Hello air gunners,
A bit of background, I live in the Middle east, Lebanon, I own 2 PCPs "Weihrauch HW100 .22 and Hatsan Gladius .177" not a competition shooter, I just love the challenge of hunting birds with an airgun using my Gladius, Lately I am considering a break barrel and before I get to main subject I would like to point that individual import of any kind of rifles is prohibited by the law, we don't have a wide selection of air rifle brands, the local hunting stores have exclusives on rifle brands, meaning you can find Hatsan at store Y while the HW100 at store X the Gamo at store Z and so on, so not one store actually have all the air rifle brands that are available in the country, it sucks I know but it is what it is and i have to live with it.
Now to the main subject, as said before am interested in a break barrel rifle, I have set a budget of 100$>150$, not scoped since I already have 2 PCPs and i want to shoot it open sights, I know at this budget the choices are narrowed and that is what I want, I can buff the budget a bit if the rifle I want meet with my needs which is light weight, gas piston, consistently accurate, durable, I know for what am asking the most rifles that stand out are the Hatsan's "Edge, Striker", so i went to the hunting store that sell hatsan and I could not find one rifle in Vortex even when I decided to buff my budget to include the 125 sniper, the 95, or the 87 QE, the only rifle that was available is the striker 1000s/x for 105$ 120$ in spring versions, so I left in disappointment that not even I did not find a Vortex, all the ones I considered to buy none but one was available, not saying that a springer is bad but I just feel i want a gas piston as a must to be satisfied of the purchase, so I went to a Gamo reseller and actually was fascinated by 2 rifles "the swarm maxxim and the black fusion IGT mach1" did not actually look at any other models and since I want open sights the swarm is eliminate automatically "even tempted" so I am left so far with 2 options the striker S spring 105$ or the BF IGT Mach1 for 350$, and this actually left me with a dilemma since the plan was not to spend over 200$ "buffed budget" while the ones within the budget is either not available or not in the same setup I want, I did find a Hatsan 125 not sure if it is the sniper version at 200$ but no Vortex also and it was kinda heavy and felt not well balanced when I stood hold it, the striker felt much comfortable at this stance.
Now that you read my journal "sorry for that" what do you guys recommend, so far it is the striker 1000s spring, the 125 or the Black fusion IGT mach1, to be honest am really leaning towards the Gamo as it did check everything I want -the price tag, but am open for suggestions and if possible to point why this not that.
Thank you so much in advance.
Steve Marinos
A bit of background, I live in the Middle east, Lebanon, I own 2 PCPs "Weihrauch HW100 .22 and Hatsan Gladius .177" not a competition shooter, I just love the challenge of hunting birds with an airgun using my Gladius, Lately I am considering a break barrel and before I get to main subject I would like to point that individual import of any kind of rifles is prohibited by the law, we don't have a wide selection of air rifle brands, the local hunting stores have exclusives on rifle brands, meaning you can find Hatsan at store Y while the HW100 at store X the Gamo at store Z and so on, so not one store actually have all the air rifle brands that are available in the country, it sucks I know but it is what it is and i have to live with it.
Now to the main subject, as said before am interested in a break barrel rifle, I have set a budget of 100$>150$, not scoped since I already have 2 PCPs and i want to shoot it open sights, I know at this budget the choices are narrowed and that is what I want, I can buff the budget a bit if the rifle I want meet with my needs which is light weight, gas piston, consistently accurate, durable, I know for what am asking the most rifles that stand out are the Hatsan's "Edge, Striker", so i went to the hunting store that sell hatsan and I could not find one rifle in Vortex even when I decided to buff my budget to include the 125 sniper, the 95, or the 87 QE, the only rifle that was available is the striker 1000s/x for 105$ 120$ in spring versions, so I left in disappointment that not even I did not find a Vortex, all the ones I considered to buy none but one was available, not saying that a springer is bad but I just feel i want a gas piston as a must to be satisfied of the purchase, so I went to a Gamo reseller and actually was fascinated by 2 rifles "the swarm maxxim and the black fusion IGT mach1" did not actually look at any other models and since I want open sights the swarm is eliminate automatically "even tempted" so I am left so far with 2 options the striker S spring 105$ or the BF IGT Mach1 for 350$, and this actually left me with a dilemma since the plan was not to spend over 200$ "buffed budget" while the ones within the budget is either not available or not in the same setup I want, I did find a Hatsan 125 not sure if it is the sniper version at 200$ but no Vortex also and it was kinda heavy and felt not well balanced when I stood hold it, the striker felt much comfortable at this stance.
Now that you read my journal "sorry for that" what do you guys recommend, so far it is the striker 1000s spring, the 125 or the Black fusion IGT mach1, to be honest am really leaning towards the Gamo as it did check everything I want -the price tag, but am open for suggestions and if possible to point why this not that.
Thank you so much in advance.
Steve Marinos
