Single stroke pneumatic rifle? (are there any?)

[norris]

Saw the Paradigm at a Shooting Show somewhere and was not overly impressed. It was alkward, unweildly and tricky to cock. It simply didn't look to be a practical design and wouldn't be a commercial success.

That's the thing with single stroke Pneumatics you need to develop the knack of cocking them.

Practicality and commercial success are irrelevant in the air gun world for example buying a PCP then having to buy charging equipment which is either heavy to carry round or requires physical effort to use.OK you can buy small lighter air cylinders/bottles but at the expense of capacity.So not that practical but a great commercial success for retailers?

I like PCP's but prefer springers for the self contain power source!

I'm also a fan of single stock pneumatics and own a Dragon.

If Webley or another company manufactured the Paradigm I would buy one!

[Blackrider]

The chap presenting the Paradigm, wouldn't allow members gathered to cock it themselves, only he cocked it at the time.
That alone rang "alarm bells" with me !
If the rifle, albeit a prorotype required lets say, "specialist handling" then I could foresee future problems developing on production guns whenever they began to be purchased and used en mass !

[norris]

The chap presenting the Paradigm, wouldn't allow members gathered to cock it themselves, only he cocked it at the time.
That alone rang "alarm bells" with me !
If the rifle, albeit a prorotype required lets say, "specialist handling" then I could foresee future problems developing on production guns whenever they began to be purchased and used en mass !

Well I've not been lucky enough to see the Paradigm in the flesh, I would like to and talk to its designer.
That too would ring alarm bells but a Dragon isn't straight forward to use.
You have to set the valve in the right sequence, I think mine constantly changes the sequence!

[Phil Russell]

Re Paradigm. I saw it at the Shooting Show when the show was at Newark. I spent a reasonable time with the inventor and had several goes with the rifle. To begin with it was very awkward to operate but then suddenly I 'got the knack' and it was really quite easy. Had it gone into production I would have bought one.
The Dragon is a nice rifle but a bit quirky and I never really understood the principle behind how the power was adjusted apart from the fact that a grub screw was twiddled (Mods: I am not looking for information here!). They are also not too difficult to reseal but clearly need to be used to maintain the seals.
The Daystate Sportsman is easy to work on but two pumps for full power is a bind, and very tiring after a while.
So ... a nice easy single stroke pneumatic that was reliable and easy to work on would, I believe, be a success.
Cheers, Phil

[norris]

Re Paradigm. I saw it at the Shooting Show when the show was at Newark. I spent a reasonable time with the inventor and had several goes with the rifle. To begin with it was very awkward to operate but then suddenly I 'got the knack' and it was really quite easy. Had it gone into production I would have bought one.
The Dragon is a nice rifle but a bit quirky and I never really understood the principle behind how the power was adjusted apart from the fact that a grub screw was twiddled (Mods: I am not looking for information here!). They are also not too difficult to reseal but clearly need to be used to maintain the seals.
The Daystate Sportsman is easy to work on but two pumps for full power is a bind, and very tiring after a while.
So ... a nice easy single stroke pneumatic that was reliable and easy to work on would, I believe, be a success.
Cheers, Phil

The inventor apparently took his creation to China and it can take time to go in production.
It's a pity that it doesn't go in production, preferably made here at a sensible price tag.