Best Production Air Rifle of all time?

[Mach 1.5]

Just abit of fun. I have a few in mind but the winner is.....HW77/K ...Mach 1.5

[Steyr]

BEST in terms of what ?

Accuracy
Ergonomics
Value for Money
Build Quality
Efficiency

And that may change depending if you mean springer, PCP or other variants and hybrids

For PCP....

I would go for the HW100

[Trumpetier]

Done the most for modern air gunning , HW77/K, springer. Pcp, AA S400

[Barryg]

BEST in terms of what ?

Accuracy
Ergonomics
Value for Money
Build Quality
Efficiency

That's right.
And many more things like best in

Safety
robustness
power
looks
and so on, so the best is just what you personally like and your favorites

My favorites are

HW80 .22 older type

TXHC mk3 .177

Diana 460 .22 T06

Although there are many others

[clueless]

Must be the Theoben Rapid for me, i was gobsmacked when i first got on in 1991.

I recently bought an unmolested early one and its still on a par with anything you can buy today in my opinion

Brilliant

[woodpigeon]

BEST in terms of what ?

Accuracy
Ergonomics
Value for Money
Build Quality
Efficiency

And that may change depending if you mean springer, PCP or other variants and hybrids

For PCP....

I would go for the HW100

ageed or lately the steyr h5

[Geezer]

Chinese B2. The AK47 or Sten gun of air rifles. Simple, cheap, and reliable (and a B2 is more reliable than a Sten gun).

But the 77K runs it close with its rather finer construction standards and performance. Just more expensive.

Define "production". Does it include Whiscombes, ISP and other semi-custom small outfits?

Being vaguely serious for a moment, I guess the "best" is probably whichever German or Austrian aluminium-chassis PCP is currently winning 10M or FT matches.

You can make a case for the old pre-WW1 Lincoln-Jeffries BSAs. Compared to everything else at the time, they were streets ahead, which is why everyone else copied them for the next few decades.

[Shed tuner]

The pre-war BSA underlevers were a decade ahead of their time and blew everything else away
The Airsporter was the same, rather later
The FWB sport & HW35 were the same, but maybe just 5 years
The HW77 was the same

So all of them in terms of changing the game.

And PCP ? AA Shamal / GC2. Then AA S300/400

Not sure this means "best", but all defo game changers that set the standards in their respective decades...

[Geezer]

Because there is no right answer to this (apart from HW77K Mk1), I am going to decide that the best production air rifle ever is the Walther LG53 with double set triggers and Tyrolean stock.

[Inspector 71]

British.
Great aesthetics.
Barrel lock was great.
Ergonomic safety catch.
Accurate, hard hitting all-rounder.

[averageplinker]

Well the HW35 must be in with a shout given that it is good enough to still be in production after many decades!

[tinbum]

Theoben Fenman Profile.

[MikeHW45]

Well the HW35 must be in with a shout given that it is good enough to still be in production after many decades!

I didn't want to be the first to say it, but now you have done it I have to agree!!

[secretagentmole]

Theoben Rapid 7.
Multishot, reliable, the granddaddy of modern pcp rifles....

[mallyally]

I can think of three FWB sport . Hw 77 and waither lgv