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Yep, that's why I'm considering the Impact too.

Those Impacts look really nice.

Like my Impact FX very much in 22. Friend has one he's not shooting at all. Has offered it along with a new extra 30 cal barrel and a bunch of accessories at a price thats hard to walk away from. Oh Santa!

They do look nice. But, my R7 is so nice to shoot in the backyard! There is no way to justify the $ for an FX, but I can't look away.

Edited to add that my R7 is really a Weihrach H30S.

It can be pretty expensive to start in the PCP world, but it's a great way to shoot air guns. I'm still shooting my Weihrauch springers, but I've I've been tempted to go PCP. I would probably go Daystate or something like that if I got a PCP. I'm a certified diver so filling tanks is not an issue.

I got a refurbished Brocock from Airguns of Arizona (22 cal) and an omega 4500 compressor, a pretty steep buy in for a “pellet gun” but it’s great fun. My kids save pages from magazines/catalogs and staple them to a 2x12 and shoot very specific targets. I’m really missing Victoria’s Secret now, my 10 year old son would have a hay day with those targets.
I’ve encouraged all my buddies to go ahead and buy a nice pcp. I’m happy to fill them up so I can run the compressor.

PCP, or phencyclidine, is a dangerous drug that was originally developed as an anesthetic. Its use was discontinued in humans in 1965 because of the troubling side effects. It is now illegal in the United States. God dang are there a lot of fn idiots.

Hopefully you realize a PCP air rifle is different and this post is just a pitiful attempt at a joke….

I thought it must be an attempt at humor.

In case it wasn't a joke......regarding air rifles, PCP - Pre-Charged Pneumatic.

My first PCP was a BSA that I bought used with a scope for $399. I then bought a hand pump. I was pumping it a lot. I bought a bullpup rifle and I hated it. I took it back and traded it for store credit and waited for a Redwolf. Fantastic gun.

Sure can get expensive quick! Ordered a Benjamin Maruader .22 with Lothar barrel for myself. Next up is a scope. Once I verify there is someone around that can fill a air tank there goes another $600-700 for a nice size tank.
Just discovered wife is permitted to use an airbow during archery season so there goes another $900 or so for a Benjamin airbow, add in some extra arrows, scope, and broad heads and add a few more hundred.
Once we get all squared away might try a big caliber big game rifle and finally to call it a day, a decent compressor.

Years ago I filled my cylinders at a scuba place, then that died out. So at the same time I bought a Bauer Oceanus pump powered with a 5.5 HP Honda engine.
Fills my SCBA tank in minutes. I was really lucky to but it used, new Oceanas are north of 5000 bucks I hear. Probably more now that the dollar is overprinted.
Anyway I have unlimited easy air now.

One of the advantages of going with a PCP is it opens up so many more opportunities to shoot. I started with a Marauder went to a FX Crown and now I have the FX M3 . I routinely go around to the cattle farms and shoot the pigeons starlings and english sparrows. I don't think the farmers would want me shooting a 22 rimfire there. The biggest advantage from what I see, and I do have a few suppressed rimfires is I just shoot the Air guns a whole lot more. I sit out at the house and shoot a tin of 350 pellets and don't even consider the cost of ammo.