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Hi All,
I thought it might be a good time to lighten things up on here.

Over the years in the hobby of airgunning you come across things that make you laugh, smile and sometimes wince, it’s all part of the fun.

So I thought it’d be good to share our experiences whilst out enjoying the hobby we love.

First story has to start with my good mate Mikey Hall @Brit Seals. Now you don’t normally have to do much to get a good funny story out of Mikey, he normally does the work for you! 😜

On this occasion I did stitch him up though. We were both at Pete’s Airgun Farm, which use to be a regular haunt for us when I lived in Essex. Mikey had ‘tuned’ his HW99, it had a full TBT kit in it plus other things he’d tweaked. Mikey was busily trying to sight the gun up, but what he didn’t realise was I was shooting his target from the next lane. Every time he thought he had it another shot would appear to skew his results. I had to be spot on and fire as quickly as possible after him in order to retain my cover. After numerous shots said HW99 was about to go in the bin outside, when Mikey noticed me sniggering and worked out what I’d done!

He did get his own back though when I was having problems loading my 22 TX200, only to find I had 0.25 pellets in my tin!

As always we both saw the funny side and always continued to prank each other whether we were shooting our airguns or fishing.

BM
 
When was younger one mate twiddle with another's mates turrets when he was away from his rifle . He took a shot and missed the target ( empty pellet tin) . He shot again and again then claimed his scope was broken as it did it often after he had re-zerored it and started going nuts .
He was ready to remove it when the other mate stopped him and told him what he had done .
I turns out he had done it a few times previously.
 
Many years ago a friend of mine used to take one of his rifles into work to do a little pest control on pigeons for his boss.
After a few weeks a fella he worked with got interested in what he was doing and decided to buy his own air rifle.
My mate was a bit of a clown and one day whilst we were out, he told me what he had done, the fella he worked with who bought his own air rifle he had asked how to sight his scope in etc so my mate helped him out but then decided to point out I know why you are struggling with it your putting your pellets in the wrong way 🫣😂
So the fella proceeded to start loading his webley tracker if I remember correctly with pellets backwards, he did question it at first but my mate said no its right that’s why a barrel has a spiral they flip over once out of the barrel, 😂😂
But what got my mate a few weeks was fella was a decent shot how god knows how, my mate ended up leaving his job for somewhere else and never said anything too him, what always makes me laugh when I think about it is, is he still walking around putting the pellets in the wrong way today 🫣😂😂😂😂
 
One morning at a local gun club we turned up to find new floor covering in the chat room , most of the furniture was also missing and temporarily stored in the range area , the guy in lane 4 @gromit105 was trying to zero a scope on one of his loadsa money rifles and was getting more and more annoyed as he couldn't work out where his pellets were going , someone then noticed that he was destroying a piece of random stored furniture that he couldn't see in his scope 😁
 
I shoot BR targets open sighted, usually start at the top, work across and then down a row and so forth, a quick squint in the spotting scope showed a completed target after 4 rows, thoroughly confused I hit the return button to bring my target in, to hear "WTF, my targets vanished" from the lane next door!🤦🏼‍♂️, muppet mate with his Hubble had shot the bottom row of my target by mistake!!😂😂, he ruined a good card for me there!!😂😂
 
Chronoing a clubmates gun - i was loading for him, while he was shooting and reading the chrono.
loaded a few pellets, then loaded a few more which I had squished while loading.
He weren't happy.
 
My old man came in to my bedroom when I was showing my new Webley Omega to my pals c. 1985, took it off my mate, Gies a look at that Billy, shouldered it, pulled the trigger and put an Eley Wasp through the newly double glazed window. All happened too quickly to tell him it was loaded as we were firing it into old catalogues and the yellow pages in the corner of the room. He gave me a tenner to tell my mum I did it, total result. 👌
 
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