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    FWB Sport !

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    Quote Originally Posted by mallyally View Post
    FWB Sport !
    Yours definitely but you 85 is close but I think my stutzen edges it in the looks but not the trigger!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MartynB View Post
    Mk1, 2 and RB2 Airpsorter, in fairness any of the sloping backblock BSA's were good looking
    yeah, agree with that...

    ALso the SLR88, especially it's stock; very impressive lines for a mass produced gun.
    Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.

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    The Webley Tomahawk and longbow for me,The Theoben Sirocco deluxe(I know it's a rammer)is a Handsome rifle.I do agree with others regarding the mk1 Airsporter a great looking air rifle.
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    FWB Sport

    Luxus or Deluxe or Export; whatever the MKII was, just not the standard.

    Omega is close, but the Sport has it.
    With beech stock it still beats everything. Put a walnut one on and it beats everything double. If given a Rekord trigger then it would probably be the best sub 12ft/lbs rifle ever. The HW80 was a higher powered effort to emulate it.
    Only AA's Prosport gives it a run for its money.
    The Theoben's weren't bad lookers, especially some early Sirocco's; and some BSA's Mercury S's do look good if not blond.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mallyally View Post
    FWB Sport !
    I would have said 'yes' but then I remembered the awful Mk 3 version which looked hideous with its Dan Dare muzzle wieght and angular stock, the final nail in the coffin of a classic rifle.
    So, FWB Sport but only the Mk 1 or 2.
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    Blackrider is offline It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got a Spring
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    The mark 1 BSA Airsporter has all it takes to be the most handsome Classic air rifle ever produced !
    The blued tapered barrel adjoining the tap-loader presenting an engineering wonder for the age coupled with the swept back cylinder block, etched cylinder And "wave trigger" guard along with the smoothly designed walnut stock all contribute to a superb example of air rifle excellence !
    “Let us not dwell on the distance we have fallen short, let us dwell on the distance we have travelled" !

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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    I would have said 'yes' but then I remembered the awful Mk 3 version which looked hideous with its Dan Dare muzzle wieght and angular stock, the final nail in the coffin of a classic rifle.
    So, FWB Sport but only the Mk 1 or 2.
    I'd forgotten about the Mk3, remember it coming out and thought 'What have they done ?'
    Custom BSA S10 .22 PAX Phoenix Mk 2 .22 Custom Titan Manitou .22 (JB BP) HW77 .22 FWB Sport Mk1 .22 Sharp Ace .22 Crossman 600 .22 Berretta 92 .20 Desert Eagle .177

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    The classic, standard BSA Meteor, or a post-war Diana 27.
    Simple lines, no whistles, no bells.
    The South of England has 2 good things, the M1 and the A1. Both will take you to Yorkshire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MartynB View Post
    I'd forgotten about the Mk3, remember it coming out and thought 'What have they done ?'
    I did hear Herman Wheirauch designed it for them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    I did hear Herman Wheirauch designed it for them.
    You're going to get yourself in trouble...
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    Hi my favourite would be my old man's Mk1 Airsporter.
    I used this as a kid and it was a great rifle!

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    look no hands is offline Even better looking than a HW35
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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    I did hear Herman Wheirauch designed it for them.
    That makes sense

    Pete
    Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in

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    my fave

    Almost takes the breath away ...
    V-MACH COBRA - one should expect a lot but it is gorgeous

    https://1drv.ms/u/s!Auol2PxeHXBMgRUvMOhCpSHL3sgN

    cheers TOM

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    Air Arms Pro Elite doesn't look bad either.

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