Bottle or Tube? What’s your preference?

[PasadenaMike]

So I have this thing with guns taking up too much room in the safe hence why I limit the number of bottle guns because they’re so darn wide vs a tube. Sure I get more shots with a bottle but the girth isn’t worth the extra shot count I can always carry a buddy bottle. I had a 300 cc tank on my leishy 2 for 5 minutes I hated the look and width so I switched back. The only guns with bottles now are my Maverick 30, Dreamtact .177 and my Air Forces that’s it the rest stay skinny. What are your thoughts ?

 

[pan60]

i prefer the tube.
not a fan of the size or the looks of the bottles.

 

[Ezana4CE]

Tube.

 

[EdinGa]

Most of my pcps are tubes, so I guess I lean more towards them. I've only purchased one bottle gun, but I l've converted a few co2 guns and 2 pcp pistols to bottles.

 

[hameditor]

Great question!

I vote for bottle guns. It's because of the increased shot capacity plus - well - I just prefer the look of them. Purely my personal opinion, of course

 

[PasadenaMike]

Man If every gun was a bottle I’d need 4 safes

 

[pan60]

Man If every gun was a bottle I’d need 4 safes

my stuff is just laying all about some here some there peaces and parts scatered every where

 

[PasadenaMike]

my stuff is just laying all about some here some there peaces and parts scatered every where

If I tried that it’ll all end up in my kids toys everything is away

 

[Luis Leon]

If I had to choose between my Pathfinder XR (bottle gun) and Atomic XR (tube gun)? The Atomic would remain. I understand the lower shot count disadvantage. I can hand pump the Atomic, the Pathfinder? No way… Also the Atomic is more svelte. In general I prefer PCP with cylinders.

 

[PasadenaMike]

If I had to choose between my Pathfinder XR (bottle gun) and Atomic XR (tube gun)? The Atomic would remain. I understand the lower shot count disadvantage. I can hand pump the Atomic, the Pathfinder? No way… Also the Atomic is more svelte. In general I prefer PCP with cylinders.

I love how slim the Atomic is

 

[PasadenaMike]

I hadn’t thought of all
This until today it’s interesting reading the different responses

 

[Pumacarl]

For hunting I like the tube, for plinkinking I like the bottle for shot count.

 

[EdinGa]

For hunting I like the tube, for plinkinking I like the bottle for shot count.

I've got a 7 fpe bottle converted Diana Chaser that gets 500 shots per fill on a 4500 psi 15 ci tank and an 800 psi regulator.

 

[PasadenaMike]

I've got a 7 fpe bottle converted Diana Chaser that gets 500 shots per fill on a 4500 psi 15 ci tank and an 800 psi regulator.

Wow that’s a lot of shooting

 

[pan60]

I've got a 7 fpe bottle converted Diana Chaser that gets 500 shots per fill on a 4500 psi 15 ci tank and an 800 psi regulator.

wow thats the hole tin!

 

[EdinGa]

It really shocked me how slow the pressure was dropping so I just kept shooting until I emptied the tin. Needless to say this wasn't done in one sitting.

 

[PasadenaMike]

It really shocked me how slow the pressure was dropping so I just kept shooting until I emptied the tin. Needless to say this wasn't done in one sitting.

I’d get bored wow

 

[EdinGa]

I did. I took at least 2 weeks to shoot it down. I'm glad I did now because I wouldn't have known if hadn't, but I'm not interested in duplicating the test.

 

[PasadenaMike]

I did. I took at least 2 weeks to shoot it down. I'm glad I did now because I wouldn't have known if hadn't, but I'm not interested in duplicating the test.

Yeah. I’ve been told my talon Ss gets 200 shots on low power. I can care less lol. I only care about the 25 good shots

 

[EdinGa]

I hand pump all my pcps so I hardly ever shoot more than a couple of magazines before topping off.