Up for a mini-review today is my Air Arms TX200HC. This rifle was purchased after a significant search in about May of 2021. It arguably features one of the most stunning walnut stocks within my collection.
Having owned a number of TX and Pro Sport rifles, this is the first of the Hunter Carbine rifles to pass through my hands. Upon receipt, it had quite a bit of "buzz," and while beautiful, was a little disappointing to shoot right out of the box.
The tuning of this rifle took more patience than most, but the results were worth it. As I have tuned a number of Air Arms springers using Vortek kits, I wasn't totally surprised when after the first pass, the rifle didn't lock up at the end of the cocking stroke. I have found that for whatever reason, the Vortek spring kits are always too long. This particular rifle required four disassembly and reassembly efforts before I found what appeared to be the perfect accuracy/cocking stroke and lock-up balance. My memory requires removing approximately two coils from the Vortek kit The trigger did require some adjustment as well.
The kit that went into this rifle was the PG3 HO Kit. After the original tune that occurred about 18 months ago, testing 10 different pellets, two 10 shot group averages ranged from a high of 1.22" to a low of .34" with the Air Arms Diablo Field 8.4 gr 4.52 diameter pellet winning out. Pre-tune, the rifle was shooing the Air Arms pellet at 14.15 FPE. Post tune, it was shooting right at 14 fpe but the difference in the shot cycle was very noticeable, being much smoother in every regard.
This rifle hasn't been shot very much, but you can remove it from the vault about any time of year and the POI will be close to dead on. It is extremely consistent as evidenced by the groups found below, achieved with the only maintenance activities being a couple of patches through the barrel, a check of the scope and stock screws which were all solidly in place, and a protective wipe applied across the beautifully blued finish.
I intend to always have at least one TX and Pro Sport in my springer collection as they are real classics within the springer class of airguns. As I have already stated on this forum numerous times, if I could only have one underlever springer, it would be a Weihrauch 97, but there is certainly nothing but joy that comes with owning an shooting a well tuned Air Arms springer.
DZ
Having owned a number of TX and Pro Sport rifles, this is the first of the Hunter Carbine rifles to pass through my hands. Upon receipt, it had quite a bit of "buzz," and while beautiful, was a little disappointing to shoot right out of the box.
The tuning of this rifle took more patience than most, but the results were worth it. As I have tuned a number of Air Arms springers using Vortek kits, I wasn't totally surprised when after the first pass, the rifle didn't lock up at the end of the cocking stroke. I have found that for whatever reason, the Vortek spring kits are always too long. This particular rifle required four disassembly and reassembly efforts before I found what appeared to be the perfect accuracy/cocking stroke and lock-up balance. My memory requires removing approximately two coils from the Vortek kit The trigger did require some adjustment as well.
The kit that went into this rifle was the PG3 HO Kit. After the original tune that occurred about 18 months ago, testing 10 different pellets, two 10 shot group averages ranged from a high of 1.22" to a low of .34" with the Air Arms Diablo Field 8.4 gr 4.52 diameter pellet winning out. Pre-tune, the rifle was shooing the Air Arms pellet at 14.15 FPE. Post tune, it was shooting right at 14 fpe but the difference in the shot cycle was very noticeable, being much smoother in every regard.
This rifle hasn't been shot very much, but you can remove it from the vault about any time of year and the POI will be close to dead on. It is extremely consistent as evidenced by the groups found below, achieved with the only maintenance activities being a couple of patches through the barrel, a check of the scope and stock screws which were all solidly in place, and a protective wipe applied across the beautifully blued finish.
I intend to always have at least one TX and Pro Sport in my springer collection as they are real classics within the springer class of airguns. As I have already stated on this forum numerous times, if I could only have one underlever springer, it would be a Weihrauch 97, but there is certainly nothing but joy that comes with owning an shooting a well tuned Air Arms springer.
DZ
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