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    My evo with longer .20 barrel & a sorted trigger
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    Quote Originally Posted by rhyslightnin View Post
    My evo with longer .20 barrel & a sorted trigger
    Ah well, if we're going "self-contained", then it would be my Benjamin 392.
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    My answer always used to be a FWB124, but recently my Park Rifle Company 91 for its tac driving accuracy.
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    Don't laugh but mine would be my Webley hawk mk2 , owned from new for 40 years, modified to death to make it better than crap.

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    Wonkey Donkey tuned HW95

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    An RWS 45 in .177 with a Diana 60 Diopter on top.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rhyslightnin View Post
    My evo with longer .20 barrel & a sorted trigger
    Rhys, it's norra springer, it's a rammer !
    Love my Relum Tornado !
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    I am thinking more of a one time purchase to last a lifetime. A just in case rifle.
    You can spend thousands and still miss a barn door or spend just enough and enjoy yourself. If you haven't got the talent to start with a million pound won't fix it. Whippet, Russell, a few bang sticks and a flat cap. http://www.smart-tech1st.co.uk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Edge View Post
    I am thinking more of a one time purchase to last a lifetime. A just in case rifle.
    Well, putting it that way, Rob, and reading "survivalist" rifle into it, that'd be the HW80, then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Edge View Post
    All the usual suspects but which would come out on top?
    12/200 or mebe the MFR

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    If I could only have one Springer it would have to be a DIana 460 magnum and this is why, what other gun mentioned can match it for fac performance and be sleeved to shoot nice at low power, light weight and can be customised with a prosport/airsporter type lever,
    A one piece compression tube and a robust build.
    What other springer can match these qualities

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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyL View Post
    Well, putting it that way, Rob, and reading "survivalist" rifle into it, that'd be the HW80, then.
    Surely that would be the Umarex Wildlife?

    If the Q is pick the best springer ever, it's the Mach1 or 2, or some other Venom contraption, or maybe a Whiscombe.

    In tin foil hat weirdo prepper mode, I would want something very well made, not too heavy, and probably with a leather piston seal (as they last forever and can be revived, whereas at least some of the synthetics seem to degrade over time). Think Diana 35, Webley MkIII, that kind of thing. (I'm assuming that a Bren gun and a Glock 17 are out of scope - but they do both have springs in them.)

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    My mk2 TX200. The only tuning it's had is having had many thousands of pellets though it since I got it in 1994. In .22 of course.

    I could be tempted by a venom 80 as per John Darling.

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    I really like my HW35 and my HW55, but if it came down to it I'd keep the 25mm .177 HW77 'til the last.

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