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shambozzie

shambozzie

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Guns and pellets. Fx tarantula .22 shooting Grey lable jsb 18.1. Best jsb made. Fwb 300s mini. Old jsb 7.9. The old guys still rock.
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Roachcreek said:
My last year of posting on the vineyard was with a 22 Tarantula. Just lovely air rifles.

Thanks for sharing,

Roachcreek
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Roach, I fill to 2950 psi. Shoot down to 2050 psi. Ave 840. Start 830 and creep up to 840 for 15 shots. Creep from 840 down to 830 for 15 shots. Total 30 . Best ever .044 @50 yds. The drinking straw barrel still amaze me.
 
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Very nice both. A couple of fine keepers right there.

I've been totally shocked no one has purchased the 6 (six darn) new old school FX rifles -some with rare marking-Davis has for sale on Brad's site. Personally would'nt consider a new FX model but it's killing me not to call and see if he might sell just 1 or 2 at what price.

Thank for sharing.

John
 
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Glad to hear such affection for the FX Tarantula. Mine is a 22 caliber model purchased almost 20 years ago and has sat in my safe almost the entire time. I recently brought it out and had is serviced at Pomona Airguns before Steve moved. The gun has less than 100 pellets down the barrel, so it remains in pristine condition. The scope is an old Baush & Lomb 6-24 with front parallax adjustment and a simple cross reticle.

Going through old guns in the back of the safe I took out this FX Tarantula and a Feinwekbau FWB 124 springer in .177. I just ordered lubricants and New-FWB 124-127 Pro Mack Kit-Max Power from Air Rifle Headquarters and plan to get this old timer working again.

Coming from a precision rifle background I wanted to try out todays modern air rifles and ordered a .30 caliber RAW HM1000x LRT (no shroud) in red and look forward to finding a good pellet and slug combo.

I'm going to buy a dual regulator so I can tether the rifles to help with testing the RAW HM1000x and my FX Tarantula. I'm mounting a Nightforce NX8 4-32x50 F1 with an illuminated Tremor 3 reticle using a Spuhr mount.

Pellet recommendations for the Tarantula are welcome.

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BK_SouthBay said:
Glad to hear such affection for the FX Tarantula. Mine is a 22 caliber model purchased almost 20 years ago and has sat in my safe almost the entire time. I recently brought it out and had is serviced at Pomona Airguns before Steve moved. The gun has less than 100 pellets down the barrel, so it remains in pristine condition. The scope is an old Baush & Lomb 6-24 with front parallax adjustment and a simple cross reticle.

Going through old guns in the back of the safe I took out this FX Tarantula and a Feinwekbau FWB 124 springer in .177. I just ordered lubricants and New-FWB 124-127 Pro Mack Kit-Max Power from Air Rifle Headquarters and plan to get this old timer working again.

Coming from a precision rifle background I wanted to try out todays modern air rifles and ordered a .30 caliber RAW HM1000x LRT (no shroud) in red and look forward to finding a good pellet and slug combo.

I'm going to buy a dual regulator so I can tether the rifles to help with testing the RAW HM1000x and my FX Tarantula. I'm mounting a Nightforce NX8 4-32x50 F1 with an illuminated Tremor 3 reticle using a Spuhr mount.

Pellet recommendations for the Tarantula are welcome.

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Jsb 15.9 or the 18.1. Should make gun happy. That's a keeper. Ery nice.
 
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