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pdxFrank

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Deciding on which one will be my "daily shooter". Picked these up last month.

Walther Parrus or Stoeger S4000-E. Both fine shooters. Both .177. Both break-barrels under $150 new.

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For bench-rest, just 25-yards, typically no scope. Both have fiber-optic open-sights.

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Replacing my Silent Cat, which is off to another project.

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Which would you pick for the longest life of the gun and the joy it brings, as I use it? :)

I'm guessing you'd have to be a backyardplinker and have used BOTH of these guns to fairly judge, but I'm open.



Me, so far, I'm favoring the Stoeger. Lighter, WAY quieter, and really easy on the body.
Still, need at least a few hundred shots before I decide. 'Til then, input from others should help along the way?


Frank in Oregon
 
I would shoot them both until they are broken in and by that time you will be familiar with both and then decide. Better yet since you have both of them just grab what ever one you feel like shooting depending on your mood.
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Thanks Moog. Likely what'll happen. But I probably won't keep them both. Otherwise I'd have 50 guns in here to crawl over. :)

I do cycle through them a lot, getting new ones to try as often as I can. But for "keepers", I tend to keep one b-barrel with a scope, one without.

I have a Gamo Swarm Magnum .22 gen 2 I'm already looking to trade/sell. And it's less than six months old. But at least 10k rounds through it.

2020's lead recycling haul. :)

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Not a big springer fan although I love my Diana 54 and 6G pistol. Also I still have have a 52 and a 45 as well. Although they are seldom used. If it were me, after learning the ins and outs of the springer guns, I would get rid of both of the guns you have. Grab a 54 and only have only one. Otherwise Moog has a good idea.

That is a good sized stash of lead you have there. I usually shoot at the range so my stash is small.

Lots of people in Oregon on the forum you are the fifth or sixth I have found in the PDX area. Probly should have written them down so I would remember them.
 
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Not a big springer fan although I love my Diana 54 and 6G pistol. Also I still have have a 52 and a 45 as well. Although they are seldom used. If it were me I would get rid of both of the guns you have. Grab a 54 and only have only one. 

That is a good sized stash of lead you have there. I usually shoot at the range so my stash is small.

Lots of people in Oregon on the forum you are the fifth or sixth I have found in the PDX area. Probly should have written them down so I would remember them.
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Never used an RWS, I hear they're fine guns. But that's a $500+ toy I probably won't keep long. I'm a shooter, not a collector, nor have any brand-loyalty. Just for the record. :)


Nah, me, when it starts getting into that price range (assuming you can find one), I'd just buy a "real" gun. :)



Tried PCP several times. Just not for me. I'm a driver, not a mechanic. Besides, just grab-n-go for instant fun is way better IMO.



I've met a couple air-gun folks in my 'hood via the NWFA forum. But air-guns in general just don't seem to be popular 'round here.






 
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The 54's are good out to 100 yards very few springers can out perform them. They go on sale for much less sometimes and now and then you find one in the classifieds for a good price.

I have allot of rounds through the gun, bought it used, and they still make them so it's not a collector gun although they do hold their value fairly well.

Whether guns are popular or not really means little to most of us airguners. I am the only hard core airgunner I have ever seen out at the DRRC range and have been for years. I usually shoot .5-1 inch groups with my Impact at 100 yards but mostly shoot it at paint cans and the steel targets at 200 yards so further out than the bulk of the powder burners shoot. No noise no picking up brass and no cleaning guns after I shoot so airgunning has it's pluses.
 
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Sure wish I had some easily available 100-yards, heck, even 50, to really test the guns.



25-yards, about everything is good at that distance.



I'll keep an eye out for an RWS sale. I'm not fond of used guns in most cases. I do like to re-finish, but if it's going to be a daily shooter, I'd prefer new.



Still, I'll likely never spend $500+ for one. I just can't wrap my head around the need. Perhaps time and more experience will fix that.
 
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Still, I'll likely never spend $500+ for one. I just can't wrap my head around the need. Perhaps time and more experience will fix that.

That is what I said before the addiction got me. Now I have a $60 pistol that I have spent $1000 on over the years and shoot a 2K gun that I have near twice that into. I seldom shoot any of my powder burners any more. So I am a sick man for sure. ;^)

https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/the-true-cost-of-my-60-crosman-2240/?referrer=1
 
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OHHH Really like my Volquartsen Scorpion Ruger MK2 200 yard soda pop can plinker all day long.

Frank! You are a bad influence I got a little bored with all of my accurate easy to shoot PCPs I just bought a 22 caliber Stoeger S 4000 since I need some MAGNUM GAS RAM discipline and suffer by actually missing my targets at least once in a while. The 177 would be really insane bahaha...

I also just bought a Canada spec 500fps (OR IS IT SUB 500FPS?) 177 Crosman F4 NITRO PISTON too just to see how the Canadians have to deal with. MAYBE IT'S GONNA BE LIKE A SMOOTH UK SPEC THEOBEN GAS RAM GUN?




 
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Eeesh... see, you're not helping the addiction any. :)



And I'm not unfamiliar with that trap. Here's my MK4, a $400 gun... before I got my hands on it...
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And about $500 later.... lol
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I have one of those too... In the black version. Shot it once or twice. I should have put that money towards an airgun that I would shoot more often. Ha! I still have a Ruger No.1 in .270 that I have never fired!

I'm addicted to air power. I can shoot it anytime right in my own backyard, it's quiet and no clean up. it’s just too easy.
 
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I'm addicted to air power. I can shoot it anytime right in my own backyard, it's quiet and no clean up. it’s just too easy.
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I know what ya mean! :)

No range fees, 20 feet out my back door, inexpensive ammo (I've shot over 10k rounds last year), and not at all offensively noisy.

Outdoors, so it does get a little wet and cold. I moved a patio table and umbrella to where I shoot today.


I'm not worried about getting rained on, but gotta keep the guns healthy! lol

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Hate to burst your bubble friend, Stoeger is a made in CHINA rifle, NOT German.
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I have no bubbles to burst, but yeah, good call! It's even an Italian company lol. Oh well. My bad. Dunno why I thunk that, perhaps 'cause they're both new to me.

I wonder why there's not a "Made in China" (or made in anywhere!) stamp on it?



Anyway, thanks for straightening me out on that! OP error fixed too.
 
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