After my first exposure to high quality air rifles though the late 70's BSA catalog I moved to northern California and then it happened. I met Robert Beeman though a friend and next thing I knew I was seriously saving all the teenage money I could to gather up the nearly $500 for a new Weihrauch built Beeman HW77. At the time the most accurate spring gun available to me then. 33 years later she is still shooting awesome and holding up very nicely as you can see from the avatar. Fast forward to 2012 and with some extra cash burning a hole in my wallet last year I decided to try out what the Brits can do with this design. Enter the Air Arms TX200 Mk.III into my life. Woah, was this a very different animal than my German brute. She is just blued to a level I did not know was possible and the stock, walnut version of course, is just the most comfortable and pretty I have ever shot or held. The trigger, amazing as this is to say, is even smoother and crisper than the Rekord unit in my Beeman. A bit thin for me hence the trigger shoe. My only disappointment is my choice of optic. For the money these Leapers / UGT scopes are quite nice but for a springer it just does not hold zero well enough. Good buddy of mine you may have herd of Rick Eutsler found an awesome deal on a Hawke Sidewinder 30 I am going to try next. I hear I will not be unhappy with this one, ever. US and German glass is still too pricey for me so we will give China one more chance with these highly spoke of Hawke scopes. Oh yeah, so impressed with Air Arms I am breaking into PCPs this year and the S510 Extra in .22 FAC is my front runner currently after deciding Daystate and FX are just too pricey for what they bring to the table. Plus Gene Salvino from Air Venturi knows my European tastes in fine airguns and advised me, for my own good and sanity, to just get an Air Arms and forget lower end PCPs in general (Hatsan, Mrod etc.). Good suggestion Gene and you are not even a sales guy, lol. Sticking with the guys from East Sussex for sure as they have impressed the heck out of me so far. Air Arms you win, blew away my German beauty. Still not gonna sell her though, too many memories. AA fanboy for life! :-)P.S. hey gang, what are folks oiling their walnut stocks with? never did oil mine yet and she is dry as a bone...never owned one before. (is it me or one side is way darker?)-Pezzer
Nice TX ... all you guys actually have Nice guns !!The AA walnut stocks respond VERY WELL to simple Furniture grade paste wax. Having action out of stock give it a good 1/2 dozen apply & dry / buff sessions and you will have one fine looking very well sealed stock !!