Pick up your airgun and shoot? Or enjoy endless tuning options?

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There is a good question, Michael!

I want one that I can pick up and it will always hit the bull, even when I don't do my part. It should also let me shoot any pellet or slug in it and always have the same impact point. I should be able to twittle the knobs and tweak the screws to my hearts content and it should always shoot to the same spot.

But alas... that is probably unreasonable 😉

I really like my Condor because it is really easy to reconfigure. I can take it from a 55 fpe .22 slug gun to a15 fpe .20 cal pellet rifle in about half an hour, maybe an hour and a half if you count the trigger time to get it zeroed and tweaked. It's nice.

I really like that little D430L I got a year ago Christmas. It just shot right out of the box and I don't mess with it because of that. I shoot it and it delivers. It actually groups better than that HW98 I bought last month.. Just sweet out of the box and I am not going to change a thing. It also has a better shot cycle than the 98! Which I suppose is odd. I'm not really sure.

I like the guns I've had tuned by John Thomas, every one of them. I have my Model 36 in with him now and I am looking forward to getting it back when he finishes.

I guess I just like my guns. Each one is a bit different.
 
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I think you can pick up any airgun and shoot, and hit stuff too, that is unless it have been run over by a forklift on the way.

Some models do probably carry a premium for extended tweaking, which i also think if fine, even if you dont use it at first

I have a Maverick on preorder, but i can not go into tweaking on it as i do not have the basic tool ( A chronograph ) though by the time i can get my gun i think i will have saved enough to also get a crono and a few extra magazines,,,,, and then some.

I have shot a gun for years that dont have any option to tweak it other than the high - mid - low power wheel, and then hammer spring.

This will also give you something to play with, but not much compared to a newer gun, so i have done what most will do, find a pellet that work good, and shoot it and be happy.

I have not for a second contemplated getting a crono for my old gun, it is what it is and have given me much joy without having to nerd out on it.
 
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Which do you prefer?
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Yes.

We are so wonderfully blessed these days to have such excellent options in both categories available to us.

I have really enjoyed guns like those offered by Daystate where such care has been taken at the factory to obtain an excellent state of tune before boxing it up and shipping it to the customer. So pick up and shoot is excellent.

Then there are those guns by the likes of Daystate/Brocock and FX (and others, but I am most familiar with these) which give either manual or electronic quick and easy field set-point adjustments of power. And these can be so handy in different conditions, shooting situations and/or using different pellets, that we sometimes wonder how we got along with a non-field-adjustable gun.

Then many times one gets to a point where the almost infinite self-tuning potentials don't seem as daunting as they once did. And we begin to play, and sometime are able to reach that elusive goal of 'harmonic tune' for a gun/projectile combination. And this can become somewhat addictive.

I am incredibly fortunate (much to the chagrin of my wife and of our financial advisor) to not have to limit myself to only 1 or 2 guns which need to 'do everything'. And I have kind of adopted the Odoyle philosophy of getting a gun/projectile combination optimized and leaving it that way, instead of asking one gun to shoot pellets & slugs, softly or with high power, through endlessly changing barrels, liners, settings, etc.

I am by no means anywhere near any expert level of shooter, having only really gotten serious about airguns last July. I don't compete. I may occasionally take out some pests at our shooting range, who are burrowing and continuously damaging/degrading our safety berms. The vast majority of my shooting is plinking in my back yard, trying to get my personal skills somewhat closer to the the capabilities of the guns I am shooting.

So in the end I guess that I like to pick up an airgun, chosen for the application, and just shoot it. But I have also lately found the love of tuning to get that particular gun where I want it to be.

So the answer to your question for me is 'yes'.
 
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Pick up and shoot.With a PCP the tuning is already there,with a good springer the trigger and accuracy are already there,that said there are always the possibilities of making a good thing better suited for your style.

Forget tuning inside,for me the "FIT" is more important=comfort first,the adjustment of the stock, or different stock or different grips for pistols.

Tuning for me is the fit of the gun to my body first,then comes the fine mechanical tuning.

What I have said may take a long time well because I am busy shooting said gun.LOL.
 
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Both! A good airgun in my opinion works for either - shoots well out of the box with factory tune, but can be improved with some tweaking when you want to get around to it. If it requires work just to shoot decent groups or tuning has been made extra-difficult it's probably a non-starter.

This is reality today, with a lot of excellent guns on the market, so no reason to accept any less.

GsT
 
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I like a pcp that doesnt give you problems. Simple and accurate.. I'm a big fan on my Huntsman but I've grown to like my once troublesome PCPs. In the process of tuning your pcp, you end up knowing your gun inside and out. IMO if you're constantly tuning your gun, it means you just not happy with the results you are getting. It feels great to get a something and turn turning it into what you want it to be. But you run the risk of never getting what you want and you'll always be messing with your gun and that to me doesn't sound like fun.
 
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Well it all depends on what you want from your gun. I wanted to start shooting field target again this summer so i thought what the heck and bought a synthetic marauder with a lw barrel added a huma reg and then decided to shoot slugs. Tore it apart many times and got it shooting pretty good but not quite as good as i expected. So i bought a wolverine. That shot jsb 8.4 very well but again i wanted to shoot slugs. Tore the whole thing down many times and finally got it to shoot as well if not a little better than the marauder but but still not quite as good as i thought it should. Now remember I’m trying to shoot a 12.5 gr slug to 830 fps to stay under 20 fpe. The maverick came out and i thought to myself that is how i would build a versatile gun. Bought a 22 to use for hunting Didn’t have to tear the gun all apart and within an hour had it doing just what i wanted and was impressed and it will stay in this tune for hunting. Was going to buy a barrel for it in 177 to use for field target but changed my mind and bought another maverick in 177. This was a bit harder to tune to my 830 fps but finnally got it and am impressed again much tighter groups than the wolverine or marauder. So i finally have what i wanted from the starrt a hunter and a ft rig. I guess my main point is you want a gun you can pick up and shoot but how much do you want to work with it to shoot well at whatever your shooting at?

oh another thought shot count ended up 45 marauder 60 wolverine and around 100 out of both mavericks
 
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