Air rifles and clubs

Wils110

Looking to get into air rifle shooting any advice on clubs I could join an that not Olympic shooting and opinions on decent air rifles

slug gun

Firstly, what area of the country are you in and whats your budget for the air rifle?

You'll also need to decide what type of air rifle, whether pcp, springer etc. and what kind of target shooting you want to do! Then I can tell you what I'd recommend.

My local club is East Coast Shooting Club in Roundwood, and I shoot my air rifles there...mostly springers (vintage)...but some other guys have pcps. We shoot 25m paper targets and some field target knock downs. Good fun... and airgun shooting is also light on the pocket:)

Wils110

Dublin 15,budget 300-350,rifle springer rifle not sure on break or underlever,how much to join roundwood cheers for getting back to me

slug gun

Google the club to find membership details.

My preference for springers is Weihrauch, by far. With a bit of digging around and good luck you might pick up a second hand HW80 or HW97 for your budget. They're the top end of German engineering and are really well made...and make perfect candidates for tuning, producing superb, consistant groups. I've two HW's that I tuned myself and they're silk smooth to shoot.

If not Weihrauch, then you're looking at BSA, Gamo etc. they're fine but not in the same league IMHO.

Let us know how you get on!:D

Wils110

What would be your furthest range with the hw80 5 shot grouping at an inch I was looking at a gamo shadow an getting it tuned up

slug gun

My first HW80, that I sold 15yrs ago:(, was tuned with a kit from Mike Wade Engineering and ran at about 20 ft lbs. I fed it the original Eley wasps in .22, and from a sitting position I used to be able to fairly consistently hit a 25mm spinner at about 45m. But for any hunting, I always keep to a max of 35m.

I guess in the right hands, a well matched HW80/pellet combination in .177 could 1" group out to 50m. But then there's wind, the odd flier etc to spoil the perfect group:D

Wils110

20 wtf I think i know the rifle il get u made mind there.must be a seriously strong rifle