Best Target rifle under $500?

AirForce Edge 10-meter Sporter Class rifle. $569.95



http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/model.pl?model_id=1813

Throwing out a few thoughts.

Living in Ohio, of course dealing with CO2, and it's mean operating temperatures, if your basement is insulated/heated you might consider getting a custom rifle from Crosman :

Crosman Custom Shop - http://www.crosman.com/custom_store/

or

Mountain Air Custom - http://www.mountainaircustomairguns.com/index.htm

or

Pacific Pellet Guns - Custom Discovery work - http://pacificpelletguns.com/

indoor sound of airguns varies

Bladeswitcher wrote :

"Springers are quiet! Considerably quieter than a CO2 gun."

True. Seems when I shoot a pump up, like a Crosman 760, I hear more of a "ping" than anything else. Been a long while since I shot a CO2 gas gun in the basement.

DoogieB wrote :

"Personally, I think a RWS 34 or equivalent is way to much gun to shoot in the basement or a small back yard."

Been getting in a little practice with my springers in the basement. Tech Force TF-99M, Gamo Shadow 1000, Crosman RM-377 and CZ 631 Slavia. Right down the loudness and power scale LOL Only trouble is the scopes on the Crosman and CZ don't jive w/ shooting at 10 yards too well indoors.

It's a buyers market and there's some beautiful rifles for sale cheap right now.

I position shoot myself, when I was looking at airgun I looked real hard at pcp's. Thought about it and decided I didn't want to play with air. I shoot in my basement and opted for the older classics. They got to be a classic for a reason.

I'm not going to say that the airguns I bought are the best by any means. I can say that they shoot way better than I can. I went with a rws 75, could use the sights in my kimber 82g also. So when I was looking for a sporter, again a rws so all the sights could be shared.



Some of the inserts that I've aquired are duplicates, alot of them copy front sights on other rifles that I own. It's extremely nice to be able to shrink a target down and put a front sight in that matches a sight picture that I want to practice with. The clear plastic pieces in the center of the paper are a set of adjustable round front sight for the rws 75. It's very simple yet a excellent sight picture. Being clear, it lets a ton of light in and it has a small black o-ring that expands and contracts as I dial it bigger or smaller.

The rws 75 that I picked up had just been rebuilt by mac-1. I paid $500 delivered to the door for it. The rws came with the rebuild receipt, complete sight sets including the metalic and adjustable front sights, origional book, tin of pellets and targets that origonally came with the rifle. From there I ran across a anschutz 250. It only had the front sight, no big deal, I wanted it to put a scope on it. So now I have 2 target airguns, one with ironsights, the other scoped. I got the anschutz for $250 delivered to the door.

Here a picture of my 2 target rifles that I have $750 dollors invested in both.



Awhile back, I stopped into a gunshop and ran across a rws 45 special edition, new in the box. I origonally wanted a rws 48 or 52 for the side lever. After I thought about it, I only shoot the sporter offhand so it's no big deal. It hasa sweet T01 trigger and I can use any of the rws metalic sight inserts that I have in it.



These are some great airguns, they have excellent ballance, sights and triggers to die for. It's a real treat to go down stairs, pick up a airgun, cock it or pull the lever and have something in my hands that tests my skills with such pin point accuracy. I don't find any of the too strong or powerful to shoot in the basement, don't have any trouble with pellets bouncing around or out of my pellet trap.

Goodluck on whatever you decide to buy. I can't say enough good about these extremely well made and highly accurate airguns.

Thanks, they are some great shooters.

Awhile back in another section of this site, I had recomended to someone to get a air rifle instead of a 22. Of course I got jumped on for it, alot of people just don't know what these airguns were designed for or the standards that they had to meet to win gold medals in the olympics and world class compititions.

I chose to get the older airguns myself. They have excellent metal with top of the line fit & finish. Great stocks, beautiful 3 oz triggers, excellents sights, a hand stop rail for position shooting ect.

As far as accuracy goes

That dot in the center of the target is what these target airguns were designed to hit ALL DAY LONG at 10m (33+ft). To me that's very impressive to say the least. The best 22's in the world have a .22" bull on their target to hit at 50ft., the size of their bullet. A airgun has a dot to hit at 2/3's the distance.

To me there's nothing second rate about these airguns. For the money their a steal. I paid less for 2 world class airguns than I would of for 1 world class 22 target rifle from the same era. The airguns were built by some of the best gun makers on the planet, with the same excellent quailty material and tooling used in their other target rifles. The only difference I can see is that the airguns were made to consistantly hit a smaller target.

To me, there's nothing better than walking down stairs, picking up one of these airguns and enjoying world class quality and accuracy.