A little testing of my old falcon

[Ben10]

i have had a falcon FN19 that I picked up for £100 including an old tasco 4.5-14 scope for about 5 years now in .177 sub 12ftlb. Before I got my FAC I used it to knock over many rabbits and it did a great job of hunting out to about 45 yards or so. 

After i I got my FAC I neglected it terribly and haven't shot it much at all. I decided tonight was her lucky night, gassed her up, stuck a cheap-ish 6-24 x scope on top and tested her at 55 yards. I was amazed that I was able to keep 10 pellets inside an inch, let alone managing to keep 8 of them inside half an inch!! Not bad for a single stage, slightly stiff trigger and a 20+ year old gun that doesn't know the meaning of love!

i figured that I must be able to hit a spinner at 75-80 yards if I tried. Thanks to chair gun I managed to whack a 1" spinner 4/5 times and a 15mm spinner 3/5 times at 75-80 yards (not lasered, just guessed from knowing my property) 



i will put a target pic up when I get chance. 

 

[NMshooter]

I have had the pleasure to play with the pistol and a carbine. Falcon guns are very accurate. I had found a display of Falcons with AOA from a convention in 2002 (i think) on line and they had some very cool designs. Thanks for sharing. Like the paint job! Not sure why they went out of business.

 

[Ben10]

They are great little guns. I wish I had the skeleton stocked FN 12 but still this FN19 is great and was only £100 including a scope. 

Air arms bought them a while back, not sure if they still produce then though, they certainly did do for a while

 

[NMshooter]

I just bought the pistol and a carbine skeleton stock that the pistol barrel can be transfered. Very neat gun. We have it almost put together.Had a little trouble with the transfer port but should be shooting it this weekend. Hard to find parts.

 

[Ben10]

Good luck finding the parts, Have you tried contacting NSP engineering (parent company of falcon &a air arms)? They may well have all the bits you want and I'm sure they will ship to you in the U.S. 

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

Nice to see someone who appreciates the good ole rigs. "slightly stiff trigger" does'nt make since to me but. They were fine rig's and IMO the older the better. The ball bearing sear match grade trigger was really outstanding. I used to have the "Beeman" ( might be another parts source?) labeled Titan MPT, just an outstanding rig all the way around.
Really lifts me to see a post about a fine airgun that's old enough to vote.
My old MPT:

 

[NMshooter]

These guns, IMO were the FX of their day. Nice looking rig!