If you could only have one springer what would it be?

[Rob Edge]

I am thinking more of a one time purchase to last a lifetime. A just in case rifle.

[TonyL]

I am thinking more of a one time purchase to last a lifetime. A just in case rifle.

Well, putting it that way, Rob, and reading "survivalist" rifle into it, that'd be the HW80, then.

[Geezer]

Well, putting it that way, Rob, and reading "survivalist" rifle into it, that'd be the HW80, then.

Surely that would be the Umarex Wildlife?

If the Q is pick the best springer ever, it's the Mach1 or 2, or some other Venom contraption, or maybe a Whiscombe.

In tin foil hat weirdo prepper mode, I would want something very well made, not too heavy, and probably with a leather piston seal (as they last forever and can be revived, whereas at least some of the synthetics seem to degrade over time). Think Diana 35, Webley MkIII, that kind of thing. (I'm assuming that a Bren gun and a Glock 17 are out of scope - but they do both have springs in them.)

[oneseven]

My mk2 TX200. The only tuning it's had is having had many thousands of pellets though it since I got it in 1994. In .22 of course.

I could be tempted by a venom 80 as per John Darling.

[scrane]

I really like my HW35 and my HW55, but if it came down to it I'd keep the 25mm .177 HW77 'til the last.

[Rickenbacker]

A .177 HW98 full of buttons and bearings.

[Jonjon79]

A .22 TX200hc at FAC level with some kind of thumbhole stock.

[gunsnlandies]

I'll stick with the Diana 48 Black Pro I've already got.

[VALE BOY]

Toss up between my Tyrolean stocked Diana 34 and my Weihrauch HW50 (99) both in .177.. The Diana has such a great trigger but the wee 50 is right on the money.
In.22s, probably my Anschutz 335, although I've an old BSA Mk1 Airsporter that shoots a treat.

[Gareth W-B]

Well, putting it that way, Rob, and reading "survivalist" rifle into it, that'd be the HW80, then.

In that scenario, I am 100% with you: HW80 all the way -- although I would still stick with my favoured cal of .177 and would look for the K carbine model, too.

[jonnyone]

This week it would be the Original 50T01. Next week its likely to be summat different but quite likely to be of the Diana flavour
Dave