Here's where I am now.....
So I ordered a Crosman 1300KT in .22 from the custom shop, that was originally gonna be just a beater for bike rides and such, but then when I got it and realized how insanely accurate it was I went full tilt with it. Installed a flat top valve and piston, a BOSS transfer port, and all the goodies to make the trigger amazing. Also beefed up the pump linkage. It will now blow through a Lake Ozark area phone book easily at 35 yards with 12 pumps and is dead nuts accurate. The new valve and transfer port can take up to 27 pumps before it starts retaining air. No idea on FPS yet but an infrared chronograph is on it's way from China 😉
Ok, so my first PCP was gonna be the new Gen2 Benjamin Fortitude regulated .22..... but then I learned that regulated guns (except for the extremely expensive ones) have this thing about always throwing off the first shot. Well that's fine if you're just target shooting but that little personality disorder would totally screw you in the squirrel woods, so since I had really fallen in love with the light weight, compact, easy to carry 1300kt style I decided to make my first PCP the Benjamin P-Rod.
Added a WAR moderator to keep it whisper quiet, a Hawke 3-9x40AO optic, and I have all the goodies to hotrod it after I get my chrony and can compare shot strings. As it is right now, bone stock, it is only shooting about 14ft/lbs. but OMG is it ever a tack driver. The little sticky note (the size of a squirrel head) contains the shots from a full magazine at 40 yards, and that's shooting off my knee not even a bench rest.
Keeping it properly pressurized with a hand pump is no problem at all, less effort than jacking up a bass boat trailer to change a tire.