Off to the Umarex factory...

[MikeB]

My favourites are:

2 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 12 / 18 / 19 / 27 / 29

[Mr Meteor]

I have reasonable experience of the (slightly older) Umarex range and still have three of their pistols. My ten:

2,4,5,9,16,17,18,25,26,30.

Have a good trip, Terry.
ATB, Adrian.

PS. Echoing GarryP - some support for the UBC!

[harvey_s]

How about 3 categories :

Complaints
1) Why did you change the blued finish to matt black (which is fragile) and can we have the blue or similar back?
2) Why is trigger quality so inconsistent gun to gun?
3) Why no matching silver mags for the S&W and can we have some please?
4) No more fake hammers on blowback guns – fully functional only please.
5) Foam in cases sub standard – wears easily.

Requests
6) Rifles – Can we have higher power multi-shots such as
I. 12ft/lb Maruzen APS SR-21
II. A lever action rifle capable of 11ft/lb

7) Pistols - Can we have…
I. Colt Peacemaker
II. C96 broomhandle Mauser
III. Luger P08
IV. Browning Hi Power
V. Pellet firing Blowback Glock 17/19
VI. Webley Service Revolver
VII. Pellet firing blowback Colt 1911
VIII. H&K P8/P10/Mk23
IX. A smaller, lighter trainer / junior pistol

8) Accessories – Can we have…
I. A rail for the H&K USP
II. Magazines in larger multiples
III. A 0.22 calibre option in the CO2 range
IV. Can you relaunch the S&W 8” Barrels
V. Can you relaunch the Stainless PPC finish
VI. Can you relaunch the 1911 adj. sights/tuning kit

Questions
9) Why copies – why no original designs?
10) Any more pellet firing Blowback pistols in the pipeline?
11) What about a design that includes dummy shells to take a pellet, blowback magazine feed & eject?
12) Ever thought about designing a dedicated CO2 Target Pistol?

That makes 12 questions

A few of these are impractical, not Umarex’s market, probably worth 10 sales a year or basic repetitions and probably could be left out if push came to shove (sorry to original posters )…
13. Can we have a snub-nose Police Chief Special, please?
(barrel would be so short that it would be very weak or a gas hog)
14. Can we have a CO2 GAT copy please?
(I think this one might be confined to the UK market only… )
15. Please make a genuine blued steel finish on the Classic
(see Question 1)
16. Re-worked magazine on PPK to combine ammo & gas
(not sure why anyone would want this – it would be expensive to reload each time as you would need a valved magazine and each bulb would be ejected part used…)

[Adam77K]

Nice work Harvey. I thought I'd post polls based on your categories (bearing in mind we can only have 10 options per poll).
I put the polls up for a week, because apart from Terry's visit the results of more votes and a longer exposure may be interesting too.

Here's the poll on pistol requests:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496570

Complaints:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496571

Questions:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496575

Accessories:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496582

[Terry D]

Erm...I appear to have created a monster!

Better make the most of this visit - because it doesn't look like I'll be invited back.

...and could you sponsor my mates in the UBC, please?'

[Mr Meteor]

Cap'n,
16. Re-worked magazine on PPK to combine ammo & gas
(not sure why anyone would want this – it would be expensive to reload each time as you would need a valved magazine and each bulb would be ejected part used…) - something along the lines of the Baikal Makarov. The magazine is valved and you just reload BB's as and when. The standard issue "mag" with the PPK is not very robust, to say the least.
ATB, Adrian.

[Garry]

Erm...I appear to have created a monster!

Better make the most of this visit - because it doesn't look like I'll be invited back.

...and could you sponsor my mates in the UBC, please?'

As consumers, we're more likely to be making requests/complaints. We'll leave it to your journalistic skills to dress it all up as a fact finding mission

[Mr Meteor]

Harvey and Adam... well done to you both!

[Bigbill]

Armex also list themselves as a UK distributer for Umarex and given my own less than impressive experience with Brocock when they were/are the Rohm distributer perhaps Armex might be more enthusiastic?

Harvey wait until you have to deal with Rotherys who are now the Rohm distributor, they make Brococks seem like really reasonable people.

I never had any problems with Brococks repairs dept can't comment on other depts

Bill

[harvey_s]

Erm...I appear to have created a monster!

Better make the most of this visit - because it doesn't look like I'll be invited back.

...and could you sponsor my mates in the UBC, please?'

Bless 'im... and you thought 'great, a free lunch and a lil' drinkie in the evening with me new chums' now it's going to be " 'vot time iz your flight back Herr Doe ve vill make sure we do not keep you..."

Give the pistolero's a ball - they'll run with it mate......

[harvey_s]

Cap'n,
16. Re-worked magazine on PPK to combine ammo & gas
(not sure why anyone would want this – it would be expensive to reload each time as you would need a valved magazine and each bulb would be ejected part used…) - something along the lines of the Baikal Makarov. The magazine is valved and you just reload BB's as and when. The standard issue "mag" with the PPK is not very robust, to say the least.
ATB, Adrian.

and the mag is half the price of the gun too, you cant just let it drop when reloading cos' the weight of it will wreck itself - if it were me I'd request the existing system was made more robust perhaps...

[Terry D]

Bless 'im... and you thought 'great, a free lunch and a lil' drinkie in the evening with me new chums' now it's going to be " 'vot time iz your flight back Herr Doe ve vill make sure we do not keep you..."

I have been like, totally sussed!

Oh well, being bitch-slapped like a ginger stepchild will be worth it if I get you lot a few answers and some sponsorship, yeah?

Hang on!


* Phones Sleazyjet to cancel flight...*

[Terry D]

Right you lot; I've printed off all 30 questions and I'll show them the bleddy lot.

It's the only way forward for the thrusting young executive type, and just the sort of positive action Sralan Lord Sugar would approve of.

Onward!

[Jim McArthur]

Good deal, Terry!

Jim

[Pad. E]

Right you lot; I've printed off all 30 questions and I'll show them the bleddy lot.

It's the only way forward for the thrusting young executive type, and just the sort of positive action Sralan Lord Sugar would approve of.

Onward!

Thanks Terry

It was a good call asking the pistol shooters for suggestions for the visit, even though it has caused you more work than I think you anticipated

oh & have fun

Regards
Paddy