I even have the original hang tag that was on the gun when it was sold! Larry feels this gun was never actually sold or, if it was, the owner never used it at all. This new S54 Match I’m reporting on today is in like-new condition. 22 caliber that wasn’t really suited to shooting at targets, and I eventually got tired of it and traded it away. I covered it in The Airgun letter many years ago but it was a tired. What you don’t know, however, is that I once owned a BSF S54 Match rifle. The S70 was also the rifle with which I ended the barrel-bending report.
I reported on the S55N several years ago, and followed that with a report on the S70. Cream of the cropīSF had a broad range of spring-piston air rifles, and I’ve owned many of them. I raised enough money to pay Larry the extremely fair price he was asking, and the BSF S54 underlever became mine. Well, we met again at this year’s 2015 Malvern airgun show, where I actually managed to sell some airguns. He politely declined, telling me how much he had in the gun and that he was actually losing money by selling it as cheaply as he was. That offer continued when we met again at last year’s Texas airgun show, and I started offering Larry certain trade items. This time, I started wanting it so much that I offered Larry a trade. Larry is a fellow Texan who makes most of the airgun shows, so it was no surprise when I saw the gun again the next year at the Findlay show. It was on Larry Hannusch’s table, like so many other beautiful airguns I wanted.
I won’t say more about it because that’s the subject gun. That one was a beautiful BSF S54 underlever in.
I also saw another airgun at that show that I didn’t act upon because - well, my gosh - I can’t have them all! At least, that’s what my wife, Edith, has trained me to say. And, I found the Falke model 70 that I also reviewed for you. I also found the BSA Meteor Mark IV that I rebuilt extensively for you in another report. That was the show where I picked up the Benjamin Discovery that I reviewed for you in the Disco Double report. It began at the 2013 Roanoke airgun show - the last ever held in that location and the first show I attended without my late friend, Earl “Mac” McDonald. Today, I’ll start a review on a gun that fits the latter category - the BSF S54 underlever. Sometimes, I go looking for things to write about for this blog.
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