Originally Posted by
Gamocfx
Does anyone remember the AK styled Firepower? I think Sussex Armoury played on the loading tube looking like an AK....I have never seen one except in pictures-it had a curved mag like an AK and looked VERY cool. Hope that you have plenty of ammo in Grayling as the plinking sessions will be long ones!
By the way...51 years young gives me an excuse to keep playing at a mere 45-what is the average age of a Jackal owner. I would wager the majority were young men/teenagers when Sussex Armoury released this icon?
Re the AK lookalike, PadE actually has one, the only example I've actually ever seen the flesh, they are like proverbial hens teeth, there wasn't that many magazine adverts regarding these lookalikes so they obviously were not on sale long.
Know what you mean about them making the most of the magazine tube. They made it look like part of the gas blowback system on the real thing. Doubt the dummy mag had any real function apart from possibly storage. I'll text young Pad and ask him to put some piccies on of his very rare Jackal/AK.
I was 16 when I got my Jackal, which I was allowed to use on the local allotments as a pest control tool. Happily making my hobby more or less self financing. As grateful plot owners would often give me 50p for ridding them of troublesome rats or feral pigeons, time that by a few hundred plots and I could easily manage £6 to £10 a week if only a few of them felt generous, it certainly paid for pellets, the then still new Airgun World magazine, plus a trip to the cinema with my young lady 
. But taking off the rose coloured specs my particular Jackal was noisy to cock, noisy to shoot, needed the ABS butt filling with polystyrene to stop it resonating, sliced the skirts off pellets if you were not paying attention when closing the tap. The loading tap locking was no were near as good as vintage BSA's and was easily knocked into the partially open position which obviously caused problems. Yet I did love it dearly, in fact it was not until I bought a 2nd hand FWB 127 Sport and 3-9x40 scope that I realised just how bad these early SA Jackals were. My kill rate on the plots literally went through the roof with the scoped Feinwerkbau. Still wish I'd kept that old Jackal though 
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I hasten to add I also had the later Air Arms Hi-Power and custom Camargue and these were soooooooooooooo much better, in fact the Camargue joined a Venom 80 and became my standard hunting rifle until the late 80's.
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well thats my excuse anyway 
. Sadly I found souped up Ford Cortina's and young ladies more interesting then 
