Quote Originally Posted by fat man View Post
Yes Mick I badly wanted one and had done as many odd jobs as a kid to get one, then Eddies shop was destroyed by fire. My own G80 is a 1978 series 1 in .177, its doing all of 8 ftlbs but with Crossman Domes it is easily one of the most consistent springer I have ever used, we are talking less than 5 fps variation over 30 shots thats better than some pcp,s out there. I paid all of £25.00 a few years ago from Jeans Military Memories ( remember a great shop). I have allso searched for the SP5 for what seems years, the only person who seems to have one is Gareth WB and I dont think He will ever part with one of His 2:eek The Vixen took me near 30 years to find, but it was worth the wait, I did have 2 of them but had to sell one a few years back to help pay for a big job on my old car and regret it. So if another Vixen comes up then She will find a warm /safe home in my gun room in one of my racks. atb Dave

I wouldn't worry too much Dave

The Vixen and the SP5 would probably be the two easiest collectable guns to reproduce if you set your mind to it.

The HW35E is still in production and the internal modifications are well enough documented that building one would be a very simple job.

A few good secondhand G80s are still out there and .20" barrels are still being made so with a bit of machining, hey presto.



Making a batch of new Vixens up could probably make a lot of sense if there was enough interest ?






All the best Mick