H&K P30 or CP88?

[Ash168]

Hi

I am new to air pistol shooting, and plan to do some IPAS. Any opinions from the seasoned shooters as to a preference between the above, or indeed any other air pistol, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Ash

[akacoach]

I've not shot a P30 but I love shooting my CP88, great with a moderator and even better if you can get hold of a 6" comp model!

[Scratch11]

Does the p30 have a rifled barrel? If it does its a closer choice. Personally, I favour the CP88

[Rayee]

Yesps, it has a rifled barrel.
See this vid HERE and also note how extraordinarily less cool he looks once his safety specs are off.
The old wonk eye.

[Jim McArthur]

I don't shoot IPAS, but many who do prefer the Smith 586 or 686: ten rounds instead of eight, and making for a nice big magazine that's easier to change in a hurry.

Jim

[Jim McArthur]

Yesps, it has a rifled barrel.
See this vid HERE and also note how extraordinarily less cool he looks once his safety specs are off.
The old wonk eye.

Yeah. But I prefer the vids he does with the woman.

He's talking about 100 shots per CO2 cylinder, but I wonder how many of those are just lob-shots from a dying cylinder? I don't push my Smith 686 beyond 40 shots: but he's talking 300 fps, and the Smith (supposedly) gets 450.

Jim

[Robert Davies]

Does the p30 have a rifled barrel? If it does its a closer choice. Personally, I favour the CP88

I own both, and have owned the cp88 since they came off ticket.

The CP88 is an accurate pistol capable of just under 80 good shots from a cylinder - it will knock out 110 overall, but the final few are a lobbed shots.

The P30 is a more modern design of a synthetic lower encasing metal internals, with a metal topslide - it has a self contained dropout gas magazine, that also can contain bbs.
If you shoot pellets, you can drop out the gas mag and stick it in a warm pocket to warm the gas up whilst you reload your pellet mag, doing this you can get a 100 good shots from a gas cylinder - else if you treat it like a cp88 you'll get much the same sort of shots from a cylinder.

I had a long shooting sesh in the garage last night, the P30 is capable of some very small groupings indeed - one grouping I managed was eight shots at 6yds leaving a hole just large enough to push a five pence piece through.

Don't dismiss the P30, it is a nice piece of kit, if it suits you*, and gives you the option of shooting steel bbs through it as well - I have found that trying gamo lead bbs is a recipe for a jammy disaster tho'

-Rob

*Try as I might I've never got on well with the CP88, it just doesn't suit me - or vice versa!

[Arthur John Smithsplease]

I won't have you criticising Paul Capello.

Seriously though, I think his video reviews are pretty good.