Air pistol recommendations please

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My step-daughter has asked me to help her choose an air pistol for plinking (she's 25) as I'm the resident gun guy, but I have limited experience with air guns. She wants good quality with as close to 500 fps as possible. Her budget is in the $200 - 250 range and she wants something new. It needs to be available in the Calgary area. I searched the airgun threads with no conclusive information so I'm hoping you guys can help me out. Any info or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers, Gord
 
luftmech said:
Webly Tempest/Hurricane are decent. No C02 to worry about and fun for plinking with. They fall into that price range.
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Unfortunately they are no longer manufactured. Even so, accuracy was always mediocre with them.

One inexpensive one I have liked is a Daisy 717. It is a single stroke (side lever) pneumatic, and is nice because it has no recoil.

There are also a huge number of decent quality CO2 powered pistols that are copies of Walther, HK, S&W, Beretta, etc. The ones in the $200+ range are very good.

Or get 2, one for more target type shooting and a CO2 repeater for blasting away, in part because the triggers on many of the repeaters are very poor.
 
Being available in the calgary area is going to be a problem unless you have some good outdoors stores there. Stuff you get from canadian tire and such isn't that great.

Price is also going to limit the class of airgun she can get, before all this economic bs 250 would've been enough to get a good quality gun maybe, but since then most guns have gone up almost 1/3 in price.

What kind of powerplant is she looking for; co2, spring, pneumatic? Also single shot or multi shot? How important is accuracy vs the fun you get from shooting?

Here show her this site and cross reference what is available in your area/online ordering.
http://www.co2airguns.net/collection/index.htm

See if she likes any, post which ones here, we might know of pro's and con's of them.

As for spring or pneumatic, you're really limited to:
Baikal IZH 53M
Daisy 717
Daisy 747
crosman 1377
crosman 1322
Benjamin HB22

Also not listed on that site is the crosman 2240.
 
Thank you everyone for your submissions, I've read some reviews and based on budget and availability we will look at the Walther CP88 Competition that Russell's has in their catalog. The Weihrauch HW45 looks really good but it is more than she is willing to spend at this time, plus it is bordering centerfire cost (she is getting her RPAL and wants her mom's Glock 22). I'll post again on our outcome and feedback of the pistol she chooses.

Cheers!
Gord
 
You might also want to consider the rws c225 if it's available, just as good if not better accuracy, a little lower in velocity, but it doesn't have that horrid barrel extension.
 
Talk to Guns and things, in Blackie AB, and see what he has around. He used to deal a lot on target air pistols, and may be able to offer you a decent buy on a used target gun.

If you go that way, you will either have a completely separate reason to go to the range (on airgun nights) or at least have something that will still be worth something when you are done with it.

I'd be partial to a used IHZ 46 or 46M, but, if that's not what yer lookin' fer...

Cheers
Trev
 
Well now that we know where she wants to go with this, I would practice CQB with the non comp cp-88 , set up 4 or 5 cardboard silhouettes , and have at it.
Could study the CAR system, but your looking for instinct shooting to come together, read up on it , and also look at the ZEN side of getting on the mark, in the end practice is king...
After all, fun is what makes good better.:D and getting to know how too, with .177 , will help 10 fold with the big stuff.
 
Levi Garrett said:
Well now that we know where she wants to go with this, I would practice CQB with the non comp cp-88 , set up 4 or 5 cardboard silhouettes , and have at it.
Could study the CAR system, but your looking for instinct shooting to come together, read up on it , and also look at the ZEN side of getting on the mark, in the end practice is king...
After all, fun is what makes good better.:D and getting to know how too, with .177 , will help 10 fold with the big stuff.
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She really just wants it for shooting at cans while camping, a friend of hers has an air pistol of some kind and brings it along for the fun. The competitiveness may or may not be there. Her mom and I shoot IPSC, I'm quite competitive minded while her mom is just there for the fun of shooting. Either way, my step daughter is involved in shooting and is another citizen on our side.:rockOn:
 
You might want to check gunbroker.com and target talk in U.S. Try to find a baikalIZH46M, they are competition grade single strike(no CO2 or air tanks) You can get good used for 200.00 to 300.00. They last forever, and as accurate as any Olympic air pistol. With one of these you are ready for regional airpistol matches at least. They usually come with spares, tools as well.

Rob
 
Z06corvette said:
She really just wants it for shooting at cans while camping, a friend of hers has an air pistol of some kind and brings it along for the fun. The competitiveness may or may not be there. Her mom and I shoot IPSC, I'm quite competitive minded while her mom is just there for the fun of shooting. Either way, my step daughter is involved in shooting and is another citizen on our side.:rockOn:
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If she's just going to be shooting cans for the fun of it, you might want to look at the beretta px4 storm by umarex. While all the other umarex pistols (cp88 etc) are good for target shooting, they are either double action or you have to manually #### the hammer for single action. The px4 storm uses some of the co2 to simulate blowback and recocks the hammer for you. Not real semi auto action as the trigger pull advances the clip, but much more fun. The 'slide' is metal and the 'frame' is polymer with alloy inserts, pretty good build quality and accuracy.
 
If she wants a very accurate,powerful airpistol that is easy on the wallet ,try a 1377 Crosman.I own more expensive pistols that aren't as powerful or as accurate.
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For well under a hundred dollars you can have a pistol that will outshoot almost anything.
 
For plinking cans, I'd say the Crosman 1322 or 1377 would be pretty tough to beat.

Zero for consumables costs other than pellets. In 22, they are capable grouse getters at short range.

Paying a buck apiece for CO2 cartridges gets old fast. Cheaper if you buy bulk, but still an expense.


Cheers
trev
 
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