Does anyone have one of these or have ever shot one?

Man that's like 30 years ago"good stuff side leavers. And now we have the TX 200. drool time over kids"

Wow, a few of those air guns look phenomenal! I love the lines on the SE90 and the EX88. With that being said, I can’t help you either, never seen any of these. I’d love to hear more if you find any information.

Stoti

Back in the day, I owned the Air Arms "Mistral" which was a tap loader in .177 caliber when they first came out. It was a small carbine style springer with side-lever cocking arm. It was a decent shooting springer but it just wasn't a keeper and I bought it from "World Class Airguns". I'm sure I've got an old catalog around here somewhere with all of the information on them and I hardly ever threw any of my airguns related materials away. 

The first PCP I ever shot was a Shamal. It came along a little later than those springers. I haven't heard even a whisper about a Shamal lately. 

Arzrover, it's been a very long time since I had or traded the AA Mistral but I'm almost sure I bought it from Mr. Thomas in the late 80's or early 90s. I'm also a lot older than I was back then as well. I'm also thinking it could have been Great Lakes Airguns as well but the Mistral was a very nice shooting springer but like so many other springers, I traded it for something different.

I have never shot any of them but I have been looking to add a Khamsin and a Camargue for a while but they seem to be more of Euro thing.

Hello all.

I've owned most of the old Air Arms side-levers at one time or another. Some of them are great looking but to be honest they are not the most refined of rifles when to comes to actually shooting them although they did improve a lot over their lifetime - the nicest I have shot was the SE90.

Load of info here: https://www.airarmsanorak.co.uk/air-arms-spring-rifles

@airarmsanorak

Absolutely a great site. Thank you BTW I miss the Theoben part .

Thanks @warlord

You can find the Theoben stuff in my media on airgunforum.co.uk - I'm Rotherham Owl on there.

https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/air-arms-sidelever-springer-walnut-tyrolean/

just posted for your perusal. 
mike

In 2000 Bruce Dotson (Before he opened Airetex) and myself were doing 100 yard target shooing in Wylie Texas with his .177 Shamal wearing a Simmons 44mag scope. This was before I started importing JSB's (JohnstonTargetWorks) so we were more than likely shooting Kodiak's. Nickle size groups off a carpet roll prone. IIRC a few dime size groups as well.



tim

I had a bora for a little while. That might of been the only air arms side lever I saw. You have to love the build quality of the older airarms, daystate. theoben etc...

KWK. My dad has the Camargue he got it from a very good friend, I love shooting it. I don't think it is quite as accurate as my TX 200 in a FT stock but a very fun and accurate old springier. My first PCP was the Shamal I got it from another friend and I was by far my absolute favorite. It was unfortunately stolen and it breaks my heart because I know someone has destroyed it because they had no idea what they had. I found an SM100 it is very close to the Shamal but does not have nearly as nice of a stock. It still amazies me that the Shamal is still not listed in the Blue book (at least the last one I looked at). 



Mark

Late to the party but just picked up this Camargue. Great condition top flight quality.

https://imgur.com/a/Gmjy1fL

Have you posted this on the UK forum here: http://www.airgunbbs.com might get some more info there.

I have one. I bought it as a kid in the UK around 1982 and had it shipped to me to the US About 30 years later.