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I don’t know, I sent my email on the 12th and got a reply this morning maybe try again. It is possible that your getting caught in a spam folder.
Funny, I email him last Saturday and got a response a few hours later… 😉
2nd email I’ve sent Tony and nadda. Seems like I’ll get old and grey before anything happens. 😯
no deposit and 6+ month wait. It seems like they sell well enough to not need a deposit. I wonder how long the waiting list.
Keep us in the loop please….!!!! 😉
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Okay, I just sent a e-mail to Tony for price and lead time for a R3 long in .25. Hopefully I will hear back shortly.
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For countries that are no EU member — the same way, via Germany. I found out the all what happened with your parcel, here in Estonia, with the papers I got from Andrey, as I told before — that is just mixture of unlucky circumstances — the guns were send to Germans and was returned back to Andrey before they went out of the vacation but didn’t reached him and were returned back to German from some point of sorting parcels. So I have nothing to blame him for.
ED, – what about future shipping out of Estonia ?
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Here you go! Everything got cleared up! 🙂
Now let’s wait for explanation from Tony Belas of Daystate or someone from their customer service deparment at list. 🙂
I know that I am not perfect as well as what I am doing, but I consider the most important thing is that I know that and I am trying to make my best to meet all the requirements of the owners and make my guns the best guns in the world, at least from the point of view of accuracy and reliability of the guns.
I consider the possibility of making repairment by the owner as a very important thing, I explain why — I began to work in Russia and the most of my customers were from Russia. For your information I live on the very left side of the Russia and the very right side of my country is about 12 000 km. out of me. So to have the gun for the repair from that point sometimes is much more complicated then, say from Brazil, since some points where my clients live can be reached only by the ships during navigation period of time and the guns can travel to him for few months or half a year. The next reason why I need them to be repaired “on the knee” even not on the kitchen table — many of my clients are hunters, who live in deep forest for months and the nearest place where he can find a human being can be out of him in 300-500 km. So they have to be sure that they are able to repair the gun with the simple tools and they are sure. Because sometimes my guns can stay the only tool to survive in the deep forest. So I don’t see anything wrong in the fact, that my guns can be repaired by the owner, even if he has “wrong hands” the gun is designed and made considering that my clients can have very bad hands 🙂 it is almost impossible to break my gun unless you make it especially.
As for being out of the market, here are good news, I think those pictures will be enough to show that I still move forward and I am now are a little closer to Westen users of my guns 🙂
On the last picture is Joost Van Gerven EDgun representative in Holland, he especially came to me to the new to see everything himself and talk about our future plans.
I have read an article in one of the russian airgun magazines where Ed gave an interview about himself and air guns and firearms are the love of his life and he doesn’t settle for mediocrity in this business. So I don’t think he is getting out of this will happen any time soon considering how well it is going and people ordering more and more. If anything, he probably will come out with better Edguns and the ones we shoot now will feel like weapons if stone age era 🙂
The valve stem is the only part that I see is being kind of thin but in my opinion it has to be to reduce drag and deliver consistent shots with an incredible accuracy in mechanical air gun. You got to sacrifice somewhere in the design to achieve this consistency but still have thousands of shots.
Very simple but effective design- like everything russian I guess. :)Why complicate things, just make them fit perfectly and work smoother.
This is rudundant to other comments but here is my point, explicit. I would rather have a gun I can fix on my kitchen table than one that takes a minimum of 6 weeks and $50 in shipping cost before a tech can look at it let alone fix it. I am speaking from experience – 5 weeks and counting for a diagnosis of a wolf issue, bought from AOA and sent back to AOA. I only bought into the wolf because of supply problems with edgun, but now I know that I should have chosen theoben or FX. And lets not discount the possibility that Daystate could go chapter 11 and leave eveyone in the lurch. Dealer network or no. Stuff happens. Electonics are funny – they can last a decade or 30 minutes. I am being as patient as I can with be with AOA but I can tell you the wait is killing me. 5 weeks (so far) of summer shooting time lost to service delay. Connecticut is not California or Arizona, Its glacial half the year, so 5 weeks is a big chunk of my annual shooting time.
I have TWO Daystate MCTs – a 22 and a 25 . I also have TWO Edguns, a 22 metador and a 25 long R3. All 4 rifles are absolute tackdrivers ( forgive the pun ). However, when I have something out in the woods or in the yard that I need to drill a hole thru quickly, guess which one I go for…that’s right the Edgun.
I recently received an Edgun R3. It was missing a barrel port O-rung. Ed and Tony responded quickly to resolve my problem. Breaking the receiver down to install that O-ring took all of 15 minutes and I was in business.
I like both rifles. But shoot an Edgun and you’ll love it.
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I don’t own a Daystate Air Wolf , I haven’t even seen one. Daystate makes some fine guns and I would like to have the Huntsman. It is the same gun without the electronics. I have read too many posts about someone having trouble with their new MTC and them having to send it back to AOA. IFAIK, AOA is the only US importer of Daystate guns. I have read too many reports of bad mother boards, batteries, or solenoids that caused the gun to be shipped back to get fixed under the warrantee. Some of the guns took 6 months to be returned.
Point was made about Ed getting out of the air gun business. There is nothing in my Edguns, excepting the air tube, that I couldn’t have a machinist make. If Daystate goes out of business, is bought out, or moves on from the MTC, if you need a new mother board or solenoid, good luck finding one if Daystate doesn’t have one in stock! If they don’t support the older guns, you are screwed!
I am a maintenance tech at a local factory. I have seen a lot of boards go bad on equipment. If the manufacture is out of business or has come out with an “improved” version and doesn’t stock parts for the older version, the piece of equipment usually has to be replaced or “upgraded”. Sometimes we have another board and can replace it and send the defective board out to be rebuilt. I don’t think that there are too many places that will rebuild an outdated Daystate board.
As far as the Edgun having no warrantee, I am under the impression that the original buyer has a lifetime warrantee! I have broken a couple of air valves on my R2.5 25 cal long version Matador. It takes me between 5,000 and 7,000 shots to break one. Tony has sent me free replacements. I just figure that it is the nature of the beast and I order extras just in case. I can swap one out in 20-25 minutes, on my kitchen table. I have at least 15,000 shots on my R2.5 and except for a couple of broken air valves and a few probe O rings, it has been trouble free.
My 22 cal standard has only needed probe O rings, outside of that, it has been trouble free.
I am absolutely sure that if I had a major breakage, Ed and Tony would stand behind the gun!
I can email the US Edgun distributor, Tony, and get an immediate reply. I have Ed’s email address and he answers questions/concerns amazingly quick! There is a 8 hour time lag, he is in Russia!
Do you have the Daystates owner’s email address? If so, how long does it take you to get a reply?
Not dumping on you but, this the Edgun section!
I am happy that you like your MTC. We can’t all like the same thing. If we did, we would all be driving Toyotas, shooting Edguns and our wife would be REALLY sore! 😯 😆
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