Got a few 'other' interests, from watches to airguns

[GerryW]

Nice guns. I used to have quite a few PCP's but ended up selling all but one to fund other pew pews when I got my firearms licence.

The one I kept is a Weihrauch HW100. :smiling3:

Most of mine aren't worth selling - probably get enough to buy a tube of poly cement! (If I sold all of them:tongue-out3

[yak face]

Love that Luch gerry :thumb2:

[Jack L]

Also have a couple of air rifles, a generic .17 springer, and a Brocock Hunter .22. I’m a better shot with the cheap springer!

[GerryW]

Love that Luch gerry :thumb2:

It was the second one they sent me - the first was nicked in transit and as the factory doesn't track any packages, couldn't say when or where it went - put me off buying their WWII 75th commemorative set (featured Studebaker, Spitfire and a T34 on the watches) and they weren't cheap, so wasn't going to risk them going missing!

[GerryW]

Also have a couple of air rifles, a generic .17 springer, and a Brocock Hunter .22. I’m a better shot with the cheap springer!

The springer your original? As that's usually the way - only reason I hit some targets is the fact that I've got huge scopes on the guns:tongue-out3:

[Ian M]

Nice guns. I used to have quite a few PCP's but ended up selling all but one to fund other pew pews when I got my firearms licence.

The one I kept is a Weihrauch HW100. :smiling3:

I used to have one of them, a weirauch 20. Had to sell it when I moved to Denmark. It was 'tuned up' a bit and I would need a permit to keep it as it was to powerful to be classed as an ordinary air rifle.
Couldn't be chuffed at the time. But miss it now! Bloody pidgeons and hares just love my garden!
Mind you the last hare I saw in the garden was as big as a spaniel, so might need something a big more powerful lol.

[AlanG]

It was 'tuned up' a bit and I would need a permit to keep it as it was to powerful to be classed as an ordinary air rifle.

Anything over 12ft/lbs in the UK is classed as a Firearm and therefore needs a FAC. So fitting a .177 strut to a .22 generally placed it over the legal limit.

[Guest]

I'll stick to a brick then Alan:smiling3:

Anything over 12ft/lbs in the UK is classed as a Firearm and therefore needs a FAC. So fitting a .177 strut to a .22 generally placed it over the legal limit.

[GerryW]

Catapult is the other option :thumb2:

[Jack L]

The springer your original? As that's usually the way - only reason I hit some targets is the fact that I've got huge scopes on the guns:tongue-out3:

I think there is something off with the sight. Zero it in fine, but then turn it on a rat... Switched to the the .17 and now four rats down since October.

[GerryW]

I think there is something off with the sight. Zero it in fine, but then turn it on a rat... Switched to the the .17 and now four rats down since October.

Could be the distance - if your scope isn't zeroed for the distance of said rat - then the pellet will either go above or below said rat (especially with a .22, as they have a more pronounced trajectory - fairly lucky that both the bird feeders are 12 yards from the nearest cover - any rats that try feeding from them.........)

[GerryW]

As I'm off to get my first dose of the covid19 vaccine, dug out the 'Stop Covid' watch

[GerryW]

Second dose today, so a good reason to bring it out again (first time it's been worn since the first jab above) :thumb2: :smiling5:

[GerryW]

Now picked up a shooting permission from one of the 'bee landlords', as he's being over-run by rabbits, so all paperwork signed today.

[Mini Me]

You need paperwork to shoot a rabbit? Little bit different in this neck of the woods.........no paper required for anything smaller than a Deer. That means anything is fair game if it's bothering your garden, livestock or you personally..........oh, and it doesn't matter what caliber you choose. Mine range from .177 to a .577/500 Rigby's Best. Don't need a license and I carry concealed when I deem it might be necessary.

Rick H.

ps. I shoot in my backyard