budget full power springers

[tommyb464 0]

Need advice on budget full power springers I have read good things about the smk xs368. What do people think ?

[StevoSmith 147]

Mr Mole will help you mate he's knows alot about these rifles

[tommyb464 0]

Haha lol tbh I was going to message him. I knew it would be only a matter of time [bANNED TEXT] he helps me again lol

[tommyb464 0]

Sorry b 4 lol

[robwelsh 354]

Mole will guide him to..wait for it....THE HATSAN 60 lol

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I cannot find anything about an SMK XS368!

 

I know very little about the SMK range, save for the B2 is carp and needs a lot of work. The 78 is an interesting little gas rifle, the 19 is accurate, but suffers from an awful trigger, really benefits from a tune up, see Woodfield Gun Care Products!

 

I would recommend the Hatsan 55 or 60, being lower cost, German barreled, lovely walnut stocks... But the top range of SMK springers are worth investigating, before looking at what is in the secondhand section at the same money!

[tommyb464 0]

Sorry its the xs38 underlever

[paulk73 151]

Nice budget springer is a hw 99 s. Brilliant little rifle IMO. You wouldn't go far wrong with one of these pal. For a shade over £200 brand new. If you could find one second hand, you'd be on to a real winner.

[paulk73 151]

Saying that, I know a lad that has a BSA supersport for sale. With 2 scopes. One is an ags. Don't know what the other is. It needs a bit of attention. The bolt that holds the stock to the action has snapped, so needs drilling out. He said he would take a reasonable offer for it. He's in Preston Lancs if this helps mate. You could end up wi a real bargain pal.

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Forget the Supersport, liable to be a Spanish one! The fix will cost as much as the gun so not such a cheap deal after all (and if you decide to DIY it and bog it up, you have a very expensive pile of spare parts!

 

Get something secondhand that is decent (like not a BSA) or go for a new cheaper gun. From what I have read about the XS38 it is large, heavy and requires tuning otherwise it is noisy with an agricultural trigger, so similar to the XS19 then! Once again with a reasonable amount of money ploughed into it you will have a good gun. Thing is for the amount of money you have to plough in you could get an HW95 (if new that will probably require tuning too, HW quality seems to be not what it once was). However if you hunted round the second hand market you could probably come up with an older HW95 that does not require tuning.

 

But if you ware willing to do the tune up a bit at a tinme, so upgrade trigger, then piston, then spring, top hat etc, you will have an ongoing saga! But you will wind up spending more than the gun cost on the bits!

[Bradford Lad 74]

Mole will guide him to..wait for it....THE HATSAN 60 lol

 

Just bought my little brother one of these for his first rifle, had a few goes of it and i cant really fault it for the price, £122 with Hawke 3-9x40 scope!!

Full power and well made/finnished.

The local gunsmith told me they are the exact same rifle as a webley stingray, and that of all the break barrels he fixes he's never had a hatasn returned!

[paulk73 151]

Forget the Supersport, liable to be a Spanish one! The fix will cost as much as the gun so not such a cheap deal after all (and if you decide to DIY it and bog it up, you have a very expensive pile of spare parts!

 

Get something secondhand that is decent (like not a BSA) or go for a new cheaper gun. From what I have read about the XS38 it is large, heavy and requires tuning otherwise it is noisy with an agricultural trigger, so similar to the XS19 then! Once again with a reasonable amount of money ploughed into it you will have a good gun. Thing is for the amount of money you have to plough in you could get an HW95 (if new that will probably require tuning too, HW quality seems to be not what it once was). However if you hunted round the second hand market you could probably come up with an older HW95 that does not require tuning.

 

But if you ware willing to do the tune up a bit at a tinme, so upgrade trigger, then piston, then spring, top hat etc, you will have an ongoing saga! But you will wind up spending more than the gun cost on the bits!

ok mole. i was thinking of throwing a few quid at it, but dont think il bother mate.

[killa-combo 142]

Hw 99s is what you want had one a few year back, Good 2 stage trigger, accurate, light weight, cheap, smk are crap, ags made a springer like the hw 99s they arnt bad either. A mates had a hw 99s for best part of 7 year and with a bit of grease here and there its as quiet as some pcps and as acurate

[Karpman 44]

Mole will guide him to..wait for it....THE HATSAN 60 lol

 

Just bought my little brother one of these for his first rifle, had a few goes of it and i cant really fault it for the price, £122 with Hawke 3-9x40 scope!!

Full power and well made/finnished.

The local gunsmith told me they are the exact same rifle as a webley stingray, and that of all the break barrels he fixes he's never had a hatasn returned!

 

They always tell ya that.... when local shop tried selling me a hatstand gave me same Jibe, had boxes of air arms stuff coulda built me one with all the bits he had knocking around from scrap rifles. Shoulda seen his face when I asked what time my new made from junk air arms would be ready lol.

 

Anything hw gets my bet!

 

Karpman

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Mole will guide him to..wait for it....THE HATSAN 60 lol

 

Just bought my little brother one of these for his first rifle, had a few goes of it and i cant really fault it for the price, £122 with Hawke 3-9x40 scope!!

Full power and well made/finnished.

The local gunsmith told me they are the exact same rifle as a webley stingray, and that of all the break barrels he fixes he's never had a hatasn returned!

 

Not exactly the same, the Webley forend is longer...