In better times the advice would have been to go to a club and try first: the rifle that looks pretty in a catalogue may feel completely wrong for you when you pick it up. That said, the AA 400/500 series are pretty much an "Everyman" gun.

If you're going to try target first then a carbine on an unregulated rifle like the AA 4xx or 5xx series is not ideal, as there is a much smaller sweet spot where the shot-to-shot velocity variation changes least. The carbine won't cost any less than a full length rifle and isn't that much more "handy" for field work.

Also, a multi-shot like the 410 or 510 are just more money for something else to go wrong: if you're already used to springers then you've lived with single shot, and a bolt or lever action pcp is a heck of a lot quicker to load than a springer!


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