Regal With Xtx Reg

[mark williams 7,550]

Sorry my record player is stuck on the same tune lads.

 

HW 100 in any format by a country mile !

 

 

"Only singing like"

[pianoman 3,587]

Diana were a quality air rifle maker for generations. When did they take over Daystate?

I can't help but think that air rifle makers like Daystate, Logun etc are small cottage-industry-level concerns that set out with the right ideas to build a quality air rifle at an affordable cost. But, something goes south and they become a contractor. Where parts are made outside by a number of diferent companies and the company in the name just assembles them together. It's not long before these companies start cost-cutting measures of their own and the whole thing becomes an assembly of varying quality and varying costs. .

 

If I was at Daystate now, I would only want the Regal to be in charge of to manage it.

 

Not the Airwolf or anything else. The rifle I would build would be completely regulated. I would source whoever among these tuners (XTX and co.) builds the very best regulator for this rifle and his design becomes the pattern for production under licence. We'd pay him a royalty on every rifle sold for the right to patent his design exclusively to us.

 

We would have a blued, proper gunmetal barrels and breeches. A shrouded Bull Barrel version, rosewood forend caps. We'd make this rifle a worldbeater that everyone would want. If we can't get it built here, we'll do it in China. How hard can it be to get a good rifle into the shops that people already love the look of?

Has anyone taken an HW100 to pieces to see what makes it so good?

 

What is wrong with our business abilities that we cannot undertake a decent light engineering job like build a decent bloody air gun??? The Regal is just a short simple step from being a true supergun. It could easily be made that good. But no! They just have to Fcuk it up with penny pinching stupidity.

Edited January 19, 2016 by pianoman

[andykllhr 91]

I do wonder how Daystate have managed to still be perceived (maybe only by some) as one of the best producers of air rifles in the UK. It sounds like their QC has been in steady decline for quite a few years, when they were first brought to my attention, they were a rifle maker that most would aspire to have in their armory (or at least I did). How could they let themselves drop so far? Or, have they always had issues and it's just that information is just much more accessible now?

Edited January 20, 2016 by andykllhr