Quote Originally Posted by harry mac View Post
I know exactly what you mean with the smell thing. My first evening attending the Army Cadets, when I was 13 (1978), the SI got out the DP Lee Enfields to do a lesson, the smell of those rifles was unique. The next time I smelled that smell was when I bought a mucky old MkII Service from a little gunshop just outside Gosport in about 1995. As soon as it hit my nostrills, I was transported back to that cadet hut....
Not exactly a vintage airgun, but there's something very very nice about whatever oil/lubricant they use in HW45 pistols.
It always puts me in mind of serious-looking chaps in brown engineers coats.