers now, :cool:
boss:
when i first sarted shooting my dad said i wasnt allowed to have a scope untill i learnt to shoot properly, the way it was decided was getting over 85 on a standard field target, 10 shots at 10m standing. Did it when i was 12 and beat it by 3 points with my BSA supersport. After that it was i wasnt allowed to move over to the PCPs untill i could get a grouping of 10 shots in an area smaller than a 2p at 15m standing. And so on and so on. Looking back on that he was just makingsure i was commited to it enough to warrent not waisting my money.morrel to the story is dont run before you can walk.
LandRoger:
Well IMHO i would say that if you cant put pellet on pellet with a PCP at hunting range of 25 /30 yards you need to go back a nd start again from scratch ,cant see the point in shooting a recoiling springer as preperation for shooting a none recoiling PCP as there really isnt much of a technique to shooting the PCP just a matter of holding the thing getting breathing sorted and learn to holdover thats about it in my book , PCPs are damn lifeless things with no soul compaired to a springer that you have to hold like your lady, :wink:
bravo669:
I have a Brocock Hunter in .22, single shot and does the job. before that I had a Weihrauch HW35 which I used for many years. My old Grandfather was a gamekeeper and taught us all how to shoot and weve all kept it up apart from my youngest brother who is a paid up member of the playstation generation!lol :wink:
Hes also the only one without a ticket for anything other than the cinema! But if thats what he like then thats what he likes
LandRoger:
The old HW 35 took a bit of mastering heavy,long,Ktwaaanggggggg,recoiled like mad ,BUT a quality bit of kit in its day forunner of everything thats good about HWs,
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