S410 Vs Hw100Kt

[Guest silent hunter mk 2]

Thanks for all the replies

[paulk73 151]

I've used both, but i prefer the kt. but i prefer the kt over every other rifle I've ever picked up. it just fits me really well. my mate has a 410 classic and he loves it.

[Lloyd57 98]

Ive had both and in my opinion the HW100 is far superior in every way, better build quality, better magazine, and the side lever loading is supreme.

 

Regards

Lloyd

[Bunnyblatter 1,012]

HW100 for me mate

Nothing wrong with the S410 though. I just prefer the cocking / loading system on the HW100

[Dr B 186]

I have not tried the HW - so no experience of it. However the AA S410 is an amazing gun. I like the bolt action, it is smooth and simplicity itself (I tend not to like side-levers). They are just as accurate as each other. Its just a personal thing. Both guns probably represent the best PCPs out there.

 

My only criticism of AA is they have not really done anything innovative in recent years. The S510 etc is not really an innovation, its an incremental development. I dont know why AA have not sourced what the constants are with what tuners are doing to PCPs and then make that the standard on production (other than additional small costs). There was a time that HWs sat on their laurels and did not really innovate and just relied on sales of HW77s / HW80s to drive the brand. Many people then left and went to AA springers (including myself).

 

Now, its the other way around and AA need to wake up and smell the coffee and produce a new gun, to last the next decade (not that this makes the current guns bad - they're excellent). Howver, HWs appear to have the momentum at the moment.

Edited February 18, 2015 by Dr B

[Dr B 186]

There is a similar analogy to cars.

 

In the 'good old days' you could tune your car a great deal to make it much better than standard. Slowly but surely manufacturers woke up to what tuners were doing and these innovations were taken on and became standard. I remember 'porting clylinder heads' grinding them out, fitting bullet nosed valve guides, flatter heads on valves, scatter camshafts, ratio finger rockers to increase lift, cooled inlet manifolds, LCB exhaust manifolds, trumpet tubes of different lengths on carburettors, balancing crankshafts, offset boring piston chambers, skimming cylinder heads, grinding valve relief in the combustion chamber, vernier gauges for cam-timing, etc, etc). None of this is relevant today as most cars come off the production line with all this on the car or new innovations present that make many of them redundant.

 

In a similar way airgun manufacturers should follow their tune-up market closely.

Edited February 18, 2015 by Dr B