Quote Originally Posted by harvey_s View Post
Personally I would take a compact, well designed gun over a more powerful oversized gun any day of the week.
If the Webley's or the Magnum were fatter or 2" longer they would become monstrosities in my eyes.
400 or so fps in .177 is plenty for the purposes of almost all air pistols - more power seldom makes a better gun.

Look to the Webley Senior for inspiration - remarkably compact (much smaller than a Tempest) and beautifully made and plenty of poke for the size typically running at about 410-420fps - in fact with a better trigger and sights it would be bloody perfect IMO.
Ahhh... but the point of high powered air pistols is seen when your .22 BSA Scorpion explodes that soft fruit, knocks that old soup can flying, smashes to pieces the last remnants of the plant pot and cracks the garden gnomes nose clean off, disfiguring the enemy for eternity!

Yeah for paper punching accuracy, .177 is the way - but for destructive fun a .22 at 5.5ftlb brings the smiles