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#3531528 - 03/03/12 09:31 PM Re: Air rifles [Re: Flyboy]  
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Originally Posted By: Flyboy
Nice, Friday.

I have used the Paragon Z1 pellets as shown here:
http://www.paxguns.co.uk/prometheus/paraPell.htm


And I used the .22 version from long time ago in a BSA Mercury and a BSA Scorpion pistol. Compared with the normal lead slugs these were armour piercing biggrin
My father shot with an Anschutz .177 target air rifle but in the RAF he used a P14 .303 for target shooting ... usually bomb disposal during WW2

I target shot with a BSA International Martini Mk2 .22LR a long time ago now I have gone back to a weapon I used as a youngling, a bow and arrow smile


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#3531883 - 03/04/12 12:14 PM Re: Air rifles [Re: Mace71]  
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Originally Posted By: MaceUK33
When I did it I used the old (weren't then of course) pellets like these...


Yeah normally I use just use 'standard' lead pellets, but on special occasions and for testing I used to break out the Paragon. At around £5 for 100, they're not cheap.

Originally Posted By: MaceUK33
Are they all hi-tech now?


No, you still get lead pellets as standard. These newer generation 'air bullets' are just a bit of a specialty. They aren't new though, I remember seeing some old air rifle magazines from the '70s/'80s and they were available, then, in some form or other.

Originally Posted By: MaceUK33
A .357 air rifle? Wow that's some pellet lol biggrin


There is actually a UK company that makes air rifles in anything up to .50 caliber. Of course it's pretty ridiculous though, as the amount of energy you need just to give the 'pellet' the same relative ballistics as a 12 ft. lb. firing a .22 is massive.

#3531889 - 03/04/12 12:21 PM Re: Air rifles [Re: Mace71]  
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I had an Air Arms S300 in .177. Used to shoot pigeons, usually off the neighbours roof. wink

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#3532156 - 03/04/12 09:00 PM Re: Air rifles [Re: AD]  
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Originally Posted By: AD
I had an Air Arms S300 in .177. Used to shoot pigeons, usually off the neighbours roof. wink

Cheers



Nice rifle! How did you charge it? I use a stirrup pump, it's a back killer but I can't be arsed to keep charging a dive bottle!


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