The Burpster
Super member
I’m not into these HNGD posts, and this isnt one of them. Its not really a review either.
Its firstly a comment on how much I like two things and secondly an observation.
Firstly then a “well done and thank you” to Vector-air. A no nonsense easy to deal with business, that do not make assumptions about you as a customer and try to fob you off with either rhetoric or a load of croc that they are over stocked with. Refreshing in the current climate!
My brand new Snowpeak AP900 is, literally quite remarkable for its cost. I was blown away a month or so ago by what turned out to be a SP pistol at one of my clubs. My instant “oh its Chinese therefore made down to a price” prejudice was kicked out the park. So it was based on that I paid out what was the amount youd expect to pay for a 2ndhand ‘middle of the road’ well used springer on my AP900. Upon getting it home i gave it a proper ‘once over’ cleaned the barrel and made a slight mod to the had guard to accept a 5” picatinny rail. At no point have I thought Uh oh thats cheap and nasty. Whilst I havent yet stripped it down I am impressed by the finish of all the parts and cannot aim any criticism of any of it, simple as tho it is. Waiting for the wind here to calm down a little here so I can zero it but Im pretty confident for a short barrel it will be good enough.
So secondly is an observation, I firmly believe now is the time for us as consumers and the ‘big names’ to sit up and pay attention to this influx of latest developments from China. Much like the car industry is going to struggle in the coming short ( and maybe long) term with an influx of chinese products, then there should be some very worried senior managers at the big players in the air rifle world.
Many years ago we used to really take the pi55 out of Japanese and Czech cars and air rifle literally only came from here or Germany.
Now it appears the Chinese and Turks have access to the same CNC machines Polymer production techniques as the producers of parts of models that we now see as premium, some of the new Czech products are quite simply mind blowingly good!
One has to wonder in an age when pretty much the vast majority of goods we buy have been made in or have components from China in them - how much of these ‘premium’ models are made up of mass produced parts from there.
You only have to look at some of the ‘copies’ from Ali and Temu that may well have been made in the same factory as the ‘premuim’ named product and only discernible by doing a considerable amount of research to understand this issue.
I am very satisfied with my new SP, more so than some of the Premium named rifles I have shelled out on in the past. In exactly the same vain as my two Grand Power .22lr firearms. They are not a ‘premium’ brand and have extensive use of polymers in production but they dont need modifying or playing with to obtain the best out of them - they are just bl88dy good as they are.
Shoot safe and enjoy folks!
Its firstly a comment on how much I like two things and secondly an observation.
Firstly then a “well done and thank you” to Vector-air. A no nonsense easy to deal with business, that do not make assumptions about you as a customer and try to fob you off with either rhetoric or a load of croc that they are over stocked with. Refreshing in the current climate!
My brand new Snowpeak AP900 is, literally quite remarkable for its cost. I was blown away a month or so ago by what turned out to be a SP pistol at one of my clubs. My instant “oh its Chinese therefore made down to a price” prejudice was kicked out the park. So it was based on that I paid out what was the amount youd expect to pay for a 2ndhand ‘middle of the road’ well used springer on my AP900. Upon getting it home i gave it a proper ‘once over’ cleaned the barrel and made a slight mod to the had guard to accept a 5” picatinny rail. At no point have I thought Uh oh thats cheap and nasty. Whilst I havent yet stripped it down I am impressed by the finish of all the parts and cannot aim any criticism of any of it, simple as tho it is. Waiting for the wind here to calm down a little here so I can zero it but Im pretty confident for a short barrel it will be good enough.
So secondly is an observation, I firmly believe now is the time for us as consumers and the ‘big names’ to sit up and pay attention to this influx of latest developments from China. Much like the car industry is going to struggle in the coming short ( and maybe long) term with an influx of chinese products, then there should be some very worried senior managers at the big players in the air rifle world.
Many years ago we used to really take the pi55 out of Japanese and Czech cars and air rifle literally only came from here or Germany.
Now it appears the Chinese and Turks have access to the same CNC machines Polymer production techniques as the producers of parts of models that we now see as premium, some of the new Czech products are quite simply mind blowingly good!
One has to wonder in an age when pretty much the vast majority of goods we buy have been made in or have components from China in them - how much of these ‘premium’ models are made up of mass produced parts from there.
You only have to look at some of the ‘copies’ from Ali and Temu that may well have been made in the same factory as the ‘premuim’ named product and only discernible by doing a considerable amount of research to understand this issue.
I am very satisfied with my new SP, more so than some of the Premium named rifles I have shelled out on in the past. In exactly the same vain as my two Grand Power .22lr firearms. They are not a ‘premium’ brand and have extensive use of polymers in production but they dont need modifying or playing with to obtain the best out of them - they are just bl88dy good as they are.
Shoot safe and enjoy folks!
I to think that the big brands should take notice of what's going on right under their noses.I remember late 60s when Japanese motorcycles started to appear people called it Jap crap but not for long.it was the beginning of the end.
). Barrel thoroughly cleaned before use. Trigger set up and Loctited (essential as mine was looser than a 10bob hooker), Zeroed at 25 and printing quite nice groups. My barrel seems to like 5.53 pellets so a tin of JSB Jumbos (Weihrauch) and H&N FTTs ordered to narrow down further.