Air Arms TX200HC review

[Professor]

Glad you are pleased with it. As a former owner of both the HC and Mk 3 variants, I agree with most of what you say except I did find the beartrap ratchet a bit annoying and the click-click-click noise as you cock I suspect could frighten rabbits away. Personally I find the cocking effort ridiculous for a 12 ft lb rifle-my Weihrauch HW95 is cockable with one finger! I don't know whether you tried the TX200 Mk 3 before choosing the HC but I found the slightly longer cocking lever much easier to use and the extra length hardly noticeable. The mk 3 is also quieter-unless you use the screw- in extra silencer which completely ruins the whole point in having the shorter HC.
Good shooting!

You can stop the rachet clicking by depressing the anti-bear trap button as you cock it. It certainly does frighten off rabbits Nick unless you do that, as I found out several times when cocking for a second shot. Of course, pressing the button as you cock, means you don't have an anti beartrap mechanism while you do it. True about the silencer negating the carbine effect too.

Edit:

Oh - on reading the thread further, I see Baz has alreadys said the same thing about quietening the loading procedure.

[Sub Sea Sniper]

Quick update, this gun continues to impress. I have still been bagging the rabbits (though not as much as before, but thats down to me, not the gun) and everything in the gun has settled in nicely.

One minor issue I have found is that just under the front of my scope there is a small section of bluing that seems to to have faded. I put this down to being where water will drip from the front of the scope during rain.

I have started shooting target from 40-45m and found the gun to be extremely consisten. Although there is a large drop off it is predictable and the pellet seems to carry a lot of energy even at this distance.

I got a bit of oil in the barrel somewhere and for a while the gun was dieseling quite spectacularly. One shot I fired during this was from 50m and there was no appreciable drop off at that range which freaked me. I got a pull thru and sorted the gun out.

I will be buying a Hawke HD Sport MAP 6x40 scope tomorrow and will post on how this works with the gun.

Sub Sea Sniper

[Matt C.]

SSS

With regard to the safety catch, if you re-cock the under-lever it will reset the safety. I found this safety button thing annoyong on my TX until I was advised of the cure. I hope this assists, I am sure AA haven't changed this on your model, happy hunting.

Take care, Voldy