Recently got back into airguns...last air rifle I sold off was a Career 707 carbine back in 2003. Wished I had one of these portable electric pumps back then..
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What's your thoughts on AEA airguns? Are they hype or legit?
- Thread starter Pelletgal
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HI THE BUILD QUALITY IS NOT AS GOOD AS SNOWPEAK !!! I HAVE HAD 2, AEA AND 2 SNOWPEAK YOU NEED TO DO SOME WORK ON THEM BUT FOR MY MONEY SNOWPEAK SHOOT WAY BETTER AND A LOT OF AFTER MARKET PARTS FOR SNOWPEAK OFF SHORE!! JUST FYI PAPERP PS THE STOCK ON MY M-25 30 CAL IS BETTER THAN MY FX DREAMLINE!!!
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Every AEA model I've seen or owned has some sort of design flaw, whether it's the magazines or trigger or bolt or defective regulator or some other thing. They have so much potential and the remainder of the build quality is, more often than not, top notch. But as tempted as I am to buy another one I know it will have problems down the road. All I can say is if you do buy an AEA make sure you're comfortable that the dealer who is selling it to you will come through when (notice I didn't say "if") you run into problems. Will I buy another AEA rifle? Maybe.
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Had my .45 challenger bullpup for a few months and I found it was picky with ammo, more so than my Hatsan.
Once I got the right ammo in it, it's alike a laser out to 50 yards. I dont have room to shoot farther than that at home but golfballs are no problem.
As others stated, IT's very heavy and so it the trigger but that doesnt bother me at all.
I'm excited to take it out for deer this season.
Once I got the right ammo in it, it's alike a laser out to 50 yards. I dont have room to shoot farther than that at home but golfballs are no problem.
As others stated, IT's very heavy and so it the trigger but that doesnt bother me at all.
I'm excited to take it out for deer this season.
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I own 32 pcps and I have been pretty much a snob when it comes to my airguns. I have several high end guns 2 impact m3s, sk19, Prophet, raw hm1000lrt, and several more a few mid grade big bores and mid grade Fx guns Dreamlines. I own 5 aea guns and honestly I love them the hpss .25 and hpss plus.30 a challenger .30 and terminator .35 and and challenger .50 and I love them all everyone of them is a tack driver just as accurate as my Impacts and the hpss for being in regulated will shoot the first two mags 20 shots through the same hole before dropping off. Honestly the quality is really good for inexpensive guns they are way better than any of the hatsan or kral guns I have except maybe the old challenger pups and rifles those were about the same quality just much more powerful. Anyway I have a lot of fun with mine I have a lot of guns I never shoot but these I shoot all the time.
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AEA, my first 2 then the IM3 then the TPV, honestly in the PCP game you get what you pay for. 
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AEA is no different then other higher priced PCPs. Even a $3000 PCP has it's flaws and defects to say otherwise is a out right lie.
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Foxairguns, pelletshop, survival airguns, aeaguns and 2-3 more websites. Im giving up on this gun brcause of this reason
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Have you tried https://www.bintacllc.com/ FYI there out of stock because people are buying them up. Shipping is a mess do post CV-19 and now the War
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Can you do a vid of side by side shooting. I have the aea hp max in .357 already. Just ordered an m25 in 9mm from kraleshop us yesterday for the black friday sale. Cant beat $330 shipped for a regulated 9 even if its not all that great. Im dedf gonna be doing some comparisons
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Any gun can be tuned. My aea hp max .357 is a tac driver with bobs bullets 115 gr rn hitting hole in hole at 50 yards for 6 shots from 250 bar to 190 ish fill. But thats not what i wanna know. He said the snowpeak was better. I wanna see a vid showing how and why with side by side shooting.
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I had three two Challengers, one HP Max. I am happy with the .357 Max, but did not like the Challengers. Too heavy, horrible triggers, heavy, air blasts to the face. The HP Max has none of those issues.
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Which models? Think your mileage may vary. AEA HPSS is legit, accuracy wise and for the price. Just beware the QC kinda falls short. To get it to where I’d like, you may need to polish this, add a plug, change a spring. I have one that I’m going to sell but only because I don’t even want to do the simple mods.
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The L2 was Engineered to be awesome. The AEA, was integrated to meet the bargain market. Like comparing a McRib to good Texas BBQ…
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That was supa fast. Got the m25 in 3 days and during Thanksgiving week. Will bee doing lots a comparisons and whats goods not goods type stuff on the 2 over the next week or so. Will post all results, vids, chrony numbers, final thoughts ect. Gonna test em both with different loads, ranges, fpe, shotstring an count, ect.
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