Quote Originally Posted by averageplinker View Post
Is the correct answer. So the "youngest" design is 40+ years old. They have had minimal development costs for at least 40 years on their youngest model. It is a very different matter to develop one from scratch now it would not make economic sense even if a hundred of you handed AA a grand each and said make me a break barrel pretty please!
Rich.
He’s right.

AA are not making the “AA99S” that we all want.

They have said they are not going to do that.

And it would be a stupid move for them. The market does not exist to be viable and justify the development, tooling up, and effect on production of things that do sell like the TX family.

If you want to introduce a genuinely new springer (rather old wine in new bottles), it needs to make 20-30 ft-lbs, preferably in .25” and even .30”, and to be as cheap as possible. Because that’s what Americans want, and they are the biggest market.

The Turks (Hatsan) have sussed that. Maybe SIG have with the ASP.

The Umarex LGV/LGU and “Mark 4” FWB Sport show that the Germans haven’t and still think it’s 1984 and people will pay in large numbers for a better 12-14 ft-lbs high-quality springer.