Best Air Rifle

[ChrisJones 7,975]

In your opinion, what is the best single shot springer ever produced?

[Stabs 3]

shit, that's a difficult one mate! I only have experience with a small amount of rifles - most of the HW range, a few BSAs and a few Air Arms. For me the best I've used is the TX200HC by quite some way. Build quailty is first rate, smooth as you like, bags of punch and with the carbine version, short enough to be used in the cab of a Land Rover.

[Guest smokin]

shit, that's a difficult one mate! I only have experience with a small amount of rifles - most of the HW range, a few BSAs and a few Air Arms. For me the best I've used is the TX200HC by quite some way. Build quailty is first rate, smooth as you like, bags of punch and with the carbine version, short enough to be used in the cab of a Land Rover.

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id have to aggree - the 200 is a fine beast but the 97k is a belter as well

 

are we sticking soley to springers here - or can we widen it to self contained powerplant such as gas rams and single stroke pneumatics?- that could throw up a few belters as well

 

 

ATB

 

Chris

[ChrisJones 7,975]

Springers only on this one. Gas rams etc are for another thread.

 

Tricky one I agree but if we can get a short list of say 3 or 4 I'll stick a poll up.

[Guest HAWKEYE]

The lightning must be in that short list purely for its longevity

[Guest Duzabit]

A old one, but i liked the feinwerkbau sport 127.

 

Duz.

[cragman 2,788]

I've got to agree with Stabs on this one (the TX), though my experience is pretty limited . When I get a gun/rifle I make sure it gets some use instead of swapping and changing models. One disappointment with the TX (mine anyway), is that some pitting has appeared on the blued barrel and considering it's only a few months old, that's a poor feckin' do . Several others have had the same problem.

[maty j 6]

perhaps the rusting is common in airarms cragman as my s400 is going a tad rusty despite being wiped down frequently with napier vp90 gun cleaner and oil.

[paulf 820]

The hw97 or hw80 both cracking guns,tried the tx200 realy impressed with it.

[Guest baldie]

The list is endless. A few i,ve owned and loved, Bsa airsporter-s [still got it] webley mk3 [just got it] fwb sport, wheirauch 35, 35export[ :kiss: ] 77, and , vulcan,anschutz 335 [the most accurate break barrel ever made imo] tx2oo, and my current one, a pro sport, which is excellent.

[Guest smokin]

perhaps the rusting is common in airarms cragman as my s400 is going a tad rusty despite being wiped down frequently with napier vp90 gun cleaner and oil.

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youre not kidding - read more than enough horror stories on a certain airgun bbs about AA blueing quality - in short - its shite - certainly in recent years anyway.

 

i suppose popularity and availability of certain models will produce a 'winner' in certain respects - but hearing names like anschutz mentioned its hard to say which would be the 'true' winner

 

still think the 77/97 series are hard to beat though

 

ATB

Chris

[Guest gaspode]

vhw fer me

[Guest Maori Haz]

TX200HC by air arms for me.. but now i've upgraded to AAS200

 

 

MH

[Guest baldie]

and my current one, a pro sport, which is excellent.

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So it was the Prosport in the end then. .

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Yes buddy, i dropped on a s/h one , a walnut .22, with swivels, that had fired a couple of dozen shots, cant tell it isnt new, and its sweet.

[Guest pete evans]

ive had bsas, webleys asis etc. the gun that for me was the best was my hw80 closely followed by my hw77. guy i went shooting with had a tx which was probably on a par with the weirauchs but i havnt fired much through one.

 

 

pete