and you had no other way of charging your pcps other than a hand pump, what springer would you choose and why that one? Just a thought!
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It is English, British Webley Tomahawk 22 with AGH tune kit. 10 shots 28 yards, also have the Longbow, British baby,I do have a German girlfriend though. 
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I've had three compressor, scuba tank and hand pump. About four years ago there was no close place to charge my tank and my 6 or so PCP are good as dead ducks as I only weight abt 142 pounds and the best I can do is only 1500 lbs with the pump. So I'm enjoying my 12 German springers and many CO2 rifles and pistol as well as many of the same in pumpers. I don't need all of the baggage that my PCP air require and really don't miss fooling with them one bit. Maybe it's my age but for some reason shooting springers seem more like the process is your kinship with the gun that make it so enjoyable. Just an old farts opinion. Charles
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I never got the itch for the PCP. I've got a bunch of different Weihrauchs that are quite enjoyable. The Hw30s being my favorite. My R1 my least favorite. If I need anymore power and accuracy than that, I'll simply reach for a powder burner. I have zero need or desire for a PCP and all it's maintenance equipment.
This has been beat to death before but I like springers because they're self contained and they make me feel like a kid again. Obviously I'll never run out of air, but if I had to pick one all around general purpose airgun it'd be a 177 Hw50. That's just me.
This has been beat to death before but I like springers because they're self contained and they make me feel like a kid again. Obviously I'll never run out of air, but if I had to pick one all around general purpose airgun it'd be a 177 Hw50. That's just me.
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Well I am always out of air. My pcp have their place, but the HW95 and HW30 are what I call Airgunning.
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My go to springer is the .22 HW98. A close second place would be the .177 HW50S. Accurate, Rekord trigger, beautiful fit and finish, they
have it all.
have it all.
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Ditto! To me, being self-contained is the essence of airgunning...grab a gun, and shoot it all day with no outside life-support beyond the projectiles themselves. I've gravitated to older guns over the years, and my favorite springer is the old HW 50 / 55 "family" - the only small-tube HW's with the classic threaded-on rear receiver.
I cut my airgunning teeth on good old American pump-up pneumatics though. I do love springers, and yeah an MSP is a bit more work, but it's not too hard to find a use for a light, recoilless, variable-power rifle!
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I have my old Benjamin Hand pump ..... somewhere on the floor near my messy work bench.
Haven't used it in 3+ years, since I got my Xisco pump for the RAW's.
Hope to never use it again and would likely have to change the o-rings before I could
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CS500 Sporter Air Rifle Stock. – Custom Stock LTD
www.customstock.co.uk Thanks Ron. It works better than it looks. The more vertical grip, a place for my thumb and a slightly shorter LOP really made a differenc.
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It's beautiful. I thought they (CS) only made thumbhole stocks. I don't care for thumbhole stocks for springers.CS500 Sporter Air Rifle Stock. – Custom Stock LTD
Thanks Ron. It works better than it looks. The more vertical grip, a place for my thumb and a slightly shorter LOP really made a differenc.
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I have a couple of the LTD stocks,go to their site,you will see they have many different varieties of stocks, and plenty are not thumbhole stocks
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I do have a few PCPs, but they largely collect dust as I enjoy shooting my spring guns far more. My favorite of the bunch is my hw50s in .177. It really is a do-it-all sort of gun.
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I asked this question because there's always going to be a "what if" for those of us that have totally transitioned into "pcps). For those that have not dove head first into the "dark side", I do understand where you're coming from because of all of the extra gear that comes with the luxury of pcps. I've hunted with springers for years with great success and it wasn't a problem going into the woods with my Beeman R1 in .177 and then later on with my Beeman R10D in .20 caliber. "Magnumitis" is what I called shooting my Beeman R1 is where I was stuck for years and with one well placed shot, you would be surprised as to what it's capable of if you do your part.
At the same time, my actual milage was going up (my age) and my ability to enjoy some of the finer things in life increased, I chose not to work so hard when it came to my passion. There's always going to be an "If or what if" in your life at some point but we only get to live once and then it's over!
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TXRMike:
I admire your collection of HWs and it does bring back memories of the way things were for me back in the day when I younger and ripening at the same time.
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I'm sorry for the quality of this picture but I've taken more gays with this springer than one can imagine. The glass on this one has a BSA 3-post recticle on it at 4X33 power, I've only seen one scope like this and its clarity is beyond belief. It truly pays to have a back-up if one was to run or walk out of air. "It's just a thought".
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I would simply hand pump my two Atomic XRs, they have small cyclinders… But I do have an R7 and HWK both in .177
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A Beeman Sling?
I took mine off the gun for some bench shootng and don't know where it wound up. We moved and a lot of boxes are still unpacked. Unfortunately I also misplaced a turet cap off the old scope.
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