If you had a $2000 budget

[Topsportsman916]

$2000 on a springer.  How about a Whiscomb? It's recoiless, , adjustable power, and different cal. interchangeable barrels.

[ptpalpha]

I have a powder burner 45 on consignment . While I wait for it to sell I have been wrestling with this. First thing is spring or PCP. I have decided I want to compete in field target and don't want to purchase all the set up gear for the PCP. Maybe later but for now I want the simple and consistent springer .

So it will be a springer. Now which caliber? This is a tough one. So I purchased a .177 Bowning leverage and a XS46U in .22 from Mike with a full tune. I tuned the leverage myself. After an exhaustive test I am still not sure. I am leaning toward. .177 because I want to shoot field target. Seeing first hand the differences. The recoil from the .22 is disturbing enough to make the. .177 more consistent. Not much but enough to notice.

That makes  .177 the winner. Plus it's quieter does less damage to the trap and the pellets are cheaper. I shoot five hundred rounds a week. So that's starting to matter.

Now I am getting down to it. Springer in .177. I have a perception that under lever is more accurate than break barrel. Probably not true and I don't want to start an argument. I like the break barrel weight and loading cycle. But feel the accuracy will suffer in a pure target environment.

That leaves the TX 200 the pro sport the hw97 Diana 430 or a Walther ULG but I don't think they come to the US. I have friends in the UK that could ship me one I guess.

I am leaning toward the HW97 k with a vortex tune kit. And a case.

That is half the budget. I would then spend 600 on a very good scope. The rest would be used to take my wife out to dinner so I can explane why I need a fifteen hundred dollar BB gun. ;->

I think you're right on the money: HW97K with vortek kit and $600 scope will be hard to beat.  If you take your wife to a cheap restaurant you can even get some Rowan bling....

[Booger]

I am leaning toward the HW97 k with a vortex tune kit. And a case.

That is half the budget. I would then spend 600 on a very good scope. The rest would be used to take my wife out to dinner so I can explane why I need a fifteen hundred dollar BB gun. ;->

I think you're right on the money: HW97K with vortek kit and $600 scope will be hard to beat.  If you take your wife to a cheap restaurant you can even get some Rowan bling....

There is one already tuned in the classifieds, but doesn't it weigh as much as a TX200? I really like the light weight & feel of my R11. Maybe a HW98 in .22 caliber with a full tune?

[Booger]

Well I didn't blow the whole $2000, but I did get some nice deals. I always regretted selling my MROD .25 so I picked another one up, just like the one I sold but with some extra upgrades. I also picked up a HW97K synthetic stock. Both tuned and personal guns from Piedmont Air. After the R11 I know I can not go wrong with another HW

Thank you Mike for such great deals.

[AudiS4]

I´d buy a Hatsan 95 Vortex .22, MTC/Optisan Genesis 5-20X50, and then H&N FTT:s and Crow Mag:s for the remaining 1300 $ 

[triggerfest]

D52, .177, 12fpe tune, new Hawke Airmax 30mm tube = up to 50yds laser beam...

[ptpalpha]

Well I didn't blow the whole $2000, but I did get some nice deals. I always regretted selling my MROD .25 so I picked another one up, just like the one I sold but with some extra upgrades. I also picked up a HW97K synthetic stock. Both tuned and personal guns from Piedmont Air. After the R11 I know I can not go wrong with another HW

Thank you Mike for such great deals.

No glass??

[Booger]

Well I didn't blow the whole $2000, but I did get some nice deals. I always regretted selling my MROD .25 so I picked another one up, just like the one I sold but with some extra upgrades. I also picked up a HW97K synthetic stock. Both tuned and personal guns from Piedmont Air. After the R11 I know I can not go wrong with another HW

Thank you Mike for such great deals.

No glass??

I have some older glass hanging around. I might want to set the big 3 (AA, 97K, R1) up for field target hunting class competition. That would be 3-12X44 or so, and my 8-32X56 on either my Condor or MROD. I think it would be cool to go to a Field Target competition with an break barrel. I would not be competing against anyone but myself as it is.

[angrytimes]

If I had 2k to spend on a springer I would go for a tx200HC in .22 fac or a pro sport in 22 (both walnut) with another leupold vx3 4.5-14x40. Reason why is that I am in love with my tx200 mk3 and like the .22 for bunny hunting. But for me that is pretty much the same(ish) gun I already have so I if i were to spend the money on an air gun I would not go for another springer as I feel I already have the best springer. Instead I would go for a .25cal s510 for them long range kills and save up for a vx6 3-18x44

[silent_airman]

If I had a $2K budget (as if) , I'd go PCP, but the bulk of the money would be spent on a Shoebox and a Great White CF tank and the associated hoses etc. Whatever money left over would be put toward a used Marauder. The main stopper for me going PCP has always been the support system. Oh well. As the saying goes, poop in one hand, and wish into the other and see which hand fills up first.

[Booger]

If I had a $2K budget (as if) , I'd go PCP, but the bulk of the money would be spent on a Shoebox and a Great White CF tank and the associated hoses etc. Whatever money left over would be put toward a used Marauder. The main stopper for me going PCP has always been the support system. Oh well. As the saying goes, poop in one hand, and wish into the other and see which hand fills up first.

PCPs are nice & accurate, but a spring piston gun has soul. I shoot my R11 & TX200 more than I shoot my PCPs. There are some guns that just seem to like you & other guns you like. Guess which one gets shot the most. 

[UCChris]

Completely off topic, but you gotta put the grasshopper back. I don't recognize you without it...

[Booger]

Completely off topic, but you gotta put the grasshopper back. I don't recognize you without it...

You like my grasshopper? How about my little puppy?

[LAalex]

Beeman R1 Carbine .20 cal.  Rob Hawkins tune.  Leupold VX-2 3-9x33 in a Sportsmatch 1-piece mount.  That would leave me with roughly $500 worth of JSB's.  A squirrel's nightmare.

Scotty

[Booger]

My HW97K & .25 MROD was tuned by piedmont air, and my CZ631 LUX is being tuned by Paul Watts.