Thread: Air rifle hunting - Break Barrel or Under-lever??

The most expensive part of shooting is your time. Spring rifles are inherently harder to shoot accurately due to the awkward recoil. Buying a cheaper spring gun to muck about makes sense when you are a kid, but it does not make sense when you are an adult who has to scavenge, beg, and lie to find the time to shoot. Shooting a cheap spring gun will make you constantly question whether you missed or the gun missed. This is a even bigger time waster if you went out hunting. After spending 30 bucks on petrol, 2 hours on driving, 4 hours on walking in the bush looking for game, then only to miss - maybe because the gun was not always accurate... That is the days I never wish to go back to.

Once you practice enough, loading a spring rifle becomes second nature, you wont really have much problems with it.

There are only 3 top spring guns competing at the high end: Diana/RWS mod 56(with their several variants), Weihrauch HW97, and Air Arms TX200 M3 (with its 3 variants).

* They all have very good barrels and very good triggers;
* The general consensus is that HW97's trigger can be a hair better than the other two. Personally I use a TX200 and I find the trigger to be quite good. I have two Anschutz with Match 54 action, two KIDD. These are the triggers I usually shoot and compare to.
* TX200 has the best bluing, and looking stock, and best fit and finish.
* Mod 56 is the heaviest, the most powerful and has a recoil reduction system.
* Historically the HW97 was the cheapest, but now it is the same price as TX200.
* The Mod 56 is currently the most expensive, it is about 200 dollars more than the other two.

Second hand good ones comes up every now and then. no long ago a Diana mod 440 was sold for only 500 bucks. Excellent bargain.

And it'll get a high end Leupy to maximize its capability