Club Air Pistol - recommendations?

[chunter177]

Hi there,

I have just done similar research, and you will go round and round in circles trying to establish what is good, and what's not. Opinions vary!

We couldn't afford the likes of Hammerli/Benelli/Morini/Steyr new, and have gone for the Air Arms Alfa Proj. It's inexpensive (c £400 to £500 second hand/new); it can be filled with the same fillers as the Air Arms Air Rifles (members of the club may own these); it's ambidexterous (I am sure you can upgrade the grips if required), but the trigger can be adjusted for first and second stage; for pull (i.e. trigger sensitivity); for the position of the trigger shoe in the trigger guard (for me it helps having it near the back as I have short fingers!); for the angle of the trigger (again with my short fingers I like it to be angled to the right so my fingers don't have to reach so far!) - lots of people will service it as it's Air Arms - you can also change the foresight element very easily - it rotates within 3 settings (fat, medium, and thin!).

It is genuinely quite a good allrounder - good luck - it comes with my blessing. I have always regarded myself as RUBBISH at pistol shooting, and haven't done it for 10 years. I got this air pistol and on first go was getting most within the 7 ring on 10m air pistol, so I hope it might be a contender for you.

NB - it doesn't have a pressure gauge - it will dump the gas when it can't deliver the required pressure to shoot, which is probably a good thing if your shooting targets - you don't want zero to disappear south without seeing it coming!

Good luck with your search.

Kind regards,

Chris

[JohnMcDermott]

Hi there,

I have just done similar research, and you will go round and round in circles trying to establish what is good, and what's not. Opinions vary!

We couldn't afford the likes of Hammerli/Benelli/Morini/Steyr new, and have gone for the Air Arms Alfa Proj. It's inexpensive (c £400 to £500 second hand/new); it can be filled with the same fillers as the Air Arms Air Rifles (members of the club may own these); it's ambidexterous (I am sure you can upgrade the grips if required), but the trigger can be adjusted for first and second stage; for pull (i.e. trigger sensitivity); for the position of the trigger shoe in the trigger guard (for me it helps having it near the back as I have short fingers!); for the angle of the trigger (again with my short fingers I like it to be angled to the right so my fingers don't have to reach so far!) - lots of people will service it as it's Air Arms - you can also change the foresight element very easily - it rotates within 3 settings (fat, medium, and thin!).

It is genuinely quite a good allrounder - good luck - it comes with my blessing. I have always regarded myself as RUBBISH at pistol shooting, and haven't done it for 10 years. I got this air pistol and on first go was getting most within the 7 ring on 10m air pistol, so I hope it might be a contender for you.

NB - it doesn't have a pressure gauge - it will dump the gas when it can't deliver the required pressure to shoot, which is probably a good thing if your shooting targets - you don't want zero to disappear south without seeing it coming!

Good luck with your search.

Kind regards,

Chris

I belong to a club and we have a FAS604 which is pretty popular with new members. For the last two seasons I've been shooting an Original model 6G which is very good. I managed to average 175 using it. I'd have thought that these pistols and maybe the entry level Gamo are about the cheapest decent recoiless match pistols you'll get.

Personally I prefer the trigger on the Original as it's crisper than the FAS but that's probably just me.

Mechanical guns like these are good for club use as there's nothing much to go wrong and they don't require any routine maintenance and are pretty sturdy.

If you buy an Original then you need to make sure the seal has been changed from new as the old washers used to disintegrate though the new ones last forever.
It would be good to know that a pneumatic pistol like the FAS has had it's seals changed too though ours seems to be pretty good in this respect.

I'll be selling my Model 6G as I've not bought a BRNO CO2 pistol as I'm getting old and a whole nights shooting can be pretty tiring these days.

I'll stick the pistol in the for sale section in the next few days if anyone's interested.