Rick wrote:Does anyone know anything about Daystate Air rifles? I only heard of them the other day, from the Sporting Shooter Annualk, they dont seem too bad. Walther barrel etc on them.
Daystate air rifles are generally the benchmark that other hunting/ all purpose air rifles are judged by, top shelf quality & accuracy, from there you go to Steyr, Anschutz, FWB air rifles but these are your top target air rifles. I own a Daystate Huntsman and as delivered I was happy with its accuracy but not with its very poor shot count, the importers seem to think we need as much velocity that can be obtained but this destroys accuracy with air rifles, mine was pushing 16grn pellets at 1070fps, 18grn pellets at 1040fps, now that sounds impressive and 1 inch groups at 50yds were easy but at those velocities barrel fouling is an issue. I have since detuned it to 950-960fps with the lighter pellets and 900-920 with the heavies, sub half inch groups are the norm and a better shot count which adds up to less pumping
There is a pic of a group I shot recently posted in the Show us your rimfire groups thread, sorry I don't know how to link it, should give you an idea of what these air rifles are capable of and if I can get a better handle on the wind it is possible to shoot sub .75moa at 100yds 
