Anyone have a Air Arms S510 XS Tactical pcp?

I know that various folks like their tactical stuff, but it almost seems like the Air Arms buyer-type liked their beautiful wood stocks more.

Never saw much publicity regarding the tactical looking S510 models, and have noticed that Utah is seemingly trying to clear out their inventory by selling new ones at $1,299, and getting around the MAP requirements by calling them 'open box'. And this has been going on since at least the Fall of last year, and they still have inventory.
 
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I'm 'almost' getting the tactical bug. If I dropped the dime though, it would probably be on a DRS Tactical. I'm not at all an Air Arms hater - I've had several Air Arms guns and they impress as finely built and accurate. But their darned prices have sure gone through the roof (at least for the Tactical - Am I reading this right?)

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Dang, that's the price of almost 2 DRS Tacticals. Makes Utah Air's close-out price look pretty good!

I'm glad I prefer a more traditional wood stock when I shoot off the bench, which is mostly all I do. That tactical configuration might be really nice in the field, though.
 
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They are nice built pellet guns, same quality and function as they were 15 years ago...they are the opposite of FX in terms of changing and creating new models. The S510 is same power plant and tech as the s510's were 15 years ago just in a chassis and ar furniture. Nothing wrong with that as they are dependable quality pellet shooter. It definitely doesn't have power to spare for slugs nor is the heavily choke lw pellet barrel suitable for slugs...I modified the valve ports, add huma regulator, increased spring tension, machined parts to fit a 700mm fx liner. It ended up shooting nsa 17.5 grn slugs at 1000fps and was at that point a sweet shooter.
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