Your Most Accurate Modest Springer Experience

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BAM41 .22, no not the B40, but the cheapened version. Bought it cheap off a mate who had his own airgun business back then (2014). They had to buy two at a time off SMK and he got stuck with one as they got slagged from pillar to post by just about everyone. So I bought it as a project TBH, it was the best OTB airgun I’ve ever bought. No twang, graunching or any other unpleasant noises. Shot with a solid thud and little kick. Over the years I’ve improved the trigger, made new guides and fitted a piston sleeve. Mate John made me a new metal front end to replace the plastic thing that held the cocking lever up. Will group at 60yds if I do my bit. Probably like most things, you can get a very good Chinese airgun the same as you can get an iffy HW and the like.

My modest springer is a SMK B41 bought second hand as a project gun. Simple tuning using home made and no specialist tuning parts except a spring and a decent spring guide transformed this rifle into something as good as if not better than the one it cloned. These views were from TX200 owners who shot it, 4 reckoned it was as good as theirs, one reckoned it was better, another wanted to buy it because he had never shot a rifle putting 3 pellets through the same hole and the final one wished to know how the action had become so fast and with minimal recoil.
It all goes to prove that to own a exceptionally well performing and accurate air rifle there is no need to spend many hundreds of pounds on one or many in having it tuned.

[Waddy]

When I was a lad my dad bought me a Relum Tornado, it was underpowered & no use for hunting, which was what I wanted it for, however it was incredibly accurate.

I used to shoot the heads off matches with it at what I'm sure was about 10 yards with open sights.

Certainly a modest springer & certainly very accurate, I've seen them come up for sale for 50 quid in good condition.

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A well set up Supersport can shoot as accurate as a TX200 or HW98-77-97.
It is not as EASY to shoot, but the gun is accurate.

Is the Supersport modest?

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A well set up Supersport can shoot as accurate as a TX200 or HW98-77-97.
It is not as EASY to shoot, but the gun is accurate.

Is the Supersport modest?

It replaced the Mercury but I believe it was on over engineered Meteor?

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It replaced the Mercury but I believe it was on over engineered Meteor?

Yeah, it really is a 29mm piston modern seal Meteor that is made with a machined fork and seamless tubing instead of folded metal sheet.

[ToniD]

My Webley Vulcan mark3 shoots really well and surprisingly, is accurate without a scope.


I have to confess Tinbum had a lot to do with the first part.

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Yeah, it really is a 29mm piston modern seal Meteor that is made with a machined fork and seamless tubing instead of folded metal sheet.

Is the trigger a simple affair as well? Getting rid of the rolled steel sheet is quite a leap for a Meteor, that’s what made it the Sten of the airgun scene for a long time ..

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Is the trigger a simple affair as well? Getting rid of the rolled steel sheet is quite a leap for a Meteor, that’s what made it the Sten of the airgun scene for a long time ..

Yes, same basic setup with some small changes.
They changed from a single spring acting on both the sear and trigger, to two different springs for the sear and the trigger.

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A well set up Supersport can shoot as accurate as a TX200 or HW98-77-97.
It is not as EASY to shoot, but the gun is accurate.

Is the Supersport modest?

SuperSport is modest, SuperStar is not. SuperSport is something an occasional shooter might buy, or a farmer or someone like that. It’s been built down to a price, not no expense spared like a TX200. I’ve never heard of anyone buying one for HFT or to soft tune for bell target ..