Your Most Accurate Modest Springer Experience

[Muskett]

For its time it was a top-end rifle .. like the Webley Omega etc ..

But so was the Annie 335.
Heck, so was the Webley Vulcan MK1. The Webley flagship that would be developed to the Omega.

BSA was Airsporter, and it's break barrel the Mercury.

So many not off the top tier shoot well enough. If you can get over their triggers and don't shoot beyond the farmyard. Much depends on the accuracy demanded.

I quite like shooting the BSA Buccanier. Slap a dot sight on and plink cans over.

Shooting was once done standing, and not attached to a bench, bag, and seat. Loads of Top Tier rifles are no fun shooting standing as they are heavy fat lumps. Loads of fun to be had with the "little" rifles. I have a soft spot for the BSA Cadet.

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But so was the Annie 335.
Heck, so was the Webley Vulcan MK1. The Webley flagship that would be developed to the Omega.

BSA was Airsporter, and it's break barrel the Mercury.

So many not off the top tier shoot well enough. If you can get over their triggers and don't shoot beyond the farmyard. Much depends on the accuracy demanded.

I quite like shooting the BSA Buccanier. Slap a dot sight on and plink cans over.

Shooting was once done standing, and not attached to a bench, bag, and seat. Loads of Top Tier rifles are no fun shooting standing as they are heavy fat lumps. Loads of fun to be had with the "little" rifles. I have a soft spot for the BSA Cadet.

Sorry Muskett I didn’t really define what I was after, other than my mention of the Meteor. An Anschutz 335 can hold its own today with the right pellets and is a blisteringly accurate springer in the right hands. It had a few bits where they saved money but overall it’s a top quality gun.

I love the BSA Buccaneer and I would like it if they brought it back. Only problem is the thumbhole in the thumbhole stock is just slightly too small for my not very large size 7.5 hand … I can’t get my hand through the stock far enough to get a straight-back trigger press. It’s so annoying because it’s the perfect plinker and informal target gun with the peep sight attached. And named after a Royal Navy nuclear bomber. It’s all the great things about the 70s in one plastic package, like a track by The Stranglers.

[Segata]

I didn't think the Bucaneer had a nuclear payload, I thought that was just left up to the V Bombers, Victor, Valiant and Vulcan.
I may buy the match to my favourite war bird one day, the Lightning, but with my Supersport being similar might not be worth it.

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I didn't think the Bucaneer had a nuclear payload, I thought that was just left up to the V Bombers, Victor, Valiant and Vulcan.
I may buy the match to my favourite war bird one day, the Lightning, but with my Supersport being similar might not be worth it.

They carried nukes, flown off carriers in the Baltic some were detailed to hit airfields outside of Leningrad (St Petersburg) and also for anti-submarine work. Because nukes were for everything in those days.

https://www.key.aero/article/buccaneers-nuclear-bite

[tinbum]

Has anyone said the Relum Tornado yet?
Mind numbingly accurate, and containing special pheromones that page three girls home in on from miles away.

There’s one in sales, dontcherknow.

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Has anyone said the Relum Tornado yet?
Mind numbingly accurate, and containing special pheromones that page three girls home in on from miles away.

There’s one in sales, dontcherknow.

I had one, it’s not accurate. Poor trigger, loading tap that has lever that drops, twangy (two springs no guide) and toxic levels of Communism that meant anything better than mediocre was punished by the gulag.

[tinbum]

I had one, it’s not accurate. Poor trigger, loading tap that has lever that drops, twangy (two springs no guide) and toxic levels of Communism that meant anything better than mediocre was punished by the gulag.

Pfffft! You can prove anything with facts

[Segata]

They carried nukes, flown off carriers in the Baltic some were detailed to hit airfields outside of Leningrad (St Petersburg) and also for anti-submarine work. Because nukes were for everything in those days.

https://www.key.aero/article/buccaneers-nuclear-bite

I can't see it but I believe you, makes sense knowing the cold war, I was only about a year old when the USSR dissolved so don't really remember it myself.

[Segata]

Pfffft! You can prove anything with facts

Tbh anything made in a communist nation can either be wonderfully made or woefully made on the same production line, just depends on day of the week and what the Vodka ration was that day.
Cameras can be a good case in point, I've got 2 Zorki 4s, one is smooth as a nut, the other has a frequently sticking mirror despite being CLA'd, sticky is the younger body but likely was an end of weeks shift build where smooth was probably mid week or when the Big Boss was watching.

[Hsing-ee]

Pfffft! You can prove anything with facts

Maybe mine was a bad one. I know some people swear at them.

They feel rather curious in terms of handling, sort of light and top heavy at the same time, like if it was a ship it would roll over. Kind of a Hungarian premonition of a Sterling HR81, another dazzling underlever.

[hwtyger]

I like my Stoeger X20 ATACs. Very accurate at short range.

[4end]

BAM41 .22, no not the B40, but the cheapened version. Bought it cheap off a mate who had his own airgun business back then (2014). They had to buy two at a time off SMK and he got stuck with one as they got slagged from pillar to post by just about everyone. So I bought it as a project TBH, it was the best OTB airgun I’ve ever bought. No twang, graunching or any other unpleasant noises. Shot with a solid thud and little kick. Over the years I’ve improved the trigger, made new guides and fitted a piston sleeve. Mate John made me a new metal front end to replace the plastic thing that held the cocking lever up. Will group at 60yds if I do my bit. Probably like most things, you can get a very good Chinese airgun the same as you can get an iffy HW and the like.

My modest springer is a SMK B41 bought second hand as a project gun. Simple tuning using home made and no specialist tuning parts except a spring and a decent spring guide transformed this rifle into something as good as if not better than the one it cloned. These views were from TX200 owners who shot it, 4 reckoned it was as good as theirs, one reckoned it was better, another wanted to buy it because he had never shot a rifle putting 3 pellets through the same hole and the final one wished to know how the action had become so fast and with minimal recoil.
It all goes to prove that to own a exceptionally well performing and accurate air rifle there is no need to spend many hundreds of pounds on one or many in having it tuned.

[Waddy]

When I was a lad my dad bought me a Relum Tornado, it was underpowered & no use for hunting, which was what I wanted it for, however it was incredibly accurate.

I used to shoot the heads off matches with it at what I'm sure was about 10 yards with open sights.

Certainly a modest springer & certainly very accurate, I've seen them come up for sale for 50 quid in good condition.

[evert]

A well set up Supersport can shoot as accurate as a TX200 or HW98-77-97.
It is not as EASY to shoot, but the gun is accurate.

Is the Supersport modest?

[look no hands]

A well set up Supersport can shoot as accurate as a TX200 or HW98-77-97.
It is not as EASY to shoot, but the gun is accurate.

Is the Supersport modest?

It replaced the Mercury but I believe it was on over engineered Meteor?