.177 farmyard hunting....

[Geezer]

A variable power rifle would solve the problem. Pity there isn't a dual power springer. Look at the HW45 - so why can't they do the same with a rifle? I'd be interested...

Could do easy., Half cock 6ftlbs full cock 11.5. be great for indoor/ outdoor shooting.

I slightly doubt it, nice though it would be. Given all that funny tech stuff that I don't really understand about swept volume, start pressures, TP size...

Given the expectations of a plinker pistol, the variable HW45 gets away with it, but I doubt a springer rifle can be made that performs to an acceptable level based only on changes to stroke at both 5.9 and 11 ft-lbs.

If it could, I'd buy it.

Rhys, might you just be better off spending £50-100 on a .22" Meteor, Diana 27, etc?

[rhyslightnin]

I slightly doubt it, nice though it would be. Given all that funny tech stuff that I don't really understand about swept volume, start pressures, TP size...

Given the expectations of a plinker pistol, the variable HW45 gets away with it, but I doubt a springer rifle can be made that performs to an acceptable level based only on changes to stroke at both 5.9 and 11 ft-lbs.

If it could, I'd buy it.

Rhys, might you just be better off spending £50-100 on a .22" Meteor, Diana 27, etc?

Need a multi PCP to be honest.... I used to use a breaker but often there is the opportunity for a multiple knockdown which just dissapers if you drop your sholdered rifle away to load it.
I have come up with a solution though and I'll let you all know how it goes!! :-)

[Geezer]

Need a multi PCP to be honest.... I used to use a breaker but often there is the opportunity for a multiple knockdown which just dissapers if you drop your sholdered rifle away to load it.
I have come up with a solution though and I'll let you all know how it goes!! :-)

Gamo/ASI Paratrooper/Gamatic repeater? (Tried it, not a great idea.)

[rhyslightnin]

Gamo/ASI Paratrooper/Gamatic repeater? (Tried it, not a great idea.)

Tried what? Sorry if I'm being dumb!!

[Geezer]

Tried what? Sorry if I'm being dumb!!

Not at all.

Back in the 70s-early 80s, the break barrel ASI Paratrooper repeater (aka Gamatic or something like that) was the only repeating air rifle that was cheap and widely available. If you were a teenage ninja, you could rapid fire it from the shoulder without lowering the butt. Was it a good barn gun? No. Because it was bloody inaccurate. You could hose down tin cans like a slo-mo version of the St Valentine's Day massacre, but could not reliably put ten rounds into a rat brain size target consistently at normal barn ranges, because the loading mechanism deformed the pellets, even the Gamo ones that were meant to work in it.

[phil384]

PM me your address and I'll send you a couple of dozen RWS Hollowpoints gratis. They work surprisingly well in my Ultra

[rhyslightnin]

PM me your address and I'll send you a couple of dozen RWS Hollowpoints gratis. They work surprisingly well in my Ultra

Just seen this... Thanks!!
Pm inbound.

[rhyslightnin]

Not at all.

Back in the 70s-early 80s, the break barrel ASI Paratrooper repeater (aka Gamatic or something like that) was the only repeating air rifle that was cheap and widely available. If you were a teenage ninja, you could rapid fire it from the shoulder without lowering the butt. Was it a good barn gun? No. Because it was bloody inaccurate. You could hose down tin cans like a slo-mo version of the St Valentine's Day massacre, but could not reliably put ten rounds into a rat brain size target consistently at normal barn ranges, because the loading mechanism deformed the pellets, even the Gamo ones that were meant to work in it.

Ahhhhh..... I get you now. Pellet mashers a?!

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Rhys,I swapped from .177 to .22 and have my rapid set at 9.5ftlb, I use hobby flats for all my barn/stable work with zero thru's. But Im just looking at buying a .25 P15 as Ive had a bash with a buddies new one, its realy good and sensible money

I swapped due to ricochet's as theres expensive machinery and livestock to think about, plus I can take ferals off beams with no chance of roof damage

Chris

[Mcolly]

I use the polymag shorts in all my pcp's and I haven't found a better pellet. It's a Shame there £14 for 200.

[rhyslightnin]

I use the polymag shorts in all my pcp's and I haven't found a better pellet. It's a Shame there £14 for 200.

Ouch