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Heres a question, any guys out in the family who have a BSA air rifle collection or own a old BSA air rifle?

I have a BSA airgun, I used it under a friends fathers supervision when I was about 10 years old, when I held it the shoulder pad was about 2 feet behind me ha ha, but I was given some help to shoot it, I am now 43, birthday yesterday, and about 4 years ago I bought the airifle from my friend ( the same one).

It is an old BSA, and to my knowledge for a gun this old it is powerful, it at a range of 5 feet goes through 276 pages of a telephone book, not bad I would say for an old gun.

My question is does anybody maybe also own one? It is loaded under the stock, you pull down a lever, and a small fin on top swivels down and opens, you drop in a pellet and close the fin.

It is very accurate, we have starling problems here and some afternoons I lay in wait, and shoot them at a range of about 20 feet from my window, they reside in a big old tree outside.

At a range of 10 feet open sights I can put two shots in a half inch, not bad - anybody own one.

I can e mail pics if you want to see the rifle.
 
BSA made some very nice air guns and some of the older ones were quite powerful. However the UK eventually passed a law limiting all air guns to 12 foot pounds of energy max so they are a bit anemic now.

Jack
 
What you have there, sounds like a bsa airsporter , buddy, they were made from the 1950,s onwards i believe.I own one of the airsporter-s,s which was the lux version really.The airsporter is one of very few airgun icons, along with the webley mk3 [i,ve also got one of those] The weirauch 35 and 80 etc.Does the loading tap, lift up automatically, when you pull down the underlever? if so, its a mk1.
 
Hi, thanks for the answer - yes!!!!!!!!!!!! it does lift up, and man can this gun shoot. Send me your e mail address, I will shoot you a few pics. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
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