I am wondering if anyone has had the good fortune to own a BSA Sportsman HV in .22. I can recall a number of years ago there being some for sale new States side, and I can only hope some people snapped them up.
I live in New Zealand and we were on a trip to Kaikoura, a fishing, whale watch, holiday area that has a hunting and fishing store. At that time I was wondering/planning how to buy a PCP and get it here. They are sold here but the cost was high so there had to be a better way, In that store was this BSA $900 with a dive tank. It looked like new but I wasn't sure. Went home without it. Long story short I contacted the store and as they were selling this on behalf of someone without a firearms license, I made and offer of $750 and the rifle was mine. It loves 15.9 gr AA, Cometa 18.13gr, JSB 18.13gr, and will shoot H&N 21.14, but not as well.
Now I am asking you out there if any of you have experienced owning and enjoying this model of BSA? I'd be interested in the results you have had on paper and on game. Any tips that help you with accuracy? Any other pellets that preform well for you? Do you clean often or seldom? How does it shoot after a cleaning, as in does it need to be shot a while before accuracy is restored etc? I find it takes a while for accuracy to peak again.
I live in New Zealand and we were on a trip to Kaikoura, a fishing, whale watch, holiday area that has a hunting and fishing store. At that time I was wondering/planning how to buy a PCP and get it here. They are sold here but the cost was high so there had to be a better way, In that store was this BSA $900 with a dive tank. It looked like new but I wasn't sure. Went home without it. Long story short I contacted the store and as they were selling this on behalf of someone without a firearms license, I made and offer of $750 and the rifle was mine. It loves 15.9 gr AA, Cometa 18.13gr, JSB 18.13gr, and will shoot H&N 21.14, but not as well.
Now I am asking you out there if any of you have experienced owning and enjoying this model of BSA? I'd be interested in the results you have had on paper and on game. Any tips that help you with accuracy? Any other pellets that preform well for you? Do you clean often or seldom? How does it shoot after a cleaning, as in does it need to be shot a while before accuracy is restored etc? I find it takes a while for accuracy to peak again.