Spring or Co2 Air Rifle?

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Haggis wrote:
Catweazle wrote: A useful pot-filler in Mad Max world, provided you have a supply of sulphur.

Personally, I would buy a load of shotgun primers and smokeless powder instead.
the nipple is for percussion caps, so it would need modifying.

There's a gunsmith who mods black powder pistols to use shotgun primers and nitro, all legal. You could probably mod the Ruger that same.

Also, don't knock those cheap Chinese air rifles, or even the Russian ones, some of them use the same tooling and steel as for firearms. Especially from the Norinco factory, so they may be rough, but they're built to last. Cheap enough you can buy one to use and one stored in grease.
I should have made myself clearer. I would be reloading shotgun shells with the primers and smokeless powder. My reasoning is that you can reload cartridges at your leisure, but you may need a quick second or third shot in the field.

I wonder how difficult it is to reload rimfire rounds, apparently the factory drops liquid primer into the bottom of the case then spins it rapidly to force it into the rim, where it dries. The rim would gradually get dented in all the way around but you'd get a fair few shots from it unless it split where previously dented.

Re Chinese air rifles, I wouldn't buy one for the same reason I won't save a couple of quid buying cheap pellets - accuracy is important. I wouldn't want to spend 15 cold, wet minutes sneaking up on a bunny just to miss because a cheap rifle doesn't shoot straight.
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I love my Swissarms .177 pellet gun. Enough power to punch through a tun can at 75 yards.
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Muadib wrote:I love my Swissarms .177 pellet gun. Enough power to punch through a tun can at 75 yards.
Those tun cans, pah!

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Thanks for the welcome. Tun can indeed. What was I thinking.
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Eh? Who has decided to call themselves Muadib? Bit close to my moniker.

Would appreciate you change to avoid confusion. :evil:

I have PM'd you regarding this... thanks.
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Not cool. If you have a problem with my name take it up via PM but not in a thread.
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I have wondered for a while if Maudibe was a misspelling of Muadib from the Dune Trilogy.
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maudibe wrote:Eh? Who has decided to call themselves Muadib? Bit close to my moniker.

Would appreciate you change to avoid confusion. :evil:

I have PM'd you regarding this... thanks.
When I get confused with JonB I just have a laugh and wind him up :D.
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Not cool. If you have a problem with my name take it up via PM but not in a thread.

Please - why is this 'not cool'? It is a reasonable request, and also my subsequent PM to you was polite.

I obviously don't have ' a problem ', just thought that it was a bit confusing for folk, as I explained in my PM.

And furthermore mate, if I want to bring anything up in a forum I will, and do not need telling by you that I can't or shouldn't.

If a moderator is upset by this they will tell me - you dont.

Meanwhile, thank you for your shitty PM and general attitude about this. As someone who joined the forum 3 or 4 days ago, I would have thought you would want to make freinds and not be quite so confrontational?

By the way Ken - on a lighter note, the correct spelling is Muad'Dib ....but it looks like too much hassle with all that caps and apostrophe stuff - also I am from Hull, so obviously the A comes before the U LOL... :lol:
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Usually issues among forum members should be taken up in the appropriate area, which is not someones thread about Air Rifles. Basic forum etiquette showing respect for the OP. That's all I will say about that here. My apologies to the OP for the threadjack.
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maudibe wrote:By the way Ken - on a lighter note, the correct spelling is Muad'Dib ....but it looks like too much hassle with all that caps and apostrophe stuff - also I am from Hull, so obviously the A comes before the U LOL... :lol:
Thanks for the correction, Maudibe. It must be well over twenty years since I read Dune and the books have got lost in a couple of house moves. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

My son-in-law's family comes from't Ull but I hadn't notice the switch in vowels only the "grass" instead of "graass" and "bath" instead of "baath".
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Muadib wrote:Usually issues among forum members should be taken up in the appropriate area, which is not someones thread about Air Rifles. Basic forum etiquette showing respect for the OP. That's all I will say about that here. My apologies to the OP for the threadjack.
You go ahead, don’t mind me. :)

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the mad cyclist wrote:
Muadib wrote:Usually issues among forum members should be taken up in the appropriate area, which is not someones thread about Air Rifles. Basic forum etiquette showing respect for the OP. That's all I will say about that here. My apologies to the OP for the threadjack.
You go ahead, don’t mind me. :)

Thanks to Catweazle and Phobos’s advice, I’ve decided to buy a Weihrauch.
Good choice, it'll last forever if you look after it.
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the mad cyclist wrote:
Muadib wrote:Usually issues among forum members should be taken up in the appropriate area, which is not someones thread about Air Rifles. Basic forum etiquette showing respect for the OP. That's all I will say about that here. My apologies to the OP for the threadjack.
You go ahead, don’t mind me. :)

Thanks to Catweazle and Phobos’s advice, I’ve decided to buy a Weihrauch.
:)
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I got a Theoben Evolution, which uses a gas ram rather than a spring. Costs more and is heavier, but very consistent and should be more durable.
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