That's not quite the story as I've read it, Phil.Originally Posted by Phil Russell
They are quite nice rifles but in conversation with Tony Belas a few years ago he said they stopped making them basically because they were losing money on them. So many were being returned to the factory with faults. One pump gives around 5 - 6 ft lbs while the 2 pumps will get you 10 or so but the second pump is hard going. I did an HFT course with one once ... and once was the operable word as somehow I did not want the effort again.
Cheers, Phil
John Bowkett had the pumps for the Titan Mohawk made in India, when Titan went belly up there was a batch of pumps left on a shelf in India, so Daystate bought them up and used them to build the Sportsman MK2.
I can believe this as there has been seen to be a working relationship between Mr Bowkett and Daystate in that Daystate made air cylinders for JB.
So the story could run as Tony Belas says, or it could be a combination of cost and using up all the pumps which they'd bought in from India which killed off the Sportsman ?
All the best Mick
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