Airgun Obsessions of The 70s

[where's it gone]

Things that used to concern airgunners in the U.K. in the late 70s early 80s included Â…

5. Twelve Foot Pounds. 12 fpe is just another power level to todays shooters, albeit the threshold for an FAC so quite important. Back in the 70s rifles that could actually get close to this number were held in awe. No one had a chronograph so no one really knew how powerful their guns were. .......

I disagree. My local gun shop always had a copy of Yellow Pages.
After 'tuneing' a HW 77 he proudly showed how many pages the pellet went through !

[TonyL]

Excellent OP, bringing back many of yesteryear's flavours.

Yes to the comments over the old Eley Wasp and FWB Sport. And I lusted over many of the exotic sounding German match rifles and their quality of engineering. It wasn't to be for many years afterwards until I finally got a 300S of my own.

Obsessions....."slipperiness" from moly.....Dri-Slide,, LT2 and SM50. As above, properly made mounts. And, when they came a little later, the Venoms and Airmasters tuning & customising houses.

[TonyL]

Oh yes, just for Pete......and the rifle is as viable now as it was back then......THE HW35!