Kiwi Airgunners Forum www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/ This is an XML content feed of; Kiwi Airgunners Forum : Last 10 Posts Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 22 May 2026 04:26:27 +0000 Fri, 22 May 2026 00:45:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.14 30 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/RSS_topic_feed.asp Kiwi Airgunners Forum www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_images/logo.jpg www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/ Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14398#14398 Author: kruzaroad
Subject: New member
Posted: 22 May 2026 at 12:45am

Hi. Welcome to the slippery slope of air guns.
Its a world where no two guns are the same.
Full of little idiosyncrasies to drive you mad, but knowledge and practice give great rewards.
Where wallets empty for the sake of trying a new gun.
Where small game shooting becomes interesting and a
challange again.
relitivitly small distance become a challange in wind. Pellet drop is a major learning curve and target shooting requires skill to master
Where pulling apart your gun is par for the course, great fun and rewarding when you improve its preformance.
Yep welcome to the slippery slope, she's a ride and a half.
And we're all sliding down it with you.
Ask questions, put up pics, write up your adventures, share your experience. Always keen to hear how you are sliding down the slope.


Edited by kruzaroad - 4 hours 13 minutes ago at 12:47am]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:45:38 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14398#14398 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14397#14397 Author: Westy
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 11:23pm

thanks for the welcome]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 23:23:43 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14397#14397 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14396#14396 Author: Pauly5
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 11:09pm

Welcome westy, theraputic is how i describe it too.


]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 23:09:49 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14396#14396 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14395#14395 Author: Westy
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 10:47pm

have watched a few of his videos - hadn't viewed  these two , this was interesting to view - thanks for the links ]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 22:47:31 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14395#14395 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14394#14394 Author: -Ec
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 10:17pm

Hi Westy and welcome to the group.   You may have already seen this - but for an to reactive targets for air guns check this out  ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3RWOlUhDU

Also this on plinking in general
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfadsUAkRqQ


Edited by -Ec - 6 hours 41 minutes ago at 10:19pm]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 22:17:19 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14394#14394 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14391#14391 Author: Westy
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 9:23pm

Thanks for the welcome, yeah the pull of the trigger and watching the can fly off the stand at a distance, didn't realize it be so cool. ]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 21:23:10 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14391#14391 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14389#14389 Author: vault
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 8:38pm

Welcome bro,
my first adult airgun was a hatsan to, nothing flash but that's where the addiction started.

I totally gel with the therapeutic side of pulling triggers lol

There was an hw80 mentioned forsale on here not long ago, I remember reading about it, other than that i think there was a couple on trademe recently also.

I've never shot either but always liked the look of the HW98
]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 20:38:09 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14389#14389 Introductions : New member www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14388#14388 Author: Westy
Subject: New member
Posted: 21 May 2026 at 8:22pm

Hi everyone,

I’ve just joined the group and thought I’d introduce myself, after not picking up an air rifle since the late 70’s , earlier this year   I picked up a Hatsan 135 QE in .25 cal, which had some work done on it — de-burred / polished piston, upgraded suppressor internals with a 3D-printed frame for tighter tolerances, also a new spring and breech seals.

Originally, it was purely for pest control — we’ve had a big increase in rats in the backyard. But what started as culling quickly turned into something more. I began setting up cans of baked beans at different distances to test my accuracy, then added splatter targets to track progress.

Before long, it became something I genuinely enjoy — almost therapeutic. After putting in the time and taking plenty of shots to tighten my grouping, after   watching countless youtube videos, I’ve caught the bug.

Now I’m looking to step up to a Weihrauch HW80 or HW98 in .22 cal. Keen to experience the satisfaction of shooting with a high-quality rifle and a top-tier trigger.

If anyone has an HW80 or HW98 they’re thinking of selling, feel free to reach out — I’d be keen to chat.

Cheers!

Westy]]> Thu, 21 May 2026 20:22:39 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1370&PID=14388#14388 Pauly's Technical Area : airgunsmith/tuners in south island ? www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1355&PID=14385#14385 Author: vault
Subject: airgunsmith/tuners in south island ?
Posted: 20 May 2026 at 6:44pm

ok time for an update,

I pulled the spring out of my prosport today, cut a piece of plastic from lemonade bottle so that it fit around the exsisting metal guide and touched edge to edge once wrapped, also cut it about 10m shorter than the guide.

Was a bitch to get it into the spring but a bit of banging in on straight down on the ground did the trick.

Reassembled, fired a shot and wow it was like brand new, so I fired a doz or so shots and the difference is amazing.

Thank you everyone for that do it yourself fix, worked a treat.

I try drop a couple hundred pellets through it tomorrow see how it holds out
]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 18:44:16 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1355&PID=14385#14385 Air Gun Clubs : Somewhere to shoot in Christchurch www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1235&PID=14384#14384 Author: Smith
Subject: Somewhere to shoot in Christchurch
Posted: 20 May 2026 at 5:35pm

Thanks Ashman,
I shoot on someone's farm, he's selling it though. Would be good if a few local airgunners met up for a soot sometime somewhere. ]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 17:35:59 +0000 www.kiwiairgunners.co.nz/forum_posts.asp?TID=1235&PID=14384#14384