PCP vs Springers

[Sydney Monk]

Seems the majority of folks here, at least those who post, shoot PCPs.
Did you guys start with springers and move on to PCPs or just jump right into PCPs?
Or, do you shoot both?

 

[Florida_Man]

I had a RWS Model 48 in the late 90’s when I was a teen. Once in my 20’s I was all PB’s. In my 30’s I entered AG’s again and bought a FX Royale 400 when they first came out. Great rifle. Left the sport for a few year and devoted my life to golf. Got married, stopped golfing…. Needed something to take out squirrels. Thought a custom 2250 co2 build would whet my appetite. Nope. I now have the 2250 and 9 PCP’s, a SSP, and a break barrel. Always looking for the next, wishing I had time to shoot any.

 

[coolsound]

I started with the Benjamin Marauder I bought from Amazon. Never own a springer.

 

[Sydney Monk]

I started with the Benjamin Marauder I bought from Amazon. Never own a springer.

I’ve never had a PCP but I don’t think you can really appreciate a PCP if you’ve never had a springer!

 

[FL22]

When I was a kid, I had plenty of BB guns and pellet rifles. Then I moved onto PBs, back in 08 when the housing market collapsed I had to sell everything. And I just never really got back into it.

Been about two years ago, had a squirrel a problem, purchased two crappy Gamos. Well, I was trying to do some research and find something better. I found HAM, I’ve been steadily, boring my way deeper into the rabbit hole since.

 

[coolsound]

I’ve never had a PCP but I don’t think you can really appreciate a PCP if you’ve never had a springer!

I took the easy way out

 

[Sydney Monk]

I took the easy way out

Smart man! I think it’s my mission in life to try and master the springer.

 

[Mike Brown]

Started with a Red Ryder and then a Crosman V350. Multi pumps came next looking for more power and didn't even know that break barrels existed. Was amazed the first time I learned that there were some break barrels more powerful and accurate than a pumper but still knew nothing of PCP's. Have only had PCP's for about 4 years now.

 

[Danman]

Smart man! I think it’s my mission in life to try and master the springer.

If I recall you also have a TX? Check out this 50Y group with mine, first ever group I did on paper that far, Blooming well beat out my .22 Ghost! 10th bday I got a Crosman springer, later sold and bought a Slavia springer...both the Canadian legal neutered 495fps versions. Realized my shooting life sucked, got my gun license and went straight to premium stuff and will never go back. S510, than .177 TX (I was paranoid that the walnut/beech stocks would disappear bc of the new EXPENSIVE sporter stocks), so that was a panic buy but a gun I always wanted. Always wanted an impact M3 (pure hunting machine) but waaaay too much o-rings, regs etc. BRK literally read my mind and made the Ghost. Bought that and now I'm in reeeaalll deep. I completely agree to appreciate a PCP better you should own a springer first, but I appreciate my TX more after shooting the PCPs. The TX is more challenging but will hold its own pretty good! The Slavia not so much, miiiight sell it if I can't sort the accuracy issues.

 

[Luis Leon]

Seems the majority of folks here, at least those who post, shoot PCPs.
Did you guys start with springers and move on to PCPs or just jump right into PCPs?
Or, do you shoot both?

I started with a Daisy at 15 years old and then springers until I discovered PCPs via an Gamo Urban. What that PCP achieved for me relegated my springers to the dustbin of history… Not hating on springers, simply don’t like the mechanics of deploying them compared to PCPs is all…

 

[Sydney Monk]

If I recall you also have a TX? Check out this 50Y group with mine, first ever group I did on paper that far, Blooming well beat out my .22 Ghost! 10th bday I got a Crosman springer, later sold and bought a Slavia springer...both the Canadian legal neutered 495fps versions. Realized my shooting life sucked, got my gun license and went straight to premium stuff and will never go back. S510, than .177 TX (I was paranoid that the walnut/beech stocks would disappear bc of the new EXPENSIVE sporter stocks), so that was a panic buy but a gun I always wanted. Always wanted an impact M3 (pure hunting machine) but waaaay too much o-rings, regs etc. BRK literally read my mind and made the Ghost. Bought that and now I'm in reeeaalll deep. I completely agree to appreciate a PCP better you should own a springer first, but I appreciate my TX more after shooting the PCPs. The TX is more challenging but will hold its own pretty good! The Slavia not so much, miiiight sell it if I can't sort the accuracy issues.

Great reply! I can appreciate the PCP. Bought my son a Hatsan 4410 years ago and he just replaced it with a Hatsan Gladius and loves it, but I love my Diana 34 and TX200 so I’ll stick with them for now. That’s a pretty nice group you shot btw, wish I were that good. I’ll get there one day!

 

[Sydney Monk]

Started with a Red Ryder and then a Crosman V350. Multi pumps came next looking for more power and didn't even know that break barrels existed. Was amazed the first time I learned that there were some break barrels more powerful and accurate than a pumper but still knew nothing of PCP's. Have only had PCP's for about 4 years now.

I had a Crosman 760 as a teenager and loved it. A few years back I got to looking at airguns and had never heard of a breakbarrel. Did a lot of research and got a Diana 34 and was hooked; the TX200 soon followed. Love my springers!

 

[Hateful McNasty]

I’ve never had a PCP but I don’t think you can really appreciate a PCP if you’ve never had a springer!

I appreciate my springers cause I can shoot them right out of the box as is ..
It's a gun you buy and it works/ shoot standalone . No scope needed .. no hand pumping , no costly untrustworthy compressor . Just cock , load shoot repeat all day as is ..

 

[Florida_Man]

I appreciate my springers cause I can shoot them right out of the box as is ..
It's a gun you buy and it works/ shoot standalone . No scope needed .. no hand pumping , no costly untrustworthy compressor . Just cock , load shoot repeat all day as is ..

No misplaced fill probe

 

[Sydney Monk]

No misplaced fill probe

Sounds like my kind of gun!

 

[Florida_Man]

Sounds like my kind of gun!

As a PCP guy for years, I keep two probes for every gun. One goes in my Great White bag and the other goes in the rifle case. Since doing this I haven’t misplaced one. I have blown an o ring and had to use the 2nd probe until I could get a new o ring.

 

[Pumacarl]

I started with bb guns to mpp Crosmans and my first good airgun was a FWB-124 springer in 1983(still have it). Around 1990 I tried an ARS AR-6 .22, it was super powerful for the time, doing well over 40fpe with 26gr pellets, but so loud that I stopped using it and just went back to .22RF for a power pester. I got a couple other springers after that, another 124, an HW, and a Diana M6, but once I started watching Ted's videos with silenced PCPs my interests shifted pretty quickly. With that being said, I had high quality springers for 35 years before going to pcp and shot 10s of thousands of pellets through them and worked on them and other peoples and from all that experience with them, I like a quiet pcp way more, it's not even close for me. To each their own.

 

[Dogowski]

Seems the majority of folks here, at least those who post, shoot PCPs.
Did you guys start with springers and move on to PCPs or just jump right into PCPs?
Or, do you shoot both?

I started with springers and found the joy of PCP airguns many years later and haven't looked back since! I've fallen deep down the PCP rabbit hole and now that's all I shoot.

 

[Farmplinker2]

Pumpers, springers, CO2, and now I have a PCP. Will be getting more of each in the future!

 

[Pumacarl]

I do still like shooting everything that can propel anything, but I definitely prefer PCP. If I were to ever buy another springer it would have to be a internal mechanically recoiless model, like the Giss system Diana used to have. Those were neat!