Are you looking for a repeater or a single shot you can get in for his little ass 100 and something dollars or high-end do you want a short barrel or maybe something longer than 7 inches you want something with the building tank or single pump I love single pumps I’ve been shooting them since the early 80s, but I must say The price on PCP has come down so much and the quality of guns in the $4-$600 has gotten so good. You have a lot of choices. Tell us exactly what you wanna do and how much do you wanna shoot and maybe we can help you a little more
Most if not all of us are not. The only exception might be somebody only interested in hunting. But I still see investing less than $100 in a hand pump as a good idea because compressors fail. If the choice is no shooting or hand pumping I think pretty much all of us will hand pump. Until the new compressor arrives or we get the old one fixed.
Bench shooter, 50 yard range. Just like to sit there in the shade and put little holes in the paper where I want them. Thinking a Benjamin Marauder 22 caliber and a low priced (~$250) compressor. If I stick with it I can always buy a small bottle (2 - 3 L?) to top up at the range. So many possibilities!
Old and fat (G). 74 YOA and the idea of a hand pump filling a larger tank gives me second thoughts.. I would like to make it to at least 75 without a heart attack/stroke..It takes one to become one.
The vast majority is MY money. All she can do is complain, and there are enough things that I do/don't do/do wrong/forget to do, etc. for her to complain about. Its just so much easier for me to see what I want, go out to the car, get the envelope of cash (usually 1K) and no one the wiser (G)..Wow you air gun buying is got complicated. How easy is it just to add to cart proceed to checkout snd wait on ups ?
Have you tried using "YOUR" money ? Not much she can say on that is there?
This meme i made had been handy lately.
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I decided that at 60 (69 now) when a friend bought a Hatsan pcp and a hand pump. I was "I will just stick to break barrel". Then I found out there were compressors for around $100. I have 1 break barrel left and that is permanently loaned to a neighbor.
I started out hand pumping a Diana Stormrider .22, and added a QB79 with bottle conversion. I'm over 75 and can hand pump while talking on the phone, but it became old when spending 6 hours of shooting, at our weekly range days. My compressor runs something like 1/2 the time, GX CS3, and I have a CS1 clone as backup.
Now I'm thinking get a 'bottle' to bring to the range with me to top off. Haven't even touched the gun and already thinking of what more do I want (G).
I find a smallish 2L or 3L bottle as a tether is more convenient. No need to stop and fill. Tank filled to gun pressure or (if you can find one anymore) a regulated fill valve (I have 2).
In order to save steps, it might be worthwhile to try to estimate the amount of air/shooting that you need in a session. I found that a bottle wasn't large enough, so I switched to a 45-minute SCBA tank. Later, I discovered that the SCBA was more trouble to transport and to fill, than is my GX CS3 or my CS1 clone.
