Help…In search of some impact school now. 🤷‍♂️

[Trucker3573]

Ok I just went through a thread about bullpups and man the taipans look awesome in that category. I am basically researching to make a future decision about a high end type gun and am having a really hard time deciding. I currently have two FX streamlines that I really love and plan to hold onto. So in reality the tube gun pellet slingers are kind of covered which leads me away from the taipan. Now I’m looking into such guns as the Maverick and impact as possibilities. The complexity of these platforms certainly intimidates me. Not that I don’t want or can’t tune or that I don’t think I could follow YouTube and take them apart and service them but I am worried there is just too much to go wrong so inevitably I would be tearing into them a lot ?? What have your experiences been in these regards?
Finally in regards to the impacts and barrel kits. Will the kits you can buy today retro fit onto the older impacts too? If I bought an impact x would I be good to go when I want to change calibers? Thank you all.

 

[rappert]

Ok I just went through a thread about bullpups and man the taipans look awesome in that category. I am basically researching to make a future decision about a high end type gun and am having a really hard time deciding. I currently have two FX streamlines that I really love and plan to hold onto. So in reality the tube gun pellet slingers are kind of covered which leads me away from the taipan. Now I’m looking into such guns as the Maverick and impact as possibilities. The complexity of these platforms certainly intimidates me. Not that I don’t want or can’t tune or that I don’t think I could follow YouTube and take them apart and service them but I am worried there is just too much to go wrong so inevitably I would be tearing into them a lot ?? What have your experiences been in these regards?
Finally in regards to the impacts and barrel kits. Will the kits you can buy today retro fit onto the older impacts too? If I bought an impact x would I be good to go when I want to change calibers? Thank you all.

If you are going to make an upgrade from the Sreamlines you might as well go right to the Impact if you like that style of gun. MkII's are reasonably priced if you didn't want new. Mark III's a little more. There is some maintenance that I have had to on my Impacts, but there was also some maintenance I that I had to do on my Dreamlines also.
Yes, you would be able to change calibers. You can either buy another barrel/shroud kit or buy the caliber change kit where you can change your existing barrel to another caliber.

 

[Vetmx]

If you’re a pellet guy, you can easily be helped along with any issue you have. Once you get the gun set and resist screwing around with it, it can be as trouble and drama free as any airgun. And a true pleasure to shoot. If you can understand that most Impact guys that can’t stop playing with their guns spend most of their ownership going in circles, and you avoid that, you’ll be ok. There is no reason to be intimidated by the gun until you start asking it to do things outside of pellet land.

 

[Bigragu]

Do consider the new wildcat MK3 bottle gun in your choices. Yes, it is a maverick in different clothes, but lighter. The wildcat is s respectable platform

 

[Chukar60]

When I got into PCP’s I went from a Daystate Pulsar to a Maverick Sniper. I wanted an Impact but the perceived complexity made me choose the Maverick as a starting place for a gun I could tune.
Two things came from this. One was I learned in so far as the tuning goes, the Impact is not any more difficult to tune. The only real difference is the valve knob and that is just an extra step to super fine tune. The second thing I learned is that I really like the Maverick platform.
I sold the Sniper to help fund the Impact but kept my Mav compact. In the end I cannot say the Impact was worth the extra $$ to me. It is a different experience to shoot but the accuracy, quality of trigger and performance did not warrant the increased cost to me.

 

[Trucker3573]

Thanks for the replies. Definitely have a lot of thinking to do. I guess I just love the hobby because truthfully as a backyard pellet plinker I know there is no way in hell I need an impact or Maverick. I reiterate this to myself every time I shoot the streamlines because they shoot awesome out to the 60 yards I have. That doesn’t mean I won’t buy an impact or Maverick or something similar I can tell you that. Lol

 

[Vetmx]

There are definitely other roads you can take in this hobby to get the most enjoyment out of the 60 yards you have to shoot. Not that it wouldn’t be kinda neat to take a Pro Mod to work a couple times but the novelty would quickly wear off. With an Impact style gun it’s sorta the same. Once you run out of room to push the guns limits, it just becomes another gun. You might find more enjoyment out of a short barreled Crown.