A New Air Pistol ?

[Bjacobs571]

What price range are we looking at here ?

SMK PP700w pistol £200 ish

[u.k.neil]

You might want to consider the new SMK PP700W PCP pistol, powerful and no cocking. I had a look at one on Saturday and I was quite impressed with the build quality. The trigger is a little creepy but I am sure it would get better with use. Simple to use pull back the hammer, rotate the breach block, load close breach block and shoot. I don't know how accurate they are as I haven't shot one yet. I might have bought it but I bought one of the new sig 226 pistols instead.

I came home with one of these on Saturday, a tad under £200 for a well built, powerful and accurate PCP pistol. I have done a review of this Pistol and sent it off to Airgunner magazine so it should be in there in a few months time.

Neil

[nikharr]

Hi Neil, what are your impressions on thePP700W.
Thanks, Nik.

[ejackyou]

If I were to buy a new air pistol tomorrow in any caliber for general use not specifically targets, what would the best quality, engineered, accurate pistol I could buy ?
I would not be interested with fiddling with it as it would have to be as near as dammit, just right "out of the box" as I fancy treating myself !

You really couldn't go wrong with any of the 'springers' mentioned, but that leaves out the HW75, a superb gun, amazingly accurate, but not a powerful gun, refined, this
is almost the exact opposite of the HW45 which is a brute of a gun, takes a little bit to tame, but is quite accurate too.
The two Diana's are top of the list too, which, depends whether You want to scope or not?
I would also suggest the Alectos in either calibre, but that isn't a 'springer' either.
The Cometa 'Indian', I think, is the best bargain on the market! Well put together, powerful, and very accurate. Bargain price!
Lastly, though firstly in many peoples minds, the IMZ MP 46M Deadly accurate, fine quality match type gun, but this is strictly for Target Shooting, and as good as guns 3x the price!
Like I say You couldn't go wrong with any of them, but I strongly suggest You get Your hands on a variety of them to get it 'righter'!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[u.k.neil]

Hi Neil, what are your impressions on thePP700W.
Thanks, Nik.

I am very impressed with it mate. Trigger was harsh to start with, but a bit of fettling soon made it very nice.


Neil

[Blackrider]

You really couldn't go wrong with any of the 'springers' mentioned, but that leaves out the HW75, a superb gun, amazingly accurate, but not a powerful gun, refined, this
is almost the exact opposite of the HW45 which is a brute of a gun, takes a little bit to tame, but is quite accurate too.
The two Diana's are top of the list too, which, depends whether You want to scope or not?
I would also suggest the Alectos in either calibre, but that isn't a 'springer' either.
The Cometa 'Indian', I think, is the best bargain on the market! Well put together, powerful, and very accurate. Bargain price!
Lastly, though firstly in many peoples minds, the IMZ MP 46M Deadly accurate, fine quality match type gun, but this is strictly for Target Shooting, and as good as guns 3x the price!
Like I say You couldn't go wrong with any of them, but I strongly suggest You get Your hands on a variety of them to get it 'righter'!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Much apreciated advice, thankyou !

[craig9mm]

crossman 2240,shame its in 22 only,not usually into co2 stuuf but at £100 theyve been around for years and blap cans at 25 yds

[Blackrider]

Well, here's a "Blast from the Past" !
After much deliberation, research and calculation, a really nice air pistol is coming my way.

After musing on many pistols currently on the market, and having a preference for the Weihrauch HW 45, it looks like a .177 cal. "Silver Star" may be coming my way !

Will update in a few days time !