Webley Seniors and MK1 Premiers.
Airsporter MK1's especially the G prefix series followed by the early Original/Diana Model 50's and BSF S54's. Walther LP53 and Webley MK.11 Target Model and Senior pistols.
Last edited by patt1796; 07-09-2011 at 10:11 AM.
Webley Seniors and MK1 Premiers.
lodmoor
Always ready to buy another Webley pistol and another and . . . .
daystate midas in brass
anything quirky... usually prototypes
Although recently bought a Park93
'Airsporteritis', need I say more? MK1, there now I have gone and said it!
Airsporterman
(man of La Mancha {Northumberland an impossible dreamer!)
The BSA Mercury. Not the best airgun to use, but in appearance, very much the Ford Escort of airguns I think, i.e a design that has stood the test of time.
original m 45s and fwb 124/7s.cant get them all on my superking i love em that much. pure greed.safe porn tho
I'm a sucker for:
BSA Scorpions (love them, powerful, can be sweet to shoot, good trigger, can put up with lots of abuse but still be restored and shoot well, I think they look great too!)
British Phoenix Hy-Score Sporters, and US Hy-Score Sportsters, powerful, well-made and look great, also have great features.
Anything weird or unusual, like Record Jumbos, Record Champions, BSA 240 Magnums, Abas Majors, things where people came up with unusual or different solutions to the usual problems.
Finally, anything Webley before they went to Turkey!
Well colour me daft then, cos the Hawks are the ones I have a weakness for. Purely because the first air gun I owned was a Hawk Mk II, bought for my 11th birthday.
In fact I like them so much I was almost ready to be a bit offended by you writing them off out of hand until I remembered a few of the faults the MkII and MkIII suffer from.
In no particular order:
Weak front stock screws
Thread prone to stripping on front trigger guard screw hole
Weak welds on trigger housing
Safety catches that become dangerous
Extremely fragile rear sights
Foresights that crack, and are made of a plastic that just can't be glued
Wobbly barrels
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j...oy/HawkMKI.jpg
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j...y/HawkMKII.jpg
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j.../HawkMKIII.jpg
And now for a gratuitous Osprey shot
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j...oy/Osprey1.jpg
I also keep falling in and out of love with Webley pistols. I'm on my second collection of them at the moment. The first collection got sold, along with quite a few other air guns when we needed cash to buy furniture for our first house.
The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.
I have got to say Harry---the Hawk mk3 is actually the best of the Hawks. I do like Hawk mk1,s and should sort myself out a decent mk2. Mk1,s have really crap safety and triggers and the rearsight is a joke. I bought one from a gun shop a couple of years ago for a tenner. Somebody had ground the rearsight base off, and drilled and tapped the breech block for a later sight----BUT had left the barrel in when they did it and drilled into the barrel. I discovered this when a puff of smoke came out of te hole when I tried a shot.
Cooler than Mace Windu with a FRO, walking into Members Only and saying "Bitches, be cool"
Sharp Pumpers every time
How do I find the space...?
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Like all the old US CO2 pistols but especially the Schimel GP22 which reminds me of the old days when we could shoot .22 rimfire pistols. See photo of top favourites.
anything that come my way especially if its cheap that i can fix up
but i have a passion for my weihrauch HW80 its trustworthy