I think there is an exception too ( AEA 357 Challenger big bore. It might not be a precision pcp, but as a hunter for $ 600 bucks, it has no equal, 340 fpe and easily hit targets 230 yards out and still flatten out 204 slugs, non HP. There is nothing cheap about the build, just over 8.5 lbs.
I don't know the details ,but I'm shooting Apolo 14.6 gr hp pellets the look like CPHP's and they shoot better than CHPH's ever did! I've tried several Apolos and they are darn good. Yes , buy what you can, when you can, ammo shortages of all kinds have plagued us many times over the last ten (?) years. The supplies
A word of warning regarding .30 Apolo pellets. They are oversized. I bought way too many because they were dirt cheap and I'm going to try resizing them and see how they do. They might still turn out to be a good deal. I paid about 6 cents apiece for them, which for .30 pellets is a very low price.
I have been using both JSB and Apolo .30. Only difference at 45 yards is less than 1/2 inch both in poi and accuracy. Jsb have a little better groupings and the Apolo hit a little left of the JSB (I just checked, had the Sniper on the tripod). That is 2 of 3 .30, the Gauntlet and the Evanix Sniper X2. The AEA Terminator I just use the Apolo and don't worry about groupings so much, that is more about the semiauto rock and roll.
Where do you think they learned how to build a decent pcp? From everyone who creates them, they caught on quickly.
I've been an engineer in and around Silicon Valley for 45 years. I have watched the nations that have absorbed our high tech manufacturing come up with competing products that are suspiciously similar to US products manufactured in their country.
