Have you found that “ One Airgun”?
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What moderator is that? Does it hush the bark down? Or at least bring it down enough to the 6 inch moderators?
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Yes, I have found that one gun!
Depending on where I shoot and what power I need, I have that one gun!
I hope this helps?
Depending on where I shoot and what power I need, I have that one gun!
I hope this helps?
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That's the Huma Mini 30, with only the 40mm section (of the 40mm and two 20mm sections they come with). It tames the bark of airguns powerful enough to demand ear protection when shooting under my covered porch enough to not need ear protection. Add one or both 20mm sections as needed for more quieting.
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No for me as well..
Back a long ways, I was always looking at the next one as being "the one" and Beeman did a good job of selling them... much like FX is today... None were ever quite covering all my intended uses.
Fast forward a lot of years and airguns... there is no "the one" because I've discovered too many uses and one can't cover them all. I really love shooting low power precision, low to high power plinking, FT, EFT or UFT, mid and high power benchrest, silhouettes, sitting, standing, kneeling, from a bucket, and probably others could be in there...
I also like shooting different ones just because it's interesting...
How could anything EVER cover all that...
I do love my Red Wolf and Delta Wolf because they can be used over a HUGE range of power in almost any caliber... easily... but neither is very ideal for a carry rifle for hunting or hiking. My EVOL is a great carry rifle but not quite adequate for real long range plinking... a lot of my others are based around FT... which the wife and I have done for 3 decades...
So there is no "the one" or "if you could keep only one" for me... I like too many...
Bob
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I’d like to say it’s my S200 177. But in all honesty if it’s just one it would be my Atomic 22. It does everything I need an AG to do for me.
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It's funny, but the way you worded the question I would have to say "no, I have not found it yet."
But when looked at from another direction, I think I may have found it - the Huben K1. I have one in .22, and I really do love the gun/platform. It is quite accurate, but it is not my most accurate gun - nor the best trigger, best balanced gun for offhand, nor the best from the bench (obviously, as a bull pup). But it is the gun I always grab to shoot, be it for plinking, general shooting, or pesting/hunting. It also seems to be the benchmark that I use for considering other guns I could buy, because I can't find anything I really want that could replace it because I am pretty much spoiled by what a great gun it is (once used to a nice semi-auto, it is hard to go back to manual cocking on each shot). I did buy a Sidewinder after having the Huben, hoping it could be the one, but it simply is not as nice a platform - the removable mag is nice but the Huben is better in pretty much every other metric.
If it were a little bit more accurate than it is, it would probably be the one. Here is a full mag of 19 shots at 55 yards - very good, but not exceptional by any means. But probably as good as one could expect when shooting from the magazine.
But when looked at from another direction, I think I may have found it - the Huben K1. I have one in .22, and I really do love the gun/platform. It is quite accurate, but it is not my most accurate gun - nor the best trigger, best balanced gun for offhand, nor the best from the bench (obviously, as a bull pup). But it is the gun I always grab to shoot, be it for plinking, general shooting, or pesting/hunting. It also seems to be the benchmark that I use for considering other guns I could buy, because I can't find anything I really want that could replace it because I am pretty much spoiled by what a great gun it is (once used to a nice semi-auto, it is hard to go back to manual cocking on each shot). I did buy a Sidewinder after having the Huben, hoping it could be the one, but it simply is not as nice a platform - the removable mag is nice but the Huben is better in pretty much every other metric.
If it were a little bit more accurate than it is, it would probably be the one. Here is a full mag of 19 shots at 55 yards - very good, but not exceptional by any means. But probably as good as one could expect when shooting from the magazine.
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So what happens when you finally own that "ONE GUN" that does everything you wanted your airgun to do SO WELL, that you totally forget about shooting all the other airguns you own? The one that made me forget about all of the others now sitting in storage.
But i must also be truthfull - this above beauty is very mission specific to my Field Target world.
One gun in the more general sense would have to be ONE that does it all and shares these attributes = smooth shot cycle, quiet, accurate, shoulders perfectly, easy to maintain and of course a thing of beauty (if your into beautiful air rifles).
The one pictured below in that ONE gun in the more general sense. .22 Steyr Pro X 10 with the OEM stock carved by Jose Valencia in Kissimmee, Fl. This is a semi-automatic plinking machine... i often change scopes on it just to test new a scopes eyebox out. The Weihrauch moderator is like Phhhht and the trigger is ahhhhh.
I'm also VERY partial to electronic guns like the Redwolf because when tuned correctly they have the most gentle and quiet shot cycle available. This WAS my primary HFT rig until the Thomas landed in front of my Cave.
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A friend that never hesitates to buy new guns likes to tell me "what do you need that for?", or "you don't need that" when I'm considering a new gun. My response is always the same- "The only time you 'need' a gun is when coming under attack. I WANT this gun because I WANT a new toy." After all, no-one that reads this needs a new gun.
BTW, you know the individual mentioned above that never 'gets it', but never hesitates to GET IT when he WANTS a new gun. MoF, you beat him in a shoot-off at my place.
Also MoF, I'm about to email him the image below in order to rub his nose in the fact I just ordered a new gun that has virtually NO purpose(s); like most guns, it's just a toy. Because he NEEDS more aggravation, and I'm the right guy to provide him that NEED.
Great post, Bobby!
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I’ve been lucky that I’ve found ”two” PCPs that do what I practically require. A .22 Atomic and Pathfinder XR they both simply perform outsize my expectations. The sweet aspect of threads like these is how many other nice PCPs are out there. I enjoy reading the reasons their owners feel as they do. But to keep to the spirit of the OPs‘ question… Darn it! If I was “forced” to choose only one? It would be my super sweet Atomic XR…
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Could be next week when magazines and regulator arrive. Possibly Sunday if my lowball bid holds up.
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I have one gun that I think can do it all and will last a long time. It is a Daystate Blackwolf, currently sporting a 23" .22 caliber pellet barrel. I'm going to get different barrels along the way, as they become available and I have "extra" money. I might get the tactical stock someday, too.
Wait... how much can you swap out and still have it be "one gun"?
Wait... how much can you swap out and still have it be "one gun"?
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Counting the custom stock I had built for a different rifle in the late seventies, this .177 QB77 Deluxe Chinese Co2 rifle has been evolving close to a half-century. The only original parts remaining now from the original rifle are the bolt action and, most importantly, the barrel.
In various iterations it captured a field target national champion title, and (now a dedicated slug shooter) beaten national caliber competitors wielding Steyrs, Red Wolves, Scouts, USFTs, and all other comers. It's the only .177 I've ever heard capable of averaging 1" five-shot groups at 100 yards; that distance normally considered a bridge too far for .177 anything.
Point is, despite the (till now) ongoing evolution, it has remained one gun; albeit a chameleon. Not sure I consider a switch-barrel/switch-caliber gun to be one gun, considering my Contender goes from pistol to carbine of many calibers in a matter of minutes.
Oh... and there's this-
And this-
Enjoy your Daystate Chameleon.
Happy Shooting,
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It looks like a great time to me maybe if you slow down after a little bit, you can get better grouping but then again do you really need anything better than squirrel at 50 yards?
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If you mean slow my shooting down and go for better accuracy, that is what I was doing with that group - each shot was taken with great care to try to get the smallest 19 shot group I could, to show what the gun can do. It was not fast shooting, and certainly not a semi-auto mag dump - that would have been at least twice the size, maybe even bigger.
If you mean that those results are more than good enough and to just slow down and accept them, I pretty much have - at least in terms of seeking another gun to replace it. It has been a full six months with no other gun purchased, so that's a good sign.
That said, I have commissioned one of Troy Hammer's 3 groove barrels to fit it, to see if I can eek out a bit more accuracy.That, after all, is pretty much my goal - not just minute of squirrel for pesting, but finding the best accuracy I reasonably can while still loving the gun/platform. Once you have experienced better accuracy - even though it only shows up on paper - it can be hard to leave things alone. For example, this is what I can get out of my Daystate Air Ranger. If I could get that out of my K1 it would be pretty much a mike-drop moment; I'd pretty much stop looking for anything better at that point . . . then I would just need to work on illusive group where I don't "lose" one or two shots outside the main cluster, as has always happened, like in this photo.
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