Anshutz Air Rifle


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We had an awesome day yesterday playing around with an Anshutz 8001 CLUB Air Rifle Anshutz Website. This thing is one of the most accurate weapons I have ever used. If I was steady I could hit the same hole over and over again at about 30 yards which is pretty awesome for an air gun. You can see the compressor under the barrel which you pump up with a bicycle pump and this one has only been pumped once in three years and is still going strong. If you have a chance to check one of these out I highly recommend it. Would make an awesome squirrel gun.

Here are some pictures and a video. Thanks for looking.


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I get the shakes just looking at those rifles today :D I cannot begin to guess how many tens of thousands of rounds I put through mine in practice and competition. But they are awesome machines aren’t they. I shot at 30 feet (10 meters) however.

Wolf
 
You can see the compressor under the barrel which you pump up with a bicycle pump and this one has only been pumped once in three years and is still going strong.

What ? So that long tube is fillible and lasts for 3 years? No pumping just load a pellet and shoot? Hard to believe, I may be misunderstanding this. Didn't find info on this on the site..
 
Nice!

I too shot competitively with an Anshutz Air rifle and .22 smallbore myself years ago, they are incredibly well built and dead on accurate in the right hands.
 
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xj35s said:
You can see the compressor under the barrel which you pump up with a bicycle pump and this one has only been pumped once in three years and is still going strong.

What ? So that long tube is fillible and lasts for 3 years? No pumping just load a pellet and shoot? Hard to believe, I may be misunderstanding this. Didn't find info on this on the site..
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A charge is good for about 300 shots.

I always shot single stroke pneumatic rifles, but the CO2 guns had a following. Most of those shooters would put a fresh cylinder in just before the match. This is an air gun and I’d imagine the competition shooters would fill up just before a match to be sure they had a solid fill for the match. Most of these guns have a regulator that meters a small amount of charge to a chamber right behind the pellet. In theory every pellet sees the exact same amount of pressure that way regardless of what is in the master cylinder.

Wolf
 
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xj35s said:
You can see the compressor under the barrel which you pump up with a bicycle pump and this one has only been pumped once in three years and is still going strong.

What ? So that long tube is fillible and lasts for 3 years? No pumping just load a pellet and shoot? Hard to believe, I may be misunderstanding this. Didn't find info on this on the site..
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This air rifle is just used for fun and yes it has only been filled once in three years. I would recommend pumping it more often for competitions. That German engineering is pretty amazing.
 
I forgot to mention that the trigger pull is less than an ounce, thinking about pulling the trigger makes it go off.
 
Very nice. I was looking at one of these for a while. But for around $1,500 US they better be able to shoot rice off a rats rectum at 30 yards!
 
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That just looks like more fun than anyone has a right to have.

The indoor "range" is pretty cool too.
 
My nephew when he was 10 killed a young jake turkey with a RWS pellet rifle in .177- 1200 fps (his one and only with a pellet rifle after I chewed him out for doing it). ;)
 
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