With som some help from advice here, I now own the AV 46 M. Great choice, so far I'm very happy with this one.
And that got to me thinking to adding a similar SSP rifle, and looking at Daisy 753 and 853. But, they're pretty expensive even on ebay, so I've not pulled the trigger.
And now just saw 753s on the Daisy site for a very reasonable price. Really, too reasonable if it's as accurate as claimed. Is the 753s not the competitive one?
I'm probably about to buy anyway, just......always have trouble and then always have remorse, whether I did or didn't. <smiley>
It looks like it comes with decent sights, wonder if it's scopeable sometime in the future.
https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/sporter-air-rifles/
get a refurbished 853 from the CMP for $125. They are great shooting rifles. My club bought six of them from CMP and they all shot great. Trigger sucks but can be improved, will never be great.
@timr Get the 753. They are excellent basement shooters. I've told this story here before.
When I bought my 753 at the Findlay show years ago, I was taking it out to my car when, unsolicited, a fellow attendee said "I hate those damn Daisies." I said excuse me? He told me he shoots 10M competitively, had spent over $700 on a German match rifle, and "those damn Daisies beat me every week." True story.
I've had a number of classic match rifles from Feinwerkbau, Anschutz, Diana, Afla, Hammerli, and my 753 and 887 have out-shot them all. I'd grab the 887 if money was on the line, followed closely by the 753.
Search for the Pilkington trigger mod, easy to do with hand tools.
A lot depends on the person behind the trigger. Ergonomics of unit. Trigger. At the price point they are hard to beat. Anschutz never made a SSP unit until the 90's maybe late 80's I think it was- 2000 series air rifles, but pcp was the up coming thing. Fwb had the 601/02 units in 1984 Walther had one about the same time. By 84 co2 was the hot ticket but didn't last long before pcp over took it. At the Olympic level having to pump each shot is tiring and time consuming. At that time period it was all off hand work, which generally meant you loose your position ea. shot ( 60 for men 40 for women). When 3/4 position air rifle came to be co2 or pcp was/are the hot ticket. as such ergonomics are of priority. Daisies always were entry level units, but units do shoot well with some help.
the notion that anyone can go the CMP and buy a rifle is not even close to true
you have to belong to a club or something else, i looked into it long ago and i never had the right stuff to qualify and i see it written up all the time
would a Daisy Avanti 753-853-853c-853cm be a great basement rifle, it would
they all shoot in the 490-540 fps range have LW barrels and the trigger are workable but are great
i have a 853 and 853cm
now after Gamo bought Daisy one of the things they did was kill the 7-7 pistols and the 853
find one at a good price and add it to your collection
I am pretty sure you can buy an air rifle from CMP. Just order off their website. I ordered 6 for our club and just ordered them. We were not CMP affiliated. People order the 753/853 from CMP all the time. Firearms may be more of a process. I got an M1 from CMP back in the early 90’s and had to do all sorts of things and it took a year and a half to get it. That’s back when the government ran CMP. Took a while but only cost me $165. I don’t know the current process for firearms.
I received my 753 today. Daisy was quick to ship and Fedex delivered.
My neighbor said your gun came while you were out, we took it in just in case. How did they know a plain brown cardboard box was a gun and not more window blinds? Ah, because there's a HUGE picture of the 753 on the box.
So far my reactions are mixed. I'm fine with a plastic stock but skeptical of plastic dovetails being the only way to mount a sight. The trigger isn't great, but isn't horrible either, but I expected some adjustments. There are none. There are five sizes of circular front sights - I would have liked a blade option, I thought it came with one.
I do like the firing smoothness of the SSP and the cocking effort isn't too bad. As far as I can tell if you want an indoor 10M in SSP this is the only choice out there. I wouldn't have tried the SSP rifle though if I didn't like the AV 46M pistol. But again that one is twice the price and actually competitive once.
Having owned both Daisy 717 & 853 guns both leaked from the start . Had both repaired and Great Trigger Tune on the 853 ! Yes both very accurate but after 50 shots both started to leak. The 853 was shooting groups like my FWB 300S Rifle ! Sold all of my Daisy guns ! Hope others have better Luck with Daisy SSP air guns !
