although i love Crosman i also wonder if Tom Gaylord's rifle was a "Ringer" also wonder if he was paid to review it in some shape or form. but even with the hype I am still going to get one. Just cant seem to get into the PCP thing because of ALL the other additional equipment that is REQUIRED for them... also dont have any local place to get air. And my Savage MKII is just about as cheap to shoot now that .22LR ammo is slowly starting to come back. really wish somebody would make a multi pump rifle that pushed a .22 pellet out at around 1000FPS. would not care that i had to pump it 20-40 times per shot!
Quote from: Swedge on June 11, 2014, 08:26:13 AMalthough i love Crosman i also wonder if Tom Gaylord's rifle was a "Ringer" also wonder if he was paid to review it in some shape or form. but even with the hype I am still going to get one. Just cant seem to get into the PCP thing because of ALL the other additional equipment that is REQUIRED for them... also dont have any local place to get air. And my Savage MKII is just about as cheap to shoot now that .22LR ammo is slowly starting to come back. really wish somebody would make a multi pump rifle that pushed a .22 pellet out at around 1000FPS. would not care that i had to pump it 20-40 times per shot!someone does. it's called the FX Independence. better be sitting down, when you look at the price.
O.K. So I'm brand spanking new to the world of "real" airguns. (I had a pellet gun in my early teens) And I'm a "reader" and an engineer... So with 6 months of careful planning and research I can be as spontaneous as the next guy. But enough about me...So I'm looking at getting a "good" airgun. And it LOOKS like gas springs are a technological (albeit maybe immature) leap that MAY change spring guns forever. And it LOOKS like the Crossman Trail NP2 COULD be another step in that progression. So I have scoured the internet for reviews. Of course with no pre-releases to writers there was nothing before the production run ship date. After that there is one review of a .177 caliber by a Brit that quotes he "heard" the .177 has a problem (but he bought one in .177 anyways!) and then his was horrible and sent it back. And several perturbed off new gun owners that are coloring the reviews with very typical first run quality control issues that the gun may never shake off.Then I discover B.B. Pelletier (Tom Gaylord/Pyramid) blog. Seems thorough and in depth. But reading between the lines I'm wondering if I even want an air gun now. For example... Mr. Gaylords THIRTEEN (13!) part review of the TX200 Mark III. He states in part 1, "The TX200 Mark III is the finest spring-piston air rifle available today. Please notice that I did not say “one of” or “perhaps” or any other temporizing modifier. This is flat-out the best spring gun there is today — bar none."Then there are several whole chapters of the 13 (to date) total chapters devoted to how the "...finest spring-piston air rifle available today." is shooting poor groups because it isn't being held right, isn't set on the sandbags right, isn't shooting the right pellets, etc., etc. In one part I think he shot 10-15, 10 shot groups to get ONE that was representative of the "legendary" groupings this $630 dollar gun is capable of.So I can see why people (and more and more myself) see this guy as an internet flim-flame man. But there are a lot of those (if you get interested in photography the biggest on-line blow hard is Ken Rockwell). The problem is... Where do you find the honest, yet not disgruntled gun reviewers? Ted (Ted's Holdover) might be but he's hard core PCP, not springer. Anyone have any other good resources?And so... Do any springers shoot consistently without spending an arm and a leg and then require the skill of a master pianist? Or is a PCP the way to go if you want repeatability with mystical powers? I'm lost and getting frustrated.