Ruger Springers ??

Ruger Springers are made by BAM outta China . Some guys have had really decent luck with these . For me I have spent my VERY LAST dollar on " Ruger Springers"

Ask the co worker what pellets shoots the best and use those. Use the right hold and you may have a winner or two. Test at 15 yards and good luck.

I've always read where the Ruger Blackhawk was suppose to be a near carbon copy of the RWS 34 springer.

You may be lucky and get a good one. But like JWR said, with walmart guns it could be a toss up.

Good luck.

Ray

My ruger shot wonderfully until it didn't. I almost threw it out in disgust but offered it to my 23 year old. My son loves it as a plinker. He manages to still group at 23 yards around the size of a small plum. He'll occasionally hit the spinner at 35, and he feels so excited about it.



In short, I wanted to love my ruger. It treated me great for around 3000 rounds, then it stopped grouping effectively for me, opening up way too large for me to enjoy it. I started to hate it..but if one was gifted to me, I'd give it a chance.

At least tuned ( home) the blackhawk is a pretty darn good RWS34 clone.



John

I recently tuned a Ruger 34 clone for a friend. Don't think it was a Blackhawk but, rather an earlier model. In a single word, it was "Junk". Typical, cheap, Chinese junk. I did make it shoot a little better - from terrible to just awful.

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The Explorer is one I bought to get my great niece more interested in air gun shooting with an inexpensive rifle that was easy to cock and shoot. While not the greatest trigger as already mentioned, they can be smoothed some and the one I have is pretty accurate with opens at 15 yards and about a 430 fps shooter with RWS Hobbies. If you have younger kids or know someone who does and wants an inexpensive way to try and get them interested, the Explorer is a rifle that would work until they have the experience to get and shoot something a little better.

I did paint the stock because she asked if I would. Never did mount a scope because I wanted her to learn with open sights first, but the rifle is still here in the corner because at now 14, she's more interested in boys and her little circle of girlfriends than shooting.

I’ve got an Air Hawk that was my first springer purchase last year. It’s always been very smooth and vibration-free, with an OK trigger, but never been very accurate. I’ve spent a lot of time, effort, and money trying(unsuccessfully) to get it to group as well as a German springer does out of the box. It was fun to tinker with, but I’ve moved on.