Most popular Springer in HFT/FT

[eyebull]

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TX200HC .177 coz they're AWSOME.

Why the HC in particular? I would have thought the full length version would sit on aim better and have milder manners than the carbine?

[dayglowfroggy]

The full length is too front heavy.
The hc puts most of the weight back into your shoulder.
The hc is developed from the full length harder to cock but just as accurate.

[Gareth W-B]

The full length is too front heavy.
The hc puts most of the weight back into your shoulder.
The hc is developed from the full length, harder to cock but just as accurate.

^^^^^ This 100% ^^^^^

[Gareth W-B]

Why the HC in particular? I would have thought the full length version would sit on aim better and have milder manners than the carbine?

As post(s) immediately above.

[eyebull]

I stand corrected. A few bad experiences have made me leery of full power springer carbines in .177.

[Gareth W-B]

I stand corrected. A few bad experiences have made me leery of full power springer carbines in .177.

Yep, I'm with you there, as if the rifle is too light, the snap and recoil at full hop in .177 can de dreadful, but nestled around the 11.2ft.lb Mark, the TX200HC .177 is heavy, yes, and a little harder to cock than the full length version due to the physics of the shorter under lever, true, but is without a doubt a total joy to shoot ... Bugger. Am now wishing I hadn't sold my lovely TX200HC .177 last Autumn !!!

[cooper_dan]

In the comps I shoot it tends to be a good mix of HW97 and TX200's
TX200's tend to be the full length version (I was using a HC but switched to full length a few months ago)
A couple of Walthers about. Usually the LGU, seen a couple of LGV's.
Haven't seen a HW98 for months. Don't see many at all actually

[bozzer]

Yup ... It'll be the HW77/97 and the TX200 mainly. Fixed barrel ... plenty of weight. Other threads recently have often said that the peak of spring rifle design was pretty much reached with these two regarding accuracy and good triggers. So no surprise that these are still the main rifles used in comps. Often in custom stocks.

I remember going to a Sandwell Field Sports, Tony Wall, run shoot in the 90's. Loads of people there ( 100 ) and the greatest majority shooting PCP. A guy walked onto the zero range with a 97. One bloke talking to Tony close by said something like " Hey up ... Look at this bloke here still using a HW97 springer " ... and he chuckled as if to add insult. Tony smiled and said " In 30 years time you will come to air rifle target comps ... and goodness knows what the PCP's will look like ... but I bet you there will still be blokes shooting comps with HW97's and doing ok ". Well ... we're over 20 years on and he's right so far.

[markyboy]

I'm using a TX200 full length for a bit of target work, just finished building a new stock for it and the weight is much better balanced.

https://lensdump.com/i/zhqm3
https://lensdump.com/i/zhdIF

Need to get down the club and see how it shoots.

Mark.