Quote Originally Posted by Josie & John View Post
I wish I could agree as the air cartridge system resulted in some incredibly realistic airguns.

I owned two back in the day; a Brocock Specialist and Uberti Cattleman. I bought the Brocock for competition use and whilst accuracy was OK, consistency was not. You just never knew if a cartridge was going to discharge when you pulled the trigger and that played havoc with my confidence, as I am sure you can imagine. The Uberti, with its case hardened finish was as much a work of art as an air pistol. Trouble was its accuracy was non existent and the cartridges seemed even more unreliable than the Specialist's, although I think they were both the same.

It's still a crying shame the airgunning public were conned out of buying these classics though.

Kind regards,

John
Hi John,
Unfortunately Brocock users usually fell within two camps, those who seldom used them and those who hated their reliability and then seldom used them....I collected and used mine, I was also a founding member of a club with the biggest collection of users in the south east. As such we had every possible problem thrown our way, accuracy and reliability go hand in hand and there are many ways to deal with this. I actually shot my Orion6 Target special competitively which used to turn heads a bit!! but could also put single hole groups together when I tried. The ME range weren't as good due to barrel quality, but the Uberti , Armi San Marco and Pietta guns all had good capabilities. I still have a few 'nice' pieces and shoot mine frequency (all on ticket)Inc my O/U express rifle!