If you could customize a springer…

[RicL]

If you could customize a springer, no restraints, what would you build?

HW97K red laminate
Sightron PLR 10-50x60 (red parallax wheel)
UTG rail riser (w/ matching red screws)
12 FPE maccari kit
Rowan guard (black or gold)
Rowan blade (maybe)

I’m trying to build that ^^^ so far I have the 97, the 12fpe kit & the riser rail

The restraint?? CASH!!!

So What would you build???

 

[kcender]

If you could customize a springer, no restraints, what would you build?

HW97K red laminate
Sightron PLR 10-50x60 (red parallax wheel)
UTG rail riser (w/ matching red screws)
12 FPE maccari kit
Rowan guard (black or gold)
Rowan blade (maybe)

I’m trying to build that ^^^ so far I have the 97, the 12fpe kit & the riser rail

The restraint?? CASH!!!

So What would you build???


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Really beautiful!

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

I can only share how I've decked out my TX200: I purchased mine new in April of 2020 from Pyramyd AIR. It's got a factory walnut stock.. I put a Hawke Airmax FFP 30 6 - 16 X 50 scope on it. I like bling, so I put a gold trigger guard on it as well. It also has a Vortek PG4, SHO tune. It's polished and waxed, and I generously apply Balistol following each day's shooting. My walnut stocked HW97K is decked out in a similar manner, except for the Vortek tune. I'll get it to an airgunsmith when I can as I don't have a spring. compressor.

 

[RidgeRunner]

In the past I have thought that an airgun manufacturer should gather all of their engineers into one room and lay out the best sproingers from all over the world on a table in the center of the room and tell them to design and build a sproinger using all of the best qualities of those. Of course there will be issues of patents, egos, et cetera, but those can be overcome.

Until that happens, the HW97 and the TX200 are excellent sproingers to start with. I myself started doing such with my first air rifle, a Gamo CFX. Many may scoff, but I was able to regularly put ten shots in a group at twenty-five yards that would hide under a dime. At fifty yards that same air rifle would produce a "group" that my outstretched fingers would just barely enclose. Needless to say, that air rifle found a new home.

 

[jps2486]

In the past I have thought that an airgun manufacturer should gather all of their engineers into one room and lay out the best sproingers from all over the world on a table in the center of the room and tell them to design and build a sproinger using all of the best qualities of those. Of course there will be issues of patents, egos, et cetera, but those can be overcome.

Until that happens, the HW97 and the TX200 are excellent sproingers to start with. I myself started doing such with my first air rifle, a Gamo CFX. Many may scoff, but I was able to regularly put ten shots in a group at twenty-five yards that would hide under a dime. At fifty yards that same air rifle would produce a "group" that my outstretched fingers would just barely enclose. Needless to say, that air rifle found a new home.

The manufacturers should also pay attention to what their customers want rather than sitting in a closed room and coming up with what the company people THINK their customers want. Some changes could be rather inexpensive or even save the manufacturer money. A prime example is the complicated fill probe on the Air Arms 500 series rifles where a simple, readily available foster fitting can be used. Any why not widen the loading port on the TX200 like the HW97? That design difference is inconsequential. Oh, and did I say make better quality springs?

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

RidgeRunnner: Perhaps you could line up all your wayward ladies in a row and take the best of each and start designing thse best "sproinger" of all. Orv.

 

[RicL]

AoA has come in clutch, particularly with their walnut weihrauch offerings.

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

Yes, AoA is where I purchase many of my rifles, especially from Weihrauch. I am a sucker for their especially ordered Weihrauchs with walnut stocks. They're works of art indeed. After the first of the year I'll order one of their HW50s in walnut. I don't need it, but I've just got to have one. It's only money, right? Orv

 

[RicL]

HW50s, not seeing one in walnut. Did you mean the hw30n?

 

[Hoppalong Doc]

AoA explained to me that the Hw50s would likely be available in walnut next Spring. They already have the HW50s in blue laminate, but I'm a nut . . . walnut that is. Orv.

 

[Jaabaa]

The Blue looks terrific

 

[Scriv]

Stay tuned. HW97, and HW50 in the works.

 

[Scriv]

Well, here it is. Super tuned with vortek kit installed. Dampa mount, Element Helix FFP 4-16x

 

[Solo1]

Did you have a hard time getting the vortek spring in ? I installed 1 in my 97 and it was awful to get that cap screwed back on!