...aside from the AirForce offerings? Not into the gas-bottle-stock look. Thank you.
Recommendation on a solid .20 cal PCP?
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Am aware of that.. however that aside any PCP options aside from AirForce offerings? I say AF as that's the only offering I see from the big name stores.
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Daystate Huntsman Regal may have been the last. AOA had a custom one before Christmas for $1999 called the Genus Limited Edition. They may be able to special order a Huntsman .20cal. I haven't seen anyone offer one in a long time outside of Daystate and Air Force. There used to be an HW100 for sale on the classifieds of Airgun Warriors a few months back that was a .20cal and it went fast.
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Emphasis on the "solid" and there seem to be a decent amount of .20 cal RAWs floating around amongst past and current field target shooters. A friend bought a used RAW sometime in the last year and it came with .177 and .20 barrels (not familiar enough with the RAW guns to know if it came with or requires a .20 probe). I'm aware of this friend being able to switch back and forth between .177 and .20 though, as he's done it a few times in the last few months. Member Kdog? or something like that has shared pics of the most beautiful laminate RAW that I've ever seen, and it's a .20. His has a blue and walnut looking stock on it. True drool gun for me.
Less common are the USFTs. Pretty much any 16mm LW blank can be swapped into a USFT (might need a very slight reduction of OD for the first couple inches that goes in the breech-but could be reduced with cave man tools very easily).
I'm aware of some Edguns for which .20 barrels were offered. Seems like I remember Centercut mentioning a Lelya or Leshiy that he has in .20.
All of the above seem like solid platforms for a .20.
As for current/mainstream production........I'm not aware of anything but the Airforce that you mentioned.
A WTB might produce something.
Cahil_2's response is pretty common any time .20 comes up. And he's not wrong, when comparing to all the choices in .177 and .22. All those choices are nice, but once I find a pellet a gun likes, I don't usually shoot more than that one pellet from that gun (sometimes one gun will have 2 different pellets if the power is adjustable). So, as long as the gun likes one of the .20 pellet offerings, you're golden. I've had two .20 PCPs and a .20 gas ram (RX2) in the past two years and all 3 of them have shot pretty good with either weight of JSB.
Less common are the USFTs. Pretty much any 16mm LW blank can be swapped into a USFT (might need a very slight reduction of OD for the first couple inches that goes in the breech-but could be reduced with cave man tools very easily).
I'm aware of some Edguns for which .20 barrels were offered. Seems like I remember Centercut mentioning a Lelya or Leshiy that he has in .20.
All of the above seem like solid platforms for a .20.
As for current/mainstream production........I'm not aware of anything but the Airforce that you mentioned.
A WTB might produce something.
Cahil_2's response is pretty common any time .20 comes up. And he's not wrong, when comparing to all the choices in .177 and .22. All those choices are nice, but once I find a pellet a gun likes, I don't usually shoot more than that one pellet from that gun (sometimes one gun will have 2 different pellets if the power is adjustable). So, as long as the gun likes one of the .20 pellet offerings, you're golden. I've had two .20 PCPs and a .20 gas ram (RX2) in the past two years and all 3 of them have shot pretty good with either weight of JSB.
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Yep, I'd forgotten about the Genus and the HW options. Same friend I mentioned above (with the .177 and .20 barrels for the RAW) actually now owns that tan laminate Genus you mentioned.
A good friend that recently kinda retired from FT always shot a .20 HW. He let me shoot it once and it was pretty sweet. Nice trigger and pellets went where I was aiming. His was actually for sale here locally last I heard.
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I've been shooting .020 cal's since 2004 and never had an issue finding pellets, in fact I've seen them available when some other caliber popular sizes weren't...good luck finding ANY caliber these days, .20 cal PCP's are sweet if you can find one. My .20 Rapid and Huntsman 
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Thanks guys. Yes I remember that Daystate Genius (at AoA) ...didn't care about the .20 cal at the time. .20's only recently got my attention. I'm with you @franklink , once I find that favorable pellet, I stick to just those offerings however limited. Thanks for the leads; will do a bit of research.
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@rm100guy Thanks for sharing. Love those huntsmans; have on .22. Would love to get one in .20. Def will keep an eye out.
As for .20 pellets; was able to grab some today between Utah and AoA. Got a 97k in .20 coming in couple days.
As for .20 pellets; was able to grab some today between Utah and AoA. Got a 97k in .20 coming in couple days.
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Hard to have everything you want something. Consider as a poster mentioned above the Rapid. This Az tuned love the new jsb exact heavys 15.9 @ 900. Target at 85 yds. Calm day and yes i had trigger time to get there. A shooter it is.
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Somebody might get a chuckle out of this one, hopefully all those who say .20 pellets are hard to find will enjoy it too.
Was down in PHX last week for an eye appt. Swung by AOA with intent to purchase fairly large quantities of 10.34gr .177 JSBs and 13.73 .20 JSBs. They didn't have either, but did have a decent qty of the Heavy .20 JSBs. I swiped em up!
Poor guy in front of me wanted 8.44gr JSBs, which to me seem like perhaps the most run-of-the mill caliber and weight of pellet in the world, and they didnt have any for him.
Poor guy behind me also wanted 10.34 JSBs and left empty-handed.
So, for the 15 or so minutes that I was in there, me, a shooter of the lowly "orphan caliber .20" (or any other .20 disparaging phrase you've heard), was the only guy who left with some quality pellets to shoot.
Shortage right now is crazy.
Was down in PHX last week for an eye appt. Swung by AOA with intent to purchase fairly large quantities of 10.34gr .177 JSBs and 13.73 .20 JSBs. They didn't have either, but did have a decent qty of the Heavy .20 JSBs. I swiped em up!
Poor guy in front of me wanted 8.44gr JSBs, which to me seem like perhaps the most run-of-the mill caliber and weight of pellet in the world, and they didnt have any for him.
Poor guy behind me also wanted 10.34 JSBs and left empty-handed.
So, for the 15 or so minutes that I was in there, me, a shooter of the lowly "orphan caliber .20" (or any other .20 disparaging phrase you've heard), was the only guy who left with some quality pellets to shoot.
Shortage right now is crazy.
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As of Wednesday AOA had a Daystate Huntsman Huma Regulated XL in .20 cal, I ordered it then canceled it so they may still have it.
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Huntsmans are about as solid as they get, consider these two 10 shot groups @ 25y on a very windy day. My .20 Huntsman is tun
ed to 19.5 fpe with JSB 13.73s@65 fill.shots, 
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.20 cal RAW in the TM-1000 platform is Da Bomb !!! Simply put the most accurate FT gun I have ever shot or owned !!!
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you might look into a Weihrauch HW100 in .20 cal, it is not popular here in the US but can be ordered, I have one and it is a laser, super accurate dime size groups at 50 yards easy.
it's the bottom one, but you might be able to get one in the bullpup configuration too, Call AoA and find out.
it's the bottom one, but you might be able to get one in the bullpup configuration too, Call AoA and find out.
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys.
@motorhead thats a beauty. Not a bottle guy but can live with a small one . Lol.
@ katokevin Was keeping the HW110 as an option however good to see the 100's confirmed performance.
@motorhead thats a beauty. Not a bottle guy but can live with a small one . Lol.
@ katokevin Was keeping the HW110 as an option however good to see the 100's confirmed performance.
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Would be nice to see some manufacturer offer a balanced bullpup in .20; 23"barrel, why not. I'd throw my wallet at it w/o hesitation.
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My next gun is most likely Lelya in 22 cal, but down the road I wouldn’t mind a custom conversion into 20 cal.
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