Recent content by EMrider

My read of the evidence is that high quality spring guns are a dying market, and therefore new R&D or investment just does not pencil out for manufacturers. The few attempts to bring innovative and/or high quality new products to market in the past 5-10 years have all failed. The new FWB pro...

Congrats and you are off to a great start. The hw95 should give you a lifetime of fun, accurate shooting. It is easy to go down the tuning rabbit hole, especially if you read this forum, but that certainly is not necessary to enjoy shooting and hunting. R

The Beeman R9 is an excellent gun. If it is in decent condition, grab it. R

Very nicely setup R7 you have there. They are such enjoyable and accurate shooters. R

Even if you focus on buying used, it will be difficult to find a quality (accurate) spring gun in the $300-350 price range. HW50s or hw95 are great options if you can find one in your price range. Hatsan spring guns have mixed reviews for quality and accuracy. A Umarex notos PCP, with a...

I have an ARH plinkers kit in one of my .177 50s. It shoots JSB 8.4s at 700fps, a bit over 9fpe. Excellent setup. I have that kit on my bench waiting to go into my other 50s. R

Good to hear you have your hw50s shooting well. My hw50s in .177 is my favorite spring gun. Just right in terms of size and weight, relative to power. I always get optimal accuracy when I tune to somewhere between 10fpe and 11fpe. R

Hours has virtually no effect. Days maybe, but there are anecdotes about guns being left cocked for weeks with trivial power loss. R

ARH moly or ultimox 226 have both served me well for many years. There is more work involved to use ultimox 226 because you have to thoroughly clean out old lubes, but I find that it has (slightly) less sensitivity to temperature. R

Bought an R1k from them 10-12 years ago. They provided a lot of useful empirical data on FPS/FPE for springers with various pellets, and very helpful gun reviews in the 'our take' section of their website. R

I find it interesting that the LGU/LGV is universally loved by owners, highly sought after in the used market, and yet was DQd by the manufacturer. Ditto the ASP20 and the FWB sport, both come and gone. Not an encouraging sign for the high end spring gun market. Glad we still have a few...

Beautiful gun, and shooting strong too. Congrats 👍 R

I've only sold one, an R1k in .177, and was glad to see it go. Keeping all the others. R

I have a similar reaction to many of the questions posted here. Replies are often unrelated to the question, and just a cut and paste flogging of whatever the person owns or prefers. Some of that is just human nature, and no reason to get tweaked. If I think that I have something useful to...

Always interesting to read the many opinions that surface in these 'survival gun' threads. I'd take the gun that I currently have the most confidence in as a hunter, my hw50s in .177. I do appreciate that my diet would consist of nothing larger than birds, squirrels and rabbits. R