In the area of your 'typical,' most frequent shooting, with what airgun(s) are you able to achieve the most accurate results? I shoot inside my home at thirty feet almost exclusively, and the airguns with which I do my very best shooting are listed below, in order of results from best on down. All of them are variable pumpers with only their 'stock' iron sights, unless otherwise noted, and interestingly, the accuracy I can get with the first two is good enough that it's just about a toss-up as to which allows me to get the VERY best results:
1) Crosman .177 caliber, 1300KT custom carbine, with 18" barrel, black muzzle brake w/post front sight and Crosman/Williams notched rear sight. rather than the more common Williams peeper (simple notch and blade open, or the more commonly used term, iron, sights happen to be my overwhelming personal favorite for aiming, since they're most likely going to be available on almost anything I encounter).
2) Seneca Dragonfly MK2 in .177 caliber (my .22 MK2 requires far too much 'Kentucky Windage' to be reliably accurate, because of elevation limitations in the rear sight assembly).
3) Benjamin 397s, an excellent shooter with very nice iron sights, shooting from a rest. Without the rest, my results almost certainly would be different, because of the buttstock comb interfering with free-standing aim. I can get roughly the same accuracy with my 392s, but I prefer the smaller holes and reactive impact halos of .177 caliber pellets, especially for shooting groups, so my 392s basically is relegated to pest control duty only.
4) Crosman C2023 Anniversary Edition in .22 caliber, with a Williams peep rear sight & blade/fiber optic front sight, allowing me to easily get surprisingly (to me) fine accuracy. I would prefer a .177 caliber version, with notch and blade sights, which actually is doable, using available aftermarket Crosman parts and rudimentary gunsmithing skills, but for now it's .22 only (and it was expensive enough as is, when it comes down to it). ;-)
5) Winchester 1977XS; an excellent, inexpensive, higher-quality remake of the Daisy 880, with a notch rear & blade front sight. The rear tip of the front blade has a small, hi-vis white dot imprinted to aid aiming.
6) Daisy 880 & Daisy 901 -- very inexpensive but very accurate air rifles at 30 feet with only iron sights. The all-black, kit version of the 880 (5880) has a blade front sight, the same as that used on the Winchester 1977XS, which I much prefer to the basic 880, which is equipped with a blade and fiber optic front sight. The 901 uses the same sights as the 880.
7) Crosman 1377 American Classic pistol with shoulder stock, with the rear sight adjusted to its notch, rather than peep hole, side.
8) Crosman 1322 and 2289 Drifter carbines w/attached shoulder stock, with notched rear and blade front sight on the 1322 and a blade/fiber optic front sight on my 2289 Drifters.
9) Crosman 2100b Classic and Legacy 1000 are quite nice, although each requires more pumping than any other pumper, without producing more power (make that 'more pumping than MOST other pumpers; my Dragonfly MK2's need fifteen (!) for max power). I find each can be shot with roughly equal accuracy, but the awful rear sight and large front sight blade w/fiber-optic implant on both make precision more difficult than it should be: it's almost impossible to adjust their poorly designed rear sights precisely enough to get the windage perfect, and there's also too little allowance for elevation. Even when dialed-in (as much as that's possible), sometimes I can shoot them quite well, but sometimes I can't. IF these were the only air rifles I owned, I probably would be able to get reliably repeatable, reasonably fine accuracy with them, but they're just different enough from everything else I shoot regularly that it's more hit or miss than it needs to be. There really are no advantages to the differences between these and most other (just about ALL other) air rifles with variable pump pneumatic power supplies, at least, none I can discern. Still, the build quality and capability are good enough to warrant keeping and using.
10) My other seventeen or so airguns (rifles, primarily, but even my pistols have rifled barrels).
Basically, pretty much everything from numbers 1 through 9 (as well as others not listed) is something I can shoot with the expectation of hitting the thing at which I'm aiming. It's more a matter of how easy that is that determined the ranking. The easier it is, the better I do. The better I do, the easier it gets, and the more often I shoot that airgun, which improves how I do even more, and the cycle goes 'round & 'round and reinforces itself. There are some exceptions. For example, when it comes to my American Classic Crosman .177 and .22 caliber air pistols with shoulder stocks, often I can get fantastic, very accurate results with the supplied sights, but simply not as easily as I can with the airguns listed before them. It's about the same with my remaining unlisted pumper, break barrel and CO2 airguns (no PCPs), excepting in particular my Crosman M4-177, M4-look-alike pumper. Unfortunately, for me the accuracy I can get with it is up in the air, for the most part. If I'm not totally and completely zoned-in, the cheap plastic 5-round, manually operated magazines and the poorly molded peep sight are too imprecise and finicky in use for me to stay focused enough to reliably shoot the thing with fine accuracy. Sometimes sure, but most times, no (somewhat similar to my Crosman 2100 and 1000 results: again, if it were my only airgun...).
My two gas-piston breakers are VERY accurate on a rest, but really too powerful for indoors, and without a rest, one of them requires unique efforts so unlike anything else I shoot that I don't really want to account for it, so usually they sit in the rack. Also, three of my five CO2 airguns (my Umarex 850M2, Sheridan 2260MB and Beeman QB78s) allow me to shoot and achieve EXCEPTIONAL accuracy, as good or better than that I can get from my best pumpers, but I simply don't shoot with them nearly as often. Mainly, that's due to not being able to shoot them with anything but their full power, but also because of the necessary wastage when I'm not shooting long enough to fully deplete two full or one large gas cartridges. Also, I forgot to mention my Crosman C362, with which I easily get quite good accuracy, with its stock Crosman rear sight turned over to the notch side (the front blade is very nice too, IMO), although I did force myself to gain proficiency with the peep side too, as the rear sight was set on arrival. I'd judge the accuracy to be about equal to that of #5, my Winchester 77xs -- I much prefer its front blade to the 'fiber optic' sight on the C2023 and Drifter carbines, and I shoot it often enough that I'm able to get quite good, reliably accurate results with it. The C362 is a very nice, very affordable, pretty powerful (compared to most other pumpers) little carbine, and my favorite pumper for most of last year! I'm probably leaving out others, but that's it for me. How about y'all?
1) Crosman .177 caliber, 1300KT custom carbine, with 18" barrel, black muzzle brake w/post front sight and Crosman/Williams notched rear sight. rather than the more common Williams peeper (simple notch and blade open, or the more commonly used term, iron, sights happen to be my overwhelming personal favorite for aiming, since they're most likely going to be available on almost anything I encounter).
2) Seneca Dragonfly MK2 in .177 caliber (my .22 MK2 requires far too much 'Kentucky Windage' to be reliably accurate, because of elevation limitations in the rear sight assembly).
3) Benjamin 397s, an excellent shooter with very nice iron sights, shooting from a rest. Without the rest, my results almost certainly would be different, because of the buttstock comb interfering with free-standing aim. I can get roughly the same accuracy with my 392s, but I prefer the smaller holes and reactive impact halos of .177 caliber pellets, especially for shooting groups, so my 392s basically is relegated to pest control duty only.
4) Crosman C2023 Anniversary Edition in .22 caliber, with a Williams peep rear sight & blade/fiber optic front sight, allowing me to easily get surprisingly (to me) fine accuracy. I would prefer a .177 caliber version, with notch and blade sights, which actually is doable, using available aftermarket Crosman parts and rudimentary gunsmithing skills, but for now it's .22 only (and it was expensive enough as is, when it comes down to it). ;-)
5) Winchester 1977XS; an excellent, inexpensive, higher-quality remake of the Daisy 880, with a notch rear & blade front sight. The rear tip of the front blade has a small, hi-vis white dot imprinted to aid aiming.
6) Daisy 880 & Daisy 901 -- very inexpensive but very accurate air rifles at 30 feet with only iron sights. The all-black, kit version of the 880 (5880) has a blade front sight, the same as that used on the Winchester 1977XS, which I much prefer to the basic 880, which is equipped with a blade and fiber optic front sight. The 901 uses the same sights as the 880.
7) Crosman 1377 American Classic pistol with shoulder stock, with the rear sight adjusted to its notch, rather than peep hole, side.
8) Crosman 1322 and 2289 Drifter carbines w/attached shoulder stock, with notched rear and blade front sight on the 1322 and a blade/fiber optic front sight on my 2289 Drifters.
9) Crosman 2100b Classic and Legacy 1000 are quite nice, although each requires more pumping than any other pumper, without producing more power (make that 'more pumping than MOST other pumpers; my Dragonfly MK2's need fifteen (!) for max power). I find each can be shot with roughly equal accuracy, but the awful rear sight and large front sight blade w/fiber-optic implant on both make precision more difficult than it should be: it's almost impossible to adjust their poorly designed rear sights precisely enough to get the windage perfect, and there's also too little allowance for elevation. Even when dialed-in (as much as that's possible), sometimes I can shoot them quite well, but sometimes I can't. IF these were the only air rifles I owned, I probably would be able to get reliably repeatable, reasonably fine accuracy with them, but they're just different enough from everything else I shoot regularly that it's more hit or miss than it needs to be. There really are no advantages to the differences between these and most other (just about ALL other) air rifles with variable pump pneumatic power supplies, at least, none I can discern. Still, the build quality and capability are good enough to warrant keeping and using.
10) My other seventeen or so airguns (rifles, primarily, but even my pistols have rifled barrels).
Basically, pretty much everything from numbers 1 through 9 (as well as others not listed) is something I can shoot with the expectation of hitting the thing at which I'm aiming. It's more a matter of how easy that is that determined the ranking. The easier it is, the better I do. The better I do, the easier it gets, and the more often I shoot that airgun, which improves how I do even more, and the cycle goes 'round & 'round and reinforces itself. There are some exceptions. For example, when it comes to my American Classic Crosman .177 and .22 caliber air pistols with shoulder stocks, often I can get fantastic, very accurate results with the supplied sights, but simply not as easily as I can with the airguns listed before them. It's about the same with my remaining unlisted pumper, break barrel and CO2 airguns (no PCPs), excepting in particular my Crosman M4-177, M4-look-alike pumper. Unfortunately, for me the accuracy I can get with it is up in the air, for the most part. If I'm not totally and completely zoned-in, the cheap plastic 5-round, manually operated magazines and the poorly molded peep sight are too imprecise and finicky in use for me to stay focused enough to reliably shoot the thing with fine accuracy. Sometimes sure, but most times, no (somewhat similar to my Crosman 2100 and 1000 results: again, if it were my only airgun...).
My two gas-piston breakers are VERY accurate on a rest, but really too powerful for indoors, and without a rest, one of them requires unique efforts so unlike anything else I shoot that I don't really want to account for it, so usually they sit in the rack. Also, three of my five CO2 airguns (my Umarex 850M2, Sheridan 2260MB and Beeman QB78s) allow me to shoot and achieve EXCEPTIONAL accuracy, as good or better than that I can get from my best pumpers, but I simply don't shoot with them nearly as often. Mainly, that's due to not being able to shoot them with anything but their full power, but also because of the necessary wastage when I'm not shooting long enough to fully deplete two full or one large gas cartridges. Also, I forgot to mention my Crosman C362, with which I easily get quite good accuracy, with its stock Crosman rear sight turned over to the notch side (the front blade is very nice too, IMO), although I did force myself to gain proficiency with the peep side too, as the rear sight was set on arrival. I'd judge the accuracy to be about equal to that of #5, my Winchester 77xs -- I much prefer its front blade to the 'fiber optic' sight on the C2023 and Drifter carbines, and I shoot it often enough that I'm able to get quite good, reliably accurate results with it. The C362 is a very nice, very affordable, pretty powerful (compared to most other pumpers) little carbine, and my favorite pumper for most of last year! I'm probably leaving out others, but that's it for me. How about y'all?
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