A Very Bad Day!

[mattwhite 1,993]

Thanks Jimmy.

I'm going to get some cards set out and have a zeroing session today so I will let you know

[j j m 6,625]

nice looking gun mate ,good luck with it

[si brown 8,486]

i recon you'll be happy with the matt

some things are meant to be, I'm well happy using a hw break barrel and you've got the added bonus of this one looking ace

winner!!

 

atb si

[vizlauk 1,568]

Firstly I apologise for the essay your about to read.

Secondly, let this be a lesson to us all when buying second hand.

So to keep it kind of short.....

After pellet testing the pro sport today it felt SUPER smooth. Tested using superfields at the guys house it was doing 10.9ftlb yesterday.

I dont have a chrony at the moment so borrowed one but not until after the testing with jsb and aa fields etc.

Both pellets were on the money and the gun hardly recoiling at all.

I decided to strip and clean after that.

Upon undoing stock screws all was fine until undoing the trigger guard where both were threaded and f*#ked. The large one had been tightened so much it had actually partially split the wood!

Second problem was the cocking shoe Allen bolt. Unbelievably tight and again fu#*ed.

Third issue, it had been given a delrin spring guide and kept the steel tophat but no washers, also absolutely tonnes of grease everywhere.....tonnes!

When cleaned and lubed correctly and reassembled, although I wasn't happy with it by now I ran it over the chrony that had now arrived and with jsb and aa fields it was only doing 7.9ftlb so now I'm well pissed off.

I thought about it and yes I could have ordered a kit or added a couple of spacers but why would I want to with it's other issues so I called the guy who genuinely had not even opened it up and explained my predicament.

He asked me to go over and he would sort things out for me.

Skipping the small talk it seems that for some reason it didn't like the skirts on my pellets and had actually dropped to 10.1ftlb with his superfields?

Without any hesitation he offered an immediate exchange or money back so I opted for one of his suggestions, which is this Paul short tuned hw80 in .22, full power as we checked with lots of pellets and as smooth as silk.

A nice outcome but I really was looking forward to owning the ps for a bit longer than a day.

I will get some test posts of the up tomorrow.

Sorry for the length of this post...i just needed to vent a little

Atvb

That's got the look of my old theoben sirocco about it ! Nice looking bit of kit

[.357shooter 1,382]

very unlucky but having had a couple of ,s i really like the ease of use and build quality.nothing simpler than breaking a barrel and sticking a pellet in a hole rather than having to fiddle about loading.of all the springers i could shoot the accurately standing the best.less hold sensitive than a prosport.the best one i had was fitted with the vglide kit and was so smooth and easy to shoot that it spoilt the gun and like a muppet i sold it

[mattwhite 1,993]

very unlucky but having had a couple of ,s i really like the ease of use and build quality.nothing simpler than breaking a barrel and sticking a pellet in a hole rather than having to fiddle about loading.of all the springers i could shoot the accurately standing the best.less hold sensitive than a prosport.the best one i had was fitted with the vglide kit and was so smooth and easy to shoot that it spoilt the gun and like a muppet i sold it

That's the kind of muppetry I'm guilty of pal.

You will fall upon another one day when you least expect it??