Owning a pcp

[Guest air gunner]

Hi i bought a break barrel rifle not too long ago 1500 pellets through it and am having great fun hunting and plinking with it. the other day however i had a go with a falcon and a theoben pcp air gun these were amazing to shoot no kick no noise wow. but what i want to know is whats involved in owning such a gun? short and long term? and also the theoben had an eight shot magazine what is the advantage of a magazine in a hunting situation? cheers

[clubshot 22]

Check out your Local Air Gun Club

 

And see what others are using and Why

 

Totally Different a Break Action / Springer and Precharge Air Gun

 

Yes you have to have a Air source / Own bottle of Access to a Friends

 

We have many @ Lea Valley that started with a Springer

Brought a Precharge and after a while returned to a Springer

As reported Precharges was Boring..........

 

Multi Shots does come in Handy - On live Shoots

 

Especially the likes of the Phoenix or Fast Fire Ten , where you do not have to

take them out of the Shoulder for the Second Shot

 

www.phoenixairguns.co.uk

 

BOB/R

[Guest air gunner]

i can see how it could be boring but that could be good because it means i dont have to buy pellets every day! do you have to zero it often or do they stay because of the lack of kick. also do they need cleaning often. how often do they need re filling? do they leak is it easy to tune for when i want a firearms licence? [bANNED TEXT] so multi shots are good so i would get one of them.

[Deker 3,491]

Hi i bought a break barrel rifle not too long ago 1500 pellets through it and am having great fun hunting and plinking with it. the other day however i had a go with a falcon and a theoben pcp air gun these were amazing to shoot no kick no noise wow. but what i want to know is whats involved in owning such a gun? short and long term? and also the theoben had an eight shot magazine what is the advantage of a magazine in a hunting situation? cheers

 

 

Can't help thinking a good answer would be had from the owners of the guns you tried!!

[Guest air gunner]

yea that would be a good start they love them apparently they are my cousins and there dad showed me them becasue they dont live at home. Its a lot of money to buy a new rifle so soon so i want to get as much info as possible from a variety of people so i thought this forum would be a good start every ones pretty helpfull.

[Guest air gunner]

The other thing is in genral do pcp rifle seals get ruined easily? Are the guns in general really high maintenance compared to a springer? the only issue i can see right now is the cost of the gun and the air bottle.

[Halfinch 51]

you don't have to have an air bottle, you can use a stirrup pump, They are almost mainenance free, very rarely need re zeroing if they arn't knocked about,and once you get one i doubt you'll go back to a springer.

Try as many as you can. because what suits one person may not suit another.

Then buy the HW100.

Excellent rifle. imho

[clubshot 22]

Boring in the Sense - with the right Outfit and Practise is can be hard to miss

Where with a Break Action - You may never be sure what it's going to do on being Fired

 

BOB/R

[Guest air gunner]

Hmmm pcps sound great if i want big bags of game but i think i will wait untill im efficient with my springer.

[celticwar 1]

Hmmm pcps sound great if i want big bags of game but i think i will wait untill im efficient with my springer.

i had a lightining years ago i had plenty money at the time to get a pcp but my friends at the time had springers .. boy did i make a mistake i past my mechanic grades started working for a garage met a guy with a pcp we went hunting in to diff fields met up at dinner i had 3 rabbits was chuffed he empted his ruck sack 6 fell out + 2 in his hand i could not beleve it ,the next week we swoped fields and yep he beat me again ... in the end he said try my rifle we went out together i got 5 rabbits on my own shoot then it dawned on me more silent hardly any kick to handle ..multi shots rabbits 100 yards away stay there instead of running when i fired my springer ... so now ive got an s10 bull barrel carbine .22 hunting with it is great .. should of saved some money and got it back then ........

[Guest hyperion]

The other thing is in genral do pcp rifle seals get ruined easily? Are the guns in general really high maintenance compared to a springer? the only issue i can see right now is the cost of the gun and the air bottle.

 

the greatest enemy of any air gun pcp or spring is lack of care!

you can ruin a springer just as easy as a pcp!, the only difference imo is the type of care/maintainance for the two different systems and the cost!

the most important thing with a pcp is keeping your charging gear clean and free from dust and grit!

as clubshot said multi shots are the way to go if your doing rats ect, just having eight or ten shots as and when you need them is great!

ive got a parker and hale phoenix and its an awesome bit of kit but it comes at a price!

end of the day the best thing to do is get down to your local club and or gun shop and talk to as many people and try as many different guns as you can!

cheers

hyperion

[The Caretaker 0]

Boring in the Sense - with the right Outfit and Practise is can be hard to miss

Where with a Break Action - You may never be sure what it's going to do on being Fired

 

BOB/R

 

Which in the sense of hunting is an absolute nightmare whether you use a springer of a pcp you must know that what you mare aiming at you should probably be killing cleanly!! if your going hunting and you want to kill what your aiming at then PRACTICE theres not a lot worse than clipping a bunny and then hearing it down inside it burrow screaming for a minute or so!!! a good clean kill in an ideal world is what you should always be going for, theres nothing boring about that!