Death to Simmo - Northern Division
You boinger fans will be pleased to hear I've now added 2 new pages covering the numerous Air Arms side-levers. One page covers the period from 1982 to 1985 and the other 1985-1991.
Their are also quite a few new photo in the gallery.
I could still do with some nice Air Arms side-levers photos if anyone can help.
https://www.airarmsanorak.co.uk/
Dodgy Diana User
This looks really, really, good, and great pics.
As a nerd/smartarse, part of me wanted to skim the bit on springers and then point out that you had not mentioned the Sharpshooters (of Eastbourne? somewhere like that) special editions, but, nope, they are in there. I came very close to buying one of their ALs, hampered only by the fact that I had no spare money at the time. So not that close, really.
If you could cover the pre-TX Ken Turner underlever one-offs, I think you'd be adding valuable content. Unless I have missed it, they have a mythic quality, but there is not that much definitive information out there about them.
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Nice clear website. It would be interesting to dig into the history of the Jackals a bit, as they are allegedly larger copies of the Hammerli 400 series, and it is clear to see that the Jackal takes after the Hammerli 420 military style side-lever. Another rumour is that Hammerli, a Swiss/German make, supplied the barrels for the early Jackal series, so there may have been some technology transference there. Unlike the Hammerli the Jackals used 'O' rings as piston washers, which was a BSA innovation at the time.
Death to Simmo - Northern Division
I had read about the S-AL version of the Combat before but not the Mistral version until I found a couple of old Sharpshooters ads - you are right that they were in Eastbourne.Originally Posted by Geezer
The pre-TX Ken Turner under-levers would be nice to cover but, as you say, it is hard to find any hard info.
I was tempted to delve further into the Sussex Armoury Jackals but decided to stick with Air Arms - Mike at http://www.jackals-lair.com/ has covered them well.
Registered User
Great read and very informative, thank you.
But.. Could you tone down the colours a bit? I still have after-images burned into my retina.
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N.
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Death to Simmo - Northern Division
Thanks Nick.
I had expected someone to comment on the brightness sooner! It's based on the Air Arms colour scheme but I do agree it could do with a bit of toning down. I'll have another look at the colour scheme soon and hope the retina damage isn't permanent!
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I'd like to read about these too, but there is very little information available about them.
Not sure how many Ken made, but not that many, and they were not just TX style underlevers, but ProSport style hidden underlevers (like the Venom Mach 2) and break barrels too, all made from stainless steel with the "Venom Mach 1" trigger which was also designed by Ken when he worked for Venom.
From what I know most of these guns are now in US though.
I have a few articles from 1980's Airgun World and Airgunner, I'll see if I can dig them out and maybe Rotherham Owl could put them on his website as part of Air Arms history...
Death to Simmo - Northern Division
All the post side-lever Air Arms rifles were borne from Ken's designs, one-offs and prototypes with Air Arms tweaking and testing until they were completely happy to put them to market. The man was a genius when it came to spring rifles.
At some stage I want to add some pages about some of the key people involved with Air Arms so any information and/or articles in relation to Ken would be most welcome.
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