El Gamo CFX Royal

[Forth]

Ok, so the CFX Royal doesn't come ready to rust, have springs hacked to length with a blunt angle-grinder, fly apart causing injury, decimate your digits or double up as weight-training gear....
How can you seriously think that its undoubted accuracy compensates for the lack of these quality attributes - which are, however, all made available to the discerning consumer in more expensive, superior brands?

[derekm]

Forth
Sorry Buddy, but you've lost me completely. Je ne comprends rien.

Edit:-
I've read your post a dozen times, but can't work out if you're trying to take the p**s out of me, the CFX or the more expensive guns in the market place! Must be old age creeping up on me!

[Forth]

I've read your post a dozen times, but can't work out if you're trying to take the p**s out of me, the CFX or the more expensive guns in the market place! Must be old age creeping up on me!

Not out of you - that was a good review you wrote.
I've got both CFX Royal and 440 - get a bit fed up of so many posts in the airgun section making out that Gamo rifles are hopelessly inferior compared to certain other makes - but given the volume of grumbles about these more expensive rifles in other threads, do sometimes wonder how many of Gamo's critics have actually used one of their present day rifles.

[derekm]

OK Cheers! I'm with you now and see where you are coming from. You do have a way with words!!
There does seem to be quite a bit of brand/price snobbery around. IMO if you pay a lot for a top end product in any field, it ought to be 110% in every way. If you buy something more economical, you may have to make allowances for some aspects of it. Strange thing is that with the CFX, so far, I haven't found any allowances to make.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.