An Introduction

[badders]

Hi I'm Badders

I'm new here and thought I should introduce myself. If I should have put this somewhere else please feel free to move it. I spent some time looking where a new person introduces himself and failed.
Anyway I am new and I think I am a happy new member of the fold of Air Arms owners as I am now a proud owner of a tx200 since this Monday.
I did't set out to buy a TX but it found me and I think it's great. any one who can give me any recommendation to do or NOT to do with this model like mods or after-market upgrades / kit please let me know.

Why did I buy this one?
Well I have had various air rifles over the years webley, BSA, Smk, GAT and some co2 BB guns. All just for fun and nice to spend time with my lads with. I have a little plinking range in my back garden and I am a member of a club at a Place called Dolphin where I can turn up any time between 0900 and 1800. I don't really follow new air rifle models or buy magazines so I didn't really know what was on the market and had not even heard of a TX200.

I always wanted a weirauch particularly the HW77 (since I was a teenager) but I never got one.
Recently I had a few hundred quid to spend on ME and set about getting one. As I looked into finding A HW77 I stumbled across a rifle on the tinterweb by Walther called an HGU which souded like it was a better buy than the HW but difficult to find here in North Staffs, eventually I found a supplier with one in stock. I did see a TX when I called into the local shop at Dolphin but is was a walnut stock at £480 and so I didn't give it any attention due to it being way over my budget.
I visited a supplier (Sandwell Field Sports) to compare the HW with the LGU. The staff there were brill showing me the HW, LGU and also this Air Arms TX200 only this time just within my budgget, because it has a beech stock. Well once the TX was put into my hand I had to have it.
IT felt good and looked amazing with an air of quality which the LGU just didn't have in comparison and a touch of class that was not present in the HW.
I was aloud to shoot all the guns and this just sealed the deal for myself with the TX just feeling smooth and solid when firing so although it cost a little bit more than the other contenders I purchased the TX. Great piece of kit. Brill
I will however one day buy an HW77 because I did like it alot and so that I also have a nice gun that I can shoot without a scope.

Badders

[eboswan]

hello Badders welcome too the club

[wastrel]

welcome along my friend, I chose the LGU & love it too, if I make the AAOC party, sorry, meet- this year, I`m gonna compare & see just what all the fuss is about.

[Raj]

welcome along my friend, I chose the LGU & love it too, WHEN I make the AAOC party, sorry, meet- this year, I`m gonna compare & see just what all the fuss is about.

Just you dare not coming ....

Welcome, Badders! Lot of fun to be had here, mate

[badders]

Thanks for replying

Actually If I had the money I would have bought all three of these rifles
The engineering in the LGU sounds remarkable and reassuringly German.

When and where is party????

Badders

[Raj]

To be decided .... It is an annual bash in a field with HFT course in some woods, FT course, zeroing range, barbecue, banter, booze and much fun. This is when we all get to see each other face-to-face .... friendships are made, boots get filled with vomit, someone usually gets too drunk to walk, the camp fire stays on all night with a pack of hardcores around it etc. etc.
Oh ... and we have great fun with the rifles too

[rogers1]

A wise choice young Padawan....

The TX is a great rifle, whatever version you get hold of.
I have owned my MkIII .177 since new in september 2006. 36k + shots

Very easy to shoot, even easier to work on. I have genuinely changed a main piston seal in the field, in under 15 minutes. (courtesy of someone kindly dry firing it for me and splitting said seal)

It sports plastic guides now.

I have tweaked it, done the trigger job, and last year I short stroked the action by fitting an extended latch rod.
It has always been a very accurate, consistent gun to shoot, but shortening the stroke has made a huge difference to the guns hold sensitivity. It used to only work correctly if held just so & didn't give too good results from prone.

Now? I could hold it one handed in a boxing glove and it would shoot where it's pointed.

And don't feel bad about a beech stock, IMO, they are better than walnut.
Here's the old girl

[GrandadG]

To be decided .... It is an annual bash in a field with HFT course in some woods, FT course, zeroing range, barbecue, banter, booze and much fun. This is when we all get to see each other face-to-face .... friendships are made, boots get filled with vomit, someone usually gets too drunk to walk, the camp fire stays on all night with a pack of hardcores around it etc. etc.
Oh ... and we have great fun with the rifles too

Sounds great! And, do we also get to have fun with "Edna"

[Raj]

Yes, of course .... in your dreams! Sorry Gramps, she doesn't really exist. Just a figment of our collective imaginations

[badders]

Hi all

Is the event now on the 1st August the bash, or is that a different thing?

Rodgers
what exactly does short stroking the action achieve?
I here it mentioned quite alot.

Badders