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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Little update for you all, I have joined a uk forum in an attempt to find local help. Whilst I haven't gotten that yet I have been advised that this rifle is an smk but no one can agree on which appart from 2 guys who think its a smk xs20 but I'm unconvinced due to being unable to find out year...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    no ground hogs in the uk but it could be a badgers :p As for the misses having this rifle it won't work she says its ugly and is too heavy for her lol
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    On a side note, the misses is now talking about buying her self a rifle and take up shooting together...dammit why couldn't there be 2 in the shed! You know she'll pick the most expensive she can find. .
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers for that biohazard. The stuff I ordered should arrive tomorrow, work permitting I shoukd be able to commence rubbing down friday morning/afternoon. What sort of cleaning stuff would you use with a barrel brush? I have one on the way I was going to do it dry :-p Inexperience will get...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers for even morr awesome advice guys. I have bought a multi sized barrel cleaner and various coarsenesses of wire wool sand paper and wet and dry papers to get started. Are the foam cleaning pellets any hood? Obviously for once I've got a bit further through this project. And yes the...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers for all your advice guys its greatly appreciated. I used to work with a guy who made and repaired air rifles so some of the stuff he mentioned is in my head already and you guys have just dislodged the memory to the forefront. I'm an engineer so I would do it all myself as its just...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Oh and I'd asked the guy about blueing it and he said it was around 3x the guns worth to re do it. I didn't think it was too costly material wise am I mistaken?
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers weatherby I'll have a look on youtube for vids on how to do this. I forgot to ask the guy what it shot ias he was fairly convincing that it would never fire. Is there a way for me to find this out without going back to him? :p
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    I should mention that within 30 seconds of looking at it he'd already suggested that I buy 1 of 3 other rifles a hw99, 95 and another I cant remember. ..
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers for all your help fellas. I took it to a gunshop this morning and the guy there said it was a weirach but didn't know the model and that it was unserviceable, and beyond economic repair. He said the spring was stuck under tension and wouldn't fire. The barrel too rusted to salvage he...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Cheers for the help fellas. I'm a bit clueless, though interested to pick up the hobby just luck and happenstance that I found it I guess. The rust is only surface as far as I can tell, none in the breach, and only 1mm in the end muzzle. Scope seems a bit much at 9x magnification what range...
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Zero no make no serial number. Unless I have to dismantle it to find that information? Thank you for your timely response :-)
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Zero no make no serial number. Unless I have to dismantle it to find that information?
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    found an air rifle under my shed. ..

    Hi all, I was hoping someone could identify this rifle and let me know how to go about verifying its ftlbs to making sure its in legal allowances https://imageshack.com/i/plumd5U5j Many thanks, Harry