Hankering after guns you’ve owned and sold on ..

[Hsing-ee]

I just found myself looking at a Park RH93 thumbhole which is going for over £700. That’s just too much money to spend on a non-match airgun. It’s too much to spend on an airgun full stop in my book.

I owned one before and they are so heavy (11 lb) the amazing opposed piston recoilless action is pretty much redundant, the cocking effort is enormous for the power, they’re a bit tricky to strip and the trigger isn’t nearly as good as if they’d just copied the Rekord. I sold it on.

A good 77 or ProSport can equal their performance at least. So why do I keep searching for them? Same with the FWB Sport, I’ve owned a few but always come back to the fact a 77 is a better rifle.

It’s an annoying mental tik.

[Mach 1.5]

I would still like to have my Mach 1 back which I sold in 1997. Yes it's heavy but what a springer. Mach 1.5

[look no hands]

Luckily I managed to get my Prosport back off of you many years ago, I suppose I'd like my original SFS tuned Challenger back, I did take a lot of rabbits with that rifle.

[Hsing-ee]

Luckily I managed to get my Prosport back off of you many years ago, I suppose I'd like my original SFS tuned Challenger back, I did take a lot of rabbits with that rifle.

Both those rifles are good choices though, that ProSport was one of the most accurate rifles I’ve owned - it matched a very accurate TX200SR at 50 yards (must get my own PS sorted) and an SFS Challenger let go of? You must have been in dire need of coin or high on moly to sell that, I would have thought a late model BSA would be the last thing Pete look no hands would let go of …

The Park and the Sport are charming but have big flaws that are like, nah, after a while.

[DEAN C.]

My Airsporter S I sold when first married and skint, to buy my daughter a certian lovely Titan MPT...

Then I have bought two back over the years. First was the same Titan MPT I bought for my daughter and had later sold to buy her an AA MPR400, and managed to buy back ten years later. I also sold my AA EV2 Mk4 and regretted it last year, but have just bought it back a year later after the buyer held his promise to give me first option back if he wanted rid of it.

I was supposed to be downsizing my collection, maybe I have a problem.
I do think some of my BSA's and in particular the Airsporters need to be reduced, and just keep some of the ones I am sentimental about.

[Garvin]

Both those rifles are good choices though, that ProSport was one of the most accurate rifles I’ve owned - it matched a very accurate TX200SR at 50 yards (must get my own PS sorted) and an SFS Challenger let go of? You must have been in dire need of coin or high on moly to sell that, I would have thought a late model BSA would be the last thing Pete look no hands would let go of …

The Park and the Sport are charming but have big flaws that are like, nah, after a while.

I had an early walnut .177 Pro Sport not many years ago and I still miss it. I superglued the cocking link bolt and it never came loose again. Not only was it incredibly powerful and accurate with JSBs after I serviced it, it was so beautiful I used to gaze at it an embarrassing amount of the time. The other one I miss is a minty Mk1 Airsporter. I never really got acquainted with it before I was forced sell it on back in the mid-1980s - a lasting regret.

[Hsing-ee]

I had an early walnut .177 Pro Sport not many years ago and I still miss it. I superglued the cocking link bolt and it never came loose again. Not only was it incredibly powerful and accurate with JSBs after I serviced it, it was so beautiful I used to gaze at it an embarrassing amount of the time. The other one I miss is a minty Mk1 Airsporter. I never really got acquainted with it before I was forced sell it on back in the mid-1980s - a lasting regret.

Sounds like a similar generation to Pete’s rifle, I think it was in the 800 serial number zone. Didn’t the earlier ones have a shorter stroke or something?

[urx]

My ‘ I really miss you’ notes would got to the pair of ISP spartans i sold
That and my GML 400 with titanium cylinder and other trickery

[Muskett]

Dean C has a Pro Sport that he once had for sale, and then changed his mind. Thats the one I want.

I've let a few great rifles go over the years. Buying another example isn't often the same if the one that went was a good one.

[Cinimod]

I think for me it would be my AA Mistral, lovely gun and a nicely designed stock. I made a tigertailed maple stock and slim line moderator for mine a fitted a gas strut.
I've never seen it since selling it to New Avon Arms after I got together with Tam to help pay for Christmas 30 years ago.
So if anyone has a beat up old one they'd be willing to let go for a few quid and make an old man happy����....dom

[look no hands]

Both those rifles are good choices though, that ProSport was one of the most accurate rifles I’ve owned - it matched a very accurate TX200SR at 50 yards (must get my own PS sorted) and an SFS Challenger let go of? You must have been in dire need of coin or high on moly to sell that, I would have thought a late model BSA would be the last thing Pete look no hands would let go of …

The Park and the Sport are charming but have big flaws that are like, nah, after a while.

Sounds like a similar generation to Pete’s rifle, I think it was in the 800 serial number zone. Didn’t the earlier ones have a shorter stroke or something?

Yes they where short stroked like the mk1 TX, the Challenger was PXed for a Pro Elite at TAL Arms in Bournemouth, when I think back how many guns I've had over the years, I bought a SFS Stingray custom T from TAL as well, that was something special as well, that was PXed as well for a .177 Goldstar.

[Jesim1]

Rose tinted glasses is often the cause of reminiscing over past guns, it's often not the gun you miss, but memories associated with it, perhaps from your youth

I've done it myself, I sold a Webley Vulcan years ago I had as a kid, missed it and bought it back a few years later from the purchaser as he was giving up air guns. I kept it for about 6 months, it never fired a shot, and I sold it again - still miss that gun

[robs5230]

Rose tinted glasses is often the cause of reminiscing over past guns, it's often not the gun you miss, but memories associated with it, perhaps from your youth

I've done it myself, I sold a Webley Vulcan years ago I had as a kid, missed it and bought it back a few years later from the purchaser as he was giving up air guns. I kept it for about 6 months, it never fired a shot, and I sold it again - still miss that gun

I think you've hit the nail on the head James

Just bought 2 rifles, myself, that very much remind me of days gone by.
Oddly enough, they're both as capable as most modern stuff is, so very useable