Any guns you regret buying"

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Sawney Bean said:
That was actually the case when I bought my Aspen. There were plenty of bad reviews and my my dumb a$$ bought it anyway. The Aspen is a cheap gun however and honest reviews of cheap guns are almost always going to reveal that the guns were cheaply made.
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Yes, I too am such a dumb a$$. Even worse I believed the reviewers blaming pumping too hard and not lubricating enough. "Gun doesn't work, it must be _your_ fault". Now we get to enjoy rebuilding our Aspens as well as shooting them.
 
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Sqwirl57 said:
I dont necessarily regret buying it but the TX200 was the most disappointing springer I ever bought. I had purchased a .22 HW97K and the gun was just phenomenal. I had only ever used Gamos prior to that so my expectations weren't exactly high for springers in general.

Skip ahead a few months and I started asking myself "if a $500 springer can do this, I wonder how amazing a $900 one is?" I ended up getting a TX200HC in .22 and quickly found out that I wasn't paying more for a better shooting gun. I was paying more for a prettier gun. My 97K actually outshot that TX200 by quite a bit.
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Sounds like she’s in need of a proper tune job..
 
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Barenger said:
Sounds like she’s in need of a proper tune job..
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I tried every tune I could on that .22 HC and it never impressed me more than my .22 97K. I'm fairly certain that HC had a defect in the barrel somewhere but I never got around to scoping it. I'm glad you brought it up though because I'm just now realizing I have that barrel and tube assembly stored away. I think I want to dig into that now
 
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Diana Stormrider....I wanted a small, lightweight rifle with decent to good accuracy. Well I got everything but the accuracy. When I pulled the trigger I never knew where the pellet would hit. After trying everything thing possible plus some other things that didn't help and almost wrapping it around a tree I was able to get another barrel and now its a pretty good shooter. But I still regret buying it.
 
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susan candela said:
what don't you like about it if I may ask
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You can’t pick it up and hit anything with it, (well maybe the broad side of a barn) if it has been sitting any amount of time. You have to dry fire or shoot it 5 or 10 times before it gets back to zero. If you only target shoot with it then I guess it would be a good gun. But it not for me. I need to get rid of it, I’ll even take a loss.
 
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aklonewolf said:
You can’t pick it up and hit anything with it, (well maybe the broad side of a barn) if it has been sitting any amount of time. You have to dry fire or shoot it 5 or 10 times before it gets back to zero. If you only target shoot with it then I guess it would be a good gun. But it not for me. I need to get rid of it, I’ll even take a loss.
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thanks for your reply
 
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Rob_in_NC said:
Not to go off track here, but I have been looking at that .30 Hatsan since it came out... every time I get close to pulling the trigger to get one, I see a post like this. I need it about as much as I need a third nipple... but I always look. The last time I was serious, I had a coworker hit me up who had gotten one last year and asked me why that his gun now was easy to cock, rattles and wont shoot a pellet. That pretty much sealed it for me. I told him it sounded like a broken spring, but good luck getting a replacement. He wanted to stick with springers (the Hatsan was his first and only experience with an airgun) so I steered him towards an RWS 54 and actually found him one at the Hickory show and mailed to him.
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Hands down..Fx Impact (first edition). My happiest moments…the day I received it and the day I sold it. A real money pit. Three trips to the dealer to fix air leaks at $300 per trip. It was in transit and repair longer than I had it in my possession!
 
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I have only bought high end airguns, lots and lots of them - as such they have all been wonderful BUT what I’m noticing is what I grab when I want to play. Usually it’s a Daystate “something”. Electronic guns are soooo cool, but I pull my mechanical guns out first = Revere! Wolverine! Ghost! Plenty of choices and options but Daystate gets the nod. Oddly Anything FX has been sold.
 
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Fifty years of air gunning, 50 air guns, more or less. Some were awesome; some weren't; some were fast; some weren't; some were perfect; some weren't; some were accurate; some weren't; some were heavy; some weren't; some were perfect; some weren't, some were works of art, some weren't, some were well designed, some weren't. I don't regret buying any of them, I had to learn and the only way is to own it for a while.
 
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