joe9090
I'm sorry to hear that you're down on the air gun industry, but if there's one thing I've learned in my long life it's that just about everything changes over time, some not for the good, but most things change for the better, but it usually at the loss of some little thing, take my first car for example, it was a 1951 ford Dulux two door sedan, it started out life as a police cruiser, it had a double chassis under it and was powered by a flat head ford factory racing engine, I loved that car it held the road like it was glued to it and nothing around could beat it in a race, they don't make them like that anymore.
But todays V-6 engines are faster, and todays cars are generally good for 100K miles before needing a tune up, and they get 25+ miles to a gallon of gas unlike the 10 miles to the gallon that my '51 Ford was giving me, that old Ford ran for 97,000 miles before it gave up the ghost, my 28 yr. old Volvo it just breaking in at 180,000 miles.
Now I have to make a confession, I've only been at this Air gun game for going on seven years so I'm still a green horn and not about to argue the point with you, but I can say this with my minor experience, and that's that the air gun industry (in my opinion) has come a long way in design and performance in todays air guns, and doing so while keeping the prices attractive and affordable.
I can remember way back in the olden days, my first air rifle was a Daisy mod. 25 pump BB rifle, I was about seven years old and had the devil of a time cocking that gun, then I got a Marksman .177 break barrel pellet rifle, it wasn't very accurate and not powerful enough to punch through both sides of a tin can, my next air rifle was a Sheridan Blue Streak in .20 cal., that was a real air rifle, I still have it and it's still shooting great.
Over the last six plus years I've purchased about a dozen air rifles mostly Springers and gas piston rifles, some are budget friendly at about $100.00 and a few are in the $400.00~$600.00 price range, the rest somewhere in the middle and I can honestly say that they are all great shooters, yes, I am fussy about what I buy, and yes I've had to do some trigger jobs and other slight mods to them, but they all had great bones to start out with, although my newest air rifle cost mt $99.00, nice wood stock (not fancy but nice), great bluing, a really sweet trigger, and shoots 1" groups at 50 yds., the factory bundle scop is bright, clear, tracks great, and keeps it's zero, it needed nothing out of the box, it's a .177 cal. Diana Break barrel mod. two fifty, and yes, it's made in China.
So, as much as then air gun industry has disappointed you, it's made me a very happy shooter.
And while we're at it lets not forget the air gun ammo industry and the advances that they have given us in the last decade.
I'm sorry to hear that you're down on the air gun industry, but if there's one thing I've learned in my long life it's that just about everything changes over time, some not for the good, but most things change for the better, but it usually at the loss of some little thing, take my first car for example, it was a 1951 ford Dulux two door sedan, it started out life as a police cruiser, it had a double chassis under it and was powered by a flat head ford factory racing engine, I loved that car it held the road like it was glued to it and nothing around could beat it in a race, they don't make them like that anymore.
But todays V-6 engines are faster, and todays cars are generally good for 100K miles before needing a tune up, and they get 25+ miles to a gallon of gas unlike the 10 miles to the gallon that my '51 Ford was giving me, that old Ford ran for 97,000 miles before it gave up the ghost, my 28 yr. old Volvo it just breaking in at 180,000 miles.
Now I have to make a confession, I've only been at this Air gun game for going on seven years so I'm still a green horn and not about to argue the point with you, but I can say this with my minor experience, and that's that the air gun industry (in my opinion) has come a long way in design and performance in todays air guns, and doing so while keeping the prices attractive and affordable.
I can remember way back in the olden days, my first air rifle was a Daisy mod. 25 pump BB rifle, I was about seven years old and had the devil of a time cocking that gun, then I got a Marksman .177 break barrel pellet rifle, it wasn't very accurate and not powerful enough to punch through both sides of a tin can, my next air rifle was a Sheridan Blue Streak in .20 cal., that was a real air rifle, I still have it and it's still shooting great.
Over the last six plus years I've purchased about a dozen air rifles mostly Springers and gas piston rifles, some are budget friendly at about $100.00 and a few are in the $400.00~$600.00 price range, the rest somewhere in the middle and I can honestly say that they are all great shooters, yes, I am fussy about what I buy, and yes I've had to do some trigger jobs and other slight mods to them, but they all had great bones to start out with, although my newest air rifle cost mt $99.00, nice wood stock (not fancy but nice), great bluing, a really sweet trigger, and shoots 1" groups at 50 yds., the factory bundle scop is bright, clear, tracks great, and keeps it's zero, it needed nothing out of the box, it's a .177 cal. Diana Break barrel mod. two fifty, and yes, it's made in China.
So, as much as then air gun industry has disappointed you, it's made me a very happy shooter.
And while we're at it lets not forget the air gun ammo industry and the advances that they have given us in the last decade.
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