Respectfully, Joek, HW's have a build quality, performance and reputation to be worth that kind of money. SIG, first time into airgunning, would be hard pressed to, out of the box, bring something to market that would rival either of those guns - I am skeptical, but will wait for the reviews...
I spent some time shooting this new Sig at the airgun show today. I like it. The wood stock had a fair bit of heft to it and the whole thing felt solid. The ambidexterous safety placement is different, but works, and it is not automatic. It was a little hold sensitive as should be expected for a 20 ft lb springer, but seemed accurate. I was stacking pellets on the 10 yard target and the knockdowns at 20 were way too easy once I got settled in. I would have liked some clean targets to get a better idea of the accuracy potential.
Hard to believe. Most will go European if they're thinking of higher end break barrels, I would think. Someone mentioned that PCP's are coming down ridiculously low and I think that will hurt this gun's chances. The pluses of a break barrel pale in significance (IMHO) to the pluses of some of these new, cost effective PCP's. Sure you need a hand pump and you have to put more energy in them, but the ease of shooting and the consistent accuracy could make believers of break barrel shooters....
Yeah, nice gun. But dark, funky stock color and too over-priced for a .22 rifle with about the same power as the Striker 1000x .22. Even the 1000x vortex is no more than 170 bucks.
Gonna throw this out there.....several have mentioned its gonna be tough for SIG to go head to head with Diana/HW etc........ ANd yes that is a correct perspective. But they are NOT going to do that. the crowd SIG is marketing that to is not the Aigrun Faithful, but SIG pb owners looking for non-powderburing alternatives.... SIG isnt worried what we forum denizens are buying or even what we think of their guns.....