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  1. 22-05-2006, 01:48 PM #1
    Adam77K
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    New to the BBS, newly returned to airgunning

    Hello everyone

    I just signed up last week. I've been airgunning since the mid 80s, but recently had a few years off. No particular reason, just drifted away.

    I was one of the original members at Guiseley FTC in the early 90s. Found they were still going so I went back the last two Sundays to see if the old girl (my HW77) still had "it". Well she hadn't lost more than a few mil of zero in 7 years of semi retirement and not a speck of rust on the metalwork. Rifle's not rusty but the shooter is a little. Glad to see I'd not lost it completely though and didn't embarrass myself in the comp.

    The airgun bug has bitten again. Once you've felt its fangs there's never a permanent cure!
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  2. 22-05-2006, 01:53 PM #2
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    There's no cure as such, but there is what the medical profession call an 'ameliorative' - in my case this means ensuring that there is a constant supply of new/secondhand airguns joining my collection!

    Oh, and where are my manners? Welcome to the BBS!
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  3. 22-05-2006, 01:53 PM #3
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    welcome to the forum Adam

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  4. 22-05-2006, 01:53 PM #4
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    Welcome mate

    Happy posting.

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  5. 22-05-2006, 01:54 PM #5
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    Welcome aboard Adam, no excuse for not doing the NEFTA Hunter comp in August then.
    Nice to hear that Guiseley has a new member! The other three will be over the moon.

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  6. 22-05-2006, 01:54 PM #6
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  7. 22-05-2006, 01:55 PM #7
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    welcome back

    Glad to see an old airgunner returning

    Hope to see you at Guisely in the summer
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  8. 22-05-2006, 01:55 PM #8
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    Hi mate

    Welcome to the forum! It's a great place if you love airguns.Most of all welcome back to our great sport,Nice choice of rifle by the way.

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  9. 22-05-2006, 01:55 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Romah
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    and you could come out to play in Julyhttp://www.neftahunter.co.uk/
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  10. 22-05-2006, 01:56 PM #10
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  11. 22-05-2006, 01:57 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by sam vimes
    Nice to hear that Guiseley has a new member! The other three will be over the moon.

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    Snigger. You'll go straight to hell for that one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sam vimes
    Welcome aboard Adam, no excuse for not doing the NEFTA Hunter comp in August then.
    Nice to hear that Guiseley has a new member! The other three will be over the moon.

    Chris
    Hehehe.... .....Welcome Adam, hope to see you around the NEFTA circuit soon.

    Chris....looks as the 3.50 a tin for JSB's is viable.....do me a favour and circulate the info within the lads at your club, then i'll have an idea of the interest.

    Cheers, Chris.
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  13. 22-05-2006, 02:03 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pavel
    Snigger. You'll go straight to hell for that one.
    I won't. I'll just end up bickering with Ken. Pretty much the same thing though!
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  14. 22-05-2006, 02:18 PM #14
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  15. 22-05-2006, 02:31 PM #15
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    Ello mate.

    Did the same thing me self last year!!!!....You mad fool!!!

    Goodbye any spare cash whatsoever!!

    I bought a second hand HW77 (still going string elsewhere now) and got bitten...again

    I now have 2 new rifles (410k and TX200) and old one hwich I have renovated and shoot for fun (my very first air rifle, a Relum 225, great fun it is too, even if it does feel like a toy...OK, I was only 12 ).

    And 3 pistols....with a to do list a mile long (basically gat a LRF for sniping and a Umarex S&W 6"...it just goes on!!)

    You will know when you are really bitten. The wife comes out with questions like "have'nt you got enough?" (which I wont dignify with an answer) or, "when will it end?"!!!


    It was partly her idea too....bless

    You cannot beat the BBS for polite (?) banter, good honest reviews (unless it involves calibres...then give up the will to live ) and genuine help
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