What is the most inaccurate airgun you know of ?

[Phil Russell]

I was remembering the old push in Gat type pistols and how as a kid I could hardly hit any target, I seem to remember push in rifles or was I dreaming
Anyway surely there can't be any airgun less accurate, or is there

Nope: pretty certain you are not dreaming about push in barrel rifles ... or am I thinking about a Gat with a shoulder stock? I saw some Gat 'rifles' at a recent military fair. The chap on the stall was commenting that spares were now impossible to get so once those 'rifles' were broken, that was it.

Cheers, Phil

[Murphy]

Gat Rifle

[Rickenbacker]

You're all being very cheapo'ophobic about Gats (the proper TJ Harrington versions).

I was utterly awesome with mine, and I'm pretty sure if I'd also had a Gat rifle as a kid, I'd have been equally great with it.

So there.

[Murphy]

You're all being very cheapo'ophobic about Gats (the proper TJ Harrington versions).

I was utterly awesome with mine, and I'm pretty sure if I'd also had a Gat rifle as a kid, I'd have been equally great with it.

So there.

Me and my friend would play an early version of paintball with the corks in ours.

I remember they still stung a bit.

[piggy589]

Me and my friend would play an early version of paintball with the corks in ours.

I remember they still stung a bit.

A pal of mine dispensed with all the glass decorations on the christmas tree.

He wasn't invited round again .

[Squirrelking]

I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the pellets were going.

[Rickenbacker]

I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the darts were going.

FIFY

[series2a]

I have an Edgar Brothers 60 whose barrel is worn smooth, presumably with steel BBs.

Can't hit a barn door with it, gave up trying to zero it as I couldn't even figure out where the pellets were going.

Get some plastic tubing and some round corks from the bay stick tubing on end of barrel cork in tube tin cans = good fun

[Jackspratt]

For me it has to be the Gat - I managed to shoot myself in the eye with it when I was 14 and spent Easter week in the local eye ward with a group of blind dinosaurs!

However, ...... if you want the lowdown on a recent (expensive) purchase - the FX Impact in .177 knocks the poor old Gat off it's pedestal. I mean 50p size groups at 30 yards!!

Yes it was an early import but it really was utter rubbish - I will never buy another FX as long as I live.

J

[tinbum]

However, ...... if you want the lowdown on a recent (expensive) purchase - the FX Impact in .177 knocks the poor old Gat off it's pedestal. I mean 50p size groups at 30 yards!!

Yes it was an early import but it really was utter rubbish - I will never buy another FX as long as I live.

J

I feel your pain, but the single shot FX Typhoon in .22 with a smoothtwist barrel is still the most accurate rifle I have ever shot. (And I now have a Steyr!) I've had Cyclones that were good too, but also a Scimitar that was garbage.

[NTSOG]

G'day,

That's easy: a Hatsan [FAC] 125 in .22. The barrel was not mounted straight at the pivot and it sprayed pellets to one side no matter what I tried. My angle grinder with a cutting disc fixed it. It became somewhat expensive scrap metal.

Jim

Via Ballarat
Australia

[Jackspratt]

I feel your pain, but the single shot FX Typhoon in .22 with a smoothtwist barrel is still the most accurate rifle I have ever shot. (And I now have a Steyr!) I've had Cyclones that were good too, but also a Scimitar that was garbage.

Cheers Tinny!

Everyone says the .22 guns are better but once bitten twice shy here sir!

J

[BALD ERIC]

Nope: pretty certain you are not dreaming about push in barrel rifles ... or am I thinking about a Gat with a shoulder stock? I saw some Gat 'rifles' at a recent military fair. The chap on the stall was commenting that spares were now impossible to get so once those 'rifles' were broken, that was it.

Cheers, Phil

Thank God for that,

[Andy001]

The gat pistol? Really!

I remember shooting apples, oranges, tins and lots of other things at 5 yards I had lots of fun, it started my enjoyment of air guns!

I'd vote for the ro72, I got it given. Every time I shot it, it hurt my trigger finger....a lot!! It creaked, vibrated, and hurt to shoot. Accuracy = none. Terrible, maybe I had a bad one....but

[Solvo]

I would say the Gat - But it was find at the ranges it was designed for.

Worst is possibly the dodgy Baikals used at fairground gallerys which fires with a horrendous twang and take a minute to stop vibrating.

As for unintentionally bad... my much loved HW35, which a friend borrowed for rabbiting, and returned with a bent barrel claiming it couldn't hit anything. Found the bent barrel when i tried to zero it in the back garden and made a hole in my shed 2 meters over the target at about 10 meter range.