Anyone else have a Beeman R9 TK Macarri?

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Blackpaw

Blackpaw

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Hi everyone: Does anyone have one of these?

This is one of my pride and joys and a gun I will never get rid of, my Beeman R9 TK Maccari. The R9 TK is chambered in .177 and mounted is an old Bushnell scope and the stock is high grade fiddle back maple. I got the rifle second hand off an old shooting buddy about 15-16 years ago around the time or just before I was in graduate school. I heard that only 400 were “made” in this configuration by Maccari, and from what I understood at the time he was considered on of the best air gun smiths in the 2000s with springers. I used the rifle for pigeon and starling / sparrow shooting at dairies and similar.

Currently, the R9 TK rifle is sitting in my gun safe back in my home state of Idaho along with all my powder burners. Once I can, aka covid 19 conditions allow, I will head back to Idaho for some varmint hunting with what I hope will be a future FX Crown Continuum that is mounted with the EL Helix scope which is currently sitting in my gun safe sitting to my Brocock Compatto. On the return to the Netherlands I will bring the R9 TK with me, I think it will be a great HFT gun in springer class.

The photos are old, mid 2000s I pulled off my gmail account, so forgive the quality.

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@intenseaty22 thank you for the complement and yes, she is beautiful. My mom was an interior designer and what she loved about the gun, was the stock. My mom would have loved to have a dining table made of fiddle back maple wood that was of that quality, but as she told me you could have had a small car for what it would have cost to make the table.
 
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Those are some sharp looking guns there fellas. Bet they shoot great too. Not enough people use maple for stocks anymore. Back in the flintlock days it was all the rage! 

I was thinking the Maccari TKs had the crazy looking brake with all the ridges and angles and stuff? Obviously I was mistaken, but do y'all remember what those were? I always thought they were kinda goofy looking. Y'all's look great though IMO. Thanks for the pics! 
 
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@Blackpaw Nothing special on the specs on mine. It is an R9 in .177 with a Maccari stock finished by Paul Bishop. It wears a Paul Watts long brake and a Bushnell Legend 5-15 scope. It's been tuned by me with Macarri parts and is a wonderful shooter. 

@thumper I have a couple of those funky Beeman brakes, but I've never put them on anything as I dont like the looks of them, either..haha
 
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@ Rob_in_NC I think you are referring to the Beeman muzzle brake, the 5 inch or so long one with all the rings in it? Like a honey dipper?

I'm talking about more of a shroud length thing, I believe Maccari made it. I've looked for half an hour online and can't find squat so maybe I dreamed it? Do you remember anything like that? It was very "unique" looking to say the least. 

I'm gonna keep looking, it will drive me nuts till I do lol
 
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@thumper great looking rifle and finish on the wood. One thing I also remember about my R9 TK, is that with that maple stock and scope the sucker is pushing close to +9 lbs. It weighs as much or more than my .223 Rem TC Encore heavy barrel with the Leuapold scope on it. In the past I have hiked around plenty with both guns pesting, but one thing, their weight definitely lets you know they are there. However, I love both the guns none the same.
 
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