Which is in your opinion the smoothest and more accurate rifle beyond 100 yards?

I know that FX are VERY smooth to shoot.

Wolverine is excelent in this regard

I have never shoot with an electronic Daystate, I do not know if the electronic trigger helps in accuracy.

In your opinion which one is the smoothest and more accurate rifle beyond 100 yards?

I will appreciate the feed back of all what have shoot with all of them.
 
If you want to go 100yd+ get 257texan or some other real bullet shooter or get CF rifle. Pointless waste of time with pellet guns you will just hit ballistical wall where your drifts and drops are just too big to constatly hit anything on extended ranges everytime there is even bit of wind. Highly recomend that 257texan tho. 
 
Depending on how much beyond 100yds that you may want to shoot my recommendation is a gun that shoots slugs well. I have a impact mk2 25cal that’s outstanding with slugs, and so far I mainly shoot in my back yard out to 125yrds off of my shooting table. Now if I walk to my 50yrd target that’s where the power line cut goes through my shooting lane. There I’m able to shoot much greater distance to the left or the right, but I need my tripod for a more stable setup that I have done just a few times because of weather and or ticks. I did shoot 223yrds and had nice groups with the impact, but with age it’s not very convenient compared to my shooting table. The electric gun question, I had a Daystate red wolf 22cal very accurate gun. From the time that the excellent trigger has been engaged the gun goes off instantly, noticeably faster than mechanical guns. I only sold it was a very long gun and to fund my delta Wolf. I’m sure that there’s others that will work, but the two that I’ve talked about are the only only two that I have experience with.




 
100 yards isn't much to brag about anymore sorry to say. Lots of guns capable of extreme long range, past 120 yards I don't like using pellets. Slugs definitely help, a few of my top picks off the shelf out of the box would be an EVOL, Daystate Safari and the New Delta Wolf all in .30 calibers. If you like tinkering, tuning and customizing I'm sure others would be great picks as well. Doug Noble has a few custom condors capable of extreme long range, 100 yards is a joke with those types of guns.
 
An Air Force Texan in any caliber would be child's play straight out of the box.

Straight out of the box FX Bobcat and Boss with pellets for sure to just under 200 yards.

25 and 30 RAW HM1000x doable straight out of the box.

Several older Korean and UK and FX guns too but are long discontinued unregulated guns capable of unbelievable consistent accuracy at long range. They don't make them like these any more. The new models that replaced them aren't as accurate at long distances like the old ones.

Perfectly tuned matched with perfect Slug combo with FX Impact but not straight out of the box. Slug testing crucial and best if you make your own slugs to experiment with if you need 200 yard MOA or better.

RWS 54 and 56 semi-recoilless spring guns both in 22 caliber 150 yards to just under 200 yards very much doable too straight out of their box.


 
What I like of big hunting with air rifle is the challenge of being close to the animal (as when bowhunting). But, in my case, I have much more chance of getting accuracy to make a perfect shot with the air rifle.

To my taste, deer hunting with a .357 should be as close as possible, but in all cases within 50 yards. Wild turkey, coyotes and javalina whithin 70 yards. Again, to my preferences.

Jack rabbit hunting at 115 yards is perfectly doable. Also small birds hunting. 

Being able to kill a deer at 170 yards with an air rifle is not my goal. For that distance is much more adequate to use a 30-06. Totally different business and situation.
 
Be careful that you don't put the cart before the horse as many people tend to do.

Are you shooting at targets beyond 100 yards or at game/varmints beyond 100 yards? With targets at a range, you know the distance. When shooting at something like prairie dogs where distance is unknown, your rangefinder is as important as your rifle and maybe even MORE important. A Dutch guy told me that the BSA Lonestar is commonly used in the Netherlands for 100 meter competition and is slightly more powerful with a slightly better trigger than the Daystate Huntsman. I have taken numerous prairie dogs out to 100 yards and beyond with my Lonestar .25. It is adequate for the job, although no longer available new. Used ones come available at AoA now and then......but not for long. BSA has made nothing since that beats it for long range shooting. The salesman at AoA used one as his personal rifle back when he sold me my rifle in December 2009.

HOWEVER: When I started shooting PD's with the Lonestar, I was using a Bushnell Scout 1000 ARC rangefinder. While it is accurate, it has a fairly wide angle of beam. You will be reading a lot more than just a PD body and will get widely varying readings every time you take a reading. Would not be a factor on something like a deer at 100 yards. Replaced the Bushnell Scout 1000 ARC with a Leica Rangemaster 2400-R (at about twice the price), and suddenly my rifle seemed to be a lot more accurate! The Leica has a much narrower angle of beam, especially in the vertical plane, and it gets a reading much faster. This prevents foreground or background affecting the reading. It also has a higher magnification and clearer optics. This makes it a lot easier and faster to get an accurate reading. It is also more compact and carries in a shirt pocket. The optics are so good that I could leave the 10X binoculars at home. Not having to buy/carry binoculars saves money AND weight and makes moving around easier and ranging is faster since there is no changeover between binoculars and rangefinder. The Leica rangefinder is also a lot cheaper than buying binoculars with ranging capability.

NOW, if you are shooting at targets at a range, this means nothing as you already know the range. BUT, until you get a good rangefinder that works under the conditions you will be using it in the field, and a scope with a suitable ballistic reticle or accurate target turrets, the question of which rifle is better is a moot point among any number of air rifles that are capable beyond 100 yards. But like I said, this applies to shooting in the field under field conditions and not at a shooting range from a benchrest position.

Bottom line: In the field, your rifle will not be any more accurate than your rangefinder. I see a lot of guys on this forum talking a lot about rifles and pellets and scopes, but the rangefinder gets little attention. The Leica Rangemaster 2400-R changed my mind on how important a rangefinder really is, and it is 1/4 the cost or less than the airgun rigs a lot of guys like to hype up on this forum.
 
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Be careful that you don't put the cart before the horse as many people tend to do.

Are you shooting at targets beyond 100 yards or at game/varmints beyond 100 yards? With targets at a range, you know the distance. When shooting at something like prairie dogs where distance is unknown, your rangefinder is as important as your rifle and maybe even MORE important. A Dutch guy told me that the BSA Lonestar is commonly used in the Netherlands for 100 meter competition and is slightly more powerful with a slightly better trigger than the Daystate Huntsman. I have taken numerous prairie dogs out to 100 yards and beyond with my Lonestar .25. It is adequate for the job, although no longer available new. Used ones come available at AoA now and then......but not for long. BSA has made nothing since that beats it for long range shooting. The salesman at AoA used one as his personal rifle back when he sold me my rifle in December 2009.

HOWEVER: When I started shooting PD's with the Lonestar, I was using a Bushnell Scout 1000 ARC rangefinder. While it is accurate, it has a fairly wide angle of beam. You will be reading a lot more than just a PD body and will get widely varying readings every time you take a reading. Would not be a factor on something like a deer at 100 yards. Replaced the Bushnell Scout 1000 ARC with a Leica Rangemaster 2400-R (at about twice the price), and suddenly my rifle seemed to be a lot more accurate! The Leica has a much narrower angle of beam, especially in the vertical plane, and it gets a reading much faster. This prevents foreground or background affecting the reading. It also has a higher magnification and clearer optics. This makes it a lot easier and faster to get an accurate reading. It is also more compact and carries in a shirt pocket. The optics are so good that I could leave the 10X binoculars at home. Not having to buy/carry binoculars saves money AND weight and makes moving around easier and ranging is faster since there is no changeover between binoculars and rangefinder. The Leica rangefinder is also a lot cheaper than buying binoculars with ranging capability.

NOW, if you are shooting at targets at a range, this means nothing as you already know the range. BUT, until you get a good rangefinder that works under the conditions you will be using it in the field, and a scope with a suitable ballistic reticle or accurate target turrets, the question of which rifle is better is a moot point among any number of air rifles that are capable beyond 100 yards. But like I said, this applies to shooting in the field under field conditions and not at a shooting range from a benchrest position.

Bottom line: In the field, your rifle will not be any more accurate than your rangefinder. I see a lot of guys on this forum talking a lot about rifles and pellets and scopes, but the rangefinder gets little attention. The Leica Rangemaster 2400-R changed my mind on how important a rangefinder really is, and it is 1/4 the cost or less than the airgun rigs a lot of guys like to hype up on this forum.

Excellent point!!!

Four weeks ago my son and myself went hunting with our air rifles.

We both had our range finders.

Before shooting we both used our range finders and we received different distances.

Range finder is indeed very important to know how to compensate and a bad measure can easily be judged as a lack of accuracy.
 
At closer ranges for air gun shooting, it doesn't seem that a rangefinder is providing much help. But at the longer ranges for air gun shooting, a few yards can mean the difference between a hit and a miss. That seems like the best reason in the world for anyone who believes that they need one and are considering a range finder to buy a quality unit that doesn't just give a number but gives a reliable and accurate number.