I dare say this has been dwelt on before but yesterday,whilst visiting my friendly neighbourhood RFD I handled some rifles and enquired of prices as you do.
Air Arms S400 £425
FX Streamline £730 (I think)
Weihrauch HW100 sporter £800
Air Arms HFT500 £900 I will add for comparison purposes.
Admittedly,it was the AA S410 I picked up but I would guess fit is about the same for a S400 although I am happy to be corrected.
Yes,the HW100 was a slightly better fit on the day to me but the S400/410 was so close and I do think the German rifle seemed more "solid" but not twice the price more solid.Would it be twice as accurate?
Thankfully,my hand would not fit around a Daystate thumbhole stock to reach the trigger so at least I am spared looking at £1000+ air rifles.
At what point do you say to yourselves "enough of this lunacy.It's just an air rifle and I will not pay more than £xxx for one"?
So maybe in the near future I will buy an S400 classic ...but that German rifle did seem awfully nice