Given I’m pretty much a BSA man thru and thru I’ve recently gone out on a limb, kind of by accident, and just yesterday picked up this pair of Air Arms beauties.



Longish story but basically a friend of a friend lost a good mate and was trying to help the widow by finding a new home for these.My friend piped up that he might know someone who could help so passed info to me. Always on the lookout for new toys ( aren’t we all) I had a look at some poorish pix and in light of very little info made an offer based on that. Maybe a bit silly of me but all in a good cause etc’ etc’, and was pretty sure I wouldn’t lose out if they accepted, but made sure I didn’t lowball in an “extracting the urine” way, given the circumstances.

Now I had an S200 a few yrs ago but didn’t really do much with it as it was outed it in favour of another rifle that I really wanted at the time, so thought this time round I’ll give it a fair crack’o’the whip, and from the pix I thought the other was a HW of some sort, so had planned to move that on pdq to recoup some hobby fund seeing as Im not a huge fan of them………

When I got to see them in the flesh prior to committing and handing over the cash I realised just what the other was, and in my favourite flavour too……..Plus they they threw in the charging cylinder for the S200 too

I’ve read and heard a lot about the TX’s but never tried one, and have found myself wondering if they really are as good as everyone says. I guess now is my chance to find out, but only if I can find a RH stock, so that’s kind of the idea of the post.

Being new to this particular brand I have no real idea of collectablity/value of this tx , and although I’m no dealer I always consider my rifles to be an investment of sorts so always try to look after them and do the right thing by them.

`From my research so far I think I’ve ascertained this is a true lefty, going on loading port etc’. Does such a thing as a lefty actioned righty stock exist?? If so will it cost me an arm and a leg??

Or do I get hold of a righty/righty stock and manage with a slightly reduced cutout, or even open up the woodwork to suit the lefty loady bias?

This rifle is in such near perfect condition I’m scared to do much at all to it for fear of detracting from the beauty but I really really wanna experience what everyone else raves about, so by hook or by crook I will get something sorted to enable me to shoot it…..

Oh, one more Q. Did AA give their stocks serial numbers, as this has what appears to be just that stamped inside the woodwork?



Suggestions and advice on a postcard please ……….

More pix here

https://imgur.com/a/QRONs9O

TIA