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    They are selling the Tx200 in walnut for £770 ish.
    Possibly £650-720 ?. For the Pro Bow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by les allam View Post
    They are selling the Tx200 in walnut for £770 ish.
    Possibly £650-720 ?. For the Pro Bow.
    With prices like that, is it not about time we forgot our air gun snobbery and look to the east for a maker to reproduce the Tommy or Longbow ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by HW777 View Post
    With prices like that, is it not about time we forgot our air gun snobbery and look to the east for a maker to reproduce the Tommy or Longbow ?
    Well the Turks have already had a go, with the official Webley machines and parts and they couldn't even do it properly.
    Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    Well the Turks have already had a go, with the official Webley machines and parts and they couldn't even do it properly.
    While that remains a moot point, Remington, Diana and a few other makers source their air gun components from the east.

    They have upped their game and are very adapt at making copies of well known air gun products

    Something went wrong when Webley turned to Turkey for their production

    Webley/Hatsan turned to Steve Pope to be their tech consultant, which quite frankly was a blatant insult to the man
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    Quote Originally Posted by HW777 View Post
    While that remains a moot point, Remington, Diana and a few other makers source their air gun components from the east.

    They have upped their game and are very adapt at making copies of well known air gun products

    Something went wrong when Webley turned to Turkey for their production

    Webley/Hatsan turned to Steve Pope to be their tech consultant, which quite frankly was a blatant insult to the man
    I know the Chinese can make good quality stuff if they are paid for it, the problem I think what happened with Hatsan making Webleys where AGS who just bought Webley, where doing the usual make everything to a price so they could make more profit, I've had dealings with Chinese Air rifles and some if them are not to bad but they need to up their game considerably to make a Webley to the original Birmingham standard of quality.
    Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    I know the Chinese can make good quality stuff if they are paid for it, the problem I think what happened with Hatsan making Webleys where AGS who just bought Webley, where doing the usual make everything to a price so they could make more profit, I've had dealings with Chinese Air rifles and some if them are not to bad but they need to up their game considerably to make a Webley to the original Birmingham standard of quality.
    This eastern Tomahank/Longbow rifle concept Pete, is all pie in the sky

    AA will not pick up the calling to make a BB or a reproduction of what was Webley/Venom's mass production BB's at their best.

    EU airgun makers now only focus on profit, which leaves the eastern company's to offer a service of making air gun components made to a price, if the bar is not set to low, they can match the quality of engineering needed to make just about any product.

    With the right tech consultant and QC manager, rifle components make in China, blued and assembled in the UK would fill a gap in the air gun world, which sounds just the job for BAM/SMK or whatever makers badge they wish to pin too themselves.

    We could have Tomahawk/Longbow copy, blued to British standards with a T06 or Rekord trigger, TX200 type piston, SMK 208 or HW99 style cocking lever and a British made CS 500 walnut stock, all for the price that matches a top end Cometa rifle

    And as fickle as I can be, I would buy a Tomahawk or Longbow reproduction rifle from the first batch if made around the above spec

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    Tommy

    Isn't the Tommy made in India now under webley licence and complete with open sights? Mach 1.5

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    Well the Turks have already had a go, with the official Webley machines and parts and they couldn't even do it properly.
    Ask the machinists and quality control team at QYS to spearhead the manufacture, and you'll upset more than just the purists.

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