From the outside looking in, and reading a lot, my pet peeve is that all of these pet peeves are totally valid. I have been looking to move up in quality, not accuracy, for a while now. I follow how everyone's guns are shooting and my mid-value and junkers shoot great. They took work (and a lot of extra money) to get there, but they are accurate. It would be nice to own something that I didn't have to baby, or work on, to get shooting well and dependably at the price paid up front, with no after market parts needed. I have not yet found a gun to justify the expense of what Ed, of Edgun, himself, calls a toy. Everybody's threshold for entertainment dollars spent is different and controlled mostly by the value they perceive they are getting. Try hard enough and you can justify just about anything. Higher end airguns, to justify their being "higher end" should have all, or most, of these peeves figured out. Actually, collectively, everything that gets rightfully complained about in this thread, has been addressed, just never in one platform. Edgun drove over his gun, twice!, with no poi shift. I still haven't seen any of the other builders even attempt to copy that. Relatively cheap Hatsans come with two magazines. FX use to ship in pretty nice cases which means they understood their value at some point and then decided to skip it. Really? Let's go backwards, are guns are getting more expensive, so we are going to ship them in cheaper packaging. Unless FX airguns are being built rugged enough now to be driven over, than that makes no sense. People paying a premium already, certainly, don't want cheaper packaging for it. This shouldn't even be a point for discussion. Even Taipan, which has the least pet peeves of any, still requires you to buy a part from DFL to easily adjust its hammer spring. Let's include everyone. Daystate RW. The battery connection and wires hanging out for changing, is really jv. The stock seems to be weak enough at the grip that they break in shipping. This shouldn't be an issue. Want to adjust your Red Wolf, buy this $400 box. To Daystates credit they fixed this with the Delta Wolf. And let's talk about magazines. I like mine detachable, easy to load, and high shot count if I got the air for it. FX is it. No one else is even trying. Why is that? An Uragan King has a ridiculously beautiful high shot count and tiny capacity magazines. A non-starter. For standard guns, the magazines shouldn't be in the way of the scope either. Then there's the ownership experience to consider. Everybody's posting the same thing; MANUALS, SCHEMATICS, O-RING SIZES! It is one thing to exclude this from a low-end gun, but from a high-end quality piece it is unacceptable to not even have them posted online. Which leads to my last pet peeve which is actually beyond a peeve and is a big problem, -Parts. Parts for expensive guns should ship to the dealers when the guns do, even if that just means new guns to cannabilize until you figure out what goes the most. People putting down big money for long wait tmes shouldn't have to wait longer if something breaks on their premium purchase. It just makes sense, like 20 moa rails, 1/2x20 ends, picatinny instead of dovetail makes sense, but we still have to mention it and ask about it, in the premium realm. That makes no sense. At the moment, all these points considered, a used Veteran or R5M tops my list, but so much is changing so quickly who knows? I hope that most of these pet peeves get resolved. I do, sooner than later, want to join the ranks of the premium pcp community and it would be nice if they worked all of this out. Everybody's advice is to buy once, cry once, and that is what I want to do. I don't want to have to start my own pet peeve thread after. I really don't enjoy reading about the peeves before hand but maybe something positive will come from it. Who are the manufacturers listening to if not us?
