Shooting & Country TV | Gary Chillingworth | How to shoot a spring gun accurately 

That pellet-on-pellet accuracy at 40 yards is mind-bogglingly good! Amazing - and inspirational - demonstration of skill from Gary. Mad respect!

Its refreshing to have someone who actually knows how to shoot showing how its done and not regurgitating all the myths that persists on the internet like springers are only efficient with light pellets etc etc.

Best informative video of spring airgun ever thank you

Good news, Emily The boss has said I can film a strip and lube (that sounds so wrong) and it should be up next Thursday. Would you guys like me to do a breach seal and O rings as well?

Not forgetting the HW77 😃👍🏻

Simply one of the best & most informative springer videos on all of the interwed! Thanks Gary...I used your Knowledge regarding the weighted Barrel end for my .30 Carnivore. I removed most of the Stock Silencer baffles and replaced them with some REALLY heavy wheel nuts wrapped in plumbers tape! Ive gotta say...the difference is simply amazing!! The Carnivore is, on the best of days, an absolute animal of a springer to 'try' and shoot accurately😂(which is why I love it!!🥰) , but with this weight mod, the upward 'walk' has considerably decreased.😀...next mod is some neoprene for the inner stock 😁(I already sanded, sealed & shimmed it etc...but I had never thought of using a neoprene lining- Brilliant!!) But, Im hooked on getting an Air Arms rifle now because of your amazing reviews...so Im saving up for a .22 Air Arms Pro Sport for xmas 😊(Bit more plinker friendly than the Carnivore lol) Kia Kaha Gary and thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us all 🥰

Best spring video I've ever seen. BRAVO 🎯

Woe. Amazing airgun channel. That's very impressive marksmanship at 40 yards with a springer

Great shooting, love the classic British humour. Just received my LP Tac2 stock in blaze orange for my TX200.. You only live once!

Fantastic Garry. Well done, and congratulations on all your comp wins.

Absolutely brilliant and informative. This is exactly the sort of video I’ve been hoping for. Really appreciated and will encourage me further with my TX200HC too. 👍

One of the most enjoyable and informative videos I have seen, and great shooting too! Thanks for taking the time to make and upload it.

Just bought a HW77 and cant wait to shoot it

such excellent information thank you

My horizons have been broadened. Thank you for sharing sir.

Great video, Garry. I’ve shot FT with my FTP 900 and I am looking for something a bit different. I watched this video a number of times. As a result, I just picked up a new TX200HC the other day. I’ve ordered an LP stock. Unfortunately, right now (February 02/2022) I have three feet of snow and -18C in my shooting range. The video was very informative and your teaching style is relaxed. I can tell you had fun making the video. I can’t wait to see more Springer content from you. Thanks

I would love to see a full strip of the TX200.

Just started shooting air rifles, and this is a brilliant review, got a hw97kt, 177. Even resting on a bag still wobble, but i will never give up, thanks to people such as your self who take the time and effort to do these kind of videos, (THANKS AGAIN)

I’m just getting into springers, I have a pro sport and love it. Thanks so much for this video, I have learned a lot and really appreciate that you have shared your wealth of knowledge.

Excellent video. I have watched nearly all of your videos and have learned a good deal. Please continue with more TX springer content and HFT.

Ok Gary, first let me thank you regards sticking wheel weights to balance recoil, you've just solved my issue with a hw98, I removed the barrel weight to fit a moderator, twice the length but only 60% of the weight.sticky weights applied=balanced recoil👍😁

Oh how I've missed the banter my friend , great video mate I had no idea you were able to sleep with one eye open .

One of the most informative videos I've seen - thank you Would love to see a tutorial video on the full strip down, breach seal and O ring replacement of the TX200.

Please could we see a full strip down of the TX200

Mr. Chillingworth, keep up the excellent content! I enjoy all of your videos sir, chiming in from Philadelphia, PA USA. I also love those Air Arms & Weihrauch's underlever, I own them both ( AA ProSport & HW97 KT STL) both in .177, they're such a joy to shoot but you sir, are on another level and make it look super easy with the level of accuracy you achieve from all of your shooting instruments! 😮 Warm Regards, Eddie-Eduardo Reyes

Fantastic advice and demonstration of skills. Thank you

One of the most informative and concise videos I've seen on technique. I'm so impressed by your knowledge and teaching skills that I ignored your inability to spell the word sense. Thanks very much for the lesson.

Strip and relube of the TX please!! That accuracy at 40m is fantastic.

Excellent shooting and commentary. You know your gun.

Awesome shooting gary.thanks informative video.knowlagable.i boughta tx 200.wooden stock..putting havke air 3×9×40 on this badboy.happy shooti g

Really great. Interested to know more about things like why you bed the Rifle in the stock, distribution of weights, why you wear the glove, shooting from different positions - thanks 🙏

Thanks Gary for your instructions. Not a word about artillery hold. Since I shoot HFT the way you do, i can finally shoot every pellet in de same place. The keyword is do'nt let de rifle make moves to left or right just let it slide between forefinger and thum The only difference is, I put the forefinger against the peg, and the trhee other fingers behind. This way there is no effort to hold the rifle absolutly without any movement. When you shoot, the rifle only moves back en forth. Fantastic.

Bloody good stuff my freind. Thank you.

Great video hope I'll be able to shoot better, I'll be happy just to get as close as your first 🎯

Great video, I wish I had seen that a few years ago.

I think that stock actually looks much better than the custom alternative, it looks fitting and definitely seems like the rifle feels pleased by it as well hehe.

The best instructional and entertaining video viewed so far and I've watched 100s if not 1000s. Love your devotion to springers rather than blowpipes. I have a Walther LGV Pro which is just as accurate as my Air Arms S200 which I love to bits too. Also love my blonde and white Weihrauch HW35. Agree with your advice on how to hold a springer, I call it the 'new-born baby hold' - not too tight but secure enough, it can't slip out of my grip. The so called 'artillery hold' is like using a springer spaniel as a support, in my experience but maybe it works for some. Have subscribed and bonged the bell. Thanks again, to a great RU-vidr.

amazing groups.

A superb video Gary. Very informative and your enthusiasm shines through. Thank you.

Another really informative video, well put together. Cracking shooting Gary 👍

Love that fancy/home made stock

Gary here in the US we have names for things like your rifle that has all the stuff added to it that makes it look like junk but preforms really good. That rifle is a sleeper. Like an automobile that looks really bad intentionally but has a high performance engine and chassis that makes it very very fast. Or it could be called a rat rifle. Similar to automobiles and motorcycles called rat rods and rat bikes. You can use a conglomeration of all kinds of stuff on them that normally would not be used on an automobile or motorcycle. For instance. A mailbox for a scoop on the carburetor on the automobile. Or suff like a piece of rebar or a railroad spike for a foot peg on the motorcycle. I really like your rifles and enjoyed the video. Hopefully this will help me shoot my springer. Thanks!

Ordered a TX200HC last week and watching this video has given me a huge amount of confidence in getting to shoot this rifle with a good degree of accuracy. Will be buying a glove as well now that I’ve seen yours. Great video, thanks 👍🏼👍🏼

Just seen the vid Gary, I have a 77 and a 97 but my favourite is my newly acquired tx200 sr 0.22. Brilliant rifle, now you've got me looking at a tx200.

I bought my first 77k in 88? from a very well known world champ shooter. He had filled the cocking lever with lead! It was one of a pair of his, pre AA sponsorship . I bleddy sold it for a ton to fund my first pcp......damn.

Very entertaining video. Ime hoping to get a Tx200 soon thank again nigel

Thanks Gary for sharing your knowledge 👍

Great video Garry

Fantastic advice, remarkable shooting and like you no nonsense approach, thank you 🙏

Great video as I've just acquired an old Tx200hc thats been fiddled with combined with your stripdown of Tx200hc a very good set of instructional videos. Thankyou

Since I've been getting into air rifle shooting, I've been through a fair few air rifle channels. This is the first one ive subscribed to. Quality viewing. Your legs are safe.

This is the best Springer video on RU-vid mate. The amount of videos that just regurgitate the same stuff over and over that is just crap. I shoot a tx200 just straight out the box in a CS custom stock. I prefer the full length rifle myself. Keep up the great videos. Could you do a video on what tuning a Springer actually means the amount of videos with people just polishing a tube and saying it's tuned kills me and makes it harder for new shooters to actually understand what tuning a spring means.

Great video! I love my TX200HC too, bought my first TX200 in my late teens, sold it ( needed the cash ). Then I bought a S400 PCP, great gun but became bored of it, felt just too clinical. Now in my 50s and back to a TX200HC. There is just something special about this rifle. They are more challenging than PCPs therefore more rewarding to shoot and less boring ( in my opinion ). It's an awesome bit of kit!

Great video, I have an HW97 and I love it. Springers are awesome.

Hello Gary, I have just seen your video on the HW97. I have a HW80 which is a break barrel which I have had for a good 30 years plus.

Yes please for the strip down tx200 video

One respected ft shooter who's name escapes me used a stock made from pallet wood! ...inlet for his 77.

Hello Gary. Thankyou for your video, really enjoyed it and packed with tips and information.

Just got my Diana panther 350 t06. And I'm here to improve my shooting. Thank you sir.

Just found the channel. Subbed. Thank you so much Gary. 🙏 I’m a newbie, have been shooting for a couple of years and for about 6 months, it’s been with a TX200HC. Every weekend I’m on a 60M range and during the week on my own 30M one. Your tips are going to help me enormously and I’ll be gunning for that top spot in no time. 😂 What I’d give to have a couple of hours picking your brains. Any chance of doing a Live with Q&A on here? A bit cheeky I know but if you don’t ask….. Top man. 👍👍🙏

Totally awesome springer shooting video 👍thank you! I absolutely love my tx 200 also!!

Hi Gary. Love the videos. Thanks for the time and effort you put in. I,m 67 with a not to flexible back and 6’ 250 lbs. I am impressed with you getting into prone shooting positions and I can see that you make some adaptations. Could you possible do a video called “Prone for Old Fat Guys”! All kidding aside, I think it will be well appreciated by the majority of us! Thanks

Wow impressive 👌

Thanks for the great insights. Trying to inplement this for the diana 460 magnum. 😊

Outstanding video, thanks 👍

Thank you!

Great instructional videos Gary. Easy to follow, practical, and presented in stages. You’ve probably persuaded me to keep my HW95, which i was on the verge of selling, because my PCPs are easier to shoot. Thank you.

Just purchased a pre-loved TX200 (.177) with Hawke Sidwinder (6-24). I have been using a HW100KT for about 18 months anf getting spot on results. The TX200 is my 1st Springer so was unsure if I could take to it - but the price was right and it would be rude to let it go. It took me a few shots to get the zero sorted/confirmed but from then on at 30 yards I have been hitting tight (under 1p) groups and in the centre of the target conistently. Sure, a few misses but this is down to my teachnique and learning curve. It's a keeper and definately going to practice to improve my on shooting. Like you guide here and some great tips I intend to adopt. Note, using the same AA Diablo 8.4gr x 4.52 as I shoot through the HW100KT and they seem to be fine.

Great shooting, good video. I have the TX200 in .177 and the Prosport in .22 both excellent guns.

What a fantastic video on what to do to increase your skill on springers. Just today 29/04/2022 pick up my first springer HW97tk and sold my HW110 FAC. Cant sit still for wanting to get it out and fire some lead. Waiting for a new scope so will have to grin and sit tight. Perhaps you could guide me to someone that makes hamsters to suit the HW 97. Keep up the different side of air gunning.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Great video Gary, lots of great advice and lots for me to think about with my tx200hc

Thanks for sharing some great tips. Yes a tx relube video would be popular I'm sure

TX is the king it seems What scope you got on that target one. This is an epic video. From a champ. Golden

That target stock is the best cammo I've seen. I'd love to see a comparison between the classic and the HC, with sound meter comparisons on muzzle sound too.

Great video, thanks Gary

Great video Gary really enjoyed it. I'm a pcp hft shooter but you shoot springers like high end pcp's... I've seen you many times won competitions with a springer. Please carry on making videos that's HFT related as there ain't a lot of HFT videos in RU-vid. Anwar

Enjoyed watching this video, I love shooting my old Wembley hawk 111 even thou it isn’t a patch on today’s springers,

Just subscribe brilliant video thank you 👍

I need that monster scope 👍😎

Great video and so informative! I had no idea Russ was president of the Justin Bieber fan club! Good to know thank you very much.

Great video. I just got my first springer in nearly 30 years at age 46.. Remington Tyrant. I think I will try a tune up and maybe make a stock from 3 layers of plywood.

Watched it Gary and thanks for your informative response. btw re. your wondering about why the stock add on is called a hamster. I think it is called hamster because the ancestor was a 'beanbag' filled with pearl barley or other seeds, like the cheek pouches of a hamster. On springers it should be called a stoat - more macho 8-) btw noticed your loading of the veteran Diana. I always break the barrel enough, (2") to insert and seat the pellet securely then, when needed, (such as when walking up and encountering a target in the field), complete the full process in one simple flowing action. If the pellet flies out, it's a nod to go up to the next size pellet.

This guy knows his sh*t…..helped me so much thanks

I may have questioned your advice about which pressure gauge to refer to when filling a pcp but I would be a supreme idiot to question you on springers. That was a very impressive demo. I struggle with that level of accuracy at that range with a pcp! Well done sir. Incidentally, I would be very interested to see a strip down video by you on the Air Arms.

Thank you for such a great video!

I loved my old tx200 sledge action bought it for £200 second hand . I've never seen anyone talk about that action

Cheers Gary, useful stuff. I've just bought a hw97 after shooting PCPs for a couple of years and I love it. My main gun is a hw100 bp and it is faultless but kind of boring to shoot, it doesn't ask very much of the shooter to be pellet-on-pellet even out at 50m (I'm in the UK so 12 ft lb). This is what I wanted from it for pesting but sat at the bench with some paper to poke holes in, it just doesn't entertain like the 97. I suspect that I may be buying something with a TX in it's name in the not too distant future...

really enjoyed your video 10 out of 10 thanks!

Wow! That is very impressive shooting Gary. Other than awkward shooting positions making life a little more difficult for a springer than a pcp that is every bit as good as most pcp's! See you at Mad.

Nice video Gary, I’m planning to add a TX to my collection in a month or so.

Love my TX, please show us the strip and lube, thanks for the video.

I read your piece in Air gunner re shooting with a diopter. Would you consider doing a master class for us simpletons 😁 I bought one for my HW77 about a year ago but not having much luck with consistency

Great video. Very informative. Now I just need to practice with my pro sport more!

I love my HW-100 but sometimes it almost feels too easy, to be accurate with it. Then i take out my gamo magnum, (.22, about 40 joule or about 30 ftp) that one kinda kicks, it's mechanically precise, but hard to shoot accurate. That makes it perfect to train the proper technique. Thx for your helpful tips. Have fun!

Nice video Gary

Good instruction.. Just subbed...

I actually like the Frankenstock, gives the gun a lot of character.

V-mach kit being fitted plus pellet lubricating just wondering which pellet gets the edge on accuracy out of the V-mach plant enjoyed the video Gary Cheers Neil 🍻👌👍

Don't ya just love shooting 😊