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    Not sure at my age I’m going to help in the renewal but at my table at Airgun Shows most of my sales have been to younger people. The Prewar treasures get nothing but pleasing comments as said above quality speak for itself and our shows do attract young people that are into airguns.

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    The demise of airgun collecting?

    I think local importation restrictions have effectively killed this activity. A lot of trouble must be endured if an individual wants to import ANY kind of airgun.For a start,if one's prospective import isn't subject to an outright ban you will find no mail carrier is prepared to carry it! In fact, even if it is an inoffensive bit of wood or tin! The people working in the 'mail handling trade'',tend to be overly officious or underly informed. To the prospective owner of a precious wee gun this is bad news.Doesn't he/she know what a deviant pervert she/he really looks like? Sadly,a pop-out pistol is,to a mail handler,a weapon of mass destruction. Geez you cannot win. Best to start collecting ciggy cards-I reckon.

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    Its been a long time since I popped by on here as life gets in the way of the stuff that I really want to do but also because things did go a little quiet on here. I think maybe the postage problem has impacted the hobby a lot and maybe also the guns themselves got a little more expensive. Having said that I did see a few air rifles for sale in my local auction house that sold reasonably so maybe its just a cycle and things will come back? This forum is an excellent spot for knowledge though even if the guns themselves are not as numerous.

    Had to edit GGGR.... your Gamo comment Sir... pistols at dawn!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamocfx View Post
    Had to edit GGGR.... your Gamo comment Sir... pistols at dawn!
    Ok-----Nad shots at 10 yards, with foil trays and an old hanky for "safety"

    I'll be using a .22 Bsa Scorpion, which Gamo pistol will you be using?
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    Haha I have you beat you will never hit my tiny gonads!

    Oh wait... you have to be sober as well! I have seen your drunken shooting which is bizarrely better than your sober shots.

    There MUST be a classic Gamo? The Statical? The Paratrooper? The ASI Sniper? The list is practically endless, CFX, Hunter 440 series. I am sure that there must be more that others could add. The only lacking thing from Gamo seems t be the offer of Walnut stocks on any of their models past or present.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamocfx View Post
    Haha I have you beat you will never hit my tiny gonads!

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    Smaller than a bottle cap

    I forgot to add --in late twilight and after a small amount of apple wine.

    Dont worry, you will still have the "meat and one veg"
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    A bottle cap? I dream of those dimensions (part of the family is French you see). In all fairness Gamo produced The Centre, the Compact .. Not as good looking, effective or accurate as any Webley or BSA but remember they are Spanish. (Managed to cast a weird shadow on two of our European brother nations there-only joking though). Actually the Centre pistol was good for its day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gamocfx View Post
    A bottle cap? I dream of those dimensions (part of the family is French you see). In all fairness Gamo produced The Centre, the Compact .. Not as good looking, effective or accurate as any Webley or BSA but remember they are Spanish. (Managed to cast a weird shadow on two of our European brother nations there-only joking though). Actually the Centre pistol was good for its day.
    The Falcon and Center were accurate pistols but apart from being souless, they are no Scorpion.

    If you were given the choice of being shot in the nads by a Falcon/ Center or a Scopion, DONT chose the Scorpion!
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    Given the choice it would be none of the above. Gamo will have classics for the future-you heard it here first.

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    Avoiding the testicular sidetrack.

    Too much pessimism in this thread.

    Yes, there are legislative and societal issues that don’t apply to coins or model trains. But all of the collector gun market has held up well, except for things that have actually been completely banned.

    And yes, some people tend to specialise in things they couldn’t afford or didn’t buy when younger. I’m a bit like that. But I also own things made way before I was born, let alone a teenager or adult.

    I’d suggest that most of the fans on here of LJ BSAs, Webley Services, pre-WW2 Webley pistols etc were not alive when those things were available new.

    Fact is, unless the economy completely tanks or a new variant of COVID decimates the population (or both?), we have a growing global population with increasing discretionary income. Which means more people with disposable income to collect stuff, whether airguns, stamps, or Rolexes.

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    There are/will be collectible Gamos. Paras, Staticals, Magnums already are - a bit. Centers and Targets are I think still mostly seen as economical shooters, but give it a few years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
    Avoiding the testicular sidetrack.

    Too much pessimism in this thread.

    Yes, there are legislative and societal issues that don’t apply to coins or model trains. But all of the collector gun market has held up well, except for things that have actually been completely banned.

    And yes, some people tend to specialise in things they couldn’t afford or didn’t buy when younger. I’m a bit like that. But I also own things made way before I was born, let alone a teenager or adult.

    I’d suggest that most of the fans on here of LJ BSAs, Webley Services, pre-WW2 Webley pistols etc were not alive when those things were available new.

    Fact is, unless the economy completely tanks or a new variant of COVID decimates the population (or both?), we have a growing global population with increasing discretionary income. Which means more people with disposable income to collect stuff, whether airguns, stamps, or Rolexes.
    Agree with this.

    Apart from some military trainers, most prewar spring airguns are so patently not weapons of war and relatively harmless looking, that I think it's unlikely they'll be swept up in bans in future.
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    I'm with the Scots.

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    Forgive my ignorance-I have no idea how the Scottish licence law works, was it automatically awarded to someone who already owned an air rifle/pistol? What if you had a collection? Has this affected anyone?

    Sorry but I have been "out of the game" as it were for a few years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T 20 View Post
    I'm with the Scots.

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    Things like the Scottish AWL will undoubtedly affect plinkers and the future of the sport in general, but I think will have much less effect on collectors, at least of the more serious kind, who will just fill in the form and get the little bit of paper, and keep buying across a U.K. (and maybe EU) market. Just as collectors of fine shotguns or WW1 rifles do now and have for years.
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