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Do you have a gun cabinet ?

Simon Compton said:

Do you have a gun cabinet ?

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Yep - got a shotgun. It's got room for 3 scoped rifles too. With the double case, and 2 single cases I've filled the space allocated by the boss...

My Boss said i can put my cabinet in her buit in wardrobe... think its a ploy so she can use mine and the spare one in the other room.... humm

SFS just called. It is ready.

Will have to wait a month for me to be next in the area. My mate should be coming up with me too as he wants a 99s.

Trampilot said:

SFS just called. It is ready.

Will have to wait a month for me to be next in the area. My mate should be coming up with me too as he wants a 99s.

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Cool. Much photo-porn of the object of your desire will need to be uploaded.

Tomorrow is pick up day.

You can always call in and try it out in my garden if you want.

Interesting start to the day. I went to mates house. He went to mine. Yep. Fooking keystone Kops idiocy.

Then we missed the M5 turning.

But get to SFS we did and they recognised me too which was nice.

Mate shot a 99s .22 and I took up my new baby to the short range.

Firstly I've never shot a 99s and straight from the box, no tuning or anything, really nice to shoot. Mate was hitting the spinners with open sights nicely. Had a little go with the new 80. Think it might shoot nicer than the .20. More later. Anyway mate bought the .22 99s. No scope yet as I said I need to teach him basic stuff first. £250 gun, pellets and gunslip can't be argued with.

Raced home (literally - he drives fast).

In the garden first go with the open sights. Really interesting. Very smooth to shoot. Not too difficult to cock either. One inch groups or there abouts (target pic 2)

Stuck on an ASI Sabre 4x32 I had in the wardrobe and things got very tasty. Top right target was my final go. Yep that's all through the same hole. Unless something bad happens its RWS Superdomes all the way. (target pic 1)

The 80k with open sights is a very well balanced rifle. Probably nicer than with a moderator. Recoil is noticeable but not intrusive. The pellets fly out so quickly though its difficult not to miss really. I'm now giving serious thought to getting Ron done as a stage 2. It's expensive but the results are outstanding.

Nice one. What stupid, I mean well thought-out, name are you going to give this one?

Chootin Elmer.
I feel a comp in the air.
My monies on "Janis"

Nah. He's gone all kraut, even though he can't spell "Dieter".

My money's on "Brunhilda".

Coypu Hunter said:

Nah. He's gone all kraut, even though he can't spell "Dieter".

My money's on "Brunhilda".

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Blimey you're right. Never noticed!

Had a lot of plinking over the Easter break. Wife cut her finger badly which got infected. Then had a cold. And had to go to A&E too. So lots of time to plink!

Finally getting to grips with the .177 80. Settled on H&N FTT I think.

Attached is 5 shot group at 25m. Fitted with Hawke Vantage 4-12x40 set on 6x. Artillery hold.

Interestingly Superdomes, although accurate, make the rifle kick more. I've now run out of FTT though so will use something else to get me by.

Trampilot said:

Had a lot of plinking over the Easter break. Wife cut her finger badly which got infected. Then had a cold. And had to go to A&E too. So lots of time to plink!

Finally getting to grips with the .177 80. Settled on H&N FTT I think.

Attached is 5 shot group at 25m. Fitted with Hawke Vantage 4-12x40 set on 6x. Artillery hold.

Interestingly Superdomes, although accurate, make the rifle kick more. I've now run out of FTT though so will use something else to get me by.

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Nice shootin', Tex! How blue did the air turn when that flyer popped up?

Chootin Elmer.
There's always that one pellet that spoils a card.

Bluddy German pellets... Very annoying but its still only about 1cm off the others. Can't really argue with that!

Did also shoot this 5 shot string with Ron (HW80 .22 -scope on 4.5x and in artillery) using RWS Superdomes. The difference between the guns is amazing. The .22 version is so sedate where as the .177 is like a fire cracker.

I've always found smaller caliber abit jumpy.

Trampilot said:

Did also shoot this 5 shot string with Ron (HW80 .22 -scope on 4.5x and in artillery) using RWS Superdomes. The difference between the guns is amazing. The .22 version is so sedate where as the .177 is like a fire cracker.

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Shoulda cropped out that flyer in the 5 ring...

Coypu Hunter said:

Shoulda cropped out that flyer in the 5 ring...

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Ah is that what you do?!!

(I'll do this from now on)