Air Arms EV2 Review

Overall Rating

Accuracy is outstanding (with the right pellets, get the wrong ones and it's a shot gun)! Something about the barrel being hammer forged makes this rifle very pellet fussy.
Ergonomically it has lots of potential, and with a bit of modification, I have finally got it to fit me better than any other rifle I own.
Fit and finish is excellent.
Trigger is excellent, (but it is eclipsed by the Styer imho).

Length of pull at its minimum is way too long.
The butt plate assy is a complete disaster. (I threw mine in the rubbish bin).
It's hard on the ears, it's way to loud!
No provision to add weight to the rear, if the point of balance doesn't suit your build.
The side lever assembly wears out, and won't stay open when loading.
(I had one replaced soon after I bought it, and 2 years later the same thing is happening.
The cheek piece doesn't have nearly enough adjustment capacity to line your eye up with the scope, and still keep the rifle level without canting.

I have a Mk1 model which I bought about 3 years ago.
I have done several mods to get the most out of mine:

Added to the palm swell with some plastic putty to get it to better suit my hand.
Removed wood around the trigger area to stop my trigger finger rubbing the stock.
Thrown away the entire butt assembly and replaced it with one from a daystate Mk3 FTR. - thus reducing the LoP, and making it more comfortable for standing.
Added lead weights under the rear of the butt stock to bring the PoB back toward the support hand for standing.
Added some high density foam to the underside of the stock to ease pain on knuckles of support hand when standing.
Shaved a huge amount of wood off the cheek peice to enable me to get my eye behind the scope. Plus modified the adjuster plate to get more swivel on it to suit my tastes.
Packed the palm shelf to get more room for my hand.

So having done all that, I must say i absolutely love shooting this rifle, and I have no trouble hitting whatever I aim at . .

It took me several years to iron the bugs out of it, but now that I have, I have such confidence in it, that I expect to win no matter what the competition, or the discipline is.

A word of warnng though - Don't fit a silencer if it leaves the barrel free floating. I bought one and couldn't get the thing to group worth a damn, and realised that the barrel would jump, and settle in a different place after so many shots. I put the muzzle brake back on, (which clamps the barrel so that it can't move, and it returned to shooting one hole groups.