Reading these threads brings back warm memories of the 80's at Markyate.
In fact nothings new about springers it seems, just the repackaging of it.
However there seems to be a different path to 'Nirvana' that is growing. Whereas the 80's competitive springer ( mainly FT capable of long range accuracy of 55yds)was to all aspects a live gun and the developement today it seems is to emasculate them so they almost are a pcp clone shotwise,....weights, over size stocks and anything to retard or absorbe recoil without controlling the live firing cycle.
The 80's version was comparable to one straight out of the box today,compared to a fully tuned model,both it seems as accurate with differing amounts of skill input.
Interesting regarding the heart rate control needed in the 80's where we found it could be dropped, and speculation was rife whether we stopped it or shot between beats?
Don't know whether todays enlightened do this or feel a need to do so, certainly at Markyate ,Dave Welham, mark Commaccio, myself an Terry Doe did. Pcp's it seems do not need this level of control or molycoddling! 
HERX77 .
Last edited by Herx77; 12-02-2018 at 09:29 PM.
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