Happy recollections indeed of the early Vulcan, particularly Paul SE's nice photos which remind me of the .177" I bought as a teenager in 1980, shot my first rabbit lamping on open sights in North Yorkshire.....then got rid in favour of Weihrauch.

The varnish wore off the stock fore end revealing blonde beechwood, the barrel wobbled side to side in the breech jaws, the trigger was quite awful.

As I recall it was skillfully marketed and certainly appealed to a patriotic boy like me who wanted a British gun. Cheaper than the HW35 and Original 45 as well.

But as a workhorse gun, an inferior offering I've always thought.