Spring gun revival (again.....)

[robs5230]

Ive owned and hunted with springers all my shooting life (and pcp's too).
My eldest lad likes his springers but my youngest lad at 21 won't go near one. Far too much effort for him.

I like the fact that I can tinker around with them to get them to shoot just how I like. Its a big part of owning them for me.

[clarky]

Im convinced the ressurgance is owing to the new tuning technology which completely transforms a springer ....either fitted as std. by say the Walther offerings, using a tuning house, or doing the tuning yourself if you have access to a lathe ....and finally Tinbum i spose.

Typically, a bit of a boinger with annoying muzzle flip, a 95 can be tuned to be beautifully smooth and almost dead as regard recoil and twang...finished off with a moderate muzzle weight and ive out shot a few PCPs without all the parafinalia....but ive out shot that 95 with a Pro Sport and trounced it with my super tuned 34..
Springers are getting better post manufacture and our knowledge constantly growing ....sleeveless pistons and exotic materials etc..

[cooper_dan]

Die hard springer fan here, with hopefully many more years of springing ahead of me
I agree with a lot of what has been said here, but mostly with the comment that springers are often tried and then replaced very quickly with a PCP because the accuracy is much more readily available.

I've spoken to people who have said 'I had a Weihrauch it was s**t, got a Gamo PCP now instead, much better'. Bo**ocks!

I shoot a lot of HFT now and I'm trying to get more people shooting springers. As part of this I'm going to be reviewing a whole load of springers next year. Testing loads of things including accuracy at 45 yards. Starting off with budget guns, and hopefully moving up in price/quality as funds or lending allows.
I want to show that springers, even cheaper ones can be accurate if you learn them

[clarky]

Die hard springer fan here, with hopefully many more years of springing ahead of me
I agree with a lot of what has been said here, but mostly with the comment that springers are often tried and then replaced very quickly with a PCP because the accuracy is much more readily available.

I've spoken to people who have said 'I had a Weihrauch it was s**t, got a Gamo PCP now instead, much better'. Bo**ocks!

I shoot a lot of HFT now and I'm trying to get more people shooting springers. As part of this I'm going to be reviewing a whole load of springers next year. Testing loads of things including accuracy at 45 yards. Starting off with budget guns, and hopefully moving up in price/quality as funds or lending allows.
I want to show that springers, even cheaper ones can be accurate if you learn them

Great ...start with a Diana 34 ...see if you can match my 17 mm effort.....thats 50 yds

[cooper_dan]

Great ...start with a Diana 34 ...see if you can match my 17 mm effort.....thats 50 yds

Diana 34 might not fit in the budget, would probably have to be on offer.... I'm testing new guns that will cost under £300 with a scope.

[scutter]

I totally agree that there has been a great resurgence in springers, I put this down to a few things. Number one, with the help of website like this and shooting the breeze, learning how to set up and shoot a springer has become much easier. The second is the cost, PCP's are crazy money, even a bog standard HW100 is nearly a grand with a scope on top, where as a TX200hc is half of that and finaly, it's the people.

I shot PCP for 8 years and I realy enjoyed it, but after a while I started to become boared, I would come of the course and think about the shots I missed and not the ones I got and this is because if you own a top PCP, you should get most of the prone shots. With a boinger, you come off the course and you remember all the targets you hit and you especialy remember the ones you get that the PCP boys missed and that gives you ultimate bragging rights.

I have had so much help in my journey from people like Nigel Wood, Rex Bennet, Neil Wakelin, Vince Holland and even Phill Russel and its the fraternaty of springer shooters that has ignited my love of shoooting again.

If you don't own a boinger, go get one, they are great and the people who shoot them are a wonderful bunch.

all the best

Gary Chillingworth

[ChrisC]

Boingers are just as popular as ever, well except maybe in my regions FT winter league where they seem to be dying out a little.

One thing that always makes me giggle though.......Springers are tuned so that they'll shoot as close to a PCP as possible??

[Round]

Well Let me tell you a story, I have one or two air rifles and yes I still love the sport after 50 years. I still try to live in the Enid Blyton days when you could walk in the pub with a couple of Coneys and swap em for a pint.Now the good folk around here know me and me owd mate and know what we gets up to. I was asked by a couple of young uns if I wanted to shoot a few rats with them .... we went and they had the dogs dangley bits a rapid 12 and a bsa ultra . One got 22 the other got 18 I won't say how many but the FWB Sport 124 made e m look daft .. sorry lads them pretty things ain't got no soul.

[rabbitwrecker]

Well Let me tell you a story, I have one or two air rifles and yes I still love the sport after 50 years. I still try to live in the Enid Blyton days when you could walk in the pub with a couple of Coneys and swap em for a pint.Now the good folk around here know me and me owd mate and know what we gets up to. I was asked by a couple of young uns if I wanted to shoot a few rats with them .... we went and they had the dogs dangley bits a rapid 12 and a bsa ultra . One got 22 the other got 18 I won't say how many but the FWB Sport 124 made e m look daft .. sorry lads them pretty things ain't got no soul.

Excellent...

[TonyL]

Well Let me tell you a story, I have one or two air rifles and yes I still love the sport after 50 years. I still try to live in the Enid Blyton days when you could walk in the pub with a couple of Coneys and swap em for a pint.Now the good folk around here know me and me owd mate and know what we gets up to. I was asked by a couple of young uns if I wanted to shoot a few rats with them .... we went and they had the dogs dangley bits a rapid 12 and a bsa ultra . One got 22 the other got 18 I won't say how many but the FWB Sport 124 made e m look daft .. sorry lads them pretty things ain't got no soul.

Excellent...

Lovely jubbly!