AusVarmint

G"day All
Well the mags been out a week or two now, anyone had a chance to read the review on the stoegers.??
By no means was it a glowing report,but at least it did a variety of pellets this time,maybe not the correct pellets for best performance but a selection all the same.
I suppose for the price of them they would appeal to the (below) average air gunner who just wanted to shoot cans and the odd Large bird(40mm groups @20mtrs ).
I wont be rushin out to buy one.
Wonder how they would perform with quality dome pellets,say JSB.??
Reagards
Native

native hunter wrote:G"day All
Well the mags been out a week or two now, anyone had a chance to read the review on the stoegers.??
By no means was it a glowing report,but at least it did a variety of pellets this time,maybe not the correct pellets for best performance but a selection all the same.
I suppose for the price of them they would appeal to the (below) average air gunner who just wanted to shoot cans and the odd Large bird(40mm groups @20mtrs ).
I wont be rushin out to buy one.
Wonder how they would perform with quality dome pellets,say JSB.??
Reagards
Native

Not a glowing report? Really?
That is a change!

I think to the average air gunner they will think they are a bargain and they most likely are for some people.
I'm sure brendan Atkinson frequents the forums at times,maybe offer him some JSB samples to try in the next Walther review,could be a good selling point.
Using flat nose pellets did the review no favours,especially in the x20.
Regards
native

native hunter wrote:I think to the average air gunner they will think they are a bargain and they most likely are for some people.
I'm sure brendan Atkinson frequents the forums at times,maybe offer him some JSB samples to try in the next Walther review,could be a good selling point.
Using flat nose pellets did the review no favours,especially in the x20.
Regards
native

Thanks Damien.
What Walther will it be?

The newly advertised walther dominator PCP.
Regards

I'm sure brendan Atkinson frequents the forums at times,maybe offer him some JSB samples to try in the next Walther review [Quote]

NH he does visit the forum on occasion,whistle up "Jimbo" and have a chat to him.
I wonder what the review of the Walther 1250 Dominator FT will contain,should be enlightening.

Enjoy the read.

Sure does, Jimbo is his username. Good to see he used a few silver bears and they were the best performers over the shorter ranges i believe (have only had a quick flick not a proper read yet). For a budgetish AR they seem okay. Havent used one personally but for what you pay there is likely alot worse out there

A gun review not done by Mr. Harvey . What is the world coming to?

On a slightly diferent subject, in one of the recent OZ shooting mags there were two articles relating to handloads and chronographs. Both articles were illustrated. Both articles featured a popular 'chrono. Both articles refered to centrefire rifles but the guns in the illustrations were both air rifles and the ammo on the bench was for an air rifle, not a centrefire.
Perhaps they need a proofreader that knows about guns? Or can you do your own handloads for an air rifle?
Or am I just being picky?

Unfortunately it seems a lot of the Mags etc produced in OZ aren’t proof read at all. The amount of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, etc are quite appalling. What makes it worse is to look through the guidelines the SSAA set out for journalists etc who may wish to write for them are incredible, and yet they seem to repeatedly fail on either spell checking, or proof reading before putting them out to print.

GriMo wrote:Unfortunately it seems a lot of the Mags etc produced in OZ aren’t proof read at all. The amount of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, etc are quite appalling. What makes it worse is to look through the guidelines the SSAA set out for journalists etc who may wish to write for them are incredible, and yet they seem to repeatedly fail on either spell checking, or proof reading before putting them out to print.

Totally agree mate!

Just to clarify i mean no disrespect to those who write for any of the major mags, its just something that annoys me sideways when i see " i shot a dear". Given the amount of distribution etc surely someone is reading the articles before they are "finessed" between the ads.

Well, we have "spell-check" and "grammar-check" built into most word processing programs but to rely soely on either to do a decent job seems to be either a waste of time or too expensive. Such is progress. In a few years I doubt that children will be able to read the old-fassioned handwriting that us "oldies" got the cane for if it wasn't quite perfect or we got an ink blot on the paper.
Aaaah, those were the daze!