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The Poor Man's PCP Air Rifle?

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Interestingly enough, I stumbled upon this while searching for another air rifle. Mike Melick makes this pcp, which sells for all of $100. Anyone who is into airguns big time, like me, and Shawnhu, know who Mike Melick is. He is very well known in airgun circles as being excellent at airgun tuning. This guy really knows his stuff. Anyway, I ordered one today. What is great about this air rifle, is the 1500 max psi fill, which, somehow, Mike has made it so that you can get between 800-900fps in .22, and 900fps and up in .177. Very interesting-I just had to get one of these! This is a pick of what it looks like.

 

http://flyingdragonairrifles.org/XS60C_PCP.html

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Like many of the low-end made in china products, quality control does not exist. This is the reason why Mike is in business, he IS the quality control post production. This goes for a lot of the Crosman and Daisy products as well. The .25 Marauder is an exception, as the most important part, the barrel is made by GM barrel company and has a great track record for being consistent and accurate.

Its almost time for me to do a tear down on the pump to replace seals as well....

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Like many of the low-end made in china products, quality control does not exist. This is the reason why Mike is in business, he IS the quality control post production. The goes for a lot of the Crosman and Daisy products as well. The .25 Marauder is an exception, as the most important part, the barrel is made by GM barrel company and has a great track record for being consistent and accurate.

Its almost time for me to do a tear down on the pump to replace seals as well....

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 I agree. Thankfully, Mike knows what he's doing.

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I am gonna start shooting air guns again,I know its not a PCP I just bought a Benjamin trail xp......I got it from Pyramid.Thanks Shawn for pointing me to pyramid..

 

Benji's are good air rifles. Ironically, even though I ordered 2 air rifles today (a .25, and the XS60C PCP), I still haven't gotten the other one I want-an NP!

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It came with a cheap center point scope,I well run to dicks and get a better one this weekend and start shooting...the gun feels nice so lets see...

Do yourself a favor and research scopes before buying. You'll need a scope capable of front and back recoil designed for break barrel airguns. Most scopes designed for powder burners are one way recoil, break barrels will eat these expensive scopes up.

Break in the trail, then shoot it at 25 yards and see what groups you get. If you are getting dime sized, go with a 4-16x UTG. If quarter sized, go with a 3-9 or 12x CenterPoint Adventure class or UTG/Leapers. Side parallax is WAY better than front.

Anything bigger than a quarter at 25, return it or change pellets and start over.

Good luck with it!

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Picked up the same Hatsan .25 you got Stan since I wasn't thrilled with the Benjamin 397.  Haven't really got much use out of it yet.  Took it to the range over the summer but it was shooting all over the place.  Not thrilled with the Hatsan either.  Think I need to clean out the manufacturer's grease first.  Guess I'm not that much of an airgun type of guy.

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Hi, Elmo. I actually ditched that Hatsan, since I had the same problem. I had the .22 version, and I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with it. That was the 1000s I believe. I also had the Hatsan model 95, but that one was a tack driver in .22. 

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It was the cheapest .25 caliber I could find that shot at legal speeds.  Wanted more knock down power to use in shotgun only zones without having to pick shotgun pellets out of my harvests.  I didn't like the fact that the trigger is so far in front of the handle.  It's like I need Andre The Giant size hands to hold it comfortably.  Will stick to the good old shotgun and 22LRs for now.

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