its not the price of the gun as long as repedable manufacture .i took my cva optima i bought for 179.00 and my friend took his tc pro hunter and we both went out to 150 yrds and i was clover leafing my shots he was getting 2" groups at best i admit i have time behind this smoke pole and worked up good loads with it but long story short a deer isnt gonna know if hes getting shot with a 200.00 gun or 750.00 gun