I have reasonable experience of the (slightly older) Umarex range and still have three of their pistols. My ten:
2,4,5,9,16,17,18,25,26,30.
Have a good trip, Terry.
ATB, Adrian.
PS. Echoing GarryP - some support for the UBC!
My favourites are:
2 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 12 / 18 / 19 / 27 / 29
I have reasonable experience of the (slightly older) Umarex range and still have three of their pistols. My ten:
2,4,5,9,16,17,18,25,26,30.
Have a good trip, Terry.
ATB, Adrian.
PS. Echoing GarryP - some support for the UBC!
Last edited by Mr Meteor; 08-11-2010 at 12:27 PM.
How about 3 categories :
Complaints
1) Why did you change the blued finish to matt black (which is fragile) and can we have the blue or similar back?
2) Why is trigger quality so inconsistent gun to gun?
3) Why no matching silver mags for the S&W and can we have some please?
4) No more fake hammers on blowback guns – fully functional only please.
5) Foam in cases sub standard – wears easily.
Requests
6) Rifles – Can we have higher power multi-shots such as
I. 12ft/lb Maruzen APS SR-21
II. A lever action rifle capable of 11ft/lb
7) Pistols - Can we have…
I. Colt Peacemaker
II. C96 broomhandle Mauser
III. Luger P08
IV. Browning Hi Power
V. Pellet firing Blowback Glock 17/19
VI. Webley Service Revolver
VII. Pellet firing blowback Colt 1911
VIII. H&K P8/P10/Mk23
IX. A smaller, lighter trainer / junior pistol
8) Accessories – Can we have…
I. A rail for the H&K USP
II. Magazines in larger multiples
III. A 0.22 calibre option in the CO2 range
IV. Can you relaunch the S&W 8” Barrels
V. Can you relaunch the Stainless PPC finish
VI. Can you relaunch the 1911 adj. sights/tuning kit
Questions
9) Why copies – why no original designs?
10) Any more pellet firing Blowback pistols in the pipeline?
11) What about a design that includes dummy shells to take a pellet, blowback magazine feed & eject?
12) Ever thought about designing a dedicated CO2 Target Pistol?
That makes 12 questions
A few of these are impractical, not Umarex’s market, probably worth 10 sales a year or basic repetitions and probably could be left out if push came to shove (sorry to original posters )…
13. Can we have a snub-nose Police Chief Special, please?
(barrel would be so short that it would be very weak or a gas hog)
14. Can we have a CO2 GAT copy please?
(I think this one might be confined to the UK market only… )
15. Please make a genuine blued steel finish on the Classic
(see Question 1)
16. Re-worked magazine on PPK to combine ammo & gas
(not sure why anyone would want this – it would be expensive to reload each time as you would need a valved magazine and each bulb would be ejected part used…)
Last edited by harvey_s; 08-11-2010 at 12:38 PM.
Nice work Harvey. I thought I'd post polls based on your categories (bearing in mind we can only have 10 options per poll).
I put the polls up for a week, because apart from Terry's visit the results of more votes and a longer exposure may be interesting too.
Here's the poll on pistol requests:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496570
Complaints:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496571
Questions:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496575
Accessories:
http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=496582
Last edited by Adam77K; 08-11-2010 at 01:19 PM.
Erm...I appear to have created a monster!
Better make the most of this visit - because it doesn't look like I'll be invited back.
...and could you sponsor my mates in the UBC, please?'
Cap'n,
16. Re-worked magazine on PPK to combine ammo & gas
(not sure why anyone would want this – it would be expensive to reload each time as you would need a valved magazine and each bulb would be ejected part used…) - something along the lines of the Baikal Makarov. The magazine is valved and you just reload BB's as and when. The standard issue "mag" with the PPK is not very robust, to say the least.
ATB, Adrian.
Harvey and Adam... well done to you both!
AA S200T 10m , HW100T, Cometa 220, Diana 27, Original Mod 6, Gamo compact+center, Rohm twinmaster Top, S&W 586/4+6+8, Berretta 92 airsoft, Blinged crossman 2240, CP88 4", CO2 Uzi 6mm, Air arms Alfa proj .177, Drulov DU10 .177, HW 99s, Hammarelli AP20pro
Right you lot; I've printed off all 30 questions and I'll show them the bleddy lot.
It's the only way forward for the thrusting young executive type, and just the sort of positive action Sralan Lord Sugar would approve of.
Onward!
Good deal, Terry!
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone