Bsa Supersport History and Info (parker hale, bsa lighting)

[JB101]

Apart from measuring it if you can borrow some modern (H&n etc) .25pellets try and load them if it's very very tight😱 Then you have the .243!

[piggy589]

And the Brocock Independent?.

[look no hands]

And the Brocock Independent?.

The Independant is basically a Gamo with a BSA barrel and fancy walnut/beech stock, nothing like the Supersport, even the breech block is different.

Pete

[piggy589]

The Independant is basically a Gamo with a BSA barrel and fancy walnut/beech stock, nothing like the Supersport, even the breech block is different.

Pete

Ah,I remember trying one out and being less than impressed.

The trigger in particular,horrible,stiff,and with little, if any first stage movement.

[look no hands]

Ah,I remember trying one out and being less than impressed.

The trigger in particular,horrible,stiff,and with little, if any first stage movement.

Very true, mine needed a decent tune to be usable, Gamo triggers have nearly always been bad but the one on my Independent is actually pretty good after I lightened the trigger spring.

Pete

[gingernut]

Amazing post Andy.
I had a Striker in .22 for a while and I thought it a rather good little gun.

[The Squire]

Nice write up, many thanks for posting.

[mrgeoff]

I just put some rhino greens thru it, they seem to work.

Its a 14.5 inch barrel version, that has a female screw thread for a silencer at the end. It also has a maxi grip rail with a Webley speed point on top.

No visible serial number.


Seems to be a nice little plinker :-)

[Andy001]

Some one said the new .25 barrels were phased in around 2010 ish, no confirmed dates and BSA were unhelpful when I was building this database.
So I couldn't add it.

[Geezer]

Very helpful post. Thanks for doing it.

Two things:

- The link to the pyramydair blog takes me to a post about ballistic coefficients, not BSAs.

- You say there was a gas ram variant. Do you mean the current Lightning is offered with a gas ram? Because there were also the drop-in (nearly) AWT aftermarket rams, but not (IIRC) a factory gas ram offered for anything other than the latest Lightnings.

And, of course, old Supersports are really quite nice, whereas new Lighnings are awful.

[Andy001]

Very helpful post. Thanks for doing it.

Two things:

- The link to the pyramydair blog takes me to a post about ballistic coefficients, not BSAs.

- You say there was a gas ram variant. Do you mean the current Lightning is offered with a gas ram? Because there were also the drop-in (nearly) AWT aftermarket rams, but not (IIRC) a factory gas ram offered for anything other than the latest Lightnings.

And, of course, old Supersports are really quite nice, whereas new Lighnings are awful.

D'oh. I'll have to check my links on my pc. Not sure how it's moved!

I was mainly referring to factory guns. Yes the latest lightings.
I should have been more clear, thank you.