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    Quote Originally Posted by hangman View Post
    Still have my Welham reg'd Shamal. Can't part with it.
    I feel the same about my Welham regged NJR.

    Dave Welham has been extremely helpful with my research. Fascinating bloke and great to have a cuppa and a chat with!

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    Nice article to read

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    Thank you-I well remember lusting after one of these-the advertising photo showed young Mickey Andrews with a pile of bunnies shot with his Shamal and I was a poor schoolboy so never achieved ownership. I hope to be righting that wrong very soon
    Never go off half cocked....

    All lies matter

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    Nice...

    I can't find a picture of my Shamal Target, which was the first PCP rifle I bought, to use for FT. That was in the early 90s.

    It was very much like the attached picture (which I found floating around on the internet, so it may be subject to copyright).

    ShamalCover.jpg

    I sold the Shamal few years later at a knockdown (pun) price, to help a young shooter get into FT... 180 quid... dammit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bossmugler View Post
    Nice article to read
    Thanks.

    Quote Originally Posted by Baxterbasics View Post
    Thank you-I well remember lusting after one of these-the advertising photo showed young Mickey Andrews with a pile of bunnies shot with his Shamal and I was a poor schoolboy so never achieved ownership. I hope to be righting that wrong very soon
    I've just gone to upload the ad onto this thread but I can't - I forgot you can only upload onto sales threads. Get that wrong righted ASAP!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rickenbacker View Post
    Nice...

    I can't find a picture of my Shamal Target, which was the first PCP rifle I bought, to use for FT. That was in the early 90s.

    It was very much like the attached picture (which I found floating around on the internet, so it may be subject to copyright).

    ShamalCover.jpg

    I sold the Shamal few years later at a knockdown (pun) price, to help a young shooter get into FT... 180 quid... dammit.
    Nice pic. What's wrong with a bit of copyright infringement between friends?

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    Nice write up Steve. I had a Shamal when i was going through my period of spending daft amounts of cash on unusual air rifles/pistols. IIRC the Khamsin was my first 'pucker' air rifle but i've checked and have photo's of neither.

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    great article,thanks for taking the time to write it,learnt quite a bit from it.i own a target stocked shamal which i use for vermin destuction,its a heavy old beast but very accurate.the serial no is 00013, does that make it an early one?,cheers greasemonkey..
    Last edited by greasemonkey; 22-03-2018 at 08:51 AM. Reason: sspelin
    more guns than you can shake a stick at!

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    A Shamal was my first PCP air gun (Which I bought off you Steve not too long ago). My Grandfather has a nice .22 S400 classic. Which got me into airguns many years ago.

    So far I think it is great! I put the scope off my Park RH93 onto it and I was amazed by the accuracy (I was using a cheap tin of .177 BSA Elites).

    It is a bit heavier than what I am used to with the scope on, though not as heavy as the Park!

    I did find out that it was in a Tennants auction back in 2011/2012. It did not sell but what it did have was a brass prototype magazine made by someone in Hull (cant remember the name). I wonder where that got to?

    Having used both the Shamal and the S400 I would say the S400 is the better of the two, but with it being Air Arms first PCP, they sure as hell did a good job!

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