DVS Air Rifle Service and Repairs.

Don't forget folks, if you have a air rifle that's in need of a service now's the time to get it done.
 With more hours of daylight hunters are taking to the fields early morning or early evening. Grabbing the rifle and heading out to the permission is only one part of being a competent hunter, the condition of your rifle plays a major part in how your hunt will go. Just because your rifle looks good on the outside how do you know what the internal parts are wearing.
 For just £35 I will totally strip, degrease, clean, polish, re-lube and rebuild your rifle. During the service all parts are checked for signs of wear including the seals. If any parts need changing I will contact you to descuss what you would like to do : not just order the parts and hit you with a huge bill when you pick your rifle up.
 Your rifle is then polished externally, zeroed and power checked to ensure it is below the legal limit.
 So, if you want me to do a service on your rifle, contact me via email or visit my facebook group and hit join.......DVS Air Rifle Service And Repairs.


email : dvschesterfield@gmail.com



 Richard.

Yesterdays short shoot.

Wednesday morning didn't look to promising but i decided to set off to my shoot about 6 miles away from where i live. The sky was blue as i drove into the farm yard but the gray clouds were heading my way so i knew i didn't have much time to find cover. After getting a report on the happenings around the farm i was asked to have a look in the large cattle shed, now full of young turkeys getting ready for Christmas. As i walked in to the shed the noise from the turkeys was quite loud and this worked in my favour. The roof supports were the chosen resting place for 20 or more feral pigeons, feeding on the grain and then heading back up to digest there feast.
I had a nice clear shot from 35 yards at a group of 3 feral so i loaded up the Maxima and took aim. Down came the first one, head shot, the second one dropped to the floor about 7 seconds later and the third one was just looking around wondering what was going on. He very quickly found out as the third shot hit home and he joined his fellow flying rats on the shed floor.
First blood for the Gamo Maxima and i was very impressed with this light quiet rifle that seems more than capable of very fast clean kills.

Leaving the cattle shed i headed out in to the yard. It didn't rain after all and i could see that there were lots of pigeons landing in the hay store, that was my next stop. I slowly moved round the outside and could hear the cooing on top of the bails. Problem was the bails are stacked to the roof so i cant see where they were but as i came round the side of the building one broke cover and landed in the trees. Wrong move on his part as he presented a easy 25 yard shot. Squeezing the trigger a .22 bisley super field thwacked into the pigeon and down he came. Four shots, four kills.

My verdict:
This rifle looks nice, feels light and is well balanced. When taking a shot its weight lends itself to easy handling and with very little kick (recoil) shots come clean and quick. I walked around the farm for 40 Min's and despite not having a sling it wasn't a struggle to carry the rifle around.

I will be out again soon to dispatch some rabbits so i will post how the rifle performs but i am very confident it will do the job very well.

Richard.

New Chat Room is now up and running.

For those of you that dont have Facebook, or just dont want to chat on there, i have set this chat room up for us to have a chat.
Just click the link below and come along for a chat :
The D.V.S Chat Room

http://www.chatzy.com/884727596907 

I will be online most nights from around 8:30pm so i hope to see you there.

A rifle on loan. Thanks John.

Hi all.
Since i sold up some 6 months ago i have been without a rifle and as i am now back in the " shooting seat" i asked a very good friend of mine if i could borrow one of his spare rifles. He very kindly sent me his Gamo Maxima in .22 and i am looking forward to putting it through its paces on Wednesday.
Having never owned a Gamo rifle i am quite looking forward to testing it out. I have read on some other forums that this rifle ( and much of the gamo range) is not rated as one of the most popular for hunting, but I'm quite impressed with the chrono results so far. I got a almost constant 11.4flb ( over 10 shots) using bisley superfield.

 Spec list:
Rifled steel barrel with a sleek muzzle break.
2 Stage trigger
Shock absorbing scope arrestor block.
Manual Safety.
11.5 ft/lbs
Beechwood stock with ventilated rubber pad and checkering on the grip.

I used 2 target cards with a 30mm hit zone set 30 yards at the top of my garden to zero the scope. Very little recoil, light 2 stage trigger and very nicely balanced. The break barrel is easy to open and requires little effort to cock. Noise is quiet and down range the only sound you here is the pellet hitting home.
I will post a report on Wednesday evening and let you know how it performed in the field.

Richard

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Welcome to our blog

Hello and welcome to our blog site.

I am Richard and i am the person responsible for the blog and the content in it. My shooting partner is Pete and together we form "Duckmanton Vermin Services", and are the Matt and Kev ( from air gunner mag) of Chesterfield.


This is the home of air gun help and advice and hopefully the only place you will ever need for all air rifle and air gunning enquiries. Together we have over 40 years hands on experience in hunting and vermin control. We have various amount of land on which we regularly shoot and control pest/vermin species for the land owners and we have a very impressive track record.

You can contact us by email but if you would like us to reply to you by phone then be sure to add your number to the bottom of the email. We will answer all recieved emails in the shortest time possible.

Email us at:
rnpk-dvs@fsmail.net