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    You're all being very cheapo'ophobic about Gats (the proper TJ Harrington versions).

    I was utterly awesome with mine, and I'm pretty sure if I'd also had a Gat rifle as a kid, I'd have been equally great with it.

    So there.







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    Quote Originally Posted by Rickenbacker View Post
    You're all being very cheapo'ophobic about Gats (the proper TJ Harrington versions).

    I was utterly awesome with mine, and I'm pretty sure if I'd also had a Gat rifle as a kid, I'd have been equally great with it.

    So there.
    Me and my friend would play an early version of paintball with the corks in ours.

    I remember they still stung a bit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murphy View Post
    Me and my friend would play an early version of paintball with the corks in ours.

    I remember they still stung a bit.
    A pal of mine dispensed with all the glass decorations on the christmas tree.

    He wasn't invited round again .

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    I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

    Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the pellets were going.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squirrelking View Post
    I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

    Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the darts were going.
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    Well my .25 Rapid FAC is hopelessly inaccurate with any pellet other than JSB exact/AA field which are ragged single hole.

    By which I mean at 42yds zero only about 8-9/12 will hit a sheet of A4 paper (Norica Apache only 7/12)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Russell View Post
    Nope: pretty certain you are not dreaming about push in barrel rifles ... or am I thinking about a Gat with a shoulder stock? I saw some Gat 'rifles' at a recent military fair. The chap on the stall was commenting that spares were now impossible to get so once those 'rifles' were broken, that was it.

    Cheers, Phil
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    The gat pistol? Really!

    I remember shooting apples, oranges, tins and lots of other things at 5 yards I had lots of fun, it started my enjoyment of air guns!

    I'd vote for the ro72, I got it given. Every time I shot it, it hurt my trigger finger....a lot!! It creaked, vibrated, and hurt to shoot. Accuracy = none. Terrible, maybe I had a bad one....but

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    I would say the Gat - But it was find at the ranges it was designed for.

    Worst is possibly the dodgy Baikals used at fairground gallerys which fires with a horrendous twang and take a minute to stop vibrating.

    As for unintentionally bad... my much loved HW35, which a friend borrowed for rabbiting, and returned with a bent barrel claiming it couldn't hit anything. Found the bent barrel when i tried to zero it in the back garden and made a hole in my shed 2 meters over the target at about 10 meter range.

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    With friends like that, who needs enemas?

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    Kral Puncher Breaker, as accurate as Diane Abbots adding up.....

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    Corks

    Quote Originally Posted by Squirrelking View Post
    I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

    Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the pellets were going.
    Get some plastic tubing and some round corks from the bay stick tubing on end of barrel cork in tube tin cans = good fun

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andy001 View Post
    The gat pistol? Really!

    I remember shooting apples, oranges, tins and lots of other things at 5 yards I had lots of fun, it started my enjoyment of air guns!

    I'd vote for the ro72, I got it given. Every time I shot it, it hurt my trigger finger....a lot!! It creaked, vibrated, and hurt to shoot. Accuracy = none. Terrible, maybe I had a bad one....but
    RO71 was worse.

    I think.

    Its advantage over the RO72 was that the 71 had a crude fixed rear sight, whereas the 72 had a fully-adjustable one. Which would adjust itself randomly under recoil. But that probably didn't matter because the thing wouldn't group anyway.

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    Got to be the Gat...

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    Gun power stealth , one of the first ones . Really shocking , shotgun patterns .

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