Hope this helps. I recently returned to airguns and bought a new 99s in .177. Fitted a TB tuning kit and sorted the galling thing before firing a single shot. Must say it's the best break barrel rifle I've ever owned. You won't be disappointed, even in the smaller calibre.
Couple of things-
1. LOP and reach to trigger are utterly ridiculous. Fixed by trimming the stock to the length of a friends Mk2 HW80 and fitting a Rowan engineering set back straight trigger blade.
2. Needs an adjustable but pad. Fixed with a Bisley adjustable job but I used the HW rubber pad. In total I removed 22mm of wood (obviously the adjustable pad is thicker than OEM pad) from the blunt end of the stock.
Yep, personally, if I could afford, I'd go new. The 99 is one of my favourite rifles and its manners are far, far better than its full power / light weight prescription would suggest. Tinny's video is excellent!. Calibre down to the individual - I have them in .177 and .22 and love them both. A little bit of therapeutic fettling and this lovely rifle's perfick.
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Id buy one from around 1994-5
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Ah, before it was even a twinkle in its creator's eye, then?
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a gun is just a tool how its used is dependant on the person behind the trigger .
This is why constant restrictions on legal users will have no effect on the unlawfull use of guns or knives !
I haven't seen anything anywhere suggesting that HW would cease production. The rifle appears to be widely available. Maybe it's just that SGC are temporarily out of stock as they import directly?
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Thank you guys. 👍
a gun is just a tool how its used is dependant on the person behind the trigger .
This is why constant restrictions on legal users will have no effect on the unlawfull use of guns or knives !
Oops, yes, forgot about that.. If Sportsman do have them, they will be the HW50S rather than the 99S. Same rifle. The UK get the 99S, whereas the rest of the World gets the 50S. Can't remember the exact reasoning for the two different names but trying to disassociate the new rifle from the old 50S (cute, brilliant, packed with finesse but lower powered) I think has been cited before as one of the reasons?
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