Can anyone recommend an air pistol/rifle with a threaded barrel for under $100? Thanks.
Air guns with threaded barrels?
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I cannot, but I would say that an air rifle for under $100, with any kind of barrel, is not going to be very satisfying.
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/www.airgundepot.com/diana-chaser-pellet-pistol.html
think you can buy an adaptor for moderator or a slip on from Buck rail
think you can buy an adaptor for moderator or a slip on from Buck rail
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Possible, but newer member might not be sure of correct wording, that's why I asked. Clarification, either way, would help in answering.
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Some time ago I was thinking about the idea of having slugs with three slight channels/ lines in the external borders that could make the slugs to spin in the correct rate, irrespective of the barrel used to shoot them.
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Could be way off here, but, back in my $100 airgun days hadn't even heard of a moderator, did know the smoothbore Crosman 760 wasn't cutting it for accuracy. Next up was a rifled, nitro-piston Crosman F4 from Walmart for $80. Guess that's why I questioned OP's meaning. WM
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Depending what rifle you buy, you can ask a tuner to get it done for you but might likely cost you an easy $100.
Back a few years ago, AoA was selling off the last of their Turkish built Webley Tomahawks (same rifle as the Hatsan Model 95) that had threaded barrels at the cut rate price of $99.99, but Hatsan never did it to their own. I have 4 of those Tomahawks and the ported muzzle break unscrews if you want to put an LDC on the end. While they help with the down range noise, they do very little at the muzzle since even well tuned, you still get noise from the action. No one in the US sells anything Webley branded and haven't for a few years so even if you wanted one, you'd have to search the used market or put up a Want to Buy ad and see if anyone actually has one and wants to sell it.
Pistols? I have a Sig P226 .177 pistol with a threaded barrel end but you'd have to look to see what they go for these days. Might well be more but someone who does more pistol shooting will have to chime in.
Back a few years ago, AoA was selling off the last of their Turkish built Webley Tomahawks (same rifle as the Hatsan Model 95) that had threaded barrels at the cut rate price of $99.99, but Hatsan never did it to their own. I have 4 of those Tomahawks and the ported muzzle break unscrews if you want to put an LDC on the end. While they help with the down range noise, they do very little at the muzzle since even well tuned, you still get noise from the action. No one in the US sells anything Webley branded and haven't for a few years so even if you wanted one, you'd have to search the used market or put up a Want to Buy ad and see if anyone actually has one and wants to sell it.
Pistols? I have a Sig P226 .177 pistol with a threaded barrel end but you'd have to look to see what they go for these days. Might well be more but someone who does more pistol shooting will have to chime in.
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The only one for around a hundred bucks I can think of would be a crosman 2240 XL. There are 115 bucks from pyramid air. If you rework the trigger spring by compressing it all the way or by replacing it with a lighter spring the trigger becomes usable. Right out of the box the triggers are pretty stiff. They shoot well, they're accurate only drawback would be that it's CO2 so if you're outside in the winter time don't expect it to shoot very hard.
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Yep, the Chaser pistol comes with a threaded barrel. The fluted piece at the muzzle is a thread protector. Also, both of the Chaser pistol/carbine kit gun barrels are threaded, and the kit includes a moderator.
As was mentioned, the Sig P226 C02 pistol comes with a threaded barrel. I payed $89 for mine from a local gun shop. Also, the Steyr M9-A1 C02 pistol comes with an internally threaded slide for mounting a moderator. They're around $70.
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Given the barrel has no sights to content with and can be chucked in a lathe?
I'd do them for less then a hundred if only the barrel was sent to me.
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Your thinking about rifled slugs like we used for shot gun deer hunting back in the day and bet there are a lot that still use them
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Perhaps you've never had a gunsmith crown and thread a barrel? Expect X3 the price and a month turn around.
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Nope. I did buy a lathe and tooling to do my own. Being retired and no loans to pay?
I'm not after the big bucks! Heck. I've done Guns for a 30 pack of KeyStone lite!
It's a hobby to me and I only have so many guns of my own to work on.
If your think I'll under cut you and take business away? Don't worry about that!
I only take work when and IF I feel like it! And mostly only from very local friends.
And I don't do Notos work.
I'm not after the big bucks! Heck. I've done Guns for a 30 pack of KeyStone lite!
It's a hobby to me and I only have so many guns of my own to work on.
If your think I'll under cut you and take business away? Don't worry about that!
I only take work when and IF I feel like it! And mostly only from very local friends.
And I don't do Notos work.
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That hasn't been my experience at all, but I would say it depends mostly on what a user wants, expects and needs from an air rifle. I have simple needs, so I GREATLY enjoy the overwhelming majority of my sub-$100 air rifles. For example, by shopping around online, eventually I found the spankin' new Crosman 362 pumper on sale for about $90.00 delivered (the MSRP at the time was $109.00, IIRC) and it's absolutely one of my super-fun, very favorite air rifles. I scored my first Crosman 2289 Drifter 'kit,' with an MSRP of about $112.00, soon after release, from an online site that gives their users discounted prices on their birthday, under $100.00, along with lots of other discounted goodies, all shipped free, and I loved that one so much I bought another not long after!
Also, while it's nothing like my excellent, nearly $400.00 Umarex 850M2, the semi-automatic Crosman 1077W I bought years ago, heavily discounted at somewhere around $65.00 awhile back at Amazon.com, was and remains LOTS of fun, and because it was so inexpensive, I was able to get lots of extra mags and CO2 cartridges as well, with the total cost still just under $100. Furthermore, I'm not as worried about using and maybe even abusing the 1077W a bit as I am with my Umarex air rifle. In fact, all my CO2 airguns, excepting only my exceptionally nice Umarex 850M2, cost either well under or right around $100.00. Finally, there are my Crosman 1377, 1322 and 2240 air pistols, all of which I purchased with the Crosman shoulder stock, turning both into short carbine air rifles, and each well under $100 when purchased (somwhere around $70.00 in the case of the 1377 and 1322 with stocks, with the 2240 and stock ending up about $20.00 more, IIRC). Satisfying? It's not 100% (so no cigar), but even if it's only a very few shots, I still end up using one of these handy little 'carbines' almost on a daily basis!
I love them!Being disabled and retired, these days I think just about anything $200.00 and above is a goodly sum of money (!), so with very few exceptions (my Benjamin 392s & 397s, an Umarex 850M2, my Seneca Dragonfly Mk2 rifles in both .22 & .177 calibers, and most costly of all, my $400+ Crosman Anniversary Edition 2023), that's just about the top-end cutoff for my airgun hobby purchases, but $100.00 and less is even better, if that's possible! Unfortunately, since I'm no longer able to get out to hunt, I bought (or was gifted) the airguns in my collection primarily for fun, plus I was able to teach my kids and young kinfolk the importance of gun safety, followed by how to safely handle and use a gun alone or around others, for plinking and short-range target shooting. Once they had those skills down pat, each was then free to make up his or her own mind about whether or not to use a gun for hunting. For myself, I bought mostly just for fun, but for the most part, if the need arose, most of my collection also have the capability to ethically eliminate small pest animals (rats and such), should any start causing trouble around the outside of our home.
As I mentioned, I believe it's primarily what a user expects from an air rifle that will determine how much money will provide one (or more) that will meet those expectations.
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