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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Rifles » Why Don't Airguns Provide More Rail Space?    View previous topic :: View next topic  Why Don't Airguns Provide More Rail Space?   Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:10 am gy954 New Member Joined: 08 Apr 2010 Posts: 3 Why is it that airguns are not made in an AR ("black gun") style? Airguns can benefit from the addition of various devices (laser, scope, sight, illuminator) as much as airsoft or real steel weapons. I would sure like a bunch of Picatinny real estate on my Benjamin Marauder. Also, I prefer the more modern look of a RIS rifle--although that's just a personal preference of course. Cheers! / Greg   Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:57 am fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Let's be serious about this... In short, because airguns really don't need that. If you have to do a tactickool breach and clear of your house, a Marauder isn't the proper tool. Fending off blue helmets is not the job of your airgun. I hate to say "assault rifle", because of the way the media portrays non-assault weapons. Your airgun doesn't need to look like or have the features of such. Of course... for a price you can make your own parts and have it look like any other toy you want. One of the members made a solid, anodized aluminum AR15 style stock and foregrip for his Condor (or was it a Talon?). Looks pretty sexy, but I think it's useless. So bust out the lathe and mill, and you can have anything you want. Joe might even be happy to make what you want (for a price). _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:38 pm packrat Senior Member Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 882 Location: Out in the woods...Ellabell, GA. UUUHHHHHHH..Air Force guns all come with like 4 feet of 11mm dovetail rail on them, and they are all flat black, tactical looking BA guns.. _________________ HEY !! This getting old thing is NOT for sissies...   Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:33 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands You can get scopemounts in all shapes and sizes. There's also a scope with 3 rails. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:50 pm kanyon Silver Status Member Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 1582 Location: New Zealand Yer only need room for a scope.... maybe a bi-pod... How meany trinkets dose a gun need hangging off it...mind you..its all pose appeal I surpose.. Pete   Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:04 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia I wouldn't mind some bayonette lugs on my air rifles. What else are you supposed to do when facing an army of 1,000,000 undead-zombie-bluehelmet squirrels? _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:43 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands fritz wrote: I wouldn't mind some bayonette lugs on my air rifles. What else are you supposed to do when facing an army of 1,000,000 undead-zombie-bluehelmet squirrels? Run like hell? _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:34 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA EVIL BLACK RIFLES RULE! _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:09 am fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Damnit Joe, now I want that one too... I still can't think of all the toys you could possibly need all those rails for, though. _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:47 am yourdaddyjoe Supporting Member Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 4027 Location: Tatorville, USA Just to turn heads at the range... and make people wonder why you can kill beer bottles at 200 yards and not go "BANG"..... _________________ Say "NO" to BB Gun Wars... Quid Pro Quo Rule: An eye for an eye... www.HPASports.com www.Facebook.com/hpasports   Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:39 pm packrat Senior Member Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 882 Location: Out in the woods...Ellabell, GA. _________________ HEY !! This getting old thing is NOT for sissies...   Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:48 pm AirGunEric Site Admin Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Posts: 6930 Location: "Out There" fritz wrote: ...Fending off blue helmets... A little too much "Fox News" for you there, Fritz? _________________ ` I'd say "I care." But I'd be lying. Canadian Airgun Supplier: http://www.scopesandammo.com/storefront   Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:55 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia AirGunEric wrote: A little too much "Fox News" for you there, Fritz? I'll get those bastards too! Off my lawn! _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person. 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