Recent content by Sawney Bean

If you’re going to pay twice as much then I’d probably step up to a Sidewinder or a Mordax, but those unfortunately only have a 12 round capacity. I’d really like to see someone else get into the select fire game. Maybe Evanix? They’ve done it before. Epoch certainly could do a good job of...

$188 is actually a reasonable price for a well built entry level gun. That's about what my CO2 Barra 1866 cost and its just a plinker too. You can't get wood and metal or even good polymer for a cheap plastic price. I'd like to see the Taiwanese start producing replicas of the old...

A 760 was the second airgun I ever had, (the first was a Daisy that was destroyed when our house was burglarized), but I don’t have any nostalgia for it. I saved up for a 766 and that outclassed the 760. I’m actually extremely disappointed with the state of multipump rifles. There’s no...

He reported honestly on its not so long term reliability. That's the kind of thing we're always asking reviewers to do.

I had a pressure failure once when I overcharged my S410. Air Arms did do a pretty good job of engineering a safe failure point into the design. The way the reservoir is designed, it's weakest point is after the threads at the muzzle end so if it fails the thin area mushrooms out and the...

I've used fishing line before. 50 lb. test works well so long as it doesn't have to pass through baffles.

I wish I had known about it. I don't really have a field target rifle, but I live in Tacoma and would have loved to have met up and talked airguns.

That's interesting. The experience I had is that I opted to "buy it now" on a resealed Crosman 1100 only to not be able to complete the transaction due to my location. I shut down my VPN and tried two other shipping addresses that I sometimes use within the state only to get the same message...

It's not just the pellets, it's the lack of .20 options with new guns. Weihrauch is one of the only companies still making them and even with them they are practically a special order item. I'd love to get a .20 ProSport.

It's the grab and go factor that springers really excel at. As an example, an HW95 just has great balance and handling, accuracy and trigger pull are excellent, power is more than adequate for small game such as rabbits and most importantly you can just grab the rifle and a tin or two of...

Yeah, I think it really is almost the ideal caliber for power levels between 10 and 25 fpe. It's a shame it has become so uncommon.

It's obviously possible to do a bad job of designing and building a PCP, but a PCP really doesn't require the same level of precision to make well as does a springer. The proof of this is that your average self taught, amateur machinist can make a decent custom PCP just using a few off the...

Another thing to keep in mind about spring guns is that they require a higher level of precision to build right than your average PCP. A break barrel for example has to line up precisely the same with every shot, align properly with the receiver for optics and be strong enough to work as a...

I've got 3 nice springers, HW95, TX200 and an R7 and they're all quite accurate. All of them needed some work right out of the box however and none of them were cheap. I could probably match their performance with a sub $500 PCP without trying very hard and none of them could match a $1500...

Yes and no. You’ll get more shots at a given velocity and less at a given power. So if you want to tune it to 800 fps then you’ll get more shots at that velocity with a smaller caliber. If you want to tune it to 30 fpe then you’ll probably get more shots with a larger caliber. Larger...