General Shooting Tips

[windyridge]

Hope this is the right place to ask. One of my springer's is an old webley osprey side lever, it shoots (any) 22 pellet I throw down its neck and i use it to use up the otherwise wasted odd mis sized pellets that my other springer's don't like, does anyone know if there is a pcp equivalent ? i.e. one that isnt too pellet fussy ?

[rs1800]

probably a good thread to read as my 1st post. I've never used an air rifle in my life although I did fire a 303 and 765 I think it was whist in the air cadets in the 80's. We had safety drummed into us then and I still remember it.

[RPeeBee]

Some great pieces of advice and common sense in the thread.
Re. holding the barrel, I was with a school group once when I told them this and the teacher put his hand up and said. "Otherwise you might end up with a permanent scar like this!". The skin between his thumb and first finger had been sliced by an air rifle during loading when he was at school as a child.
The follow on is that the Centre he was at took him off to the local hospital. The school was informed and the school sent a message to his Mother who was at work. Rather than being told her son had had his hand trapped and had gone to casualty. Mum was informed that her son had been involved in a firearm's incident and had been taken to A+E. The same message but this version sounded a little more urgent. His mother got a speeding ticket !!!