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  1. #46
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    Not a lot of point in jobbing backwards but on pure financial grounds I do regret selling my 3 Whiscombes. A JW65, a JW70 with .177 & .22 barrels and a JW80 FAC .22. In fairness I hated the JW80 but the other 2 were lovely guns.
    As I've said my regrets are only financial-the most I got for any of them was £1200. In terms of 'shootabliity' none of them were particularly outstanding. My currently owned Park 93 shoots every bit as well as any of them AND it only needs a single cock. Why a JW should today be 8 to10 times as valuable totally eludes me. On the triple grounds of performance, quality of build and rarity the Park is every bit as good. The JW80 I actively disliked especially having to cock the rifle 3 times to get 27 ft lb was a real pain. The Theoben Eliminator is a better gun in every way.
    On a more reasonable level I do regret selling a very nice Venom lazaglided Webley Longbow in .177 with a very neat walnut ambi stock and also a SFS Banshe in .177 (HW95 stage 3 tuned by SFS) although the Banshee went to a good friend who still uses and loves it many years later.
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    Blimey, it wasn't until I started looking at everyones' woes I realized how my airguns I have had!

    No where near what some people have had I know but...

    1> some Italian made break-barrel pistol
    2> BSA MK2 Meteor ( still have it but it's a bag of shit... possibly the worst rifle I have ever shot)
    3> BSA Super Meteor
    3> Relum Tornado ( still have it )
    4> G50 Pistol (ewwww)
    5> Sharps Ace
    6> HW 77K (Mk1) ( still have it )
    7> Rapid 7 Mk1 ( still have it )
    8> Falcon Light Hunter 8" (not the 12 as I thought earlier) lovely little gun
    9> Falco FN pistol
    10> Daystate PH6
    11> Daystate MK3
    12> Beeman P17 ( still have it )
    13> HW 75 pistol ( still have it )
    14> Airarms S200 with a prototype click-mag (sorry I let that go too)
    15> S&W 586 CO2 Power-Port (never seen another one anywhere--- I think it was a factory tuned version?????? Though I may be wrong)
    16> HW100 FSB K Sporter ( still have it )
    17> HW77 Tyrolean
    18>HW97K - Dipped ( still have it )

    Plus a few Airsofters too... I think that's 'em all.
    "Every silver lining has a cloud!"

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    In order of regret!

    Airsporter S carbine .177 with great walnut stock.
    Airsporter RB2 Stutzen. 22
    Theoben Evo Walnut .22.
    Plinkerer and Tinkerer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rapidnick View Post
    Not a lot of point in jobbing backwards but on pure financial grounds I do regret selling my 3 Whiscombes. A JW65, a JW70 with .177 & .22 barrels and a JW80 FAC .22. In fairness I hated the JW80 but the other 2 were lovely guns.
    As I've said my regrets are only financial-the most I got for any of them was £1200. In terms of 'shootabliity' none of them were particularly outstanding. My currently owned Park 93 shoots every bit as well as any of them AND it only needs a single cock. Why a JW should today be 8 to10 times as valuable totally eludes me. On the triple grounds of performance, quality of build and rarity the Park is every bit as good. The JW80 I actively disliked especially having to cock the rifle 3 times to get 27 ft lb was a real pain. The Theoben Eliminator is a better gun in every way.
    On a more reasonable level I do regret selling a very nice Venom lazaglided Webley Longbow in .177 with a very neat walnut ambi stock and also a SFS Banshe in .177 (HW95 stage 3 tuned by SFS) although the Banshee went to a good friend who still uses and loves it many years later.
    I agree on the park. I have a. 22 cal thumbhole stocked on and i love shooting it. Weight wise the whizzers were heavy guns also. My mate had the jb80 and that was a pig to cock. As you say why they are around 5k i dont know. And now we have lost john who can work on them to his standard now

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    Quote Originally Posted by maximus View Post
    In order of regret!

    Airsporter S carbine .177 with great walnut stock.
    Airsporter RB2 Stutzen. 22
    Theoben Evo Walnut .22.
    OOOOOOOOOOooooooooow... A Stutzen... and you let that go!
    "Every silver lining has a cloud!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rod View Post
    OOOOOOOOOOooooooooow... A Stutzen... and you let that go!
    I know!! They are comparatively common compared to the Airsporter S carbine though, especially in .177!
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    My 3 regrets......

    1st BSA Challenger Carbine in .22" and still boxed - my first air rifle sold to a local dealer when I discovered beer and cigarettes. Numpty!

    2nd AA TX200HC; left handed action and beech stock in .177". I should have given it more of a chance but found the loading process a pain.

    3rd= (the ones that got away) when I got back into shooting air rifles in the early noughties I was offered at good prices these two air rifles but was happy with my HW100. The first was an HW98, the second a left handed AA MPR when the stocks were still walnut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinbum View Post
    HW80 .25 in Cs800

    Theoben Fenman (all of them)

    Gat rifle
    You sold your Profile ???
    “An airgun or two”………

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    Only one, a superb Mk. 1 Airsporter .22 ! Very good bluing and etching with a gorgeous dark “tiger stripe” stock with BSA stamp on butt.
    I know who still owns it and he loves it as much as I did !
    “An airgun or two”………

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    In 1982, my Dad refurbed a BSA Lincoln Jeffries, it was rusty with a broken stock. He polished it and had it nickel plated, he made a new stock from mahogany if I remember. To a 12 year old it was like a jewel. He sold it a few weeks later and I was in tears. I would love to know where it is now. Distinctive marks are all the sharp edges were filed and softened before polishing and plating.

    My Dad died a few years ago and as he had re-married his Brocock went to someone. It looked like the S6 carbine but was a development model that my Dad had built with a chap from Brocock. It didn't have a single standard part on it. Handbuilt stock, top end barrel and hand made trigger mech. I tried to buy it in 2017 with no luck.

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    Not a great seller of my airguns but the one I wish a never sold was my AA Mistral. I simple gun and not in the realms of what some get shot of but I would like another one one day.........dom

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    2 Guns

    I have 2 that I regret selling, a WIN model 88 in .308 and a Colt .22 Single Six. I really miss both of those guns which were excellent in quality and fun to shoot.

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    I regret selling (well swapping actually for an Airsporter) the .22 BSA Super Meteor which was my first airgun and bought by my parents for my 12th birthday - it cost £18.50 and £6.60 for the BSA 4x20 scope. Fired literally tens of thousands of pellets through it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dodder View Post
    I regret selling (well swapping actually for an Airsporter) the .22 BSA Super Meteor which was my first airgun and bought by my parents for my 12th birthday - it cost £18.50 and £6.60 for the BSA 4x20 scope. Fired literally tens of thousands of pellets through it.
    Interesting, I still have my .22 Super Meteor, in box with BSA target holder, targets, pelgun oil, bought new in late 60's £14.50 , Nikon 4x20 scope £4.50 & gun bag £?? Many hours happy use, about 8-9/10 condition.
    Regret letting go as new Webley hurricane with scope in 1978, swooped for few weeks old Crossman 1377, in box, still have Crossman.

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    Venom 177 HW77K 25mm Lazer

    Original 45 (22 and 177)

    Diana 52 Thumbhole 177 (Original stock) V Mach stage 1
    Looking for TO-6 Trigger unit unmessed with or T0-6 kit for 34

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