Springer Dilemma

Franksie

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Starting to think about my next rifle, want a springer as i find them a lot more engaging to shoot, so narrowed it down to two, HW77 or AA Prosport

I want to try open sights at my indoor range where i shoot every Thursday, thinking HW77 open sights to scratch that itch, here’s the dilemma, if i get bored of open sights i would put a scope on and i already have a superb 97 so would probably sell it and buy the Prosport or do I just cut out the middle man and go straight to a Prosport
 
HW77 are set up for sight stock wise, they do have a bit too much comb drop to be perfect for a scope even a low one, but its not very very bad just noticeable.
A slip on pad or a @ Nobby job will not only sort that out but it could look trick. There is something about bespoke stock mods on tragety springers you know the whole 9 yards and if done right its a perfect fit many off the shelf custom stock options simply fail to achieve in some cases.
 
Starting to think about my next rifle, want a springer as i find them a lot more engaging to shoot, so narrowed it down to two, HW77 or AA Prosport

I want to try open sights at my indoor range where i shoot every Thursday, thinking HW77 open sights to scratch that itch, here’s the dilemma, if i get bored of open sights i would put a scope on and i already have a superb 97 so would probably sell it and buy the Prosport or do I just cut out the middle man and go straight to a Prosport
Get both 😂
Failing that if you have to choose - Prosport .
I have HW77’s and a Prosport - if I could only keep one, it would be the Prosport
 
Exactly! There is only two things wrong with the pro sport its twice the HW Price point and its the fat frumpy ugly sister of the slick gorgeous BSA Airsporter. Just sayin.
😂😂😂 Ugly... Each persons own point of view I guess... It is a sleek, svelte, accurate beauty in my eyes 😍 only second to a TX200
 
HW77 every time. And I mean EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!

I love a Prosport, but it is over-priced, over-rated, too difficult to cock, and with no options for shooting with opens. The TX is better to shoot for more than ten minutes , but is still over priced and has no option for opens

This. Plus, the ProSport's cocking lever will turn your boxers into tight little pink panties and ruin your hands.

Men (real manly men men) shoot Weihrauchs. The name Weihrauch even sounds macho. Air Arms sounds exactly like what it is... Fairy arms, as in little weedy feeble arms. Be a man. Be a Weihrauch man.
 
I wouldn't swap a 97 for a PS
I hadn’t thought of it that way? I have had many TX’s and almost as many Prosports. I no longer own either.

I am on my second HW97 and wish I hadn’t sold the first.

This one is going to be grave goods!😁

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Starting to think about my next rifle, want a springer as i find them a lot more engaging to shoot, so narrowed it down to two, HW77 or AA Prosport

I want to try open sights at my indoor range where i shoot every Thursday, thinking HW77 open sights to scratch that itch, here’s the dilemma, if i get bored of open sights i would put a scope on and i already have a superb 97 so would probably sell it and buy the Prosport or do I just cut out the middle man and go straight to a Prosport
News flash: only the HW 77 has the facility of open sights 🙂👍
 
This. Plus, the ProSport's cocking lever will turn your boxers into tight little pink panties and ruin your hands.

Men (real manly men men) shoot Weihrauchs. The name Weihrauch even sounds macho. Air Arms sounds exactly like what it is... Fairy arms, as in little weedy feeble arms. Be a man. Be a Weihrauch man.
😂😂😂 Ugly... Each persons own point of view I guess... It is a sleek, svelte, accurate beauty in my eyes 😍 only second to a TX200
The Pro sport design team were a jovial bunch of chaps & chapesses, the pro sport inception board meeting left them in no doubt a truly beautiful icon of spring air rifle glamour existed in form of the BSA airsporter and its slightly newer mercury break barrel version.
Now these folk liked a Drink and Rita found 4 crates of Holstein pills left over from the chrimbo party,
The design meeting began ok the airsporters just the barrel out front the airsporters concealed in the forend cocking lever it was looking super slick, they were getting well down the 2nd crate by the time they got to the trigger end and breach they had some cool ideas Rick had a radical idea of a breach end angled like harry potters ford anglia 105e rear window, but it went down like a lead bloon with the rest of the team who were rapidly loosing concentration as they embarked on the 3rd crate the shapely airsporter breach and trigger guard was seen as a cop out by Alf as chief draftsman he would sort it out and as he finnished the 3rd crate he passed out the rest had long expired .
5Pm came and went the cleaners turned up they found the design team leggless in Room 14B . mrs Mavis ropper from west bromwich looked at the scetch and has she and her cleaner mate polished off the rest of the pillsner she doodled the breach end profile on Alfs sketch.
7 AM mark from hales owen shows up to stoke his boiler and he found the team slumbering, he shook rick who woke up the rest of the team who were hung over . knowing the bosses would be here by 830 am alf was relieved to see he had completed the styling exercise before he passed out .
So looking dishevelled tired and unshaven " Yes even Rita her last job was as a bearded lady at billy smarts circus".
They booked the night as overtime and presented the drawing. There is the Story of the Pro sport born out of robing the tasty bits off the old airsporter and hollsten pills and mavis ropers sketching skills.
Its a funny old world int it? LOL!
 
Starting to think about my next rifle, want a springer as i find them a lot more engaging to shoot, so narrowed it down to two, HW77 or AA Prosport

I want to try open sights at my indoor range where i shoot every Thursday, thinking HW77 open sights to scratch that itch, here’s the dilemma, if i get bored of open sights i would put a scope on and i already have a superb 97 so would probably sell it and buy the Prosport or do I just cut out the middle man and go straight to a Prosport
@Franksie Don't sell your HW97 you will regret it. You need to try a Prosport first before shelling out for one as you might not like it. Do you go to Mendip Shooting ground? I'm usually there on a Sunday, you can have a go on mine if you want
 
Thanks Andy, my 97 on CS custom is a keeper, th8nk i’ve made my mind up, want to give open sights a go at my local indoor club so going to have a play on a 77, might pop over to Mendip one Sunday to say hello :)
 
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