Oh no... just been reading about GAT guns...

FlyingDuck said:
From an ad I've seen for a Harrington:

"It also shoots as it should, needing real skill or luck to hit anything smaller than a dustbin"

See, now to me, that's a challenge being issued, and I need to buy it 🤣
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Between 1 and 2 ft lb out of a smooth bore barrel in a pistol that jumps around like crazy when you fire it due to the barrel flying forwards🤣
Finely tuned Target guns they are NOT.
Although you should be able to hit a 6" target at 5 ish meters with a bit of practice.
Huge nostalgia value though, as for most of us it was our first airgun.
A very hight percentage of people on here owned and/or got shot in the arse with a gat gun at some time in their childhood 🤣
 
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I was only allowed a spud gun, that stung, mind, too, if my mate nicked it and shot me at close range... sounds as if it would probably have been more accurate anyway 😆

The Diana Model 2 is a very nice looking GAT. I suppose it would make sense to sort out my two recently acquired rifles before buying anything else, though.
Probably.
 
They is great, wot you waiting for, go get one....
Chrono'd mine once, think it was about 1.2ft/lb, Lol.... wot a beast... :)
Mines going nowhere...
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FlyingDuck said:
I was only allowed a spud gun, that stung, mind, too, if my mate nicked it and shot me at close range... sounds as if it would probably have been more accurate anyway 😆

The Diana Model 2 is a very nice looking GAT. I suppose it would make sense to sort out my two recently acquired rifles before buying anything else, though.
Probably.
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The Diana is a pop out pistol, but not strictly speaking a GAT, which was a trade name used by Harrington.

Same basic principle though.

If you want true rarity value, Harrington also made a pop out RIFLE 🤣
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I had a dart board on the coalhouse door and my gat was hidden in the outhouse because my dad didn't allow guns.
From about three meters I hit the door so often, eventually I wore a perfect circle around the board perimeter that the whole section fell off leaving a dart board sized hole in the door.
This was hard to explain to daddy but we got away with playing darts.
There was very little damage to the dart board.
 
nav2022 said:
I had a dart board on the coalhouse door and my gat was hidden in the outhouse because my dad didn't allow guns.
From about three meters I hit the door so often, eventually I wore a perfect circle around the board perimeter that the whole section fell off leaving a dart board sized hole in the door.
This was hard to explain to daddy but we got away with playing darts.
There was very little damage to the dart board.
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That is one of the best stories I've ever heard... just brilliant 😁
 
It was all fun. One mate was convinced it was shooting right then changed his mind in was shooting high. Another convinced it was shooting left but also low.
Then we had a saying called 'its shooting all over Donny'
House brick accuracy was a better description.
I sawn mine in two eventually to get my own back, I sh*t you not. I cut it in two and I'd happily cut them all in two just for jolly.
 
nav2022 said:
I had a dart board on the coalhouse door and my gat was hidden in the outhouse because my dad didn't allow guns.
From about three meters I hit the door so often, eventually I wore a perfect circle around the board perimeter that the whole section fell off leaving a dart board sized hole in the door.
This was hard to explain to daddy but we got away with playing darts.
There was very little damage to the dart board.
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My dad was a very keen darts player.
Played in all the local and county leagues.
I shot a dart from my gat into his very expensive matchplay dart board .
And it did leave a mark,, and I did get a smacked arse🤣

He used to practice for hours a day and his practice board was in the kitchen, right next to the door that lead to the rest of the house. It was second nature for me and my sister to look at the board and check there were 3 darts in it before entering the kitchen. Because if there wasn't they were probably on their way and you were in danger of getting one in the side of the head if you unexpectedly appeared in front of his board🤣
 
nav2022 said:
It was all fun. One mate was convinced it was shooting right then changed his mind in was shooting high. Another convinced it was shooting left but also low.
Then we had a saying called 'its shooting all over Donny'
House brick accuracy was a better description.
I sawn mine in two eventually to get my own back, I sh*t you not. I cut it in two and I'd happily cut them all in two just for jolly.
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Let's hope I don't get to the stage where I'm taking a hacksaw to it... 🤣
 
FlyingDuck said:
Let's hope I don't get to the stage where I'm taking a hacksaw to it... 🤣
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I have no centimental attachment to things that have caused me trouble in the past.
All those Cortina's, Granada's and heaps of junk from the past would be in a car crusher, Mini Coopers and the lot would be crushed.
Gat guns have no apparant use to man kind, they are made of monkey metal and if you put 100 of em in front of me and an angle grinder I'd saw the lot in two or maybe three.
I know people hold them dear to their heart because its their first gun but c'mon, lets saw em up.
I'd also happily saw all BSA lightenings and Supersports to bits and Relum Tornado's too.
Hahaha
 
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