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Lovely old rifles. My brother still has his.....I've still got my old Meteor Super.....both still going strong. By the way....before heading to the range, stick your target onto a bit of old cardboard box or a cardboard pizza backing. Then just pin or staple it up. They never come unstuck then! 😊

When I was a teenager a friend had a mercury 177 I had gun envy as I had a Diana with no scope and the screw holding the barrel would come loose after a few shots 😢

Hi Vin, looking forward to the future content.

Nice MK1 mercury-s bsa made the mercury-s mk11 at the end of 83 I preferred the MK1 and have 2 of them and they are and we're as good as anything available at the time and now. Some reviews of the mercury-s complained about the single stage trigger but I found it excellent and I never blame a trigger for poor shooting. I don't have any time for pcps I just find them boring and soulless and overpriced. I prefer to use real airguns for hunting such as the mercury airsporter hw35 hw80 anshutz 335 Diana original mod-45 etc. who needs those ugly pcps when you own these beauties. Great video my friend.

Hi vin great to see you again great shooting, one question what camera do you use for filming all this, cheers. Roy😊

Have you ever had HW 100?

I still own a mercury in 22. It was a Christmas present in 1975. I loved it back then. Then I bought a hw 35 and in 79 a fwb sport. I think seventys BSA rifles were crap compared to German ones. But more expensive they were. Of course BSA rifles are today Very good!

Keep em coming Vin, always a good watch. I used to have one of them in mid to late 70s as a teenager, shared it with my mate. We px it for an Airsporter but soon regretted it, hated the tap loading, underlever faff, prefer breakers. So we went back and re-px and got it back. My mate kept it in his garage and when they moved I never saw it again 😢 I recently bought a Cometa Fenix, long. Nice firing cycle out the box, better than most, trigger reasonable, it is accurate and the barrel is tight. I took the action off the stock to oil up and noticed metal bits in the stock and spring guide loose inside the spring. Stripped it down and the very badly finished spring was grinding the trigger block producing metal bits. I've now stopped using it and sent for a Welsh Willy kit. How Cometa can send a rifle out costing £250 in this aweful state speaks volumes, no more Cometas for me. So if you get one Vin, strip it down, let us know what you find as a video.

I wanted a 6-24 scope (roughly) for my HW98, the Hawke was too long so bought the Wulf 7-25 Lightening and haven't regretted it, great scope. I just bought a 2-7 Wulf, seems very good too. On the subject of scopes have you noticed most fixed focus scopes are set to 100yds px/focus, useless for airguns, any thoughts on that Vince?

I've got my eye on one of these at my local gun shop £195 I'm very tempted 👍👍

Great to see you back Vin. I have a real soft spot for the BSA Mercury - and you've shown it's true worth...Great rifles when shot by an experienced hand - which you are. Keep up the great work

Well Vin this takes me back used to own a BSA Mercury back in the day this brought back memories thank you for sharing.

Have four meteors mk1, mk 3 super,mk5 super and a bitsa, and a lightning grt se.love em all.after a airsporter s next.can't beat the old stuff 😉

Hey, Vins, if you can shoot abreak barrel, you can shoot anything.

Hey’up Vin, good to see you buddy. Nothing wrong with that grouping mate, I should do a video with my old Webley Tracker as it’s been a while since I last shot it. Have a great week mate.

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Good to see you back and with a spring in your step shooting again

I'm struggling to believe that it has the original spring. I had a mk.6 Airsporter, which is basically the same as a Mercury except underlever, & I had to change the spring 2 or 3 times a year.

Good evening Vin. Nice to see you back in action 👍 and your shooting is top notch 😊 kindest regards Carl

Nice shooting Vin, That, Mercury, brought back some good memories, with my since passed best friend and best man at my wedding in 1972, we had a lot of fun together with these air rifles he had the Mercury and I had the Airsporter, happy days.

Nice classic little rifle that Vin. I think the pcps will still be around, but they will be like Trigger's broom with the air tank replaced 3 times, valves 6 times and orings 50 times. Will be interesting to see the Cometa, I have been thinking about one of those.

It’s allways amazing me how accurate 70 80s spring rifles are but people still go for pcp shows the right gun in the right hands had bsa at me nana house till she told me I’d never got it back nice to see you out shooting mate

Great to see you again i bought a walther lgu a couple of days ago it's almost impossible to find them her in Norway I figured it would do nicely together with my weihrauch and air arms do you have any experience with the walther lgu

Great stuff..wish they still made them like this..I agree about pcp's doubt many will make it as heirloom rifles 👍👍

👌 the old BSA.s brilliant👍 i used to shoot a Mercury with my nextdoor neighbour as a youngster👌 spot on vin this brought back good memories👍 thank you 👌👌👌

now then this morning we were down the range monthly vintage shoot had the air sporter out open sights splitting paying cards side on at 6 metres great fun also bell target . can’t beat a bit of sunday morning vintage rifles some of the bsa’s down there are well into 100 years old

Nice rifle and an excellent shooter too😊. Love the old BSA rifles. I was lucky the other day when I got an Airsporter Mark 1...only ironsights on those.

How did they test the Ft/Lb's before Chrono's ?. Some kind of weight & pulley contraption ? Answers on a post card please !!

Wonderful rifle my friend 👌The good old BSA's are true legends. Now the most break barrels on the market i don't even want to shoot. The last BSA i've shot was the Spitfire 10 😱😖Just an other GAMO. Great shooting 😁 Cheers!

Hi Vin, I bought my .22 Mercury about 1974 and cost me £40 brand new from Lindsley Bro's Leeds. Really regret flogging it back to same shop -part ex for HW35 I think ?

Welcome back buddy it’s great to see you back 👍🏼

Between HW77 and HW97K there is a 17cm difference in barrel length. Does this show on the field?

All best wishes to you for the future. Looking forward to seeing you do some serious target work.

PS I have Baikal MP 651K-Baikal 654K- Crosman 2240 .22 with steel breech- Reximex Mito .177- Weihauch 99s with iron sights. I,m 77 and ex Navy Armourer and a novice in airgunning. With age; I find the split second to fire dfificult because of the lack of a steady hand,,,Hence; many pulled shots! This depends on breathing and indeed MOOD!...My back garden is only 15 metrs long!....Childs play for you: dear Sir!...I,m looking for a Feinwerkbau!. I may (If Lucky) buy the one available in oggy land! Best to all!...Warton LA5 England. (Or What is left of it)!

Great shooting! However...I counted 30 strides! At 6'1 my stride is 33"....So your range was about 35 Metres! Great shooting anyway! My "Group " would be about as big as 9" in diameter....LA5 Warton L:ancs.

Yesss!!! Great to see you back mucka 😃 really looking forward to some new vids. I think pistols would be an interesting like you said mixed in here and there with rifles. Really nice to see ya crack a smile 💚🙏💯👊.

Hey Vin, Good to see you! Scott

Nice to see you back Vin, look forward to your future videos. Regards Mick.

Welcome back mate

Wonderful idea that someone finally doing some honest reviews/comparisons of the Fong Kong stuff.There are some good jewels amongst them. They get some bad words(deservedly at times).This is not meant to be an anti-snobbish or a 'sour grapes' comment... but I do feel that the high end ($$$$) stuff really is overrated a lot of the times.

Good to see you back mate

Good to see you back vin and as everyone is saying looking forward to the future with you 😊and hope all is tickiydo take care mate alan 😊😊

What is the gun you are holding please

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Really looking forward to your up and coming vids . Good to see you back👍👍👍👍👍👍