XS-B20

[HNT5]

Are available at Best Airguns for $119.95. I'm not sure what the difference is between them. I do know the B-20 came first though. maybe someone can chime who knows. Only the .177 is available. i thought the B-20 were no longer available. Hmmm, tempting......

http://bestairgun.stores.yahoo.net/bamxsairri.html

Nathan

[longislandhunter]

I think they stopped making the B-20 quite some time ago...... probably the reason supplies will be limited....  

I know Gene has at least 1 or 2 B-20's floating around, I'm sure he could tell us the main differences.......

Jeff

[howie1a]

I have a artical that shows the XSB20 is currently sold as a B-26also the original rifle it was cloned from is the HW-95 or Beeman-R9, it's not a new rifle just brought back it under the old name. Howie  IT can be found under the link    
(  http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/kickbox/377/xs_b20_index ) ifound it by just going under   XS-B-20 break barrel air rifle  ))

[leadbottom]

Tom Gaylord mentione this rifle in his blog at Pyramyd.  The B20 is the predecessor to the B26.  According to Tom generally not as good build quality as the B26.  There're always exceptions of course, just as some B26s are better than other B26s, luck of the draw.  IIRC one difference is the B26 has a slightly wider compression tube.

[HNT5]

I've seen that link and it's dated 2002. I thought they discontinued the B-20 when they introduced the B-26 as it was "new and improved" I do recall, leadbottom now that you mention it, that they allegedly incresed the piston diameter from 25mm to 26mm as part of the improvement. But some have said that they (the B-20 and B-26) use the same seal, and piston, so they didn't increase it any. I know the B-26 has fiber optic sights and the B-20 was non fiber optic. Maybe these are old warehouse stock that turned up somewhere.

Nathan